I don't muzzleload hunt. My dad and I always really enjoy October squirrel hunting on our 150 acres near Bearden. We use that time scoping out for deer scrapes, rubs, etc. I remember one year probably 15-20 years ago when I was squirrel hunting, I had been very still in one spot for about 10 minutes and I heard a deer coming. A big, nice 8 point walked within 20 feet of me before he saw me and took off. Opening morning of modern gun season came a few weeks later and I bagged him before 7 a.m. I know it was the same buck.
Another time, I was squirrel hunting and someone from across the paint line separating our land from their land called out to me to stop squirrel hunting as he was trying to deer hunt. I yelled back for him to stop deer hunting as I was trying to squirrel hunt! That same guy tried to run my dad off of our land a few years later. Some people think they own (or have leased) everything. To that I say, stay on your side of the paint line and I'll stay on mine.
Good luck to all of you muzzleloader guys this weekend. If you're planning on going hunting on top of Alycedale Hill near Bearden, Dad and I will be out there popping away at bushytails............on our side of the yellow paint line, of course.
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Originally Posted by GoTennTitans
I don't muzzleload hunt. My dad and I always really enjoy October squirrel hunting on our 150 acres near Bearden. We use that time scoping out for deer scrapes, rubs, etc. I remember one year probably 15-20 years ago when I was squirrel hunting, I had been very still in one spot for about 10 minutes and I heard a deer coming. A big, nice 8 point walked within 20 feet of me before he saw me and took off. Opening morning of modern gun season came a few weeks later and I bagged him before 7 a.m. I know it was the same buck.
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