Iccyman001\'s 2014 hunting journal

Well, my week didn\'t go nearly as well as Dan\'s did!! I sat that exact stand - thinking now it was my camo that gave me away!! :)

After 2 1/2 days of bad weather, I decided to find a spot on one of the food plots that had some fresh tracks. Went in on Monday afternoon and found a nice cedar to whittle down. Got it all cut out, branched in, etc...

Went back that evening and had a mulie doe come in for an hour then a buck - each on different ends of the plot. Well, the young buck decided to go after her and meandered past my cedar at 8 yards! He pushed her back by me and I got busted drawing when they hit the edge of the field. Damn.

Last morning so went back to food plot. Sat for 2 hours and figured it wasn\'t going to happen. Had to pee really bad and had dug a hole close by with cedar clipping around. Eased out of chair to ground and was trying to get through layers of clothes to look up and see young mulie buck from last night - 40 yards and headed my way. CRAP! I just froze hoping the cedar branches would keep me concealed. It worked. He walked past just eating the wheat. I was able to draw from the ground and settled my 25 yard pin and let it fly! Wasn\'t 100% sure of the hit and found no blood on the food plot or along the grass edges.

Went arrow looking and found it about 60 yards away covered with blood but couldn\'t decide if the matter on the arrow was from stomach or dirt so backed out for 2 hours. No blood found. Started doing a grid search. Walked up on him laying under a tree with a lung/heart shot! It was high but clipped top of both and he went maybe 70 yards. Got it field dressed and out to a butcher in OKC that afternoon.

Rest of my rifle hunt was uneventful other than whacking 2 football size piglets with my 7 mag with 1 shot. Hogs are ruining this property so it\'s mandatory that we shoot every one we can so I did my part and nothing left for the grill!!
 
Now, to the other parts of the hunt.

Not sure why Dan doesn\'t care for outfitter hunts - mine was flippin great!! He brought his camper for us to stay in and even left it for me to use 2 nights while he went back to NM. We BOTH brought enough food/supplies for a group of 12!

Dan\'s as good of a guy as you\'ll have the pleasure to meet. Loves the outdoors, stray dogs and has a genuine concern for helping out others - qualities that are hard to find these days!

Regardless of what you see him tagging, if ever offered to join him for a hunt just say Yes and figure everything else out later. Oh, and be sure to take your Wheaties because that kid is FULL OF ENERGY!!!

It was a great time spent with Dan and would do it all over again.....only in blue jeans and a white tee shirt instead of Mossy Oak!!
 
Congrats on the buck Russ. Should be good eating. :upthumb: Sounds like a great trip.
 
Congrats on the success Russ! Would love to see a pic if you get a chance. I figured Dan was that good of a guy, so not surprising. Pretty awesome of him to leave the trailer for you too. Now if he only would have told you to go with the \'tee shirt and jeans\' approach, you would have been all set!
 
Thanks Phil! He is my biggest by far :dance2:


Russ, I was so pleased that you came and I had so much fun. I have not stopped talking Alyssa\'s ear off about how enjoyable it was on our hunt even with the LOVELY weather we had.

I am just hoping that we can do it again very soon. Maybe next time we can rally some more people from here to come try it out :upthumb: :wave:
 
Nice going CO Russ!

I have faith in the blue jeans T shirts pattern myself.
One time Pikemaster and I called in a nice 5x5 bull wearing the the same outfit!
 
I wish I could a seen that 5x5 wearin\' tee shirt and blue jeans... :D :D Of course I wish I could a seen a 5x5 bull... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
 
I am taking friday off and heading back out to Oklahoma.

I plan on spreading my cameras out in prep for next year and I want to try to find a doe or two.
 
Good luck Dan. I think you won\'t have a problem. Seems like you have them figured out pretty well so far. :upthumb:
 
It\'s been a while since I posted in here!

Tomorrow we are waking up early and eating breakfast at my fiances parents house, heading off to amarillo to visit my fiances grandparents, then we are heading out to Oklahoma for some camping/hunting. I should get in an afternoon hunt, hunt friday, and then saturday morning!

Then I am heading out to Oklahoma again January 1st to meet up with Russ again and we can try to get him another deer or five and I will try to kill my last few tags too!

Then I have my mule deer hunt which is local in NM and it\'s the END of my season. :downthumb:


I am going to make the most of these last few days :thewave:
 
Sadly yes.... January 15th will be a sad sad sad day.

I am hoping we can all put together a hog hunt, otherwise I won\'t be hunting again until Spring turkey and then start the long wait until the next elk hunt.
 
Yep, we\'re going to give it one more try this coming weekend. I\'ve got my blue jeans and white t-shirts all washed and ready to go!!

Hope to get a whitetail down early(buck or doe) then try to find the hogs!! Food plots should be up good and being hit with winter fast approaching.

Can\'t wait Dan. I checked OK regs and they changed the \'doe only\' rule for Jan 1-15 back in like 2011 a year after they went from a 3 buck limit down to 2.
 
Bags are packed and loaded. Making breakfast burritos later today, chili and summer sausage are thawing, baked potatoes cooked and wrapped in foil ready for hibachi.

Might have trouble filling the water containers given it\'s like -20 outside!
 
Propane is filled, camper is packed with food and gear, generator is filled with gas, spare cans filled, cameras are charged, etc.

I will be hitting the road tomorrow around 8. I\'ll get in, set up camp, and head into the woods!
Tomorrow night will either be Elk sloppy joes or Elk backstraps with potatoes :D
 
Eating my black eyed peas for then new year with some cinnamon rolls and hitting the road! Everyone be safe over the long weekend. I will report in Sunday!
 
Well guys, the deer won this battle...

We didn\'t even see a flash, glimpse, or remote sign of a deer...
Between the full moon, bad weather, and maybe my musk, we just didn\'t have any luck.

The temps were hovering around 31-33 so we were not getting any snow. This is while all the surround areas got 9 inches :crazy:
Other than that it was just wet and a little foggy!


BUT, that\'s hunting.

I had a great time with Russ yet again. He needs to write a cookbook because he knows his stuff.

We had elk sloppy joes and some yummy elk backstraps.
We cut it a night early because of how the weekend had been going so we could get home to our better halves.


This is good though because I think I may go chase some mulies tomorrow in the snow!
 
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