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Brock/Mason 2021/22

brock ratcliff

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This will be an interesting, maybe even boring season. With Mason heading off to school, I just don’t know how much I will want to hunt. I’m certain I still have the desire to go to the woods but I doubt very much I’ll put in the effort to find specific deer to hunt. I can really envision me just going out and watching leaves fall. To add to my current lazy attitude approach to the coming season, Krista and I bought a small woodland and I think instead of hunting three counties and running a couple dozens cameras, I may find myself just going to our property. Historically, it’s been a fun place to hunt. Mason killed his first turkey and buck on the piece. Seems to always hold deer and it’s just a pretty place to be in the fall. I could really see myself just enjoying it this year.
We do have a couple cams out on the neighbors farm. We have three or four on cam that we know from recent years. None of the deer we have found changed much from past years. Still packing nice but not overly impressive antlers. There may be a giant around somewhere but if so I haven’t discovered em yet.
So with the season looming and me drowning in uncertainty as to how I’m going to roll this year, here is a pic of two bucks I’d shoot that look pretty much exactly the same as they did last year.
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Jamie

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there is much joy in hunting your own place. I've never enjoyed my time afield quite like this before. difficult to articulate, but hunting on my own place has been some of the best hunting I've done.

I think we can all agree that you are full of it, though. Your season will not be the lazy, boring affair that you are setting us up for. ;)
 

Fletch

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Brock I'm sure you'll get out with Mason this year and those days will even be more special... But it does suck to hunt alone, just takes the wind out of your sails... At any rate I'll be following along... Good Luck..
 
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brock ratcliff

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there is much joy in hunting your own place. I've never enjoyed my time afield quite like this before. difficult to articulate, but hunting on my own place has been some of the best hunting I've done.

I think we can all agree that you are full of it, though. Your season will not be the lazy, boring affair that you are setting us up for. ;)
I think I agree with you regarding hunting one’s own property, but I’ve not yet proven that to myself. We bought it just before turkey season and I never hunted out there a single time. Keep in mind I leased the property next to it beginning several years ago solely for the purpose of turkey hunting. Yet, for some reason, this year making the 15 minute drive seemed too much of a burden. Lol. I did tell Mason that if I managed to fill my deer tag early this year I planned to be on one of our ridges shooting squirrels or something when the leaves turn. It’s just too pretty there to miss that time of year.
 

giles

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I think I agree with you regarding hunting one’s own property, but I’ve not yet proven that to myself. We bought it just before turkey season and I never hunted out there a single time. Keep in mind I leased the property next to it beginning several years ago solely for the purpose of turkey hunting. Yet, for some reason, this year making the 15 minute drive seemed too much of a burden. Lol. I did tell Mason that if I managed to fill my deer tag early this year I planned to be on one of our ridges shooting squirrels or something when the leaves turn. It’s just too pretty there to miss that time of year.
I thought he was banned from this place? 😂
 
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brock ratcliff

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I had nothing to do this afternoon so I went out to our property to check the cams. I took the quad because it’s a long, hot walk to the back of the property. After checking the cams I rode around to the backside of the neighbors property to have a look around. I’ve hunted over there in the past but had never gone into it from that side. I was just snooping around. I found some oysters growing off a dead log when I backed my four wheeler into it. I picked em and sent a pic to our resident mushroomologist, Jamie. He confirmed their identity, which is good because I’ve never picked them.
It was a fair afternoon in the woods. Our cameras showed half a dozen bucks in the 100-120” range and one slightly better. Nothing real big, but big enough for me to shoot. Lots and lots of coyotes too. This place has always been polluted with them. Gonna have to work on em this winter.
Some pics.
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