Geared up for Turkey Season

I spent most of the day today getting ready for turkey hunting. My 5 day turkey season starts tomorrow. I am still not shoer where I am going to hunt in the morning, I have a couple of places in mind I will make the final diction in the morning. I will try to make a progress report post at night the next couple days.

The Baiting Question

The Baiting question has been kicked around for a couple of years now. In Wisconsin there are some management zones that you can bait for deer, and some you cant. Most of the zones that you can’t bait in are zones that CWD (chronic wasting disease) has been found in, and the zones around them. But lately the state has been talking about banning baiting deer in the whole state. If this goes thru the only animal that you will be able to bait in Wisconsin is bear.

Baiting can be a vary effective way to hunt your desired game. There are many different ways to bait, and their many types of bait to use depending on the game you wish to hunt. The most common game animal baited is probably deer with corn or apples.

I am writing this to see what you guys and gals think about the subject. Do you think that baiting should be band? Should you only be able to bait only certain game animals? And what should we consider baiting, should we consider food plots baiting?

Black Cloud Ammo

For the last three seasons I have been using Federal Ammunition's Black Cloud shot shells for hunting waterfowl. Black Cloud uses 40% Federals flight stopper steel and 60% premium steel. It also uses federals flight control wad.

Here is a link to a video that tells about Black Cloud.

I like Black Cloud, I think that it is better than any other non-toxic load I have ever shot. I feel it is worth paying more for it, because I don't cripple as many, or have to shoot them twice just to nock them down. I have folded geese at 75 yards with it.

Deer Season 2008

The wolves have done allot of damage to the deer herd where I hunt in Crivitz Wisconsin. I spent most of the nine day gun deer season there and did not see one deer. I was home for two days Monday and Tuesday and shot one on Tuesday and went back up to Crivitz and saw no deer. After gun deer I hunted muzzleloader season in Sheboygan Falls and saw deer almost every time out. I had one shot at one running threw the woods at about 40 yards and I missed. By the time I was loaded again it was gone.

That is why I'm writing this to get some input on other parts of the state. I want to know about the deer herd condition and what you think is affecting the deer where you hunt for good or bad. So comment on this post and let me know what you think.