black powder deer fever, round two...

[elkboy]

Well, my deer fever, temporarily cured with the blessing of a notched tag in September, is back.  I have a second deer tag for a special unit out here in the rolling wheat fields, and I am beginning to feel the familiar symptoms returning: salivation and restlessness when I see deer or pictures of deer, obsessive checking of the topic list on HuntWA, inability to focus on work, and endless Google-Earth ogling of hawthorn draws and ponderosa pine stands.  (OK, the inability to focus on work isn't just tied to deer season)

Any of my fellow muzzleloaders (or other hunters) experiencing the same thing?  I know I have a problem, and late season cannot get here soon enough!     

[oneshot12]

  best of luck to you  Elk Boy i fully understand your point . a good start i think.    so get yourslef all ready for the second go around and get on them 
 

[erk444]

I've been feeling that way since the day after I got my elk! I can't wait for my late hunt to try and fill my second deer tag! Hang in there man

[n_mathews13]

Me too, me and my wife have tags to fill. Can't wait. Tough to beat the late season in the snake river

[elkboy]

Right on, guys, thanks for the support!  I'm feeling the good HuntWA vibes... Good luck to all of you! 

Oneshot, you done for the year, or do you still have some late season action ahead? 

[kevinlisa06]

Can't wait to get in the woods with the trusty Hawkens and chase some Blacktails!


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[bobcat]

I'll be looking for a blacktail on Thanksgiving morning and will be packing my Lyman Deerstalker. 

[elkboy]

Good luck,Bobcat and Kevinlisa!  Blacktails are incredible game animals.  I hope you are roasting a backstrap roast Thanksgiving evening...    

I shot one more time yesterday... feeling good as ever.  I'm going to be sitting under a hawthorn late afternoon Tuesday, waiting for a whitetail doe to head for the wheat fields above...   We've got perfect deer hanging weather here, 35 degree lows and 40 degree highs.  I think I'll hang the doe for a few days if I am successful.

[Smokepole]

I got deer fever & no second deer tag.  It's gonna be a long wait until next fall.  My wife still has a clean tag, so we might have to try some blacktail hunting during the late season.  But I can't wait until next season!  Good luck!

[elkboy]

Good luck to you and your wife, Smokepole!  Hope you can notch November out of that tag of hers!  Thanks for the good wishes.  Pretty soon I will also feeling how far off September can be...   

[trophyhunt]

looking forward to it for sure, been on some incredible hunts this year.  In fact it's been a great year but, I still have yet to notch a tag of my own.  I hope kapowsin has a few nice bucks left, that's where I'm heading.  Good luck smoke pole hunters.

[kevinlisa06]

I am hoping to tag out on a Blacktail in 407 then get the wife out there and try for one as well. I have yet to shoot a Blacktail so it would be nice to get one. Be hunting bout 15 mins from the house so I will get in as much time as I can before turkey dinner. Good luck to you all! Can I load the .54 cal yet?!?!?


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[bendotti]

Same here I can't wait the wife and I are leaving wensday for 5 days got my brother and niece meeting us on Friday to fill are tags feeling pretty same excited for this late muzzy hunt.

[HornHoarder]

I'm more than exited... It's about all I can think about lately. I've been hanging stands, checking trailcams, shooting etc... Gonna hunt the whole season if need be. Hoping for a real wallhanger whitetail this year. Good luck to all!

[elkboy]

I realize some of you are already out there chasing them around... But for me and a few others... TOMORROW!  And some of you are Turkey Day smokepole hunters... GOOD LUCK! 

Today on my afternoon walk, I watched a very large and wide 5x5 whitetail chase a doe along a river flat.  Nothing like that to stoke the deer fever!