Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
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Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Awesome! I miss snow...
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
That just makes me cold, lookin' at the picture! Only hunted in snow one time when it stuck on the ground here in the panhandle. It was a total different experience. Didn't kill a deer during the snow time but the world sure looks different from a climber from one day to the next. Hope you kill a good one with your hand made smokepole!
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Thanks! Did some scouting, saw 4 does on an oak ridge.. It's a start I reckon.
The snow is still coming down. We are up to almost 10 inches now. Hopefully it stops soon. Supposed to stop overnight according to the forecast. 11º at 8 am! Yikes! The tent and our cook canopy held up ok. So thats good.
Muzzleloader opens tommorow so we'll see how it goes.
The snow is still coming down. We are up to almost 10 inches now. Hopefully it stops soon. Supposed to stop overnight according to the forecast. 11º at 8 am! Yikes! The tent and our cook canopy held up ok. So thats good.
Muzzleloader opens tommorow so we'll see how it goes.
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
love hunting and tracking in fresh snow. Hunted Maine Vermont out west and Indiana, Pine flats I think. you will enjoy it. Lots of laughs when u get home
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
You can see deer three times as far away with snow than without and its very quiet in powder to allow you to stalk them. I love hunting in the snow. Good luck and great thread...
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Saw 7 does this morning. We each missed one. LOL.
I gotta go buy new boots before this evening. The snow came over the tops of both mine. Oh, thats what I get for not expecting a dadgum snowstorm. Live and learn.
Stay tuned!
I gotta go buy new boots before this evening. The snow came over the tops of both mine. Oh, thats what I get for not expecting a dadgum snowstorm. Live and learn.
Stay tuned!
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Come on guys keep warm and get one
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Well. I'm froze.
This is my view each day:
Shot a doe but it was a poor shot. She was probably a little out of range for my rifle but these hills play tricks on my range guestimation. Tracked her for about a mile back into the hills and no dice. Decent blood but it was clear it wasn't a fatal hit. I been kicking myself in the butt ever since....
But, there is a good buck coming by, just not when I'm there.
Did I mention it's cold?
No deer yet. But we got a good fire and good beer...lol!
This is my view each day:
Shot a doe but it was a poor shot. She was probably a little out of range for my rifle but these hills play tricks on my range guestimation. Tracked her for about a mile back into the hills and no dice. Decent blood but it was clear it wasn't a fatal hit. I been kicking myself in the butt ever since....
But, there is a good buck coming by, just not when I'm there.
Did I mention it's cold?
No deer yet. But we got a good fire and good beer...lol!
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Looks like a great time, minus the camping in the cold.
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I hope you kill a giant, your sure putting in the effort both day and night!
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Well, Cleon kicked our azz.
We ended up coming home. On Tuesday it snowed another 3 inches or so and there was more on the way. That made close to 13 inches for the weekend and we just weren't prepared for that.
We saw TONS of sign and lots of deer. I admit that the Hoosier National Forest (at least the part in Brown County we were in) is a great place for an opportunity at deer. Both big bucks and doe. But it is a tough place to hunt in the sense that the terrain is unlike anything here or anywhere else in Indiana for that matter.
I really wish I hadn't wounded that one doe. She probably fed some coyotes that night but I did the best I could. That's the first deer I've ever lost that way and it sucks.
I will go back, I go to Indiana every year anyway, this was my first trip to Brown county though. Probably won't go during the muzzleloader hunt (although everyone we spoke to remarked how unusually bad the weather was, instead I think I'll try a little earlier during the gun season.
I'm glad I don't have to crap in a bucket in the tent with the little propane heaters roaring, piss in a piss bottle at night cause it's 11 deg out, and boil snow water to thaw drinking water anymore. It was cold. Colder than Afghanistan. Colder than anything I've been in. I was completely unprepared for it. The weather reports were WRONG.
I'll be back next year though....
We ended up coming home. On Tuesday it snowed another 3 inches or so and there was more on the way. That made close to 13 inches for the weekend and we just weren't prepared for that.
We saw TONS of sign and lots of deer. I admit that the Hoosier National Forest (at least the part in Brown County we were in) is a great place for an opportunity at deer. Both big bucks and doe. But it is a tough place to hunt in the sense that the terrain is unlike anything here or anywhere else in Indiana for that matter.
I really wish I hadn't wounded that one doe. She probably fed some coyotes that night but I did the best I could. That's the first deer I've ever lost that way and it sucks.
I will go back, I go to Indiana every year anyway, this was my first trip to Brown county though. Probably won't go during the muzzleloader hunt (although everyone we spoke to remarked how unusually bad the weather was, instead I think I'll try a little earlier during the gun season.
I'm glad I don't have to crap in a bucket in the tent with the little propane heaters roaring, piss in a piss bottle at night cause it's 11 deg out, and boil snow water to thaw drinking water anymore. It was cold. Colder than Afghanistan. Colder than anything I've been in. I was completely unprepared for it. The weather reports were WRONG.
I'll be back next year though....
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Love Indiana. The terrain is definitely harder to traverse than our flatland. On my cousins farm it is very steep in many areas. I love hunting there though. Will have to check the map to see where Brown county is. All in all, it sounds lkme yo uh had a good time.
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Re: Indiana for the '13 muzzleloader season
Sounds like a good trip all in all and I applaud you for hanging I there, I'd have buckled right out of the gate with the temps and snow. I was stationed at Camp Atterbury just north of you for a short bit and that winter was about par for the time I was there, plain miserable. I hunt Indiana west of where you were maybe 90 minutes and then just west of Indianapolis about an hour.
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