Last minute Bowhunting Adventure

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#7478

Man, the gigs are fallin’ on my head like a hale storm! It looks like I’m booked until mid-December!! I’m so blessed and so thankful for the work @music, which is my life, but as far as my bowhunting lifestyle is concerned, I wish I could be in the woods just a little more! LOL ! So, since I’m driving from NYC to Northern VA to record some tracks tomorrow, I decided to join up with a trad buddy of mine to go camp light and bowhunt the Washington National Forest East of Shenandoah Valley, a few miles West of Lowesville,VA, Wed/Thurs/Fri!!! How about that for an excellent adventure!! taking my bow to a mountainous place ( my fav) I’ve never been, and try to hunt and kill a deer in …. 3 days! Anybody is welcome to share our campsite or just come and hang out for a while if you are nearby. to be continued….

[David Coulter]

#62808

Hi Alex,

Sounds like a great time. This often happens to me in a similar way. Business is slow for a while so I have plenty of time to prepare and practice, then the season opens and wham.. work comes in. I’m glad for the work but wish it would have come sooner, leaving me “unemployed” for the nice days of the season! I missed the entire early muzzleloader season this year, which I would have spent most of bowhunting.

Have a great trip and good luck with the hunt. Have a great session. I’m wondering who you’re recording with.

All the best, dwc

[David Petersen]

#63023

Alex — Try to keep open a few days in late January for Kzoo. 😀

[vajd]

#7939

Muzzeloader will be in, but I don’t think it will be as many guys in the woods as Saturday when rifle season starts. Right many bear in that region also. Good luck!

PS: in Southeastern Va I am told the Bucks are chasing does! So maybe the rut will be in there.

[David Petersen]

#8002

Vajd — “Right many bear” … I love it! You should be writing mountain man dialogue. 8)

[Etter1]

#8004

Good luck! In my experience driving through there on the way to PA, I’ve noticed a TON of deer in that area.

[Wexbow]

#9003

David Petersen wrote: Vajd — “Right many bear” … I love it! You should be writing mountain man dialogue. 8)

Over here that sentence makes perfect sense…

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#10599

Well, I’m back a day early! We didn’t see one whitetail in 3 days. We froze our butt off in the mountains! waking up in a small tent in 17 degrees weather before light and no fire was…. challenging :shock:! We later moved East in the Lower farm land WMA’s. a little warmer, but It seemed like the whole state of virginia was filled with guys riding around with dogs and muzzleloaders in the back of their pickup, chasing deer, bears, coons and rabbits. I heard hunting dogs barking 24 hours for 3 days, everywhere we went! I even saw a truck decal with a dog chasing a deer!!! Gorgeous rolling hills farm country though, with lots of History. Good times camping out with a good friend, eating the some back straps from my NY deer, so all was not all lost, but if I ever hunt in VA again, it would have to be in archery only/ no dogs allowed private land.

PS: when I bought a 3 day license + archery permit at Dick’s

I wasn’t asked to show my hunter’s ed and bowhunter’s ed card, just driving license. I was surprised.

[vajd]

#12494

I’m sorry things didn’t work out for you. East of the Blue Ridge Pakway it is legal to hunt deer with dogs during general gun season. I think you were hunting before Saturday the 17th. So if the guy with dogs were hunting legally, they would have been hunting small game only. It kinda sucks but often the deer and other game don’t care about the dogs unless the dogs are on there back trail. Once I was trying to close the range on a group of about 6 deer, I heard some dogs running getting closer, then a doe came bounding by within 25 yards of the group, they froze a bit later a pack of four hounds in full cry came hauling by the group. the hounds were just out of sight as the deer went back to feeding, but not for long they heard me cruch some snow and took off.:oops:

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