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Danno I would have passed on a doe with a fawn still sticking with her as well. They will survive at this point in time on it's own but still I don't feel right about it myself. As far as grunting goes short grunts this time of year. Long grunts can represent different emotions, like aggression, doe tending, etc. My opinion in early season is that I am still see bucks together and feel no threats from them so I think short social grunts are the way to go right now.
Yeah danno did the same thing yesterday...Except for the squirrel thing. watched a nice big doe for about 1/2 hour was just a little too far. SOOOO many acorns WOW just when she was about 30 yards from my stand getting ready to pull back I heard something and saw a little brown flicker through the hemlock tree said to myself oohh maybe a buck. nope 2 fawns same ones I been watching in my yard all summer passed her up!!!! ****... well watch them eat acorns for another 45 minutes until they finally left.
I called in a six point last year with a grunt call I do long grunts wait a few minutes 1 or 2 short ones then wait about 5 minutes and try again I don't grnut too much this time of year though more so durring rut. he didn't come close enough to shoot at. I have also called them in with a bleat too. years ago I was in a stand bleating and heard one answer me thought a doe was coming through the woods and it was a monster 10 point or 5x5 for those who call them that...biggest buck I have ever seen in the woods it was down in MA it was a legend at the time, well over 200lbs. just skirted the egde of the woods about 60- 70 yards away. was bleating the whole time height of the rut acting kinda stupid too. women 'll do that to ya.
started to tighten up main line but ran out of daylight and didn't feel like tredging through the swamp. And rain again today. just about all tied on. just have to secure to a few more trees so there are no sags then I can put in the second branch off it, then when thats done start laterals. and install a main line across the street in my neighbor's woods. But the list is getting smaller I love that my "Stuff needed for sugaring" list is finally down to like 3 things. now still trying to check some more things off of the "stuff I need to do for sugaring" list thos are things seem to take a little longer longer. to do.
My wife's saying " Part of the destination is the journey"!!!!!
My saying "don't play poker with a guy named after a city" (Teen Wolf) and "don't believe everything you think!"
Wayyyy behind the 8 ball….again. So many summer projects kept taking priority. Didn’t even start on the sugar house, had to push it back until next year, so I’ll be on the block arch again this coming season.
The sugar house is in the budget and mama is quarterbacking the show telling me how she wants it built, I’m just flat out of time this year and still have too many things out front of it. >sigh<
I did manage to get a cider mill on board to sell the stuff once I get licensed. Got the wood lot to a manageable level, but still have some work to do there. ¾ of the woodlot is now marked and have a pretty good idea how I’m going to run the tubing, I’ll know more when the leaves come down.
Still cutting wood, don’t have enough yet for the house or syrup season. Been taking down the dead and still standing trees, using the trunks and bigger branches for the house, the lighter stuff from the crowns for sugaring, that’s working out fairly well, but still need another two cord for the house. By the time I get that cut up I should have enough for the evap.
Got some good ideas from reading here on how to tweak my arch. Hopefully I can best the 7 GPH from last year because…well…that just sucked. :lol: Live and learn.
Didn’t get my bow restrung so I’ll be sitting out the archery season again this year. Got a couple of ground blinds up along with a stand come firearm season. Still wondering if I’m going to make it up bird hunting this year, too much yet to do.:-|
oh man!!! have to pospone the trip up to the north country VT, my son has an ear infection and my sister's got 2 very little ones and we don't wanna give them his cold. maybe we could do the kankamangus Highway (sorry don't know how to spell that one) or something may be apple picking if he feels ok we'll see!!! gave him some anitbiotics today hopefully they start to kick in by tomoorow sometime!!!!!
havnet been doing much with sugaring this past week, been moving wood for the house and sugarhouse, plan for the weekend is go into new woods and run the 1000ft of 3/4 pipe i have sitting in my garage and get that in the air, and then probably next wekk run laterals,
what a day yesterday was went to bascoms sold some syrup then rolled up to valleyviews sugarhouse ...for the gathering of the greats ... i will start this way sugarmakers our some of the niciest people u will ever meet ... the amount of food we had was crazy ... the crew ... supper sappy ...maplecrest... tapme ...of course vv and the guest of honor a set of wfmasons pans ...oops i mean ogs .... and future sugarmakers running and playing and wives oh and garlic steve...buy time i left the story telling was up and running and well i puked in vvs float box and i saw ogs peing in the bulk tank tap was chasing the gogo dancers foams and vv had the junk yard band going foams on jugs and i mean syrup jugs ... vv on the skimmer and garlic steve was drumming and some 55 gal drums ...and vv who was the drunk chic in the r/o room?
was a great time peace. had a good time talking to you all. then today i spent with parker walking maple stands and talking vac set ups.
Peace; you forgot the part about my honey chasing me with the skimmer when I was after the gogos. Hard to say what was the best part of the day but the food comes close. I'm putting it on all the great company and all the sugar talk and stories (sugar tom in particular) or was it the supper sappy. It was all great. Big thanks to the family that hosted the event, just wonderful people. Thanks to all that came from the TapME and we should do this again.
PS. The trip there and back had some nice colors too. Ogs the colors waited for you to come, I can't remember them being this late in a long time.
Spent the day clearing brush for the last stretch of main line. Foggy at first with a light mist, then sun came out and very nice. Sat down for lunch and had a nice doe walk within 30 yards. This is the best time of year to be in the woods. Tomorrow will start stringing wire
I walked a sugarbush this morning and it's not going to work. It's about 2000 feet in the woods and the 200+ trees are fairly well spread out. It wouldn't be worth it to tube it and would need vac. just to get it out of the woods.
I spent some time last weekend walking my lines and cutting down some dead stuff. My shephard managed to find an underground yellow jacket next and she wasn't too happy about that. They're nasty little buggers.