The comedy of technology in nature!

[kings6]

I was fortunate this year to draw a special deer tag that is for buck or doe and runs for 6 months! The best thing is this long a season lets me hunt during the rut with a firearm while the normal season seldom allows this. A friend has several hundred acres in the unit and he allows me to hunt on his farm whenever I want to. I am out there today in the weekend downpour and I'm sneaking through this old clearcut when I jump one doe and see another that has no idea I am around. A 20 yard shot with Bill Grovers TLA Border Special but my mind is on a buck so I let her go. 10 minutes later I see another big doe and then I remember Doug had said something about wanted to thin the doe numbers down a bit due to the crop damage. "Dang, did he say shoot a doe or did he say shot what I want?" Well the only safe thing to do is be like my technology kids and carefully sneak out the cell phone and one handedly text the owner as ask the question. Now Doug is even older than I am so rather than text back he calls back! The phone is on vibrate but when the does sees this little green blob start whispering into this little black box she has enough and hits the brush. All I can do is laugh! Oh ya, he said I could shoot either buck or doe but he would really prefer a doe so now I know what to try for tomorrow.

You would have loved to been standing under a big fir tree 30 yards away and watched the whole thing!

[dougader]

Hahaha... that's crazy funny Robb. Bag a doe tomorrow!

It HAS been really stormy up this way, too.

[tradmark]

Niiiice. Im in a deer stand tonight posting and a a friends wife just for some reason called his phone so his daughter could say good night. The does ran!

[cmh]

😁😁😁

[clintsfolly]

Few years back a buddy called me while I was hunting in a box blind. After a few minutes of talk I asked him to hang on for a minute. I set my phone down on the window sill. Stuck the muzzleloader out the window and shot. He wouldn’t believe me that I shot a deer till I texted him a picture of it! We still laugh about it.

[sixshot]

Good Stuff guys & the deer love the warning! Good luck to all of you. Robb, warm up the barrel on the TLA! Talked with a lady yesterday whose husband might have made your barrel.

Dick

[kings6]

I think the SS 45 Dustin built may get the draw tomorrow just due the the constant downpour we are having now.

[dougader]

It sure did pour all night. What a deluge. Here's hoping the does venture out this a.m. to meet some Linebaugh-propelled lead.

[contender]

Miss Penny asked me the other day why I didn't let her know I was going to be so late hunting. I told her I was late because of the 3 deer I was TRYING to get a shot at with my crossbow kept wandering around not presenting a shot. I said,,, I am NOT going to try & call you to say anything while I'm hunting. She replied,, "A text would be fine." To which I replied; "I've told you time & again,,, texting is NOT for me."
Sometimes,,, technology can be good,,, but hunting is still hunting!

I bet it would have been funny watching you juggle all that.

[Squatch]

My dad should draw that tag next year. That's a great tag for the Willamette Valley. Nice long season so no pressure. You'll tag out before you know it.

[f3]

When I shot my cow the other day it was on an BMA(private property that has an agreement with the Montana FWP). As I am trying too close the distance and get into position, I am trying to terrain associate on the map.

[seak89]

What is strange for thousands of years deer never looked up to the sky. In the last thirty years for sure deer now scan trees looking for danger in the tree stand.