I Am Getting Geared Up

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simonkenton

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Deer hunting is not looking too good for me right now, my knee is screwed up and I have to have partial knee replacement surgery on Nov. 10.
Deer season starts Nov. 20 and ends Dec. 13
I am not sure if I will be rehabbed enough to hunt by the 13, which is the only doe day we get. Limit 2 does.
I have 48 acres up here in the NC mountains. Hunting is not nearly as good as it was in central Georgia, but there are some deer. Plus I have been maintaining a homemade mineral lick for a year and a half, there are two well worn deer trails going to my lick.
Anyway, I am setting up a ground blind, no way I can go into the tree stand.
I have set a 5 gallon bucket on the ground. I had already cleared two shooting lanes, a few years back.
I gimped down there the other day, crutch in one hand, and chainsaw in the other. I had to clear out the shooting lanes. The brush grows so thick, if you don't clean out the shooting lanes you will never get a shot.
So I gimped around with the Stihl for an hour, got the shooting lanes cleared up pretty well. Had to take two Vicodin that night.
I have ordered a little 6 foot ground blind from Cabelas, on closeout for $7.

If I can't hunt by the 13th, my girlfriend's son in law will come up from Atlanta and hunt in my place. He is a good kid, never has shot a deer but has been practicing a lot with his 30-30. This would be a pretty good ground blind for a rookie, farthest shot is 75 yards.
We shall see.
 
First I must say I wish you well and a fast healin' up!
But... You gotta take it easy on that wounded knee! That 12-13-08 is gonna be pushin' it. If you do go I hope you use a walking stick for extra stability and have someone with you in case you muck it up with a slip, twist or fall down.:(
Be careful and good luck!!!:)
Brent
 
Hogdogs is right, healing up that knee is way more important than getting a deer. If your working it hard enough to need pain killers when you normally wouldn't, that's to much. Let alone the thought of someone one handing a chainsaw.

Let the son-in-law have the deer and have him do the work.
 
I dont know how extensive you surgery is going to be but getting the dear is the easy part. Moving that baby around cleaning it and packing it out and getting it loaded will be the worse of it. I would say you could hunt by that date but you probly need to have plenty of help with you in case you bag one.
 
Frankyoz, I had arthroscopic ACL repair on my knee and the 6-8 weeks later had me walking okay but to have gone off in the woods was not happenin' with any comfort.
Brent
 
Up here in the mountains, I know that dragging the deer from the woods takes a lot of effort.
I have killed a lot of deer, and wild hogs, too.
There is no way to know how well my knee will be doing by the last day of the season. I am pretty sure I will be able to skin and quarter the deer.
If I can do that, I sure as hell can process the deer. I have cut steaks, and made sausage, from at least 50 deer.
If the son in law doesn't come up, and I can't arrange for some help to drag the deer up the mountain, I will give the deer a pass this year.
The 4 pointer I don't shoot this year will be an 8 pointer next year!
 
talking about dragging deer out- got myself one of those cheap game carts - best thing I ever bought with my early season archery doe!:)
 
I'd trade that 5 gallon bucket in for one of those chair blinds. Four years ago I had no vacation time for hunting season so I built myself a nice 6'x8' shingled shooting shack, complete with two nice lawn chairs, by a nice clearing and about a three minute easy walk from my where I parked my truck. The reason I built it so close was so that I could get in a few minutes hunting before work and an hour or so after work. I took a nice buck out of that shack that year and it has produced deer every year since. I even spent some days turkey hunting out of that blind after a surgery left me not too physically fit. I didn't shoot a turkey that year but I had some moments and it enabled me to at least get out there for awhile. Good luck on your surgery. I'm having a little cutting done on me also. NOT until after deer season though!:)
 
I wish you the best of luck, and hope your body doesn't fight you through the hunt.

After a very saddening experience opening weekend, I gave up this year's tag, in hopes of next year being better. (From what I hear, 90%+ of the state came up empty-handed this year, no matter how hard they tried.)


And for all you deep-south hunters - Good luck with your November and December hunts. Right now I'm wishing I was back in Florida for the Thanksgiving opener. (And the three months following it. ;))
 
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