Who is Still Hunting?

[longbow]

Who is still hunting this year? Hunting for deer? Small game? What are your plans?

Our regular guns season just ended here. I passed up a few small bucks and saw one nice one that was running too fast and too far.
Our deer season with ML and shotgun continue until the end of January, and I know there are a few nice bucks around, that I will try for, before I fill the freezer with a few does if necessary.

 

[Mikejd]

I have enough in the freezer so i am only hunting with my 7 year old son now. So fair weather weekends and such. Hope to get another when he is with me.

 

[JDK]

Small game and predators when I feel like it until the end of the month

 

[Shooter Buck]

Ill get out a few days for MA muzzleloader. I have a snowshare hare hunt booked in early Feb with a guide and his dogs. My brothers my dad and nephew will all be going.

 

[Gwlambo]

I plan to hunt 1-2 days ML here in NJ next week, or maybe just after Christmas. I am hunting zone 4 (I do not bow hunt) so I think my options end on 12/31.

 

[sneaky_pete000]

I always daydream that I'm going to hit western MA with my punkin-chunker but can't quite get there. Otherwise I'll be working in pipeline, ice fishing and chasing some bunnies...

 

[shawn_in_MA]

I have the 2 saturdays of ML in Mass left, but that's about it for me

 

[longbow]

Otherwise I'll be working in pipeline,

Please explain.

 

[VTHunter08]

Please explain.

Alot of us vermonters are in the sugar woods not long after the deer woods. Guessing thats what he's referring too

 

[sneaky_pete000]

Sorry, VTHunter is right - I live an hour from the farm I grew up on, so I only have weekends to get our sugaring operation up and running before the sap flows. I also split those weekends with ice fishing, snowboarding, rabbit hunting...so the minute deer season is over, I (and a million other VT'ers) try to get a head start on sugaring. But I'd really like to sneak in MA muzzleloader season, because there's going to be snow on the ground.....

 

[longbow]

Sorry, VTHunter is right - I live an hour from the farm I grew up on, so I only have weekends to get our sugaring operation up and running before the sap flows. I also split those weekends with ice fishing, snowboarding, rabbit hunting...so the minute deer season is over, I (and a million other VT'ers) try to get a head start on sugaring. But I'd really like to sneak in MA muzzleloader season, because there's going to be snow on the ground.....

Oh, ok I wasn't thinking syrup! lol Yeah, I was amazed one year we drove to a new area up around Willard Ridge, Maine and saw all the tubes running down the mountain. Pretty cool.

 

[jht2224]

We are still getting pics of a few really good bucks, hope to get at least a few days out there with either the bow or ml.

 

[lester2]

This Saturday will be my last deer hunting day this season with the ML down in MA. It’s been a great year. Started with bowhunting at home here in VT, then a week long bowhunt in OH where I shot a nice 9pt. Then home for a couple more bow sits followed by a week of ML and rifle in Pittsburg NH. Missed a small buck there on my last day. After that it was home to VT for two weeks of rifle at 3 different camps. Only buck was a spikehorn but I did shoot a small bear and two coyotes. The coyotes were a double, first time that’s happened. Then it was on to MA for 3 days of shotgun. Saw 26 deer in 3 days, one buck that I hit and knocked down but didn’t recover. Back home to VT for ML, shot a beautiful doe last Friday, 137lbs. I get three weeks with my wife in January out in NV, AZ, and CA then it’s into the sugar woods and running the groomer part time for our snowmobile club.

 

[BDB]

I have 2 more hunts in MA and then I'm hanging it up for the season. Won't be still hunting though, just sitting in a tree bored out of my mind with a bow The freezer is full so my motivation isn't very high but I do need to pull two stands so I'll hunt them and pull them at the end of the hunt.

 

[Posted]

Me.

 

[Meatseeker]

MA muzzleloader ends on 12/31. I have the whole last week off. Planing to hit it hard. Then I’ll probably hunt a few days of late goose season with friends

 

[sneaky_pete000]

I can't believe its over - time flies so fast. I drove down Dover Hill Road in Dover VT today and someone had an absolutely beautiful 8 pointer hanging off the kubota bucket. If you happen to be on here, post that thing up...that buck deservers some attention.

 

[longbow]

I drove down Dover Hill Road in Dover VT today and someone had an absolutely beautiful 8 pointer hanging off the kubota bucket. If you happen to be on here, post that thing up...that buck deservers some attention.

I bet it was nice. To bad nobody took a picture of it.

 

[sneaky_pete000]

I bet it was nice. To bad nobody took a picture of it.

I see what you did there........

 

[medrhunter]

I'm in zone 5 so I have till end of Jan for deer. (Shot Gun / Archery / MZ)
Let a nice 8 go the last 5 minutes Friday of 6 day FA.
So will go back for him.
After that Pheasant through March 15.
Just loaded up 500 rounds of 30-06 / 300 WSM
Practice at least 1 a month till Nov.
Keeps the juices flowing