deer hunt today

[charlie cleveland]

got up at 5.00 am this morning fixed myself a big breakfast of 2 biscuits 2 eggs 2 pieces of real hog bacon and some home made jelly and i just about talked myself out of going hunting...my cousin from over in alabama had come over for a weeks hunt with me so he was to meet me at 7.00am and us go hunt...we left my house at 7.15 walking we were going to try walking over some fairly growed up old fields hoping to jump a buck...we found lots of scraps and tracks we only jumped 2 does in them thickets...i needed the parker short barreled ten gauge loaded with buckshot for these thickets...i usally carry a shotgun but i carried a scoped rifle today...we walked till 9.00 and came back to my house i had to stop hunting and go to town...at noon we went back to hunting this time on my grandfathers old farm..i put my cosin terry up in a shooting house over looking a large field there was a good buck and several does useing this field....i went and hunted in a large scope of oak trees hoping to get a buck in my sights...at about5.00 pm i heard something running thru the leaves headed straight for me then it stopped and started bolwing at me..what ever a he or she i never got to see it it went out of hearing blowing at me....i had put out deer lure the wind was dead calm but that deers sharp noise sure picked up my scent....i figured it was probly a big wise old doe.... shooting light had ended in the woods for me so i gathered up my scent lure bottles and got my chair foled up and slung over my shoulder i went back down the beaten path i had come in on. as i got close to the big field i heard a shot when i got to the field terry was climbing down he said he had made a good hit. he was shooting a 308bolt action...the deer went about 60 yards it had crossed a little ditch and almost fell in another road...she was really big and fat....shes now being processed....gota get up early again we gona hunt hard the rest of the week.....charlie

[wayne goerres]

Well done Charlie. The only thing left this year in Ga. are squirrels and crows. There is always next year I hope. Oh I forgot about the up coming turkey season.

[CraigThompson]

Charlie my buds came your way last Friday on the way to Lake Village AR for the annual piggy hunt !

I was all ready to make the trip , but my pops medical condition kept me from going .

If I had been able to have made the trip I was gonna try and take a side trip by your place !

[CraigThompson]

I think we still have what they call "Urban Archery Season" until the end of February or March .

[charlie cleveland]

hope your dad s medical condition gets better...woulda been nice to have you drop by...our season for deer closes this saturday the 31 st. now waiting on terry to show up he s late...maybe will see some horns today if i m lucky....charlie

[CraigThompson]

Thanks Charlie , he has Parkinson's so some days are better then others .

[CraigThompson]

Incidentally my gunsmith bud is still in Lake Village and knocked over a 185 pound sow last night around 11 PM AR time . Think he's heading back to VA this Saturday .

[charlie cleveland]

that was a big sow..it s on my bucket list to get a big pig...today i got up early at 4.30fixed a big breakfast of 2 egss bacon and 2 big biscuits...waited on terry he was about 15 minutes late..as we were getting ready to deer hunt he said he was going out andget his crow caller out of the truck...i asked him did he bring his shotgun he said no..i told him lets change plans for the day and go crow hunting..i loaned him a little parker 20 ga vh grade factory 27 inch barrels...i got my old 3 frame 12 ga parker out....so off we go forgot we both were shooting low power federal field loads no 7 1/2. off we go first stop we set up a crow decoy and a owl decoy..i killed 5 crows there with the 3 frame 12 terry only killed 1 with the 20 ga...was not hard to see that the 20 ga was not a long range crow gun...ha next stop we killed 2 crowss one for the 20 and one for the 12 we moved on to a pine thicket we hunted to close to the truck but managed to knock down 1 crow with the 3 frame...we made one more stop terry killed 1 and the 3 frame got one...wellwe know next time to shoot 12 ga or 10 ga on those wary crows...i then ate dinner and then went deer hunting by myself..i only seen a big doe i let her pass....going deer hunting again in the morning on a new to me place....charlie

[CraigThompson]

When I used to be in on a lease in southern Dorchester County Maryland back in the late 90's all the mom and pop resteraunts we went to in Cambridge would have 2-2-2's on the menu , two eggs , two pieces bacon and two pancakes .

So each morning around 10 AM after we came outta the woods and went to the variouse resteraunts I'd get a 6-6-6 and a quart of milk :rotf:

[Mills Morrison]

The after hunt breakfast is always fun. Sausage and grits never taste so good

[CraigThompson]

The after hunt breakfast is always fun. Sausage and grits never taste so good

The guy that owns the property in Arkansas that my buddy hunts piggies on told me the last time I was down "it ain't about the hunting anymore , it's all about the food , the wine and eating well" . Usually when the annual piggy trip happens it's also the last weekend of ducky season and there'll be about 20 of the owners duck hunting friends and those of us that go for the pigs !

[Mills Morrison]

It's still about the hunting for me, but the eating is still a fun part of it

[Fred Slyfield]

Charlie great story, any day in the woods is good!! even if you don't shoot anything.

[Bob Hardison]

"The after hunt breakfast is always fun. Sausage and grits never taste so good"

Mills. How about adding sausage gravy, buttermilk biscuits and maybe some eggs to go with the grits? Thanks, Bob

[charlie cleveland]

got up at 4.45 this morning...made me a big egg sandwich shore was good...got every thing in the truck and on the road by 6.00. its about a hours drive for me to the nelleton hunting club.i got there by 7.00 then we loaded up and drove to our hunting spot for the day...lord what a fine place this is..about 820 acres of bottom land set out in pines lots of underbrush and briars a haven for deer..i hunted the first half of the day in a large firelane with a food plot on it..fine place but no deer showed up...was a fine spot to have got to have tried that 444 marlin handy rifle out...went back to the cabin and eat lunch then talked to a few deer hunters..all in good spirits but a lot of bull being slung....this evening i hunted probablky the prettiest spot i ever hunted a deer on...it was on a cliff over looking a small river..it was so steep i had decided if a buck came by he was gona have to be a large rack for sure...well i stayed there till dark but never seen anything but a large gray squirl....took a few pictures of the place it was so nice....got to get up early again to hunt we gona hunt my place tommorrow...charlie

[charlie cleveland]

forgot to tell about the last day of deer hunting.... jan 31 was our last day for deer..i had hunted hard that week with my cousin terry we hunted early till late..on friday he decided to go home on saturday morning so he hunted with his other cosins on there hunting club all he seen was a small doe..which he let walk... on saturday morning i just decided to sleep in being wore out from the past few days hunt...i worked on my old luv pickup that morning while working on the truck my granddaughter drove up with her dad she had taken a nice doe that morning..yes i should have been hunting instead of laying up late...about 2.00 pm i gathered up my gear and old rifle and went to my bottom and sat in the shooting house till dark...was glad it was over in away...now i got about 6 weeks till turkey season then it starts all over again...yep set the alarm clock for 3 and hope you find a gobler up a tree....charlie

[Dean Romig]

Rest up Charlie - it'll come sooner than you know.

[Gary Laudermilch]

Was out with the dogs early this morning and, guess what. I heard a gobbler sound off three times. Perhaps the turkey know more about predicting spring than ground hogs.

When I got home from shooting 5-stand this afternoon there were 4 long beards in the field close to where I heard them this morning.

Spring is coming Charlie. Yep, be here before you know it. Right after the 6 inches of snow forecast for tomorrow.

[Dean Romig]

Yeah, right!..... I'll believe it when I see it.

[charlie cleveland]

i was in short sleeves this evening dean... them long beards better be resting up too....charlie

[wayne goerres]

I was in a T Shirt today but I don't think winter is over yet.