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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Sgt shultz[/i] [br]I was up at the trailer till weds . Opening day found me up in my treestand at 6:00 Am . M y stand is set at the edge of a huge clearcut facing into a dog hair forest with the clearcut to my back opposite as last year . At about 6:15 I heard all this comotion at the fence ,a huge part of the clearcut is fenced ibn some kind of experiment . Any way this racket sounded like someone or something trying to get out it was still real dark so I flashed on my light to see a nice deer bolt off . That was 1 deer shooting time came at about 6:40 with very little shooting sporadic at best anbd none around my area . About 7:30 it started raining drizzel at first then a medium but steady rain all the way thru the 7 hour . Along about 8 am I had my hood up wethering out the storm when I caught movement to my right.I glanced over to see a one racked buck not 10 feet away . Well I tried to slowely bring my rifel up but he caught the movement and bolted I whisteled and he stopped but by the split second it took to gret a bead on him he bolted again . I nevwer did get a count on that 1 racker That was deer 2 . About 10 I hear some shots fired below me and few minutes later a nice buck comes running up along the fence in side . I was sure it had 3 points so I whisteled but he would not stop he did turn and run out aay from the fence this gave me the broadside shot I put the bead on his very front chest to lead him a little and at the report hhe lurched and did a backflip . I gathered my gear and lowered it down to the ground I climbed in the fence thru the gate and proceeded to get my buck . When I reached the buck my heart sank it was only 4 pointer 2 points on each side and not legal . Well if that dont beat all so I went ahead and gutted him draged over to the gate and went up and called the gasme comission . Thwey told me I would pay a 25 dollar remidiation fee for a mistaken kill and there will be nothing held against me . I was told to go over to State Coledge and report to the transfer station at 2pm . I went over and there was already like 5 other guys with several more behind me all for the same thing bad kills . Most were spikes that were too big to qualify as antlerless . Mine was the biggest although some spikes were there that were almost a footlong . I t wasd a painless deal I thjought I would surely loose my license but by turning myself in nothing wwas held against me . I gave up my buck but the officer gave me another buck tag my afternoon was shot so I went to the market on the way back to camp and got me a nice t bone ate and went to bed about 8 oclock . Tuesday I hunted all day and saw nothing . Weds I slept till 7 WENT OVER TO TAKE A SHOWER AT THE BATH HOUSE AND HAD AGOOD BREAKFAST . i WANTED TO HUNT MY LAST DAY OVER AT MY DMAP AREA WERE i DREW Adoe tag I hunted there till 12:30 and saw nothing . So in two full days of Hunting I saw 3 DEER KILLED 1 AND IT WAS TOO SMALL . I think what the gamecomission is doing is good for the bucks because the ones I saw hanging were all nice racked bucks . But the deer are just not there in the numbers they were 10 years ago I can remember on opening day all the guys in camp we collectivly saw over a hundred animals mostly does and antleerless bucks . But now to see 3 deer in 2 days of hunting thats a big diffrence I think all this doe killing needs to be curtailed at least up state . The gamewarden says that they have anice managabel heard now I dissagree the deer are there anymore likethey once were I would like to see more deer to keep you in the game and not as boring . I still love to be out in the forest were all you hear is the occasinal shot and the wind . Tomorrow Ill be over at the woodlot . [/quote]    Insert an Image File Check here to include your profile signature.