Deer Hunting and Caching

[sandlanders]

The nine-day rifle deer hunting season starts this Saturday, November 20. How will your caching plans change, if at all, during this time? Answer the poll question as to how it best describes your situation, and share any details here.

[kungfuhippie]

I’m dumping the kiddos with grandma and heading to Chicago to cache. If I get shot on my own, she’ll call me stupid, get shot with the babies and she’ll finish the job! 😯

[seldom|seen]

I like to throw on my deerskin trench coat, put on my novelty Rudolph antlers and then crawl around on public hunting grounds, bleating like a deer just to mess with the tongue-waggin, hormone driven blitherings in the woods. And by blitherings, I don’t mean the deer…

[JimandLinda]

I’ll be doing both. Last year, I cached on Black Friday. Most deer hunters avoid a person in an orange coat that ISN’T carrying a gun. Most likely a game warden. Who else would be crazy enough to be out in the woods?! Other than a cacher!

But I DO respect the public hunting areas. There are some crazies that go out there!

If your caching, be very, very aware of your surroundings! ❗

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Our plans are to mainly do “safe” caching, but we do have blaze orange and if we don’t see signs of hunters, may go to some of those caches, too. Trekkin’ used to deer hunt, so he knows what signs to look for.

[BigJim]

Unless we have a very successful opening weekend, I won’t be caching until the tags are all filled. I was hoping to get the Bakers Dozen challenge finished before hunting, but it doesn’t look like I’ll have much time between now and then to cache. Knew I should have left some of those park ‘n’ grabs for the short days 😀

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[labrat_wr]

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

Our plans are to mainly do “safe” caching, but we do have blaze orange and if we don’t see signs of hunters, may go to some of those caches, too. Trekkin’ used to deer hunt, so he knows what signs to look for.

Remember, just because there are no cars at the public parking area, doesn’t mean there are no hunters there. the tell-tale pile of beer cans could mean that someone just went for a restock of the amber ale and his buddies are still out there.

On a much more serious note. Please take care if you are caching or hunting during this time of the year and remember there is a time and a place for celebrating. That time is NOT when you are planning to have a firearm in your possession.

Cache safe, hunt safe, celebrate safe.

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[jerrys dad]

I will be doing both this year. Hunting on the weekends and hopefully caching during the week.

And as a side note, while I know there are some extreme hunters out there, believing most are drinking, don’t handle their weapon safely or don’t know their target and what is beyond it, covers such a minute percentage of hunters I’m getting tired of being thrown in with them because I choose to hunt when others don’t!

[BigJim]

@jerrys dad wrote:

And as a side note, while I know there are some extreme hunters out there, believing most are drinking, don’t handle their weapon safely or don’t know their target and what is beyond it, covers such a minute percentage of hunters I’m getting tired of being thrown in with them because I choose to hunt when others don’t!

Agreed. I’ll be in my stand well before daybreak, armed with my thermos of coffee, trail mix, and jerky. Those hunting on my land will have been briefed on where everyone else is, and no one moves without notifying the rest of us. We used to carry walkie-talkies, now we take our cell phones and call or text each other to communicate. I need to find a buck-grunt ringtone 😆

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[DeputyDog]

I’ll be hunting Saturday and Sunday (hopefully filled on Saturday) and then back to caching the rest of the time. I’m not a fan of the second week of deer hunting.

[Braid Beards Gang]

It has been a tradition the last few years that my older daughter and I go caching on Thanksgiving (I never will forget the year we met Team Vaughan up a sewer pipe) and ‘Black Friday’. Last year we had an armed escort to a cache. A really nice hunter (ON PUBLIC LAND) walked and talked to us on our way to his spot. It was a great experience for my daughter. He said that he liked the movement on the trails, because it scares up the deer. We always have the Blaze orange with us.

Kungfuhippie: if you are downtown Chicago it is easier to use google maps then your GPS. There is no signal in those urban canyons.

[labrat_wr]

@jerrys dad wrote:

I will be doing both this year. Hunting on the weekends and hopefully caching during the week.

And as a side note, while I know there are some extreme hunters out there, believing most are drinking, don’t handle their weapon safely or don’t know their target and what is beyond it, covers such a minute percentage of hunters I’m getting tired of being thrown in with them because I choose to hunt when others don’t!

Oh, please don’t get me wrong. I too, will be one of those die-hard, in the stand all day, hopped up on caffeine waiting for the closing whistle so I can go home and pee hunters. It is just that having worked in a hospital, I have seen firsthand what alcohol and firearms can do.

also remember that adrenaline is a potent drug too. Accidents can happen even when excitement is the only factor causing poor judgement.

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[-cheeto-]

Just a little FYI, one of the recent years I was caching during gun deer season and I stopped at a “safe” caching spot (at least according to this post) — a cemetery outside of Brillion and when I pulled up I saw a bunch of blaze orange posted up IN the cemetery hunting the surrounding fields. So it depends on where that cemetery is…

I won’t be hunting. Gave that up a few years ago. Caching is far more exciting.

[kungfuhippie]

@Braid Beard’s Gang wrote:

It has been a tradition the last few years that my older daughter and I go caching on Thanksgiving (I never will forget the year we met Team Vaughan up a sewer pipe) and ‘Black Friday’. Last year we had an armed escort to a cache. A really nice hunter (ON PUBLIC LAND) walked and talked to us on our way to his spot. It was a great experience for my daughter. He said that he liked the movement on the trails, because it scares up the deer. We always have the Blaze orange with us.

Kungfuhippie: if you are downtown Chicago it is easier to use google maps then your GPS. There is no signal in those urban canyons.

Sounds like a good tradition to start for our family as well. Thanks for the heads up on Chicago, but I’m actually going after Beverly & my 600th so I’ll be in the northwestern suburbs.

[RSplash40]

@BigJim60 wrote:

@jerrys dad wrote:

I need to find a buck-grunt ringtone 😆

My coworker has a bird call ringtone for the same reason, can’t remember what one but its a bird in the area.

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