November Journal

Ah yes that is the question I have about 20- 30 more trees that are pretty far out over a flat areaand then up the side of a hill but I am waiting until next year for those because I will have vac for next year and I can put in a sap latter!!!! because if I tried to tap them now gosh It would be like 12 feet up the trees and I don't enough buckets besides it would be a rough walk the snow gets very deep there because there are of big pines and hemlocks mixed in so no sun gets back there and the snow doesn't melt blah, blah blah.

I think we can plug these maples in to the system. It will take an extension of one of the existing mainline. I think...

I'm going to take a better look tomorrow as I hunt the elusive whitetail.

Well I made it back with the same amount of tags in my pocket that I left with. BUT I had the best hunt of my life. Guys I said I was going to my big buck spot right? Well I am changing the name to MONSTER Buck spot. If I tell you how big he was you would call me a liar. At 20 yards he was tearing the crap out of a tree behind a dead pine tree and as I was standing there 20 plus feet up waiting for him to step out and he turns looks back and takes off running. Few minutes later here comes my hunting buddies 16 year old son walking up to my stand just to see if I had seen anything yet. I told him to run before he got the arrow that the buck he scared should have. I have never and probably will never see a deer that big in person ever again. I am still shaking. I am gonna cry myself to sleep and dream a little maple sugar.

Ennismaple both of those weights are fully dressed. Nothing at all left in them. Wife is still bouncing around all excited. I told her to take her bow out and kill another one.
Keith

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Originally Posted by 3rdgen.maple

Well I made it back with the same amount of tags in my pocket that I left with. BUT I had the best hunt of my life. Guys I said I was going to my big buck spot right? Well I am changing the name to MONSTER Buck spot. If I tell you how big he was you would call me a liar. At 20 yards he was tearing the crap out of a tree behind a dead pine tree and as I was standing there 20 plus feet up waiting for him to step out and he turns looks back and takes off running. Few minutes later here comes my hunting buddies 16 year old son walking up to my stand just to see if I had seen anything yet. I told him to run before he got the arrow that the buck he scared should have. I have never and probably will never see a deer that big in person ever again. I am still shaking. I am gonna cry myself to sleep and dream a little maple sugar.

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We have a saying here that the only person that lies more then a fisherman is a jogger but deer hunters come in second. I think we have all had that happen one time or another to us. Mine was a elk or to be truthfull two elk that were just about in the right spot and this dummy that appeared out of no where racks his lever action and they were gone. That and bears.

The weather here would be exxcellent for fall tapping as we are getting cold nights and 40,50,degree days now. I would bet a person could leach a bit of syrup out of those trees no problem.

Finally got a good tap count, puts me at 180. Still need another 2 cord cut up for house wood, then I can start on the sugaring wood, been working on clearing the trails as I go.

Deer season opens Sunday, plan on spending tomorrow just splitting wood up near the barn. Haven’t run the chainsaw since last weekend, figure to let the woods settle a bit before the opener. Chased a nice 8 point down the driveway last week on my way to work, saw him again just the other night at the back of the property. Couple of rubs and a fresh scrape back there, hope it’s his.

Expect to start stringing wire and tube once the season ends at the end of the month. Would like to have had it up by now, but the stars just didn’t align for that one.

i had a guy come out of the woods and screw me on a nice 6pt standing in the gully in front of me, i was waiting for it to get light enough so i could see the sights on my bow and some guy comes tramping out of the woods with an led headlight and shines the whole field and of coarse the 6pt and doe ran i was MAD i started after him to chew him out but he turned and headed up into the woods and i couldnt find where he went but man was i ticked off DEER SEASON STARTS TOMORROW!!!! i dont know if im going to stick with my 243 with the scope (bolt) or use my new .270 semi auto, but it doesnt have a scope, still turning it over in my head which one i want to use

Had our traditional bow hunt vacation with my buddies the first week in November up here in northern Wisconsin. We hit the prime rut just right this year, I can guarentee we will never again put the smack down on the number of nice bucks we got. I ended up with a 8 point/17" inside spread, One of my buddies got the same thing but the tines were shorter, one got a 8 point with a 15" spread and my brother got a 9 point. we did'nt see alot of deer but we seen the right ones. Only heard wolves once while sitting which is unusual for our area. Rifle hunt begins next Sat. so I'm getting pumped for that. Hopefully everyone on maple traders has a safe deer hunt this year. Good luck!

It was one of those amazing days in the deer woods today and I was able to connect on a nice 9 point with the bow. It had been 2 years as I missed one about that size last year. I killed him about 11:45 am as I usually hunt from daylight until dark and the one I missed last year was at 1:50 pm. I saw him around 8:30 this morning behind a much larger buck and they were snort wheezing, grunting, scraping, rubbing and the big one appeared to be at least 5.5 years ago and had a tremendous 8 point rack and he was standing on his hind legs hitting licking branches, never saw anything like it and saw 4 bucks by 8:30. I threw every call I had at them, grunt, snortwheeze, bleet can and rattled but they were to interested in showing their dominance to the small buck that was also present. One of those once in a lifetime or once every 10 year mornings and I can't wait to get back at it on Monday as I have off next week to bowhunt too and would love to get a shot at the bruiser 8 point. I am guessing he would score at least 140 for an eight point and public land buck at that. Doubt I will get a shot at him, but will be fun trying to kill a much larger one next week. This one will make lots of tasty jerky and sure was a tremendous blessing and it was a perfect day for deer movement. I grunted in about a twelve inch 8" earlier to about 20 yards for 15 minutes but he needed to grow another year or 2. Never seen 4 bucks in a day on public land and especially in 2 hours and probably won't again. I added a link below if anyone wants to see pic:

http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=IMG_0014.jpg

Nice deer Brandon!

Can you take more than one in West Virginia? I know that parts of Ohio allow 6 deer each.

I took a nice walk today up in the woods. Lots of tracks, but no deer to be seen.

Really nice sunset up on the top of our lot.