Late season archery hunting

agingcrossbower · Post by **agingcrossbower** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:17 am

I enjoy late season most of all. Theres something about seeing all those tracks in the snow and the sight of a deer with a snow background. Odds are you won't see a buck but the does a super educated after being shot at with a gun so to me a late season doe is a challange. also the blood trail in the snow is to die for. Nothing like snow for tracking. I can dress for the cold. Bring on the deer!

Mike P · Post by **Mike P** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:26 am

bstout wrote:The only human foot prints I see in the snow belong to me.

Isn't that just the greatest bstout!

I also love that feeling. For me it is January hunting when the sounds of the muzzleloaders are just a memory. I usually see more in January then I do during all the combined prior months of the hunting season. All the animals are in survival mode and movement during daylight hours is no longer optional.

old fart jim · Post by **old fart jim** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:22 am

AMEN to what bs said. our rifle season is down right scary

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:24 am

bstout wrote:I'm happy to see it end and I'm alone in the woods with my black Vixen once again. The only human foot prints I see in the snow belong to me.

Mike P wrote:
bstout wrote:The only human foot prints I see in the snow belong to me.

Isn't that just the greatest bstout! I also love that feeling.

Seems to me that y'all boys need to thin some of the people out in your respective necks of the woods!

Overpopulation is always a problem ... and a little research and looking at the numbers tells me that you guys have one!

Maybe you should contact your controlling agencies and set up a season!

vaguru · Post by **vaguru** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:56 pm

I agree with bs, and Mike P. I loved that season when I lived in NY and Pa. Now, living in Va, have only had snow on the ground one day in the past 8 years! I hunted last Christmas Day, in nothing more than the flannel camo shirt. I wished 3 does, Mery Christmas, as I let them walk inside 20 yds. That was fun, but I still miss tracking snow!

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:02 pm

vaguru wrote:I agree with bs, and Mike P. I loved that season when I lived in NY and Pa. Now, living in Va, have only had snow on the ground one day in the past 8 years!

I understand.

I grew up in the frigid midwest, in decades when winter was much more severe than it typically is now. When I was a boy, there was some snow on the ground pretty much from Halloween to April Fool's.

We often don't see even .25" of snow a year here in eastern NC.

You must be in eastern VA, or the piedmont somewhere ... 'cause Virginia gets snow in the mountains!

vaguru · Post by **vaguru** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:26 pm

Grizz,

I live in the Shenendoah Valley, right smack in the middle of the state, what is termed the I81 corridor. I have seen snow here, just not for deer season. Most of what we get is late Jan, early Feb.

Grizzly Adam · Post by **Grizzly Adam** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:42 pm

vaguru wrote:Grizz,

I live in the Shenendoah Valley, right smack in the middle of the state, what is termed the I81 corridor. I have seen snow here, just not for deer season. Most of what we get is late Jan, early Feb.

Ah, I see.

I have many friends in the western part of the state, in Tazewell and Bland counties ... my friends in Burkes Garden get a lot of snow. In fact, we saw flurries the third week in October!

Your area is beautiful, too.

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