Fall Cabin Trip 2025

 We left last Monday for our Fall cabin trip. The weather forecast wasn't looking to good and it was pretty correct. We had more rain than we had dry weather. We just went with the flow and made the best of things. I did have to miss one day of hunting and the rain made me bail a couple hours early the next morning.

I usually do a bunch of bushcraft practice, but this year I just wasn't feeling it. I did get the wood stove going with a ferro rod one night and flint and steel another, and of course hunting is bushcraft, but that was it really.

We did some touring in the car over to Long Lake, Raquette Lake, and found out one area was sold and the new owners have blocked access on their land to one of the more popular state owned mountains in the area we go to. What can ya do? Things change I guess....

The only deer seen was a very small doe on my way to my hunting area one morning. 4 days of the early ML season and the regular season opener for the NZ.

That's really about it. Not a lot going on this year for that trip.

Last First

 I put the video for the last day of the archery season and the opener for the muzzleloader season together. So far it's not been a horrible season, having seen deer on 3 of the five hunts I've been able to get in.

Yesterday was part of the game on public land.

When I got to my chosen spot there were already two vehicles there. One smaller SUV and a pickup. The owner of the SUV was already gone (so to speak- see later), and the two guys in the truck were just finishing up getting ready. They asked where I was going to be (I wish everyone on public land did this), I told them and they said they were going to be in the second field. Which was fine as it did leave me a good area to watch.

They headed in and I threw my pack on and locked my own SUV and started in. I noticed a light coming back from the first field and figured one of the other guys forgot something. Nope. Upon my getting on the trail I was greeted by two dogs wearing orange vests with a third back with the owner. The light I saw was a pheasant hunter who was now leaving, in the dark. My best guess is he decided to give up the area to the deer hunters. At least I'm guessing for the benefit of the doubt here that's how it went. No night hunting allowed in any of the areas near home so....

I got to my blind and set up. After about 40 minutes I saw a doe trotting from the woodlot to the field and was out of my safe zone in less then a few seconds. She slowed and stopped for a second between me and the other field the other two guys here hunting. I didn't even get time to think about grabbing my ML/ I managed to get a little clip of her on video, but with the low light it's a little hard to see her.

So my morning consisted of seeing a good doe but not having a shot and hearing turkeys where I never heard a peep from a turkey all last May when I was hunting them.

Deer Hunt 2