Recent content by PaulFWI

If you mean tree stands that's not really doable here. Stand-hunting - standing - sort of is. But from any one spot you can generally only see a few yards. High ground overlooking swamps, hoping for others to push deer, might be an option I explore next year!

But how about those run-of-the-mill deer? It's interesting to me that sooo much whitetail lore revolves around the "mature buck" mystique. I am probably like most guys out there - I just want to bag a deer!

Fresh snowfall the morning of my last day out, there was no sign at all on ideal southern-facing ridges - no tracks, no beds, nothing. Temps were about 30 the day before but 15 that morning. Are the deer bedding in lowlands even when it's that cold? I have to guess so. I would guess that...

That's what I've read but I've also encountered bucks on ridge points hunting into the wind, during the day. I think this only works well if the wind is strong enough to mask both all scent and a lot of sound too. Anyway, lately, here in Kickapoo they're not there. They must be in the swamps...

Hunting driftless Wisconsin this year, I'm wondering why I'm not encountering deer on ridges during the day (still-hunting into the wind into ridge points). I read they bed on southern-facing ridges, and also in lowlands. When, for each? Is it a matter of hunting pressure, weather, etc.? (I...

(I'll give my own if anyone responds. :) )

Anyone have any reports from hunting Kickapoo this year?

This is amazing - I worked where you hunted, decades later, I am sure. You must be talking about the Cousin's Center in Cudahy/St. Francis in Milwaukee. Sprawling Catholic compound, at one time abutting the lake. My mother worked there while I was in college. Some time later, in the 90s, the...