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2012 Deer season thread
bk09:
--- Quote from: rudy on December 06, 2012, 01:53:22 AM ---I'm a student here at UNL. I've been here since August 2010, but this is my first year hunting in NE. I made some friends on campus that hunt and they've showed me some good spots. My buddy and I went out firearm opening morning on public land that didn't allow rifles. He was using an inline muzzleloader and I had a shotgun. We were at our spot at 4:30 a.m. after a 35 minute walk in the dark. I'd never seen the place prior to that day, so it was an interesting walk... Anyways, we sat on a hill looking down on a deer trail that ran north/south between two wooded patches. We saw 5-6 deer, but none came close enough for a shot. All crossed a fence to private land and we didn't see them again. We left around 10 a.m. as we both had to work in the afternoon.
We went out to the same spot again the following afternoon, sat from about 2:30 p.m. until dark. Saw a medium sized doe and fawn. Took a crack at the doe saw the shot strike the ground well above the doe's back. Scope must've gotten knocked around, I guess. Learned the lesson that I should really shoot it after it's sat in the case all year... Sighted it in during the week when I had some time to kill.
I sat the following Saturday in the same spot from about 3 p.m. to dark. Didn't see a thing.
I went out Sunday morning, last day of the season, was in my spot about 6:00 a.m. Saw around 10 deer, nothing close enough. Moved spots, saw more deer, but all were running on the other side of the fence on private land. Moved spots again, about 20 minutes later, a small doe walked up about 20 yards away. Decided I wanted some meat in the freezer since it was the last day of the season.
Nothing really to write home about, but at least it was easy to drag back to my car, ha.
I didn't think the area I hunted was too overly thick with hunters, maybe because rifles aren't allowed? I saw other hunter's vehicles and such, saw a couple out in the field, too, but they were at least 200+ yards away with no direct line of sight. I only saw them on my way out on opening day. I saw some upland hunters with dogs when I came one afternoon, but they were leaving as I was going in. All in all, it was a fun experience. Although, it was pretty darn hot the day I shot my deer, 60 F or so. I'm not use to that, coming from MN.
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Specifically what land were you on? I did the vast majority of my hunting at Yankee Hill WMA when I was at UNL before I transferred to UNO this year. The game and parks website says it has turkey but I have never found any turkey sign there. I have stirred up a few covey of quail on the southern end in all the crp if you are interested in hunting them. Yankee Hill has a good amount of deer (at least last year it did) and Pawnee Lake SRA has a decent amount of deer except it is shotgun only. And dove season is magical at Yankee Hill in the sunflower fields on the south western side and Killdeer WMA has some great dove fields too. All the public land is definitely what I miss about being at UNL, UNO doesn't have much nearby...
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