Sunday still hard wind from the north!!

Today i started the morning by oversleeping, calling two empty stands and forgetting the coffe flask at home how´s that for a start huh? Anyway as you can tell from the pic things turned out good in the end.......

Me and a buddy thought we had to try and get some deers without the dogs help as we spotted a small group of deers in a field, so my buddy loaded the 12ga and rounded a small piece of "forest" and took stand there on a narrow cattle path. I snuk around the field walking in on the deers who escaped me into that same forest and in seconds i heard the familiar sound of a shotgun. My buddy shot the Buck leading the group with one shell of no.3 buckshot......

Weekend wrapup!!!

Two days of blue sky and hard wind coming in from the north.

I seem to be followed by mangy and that sucks big time as this Red were in a very good size and taxidermist material, i need a wallhanger from this season too but so far only mangy and small summer pelts have bit the dust.
Anyway here´s the story of how to spend a good morning......

Saturday 05:30

You get out of bed before sunrise and when you walk outside you are the first to make new tracks in the snow that fell overnight. Then you drive out in the hunting area and start to track in the new snow, i got up on a ridge an found fresh fox tracks in the side of an small road.I made a loop around not to spread to much sent and sat down at the edge on a rather big clearcutting and started too call. The wind were pretty strong blowning in from the north so i thought i´d try some open reeders to get out a bit as the tracks were probably 6-700 yards away.I started off with my TT cowtip distress call wich also were the only one i needed as the fox came running along the same side of the clearcutting as i was sitting on and i saw it coming in so i dropped the call and got the rifle ready as the fox dissapered for 5 sec behind a big rock and when he popped out on the other side i dropped him at 20 yards.

Thanks for looking!!

The snow melted away.....but the Reds are up and runnin´

Had a pretty slow start in the wood Saturday, i was hunting as guest in a neighbouring area and we were 14 hunters and three driving dogs on smallgame hunt.
We had about three drives of different smallgame in the morning and when we took break for lunch we decided to make it a day as no more game had been see or tracked.
Me and my friend Bjorn decided though to take a different way through the woods heading to the car, almost there the dog picked up a Roedeer and drove it off so we split up and took stands waiting for the deer to come back to the dogs pickup area.
I sat down on my backpack and after 5-10 min this little male Redfox came runnig down on me probably scared off by the drive on the deer, anyway i got up and let the 12 gauge do its job......

Sorry for picture quality it was foggy and less then 150 yards of clear sight.

Well, i got back in the trenches today!!

I went out calling this morning, the weather was outstanding with just a few minus degrees and sunshine.On my first stand i saw alot of tracks and started calling that field and brushes, the fox came in a ditch and i didn´t see him until it was too late. He turned and ran down towards a lake at the end of the field and then headed home to the den, guess i´ll have to stalk him as calling wont work on him for a few months (tried it and they learn quick).After that i went tracking for tomorrows stand and man theres a lot of foxes running during the night, i NEED the moon now but it´s ten days away and then it´s not sure if the snow is still on the ground as they predicted warm weather for one moore week.After tracking i headed back towards town and spotted tow foxes just outside the city limits where i know theres a den, i shot a young mangy fox there earlier this season so i spun around and headed for a place to put the car.I started to call the foxes but they didn´t respond at all, i´ve had mangys do that before so i started to stalk on one of them and got to a bushy spot just 80 yards of the city limits from there theres open fields so i set the Harris into the snow and just as the fox had scratched hes tail and stood up and began to walk away i sent a 40gr Sierra varmint hitting him in the neck. When i measured the shot it was my longest so far on a fox 179 yards and he dropped at the spot, guess there was some luck involved but it sure feels good to drop them a bit away from ya´

October passed quick!!

Hi gang! So October passed in an eyeblink and no fur hit the ground what so ever, i finally got my HOB (Custom Call maker) account ready on PM. I´ll post for ya´a couple of calls that have been made during October.....