How was your muzzleloader season?

[lakota]

Mine was horrible. I spent 4 days stomping around the Ladue public hunting area in different spots looking for fresh sign. I could not locate any well used trails. I saw more coyote tracks than anything. The best deer sign I could locate were just stray tracks here and there. I wonder if the outbreak of EHD has anything to do with the lack of deer sign? I cant believe that gun season hunters would clean an area out like this. How does it look in your areas?

[BIG Dog454]

1 coyote, one deer, one missed coyote.
BD

[Jal5]

I saw 4 deer and got one button buck. Numerous coyote tracks and friends on the same property shot two of the coyotes. Will be going back there through the rest of the winter hunting coyotes.  Joe

[.54]

Saw lots of fresh scat but didn't even see any deer. Saw a couple dead ones that people had shot and just left to rot. Can't understand why someone would do such a thing.

[bikerbeans]

Didn't see a thing but only hunted one afternoon and one morning.  It was a great hunt anyway because I got to hang out with a couple of old friends.
 
BB

[BUCKDUSTER]

shot a buck that shed his antlers already  bummer

[Hungryhollow]

Killed a doe on Monday morning. Weather was perfect, not to cold or windy but with snow on the ground.

[Winter Hawk]

Didn't even go out this year.  We bought half a beef and the freezer is full up, no room for venison. 

I have hiked the woods behind Chauncey with the flintlock in hand, just because.  I might get attacked by one of those rabid squirrels.  Saw a nice scrape earlier last year.  It sounded like a war zone out there during gun season, haven't seen any more deer since then.  Some tracks, but the dogs are running loose with me usually when I go stomp around and the deer make themselves scarce.

Another guy I know claims the coyotes have done a number on the fawns around here, which may be true.  I saw lots of deer when I first got here 6 years ago, now narry a one.

-Kees-