LFTT 12-19-16

Bout to head out to a shootn house this morning. Good luck fellers. Saw a bunch on the ride to camp. They are moving.

Daggum. Reckon me and a buddy of mine are the only idiots getting in this pneumonia wather.

Hope y'all packed your warm long johns this morning. 23 here with a brisk wind. About to walk out glad I wasn't early.

Sittn here eatin a bite before headin...22 deg here on the mountain

Sitting in the truck, waiting on it to get a little later before I brave the cold

Got the long johns and body warmers. Still ain't enough though. This biggun I'm after better show up. It is 32 here in Baldwin county. Wind is still howling.

My wife and I are set up on a power line overlooking a greenfield. Her first time to go this year so hopefully we can do some good.

Just saw a doe. First deer in 5 hunts

Big hilly clearcut in chilton.

Turkeys are talking.

Me and the wife are out here today also. She killed a 7 point yesterday so she got the fever. She texting me saying she is freezing. Lol

Edge of a flooded creek swamp. Should have known better when I thought the wind was going to blow my truck off the road.

Goodness it's brisk this morning. Set up looking over an oak flat on the edge of a 8yr old clear cut with natural regrowth on this section. Rest of it was replanted pines but this 20 acres in the corner wasn't planted.

Umm yea I'm here on a raw hilly clear-cut like the other guy and I keep repeating , "why am I doing this to myself?". It's friggin raw out here. Lucky if I make it to 9 I am in pain already

I'd be out there if I wasn't at work.

Is anybody seeing anything? I'm starting to think they're still in bed like I should be

Nothing here except 1 doe at daylight

1 turkey and a lot of squirrels.

Nothing so far.

Nothing yet. Sun came out and now the birds are moving. Expect good mid day movement.

Sitting here staring at two monitors.. Good luck today and keep us all working folks posted!

As you age, you'll realize that your better off spending quality time with your wife or getting caught up on some chores, on raw howling days like today. Its all about quality sits over quantity sits. No one will take away your man card if you skip days like today. Thru the years we tell ourselves "we can't kill one if we don't go". No you can't, but i never kill mature bucks on miserable days. Not saying it can't be done, i've never have, so i don't punish myself.

Taking the grandkids to see Santa. Maybe I'll see Dancer or Prancer !

I took the day off with the wind howling like it is but tomorrow looks like a much better day and no wind! Eli has informed me I need to have a good shooting house built for next season so we can hunt crappy weather day!

Saw one large 8 point cruising this morning around 7:00.

First time I have seen him in daylight.

Saw one within 200 yards of the house as I pulled out of the driveway this morning at 5:15. Went to the club, walked about 3 miles of Bibb County's finest hills and didn't see hide nor hair.

Try again another day.

Hey gents
I'm obviously new on here and new to hunting Alabama. I got a question I'm hoping you can help me out with. I know the Alabama rut is different than most states. I'm hunting Northeast Alabama in DeKalb County. When is the general consensus on when the rut is up here?

Whoops wrote in wrong lfft thread...I missed a big buck at 90 yards free handed...pissed...8/9/10 pointer...

Hunt all you can for the next 15 days

Full rut...up in mentone had 3 small bucks chasing and gruntin after a doe and then missed a big buck this am at 10 am

Welp, made it to 11 and called it a day. Not all that usual that I just don't see anything all day at this property, but I didn't see squat but blowing trees. When I left the camp it was still reading 32/31 degrees, amazing how that felt so warm compared to the 23 a few hours before. Coulda swore it was up in the 40s.

Got some free time this week as work has slowed way down, so I hope to get out there a couple more times this week.

I tried the ducks this morning only to have my boat not crank and my buddies boat sink and had to go search and rescue mission to save them

Hunting over an actual greenfield this evening. It's not Photoshopped.

I'm hunting a long, narrow foodplot this afternoon in Winston County...My Dad and two of my buddies are all hunting here this afternoon, so hopefully somebody will lay eyes on a good one! It's the time to be here; I'm just glad I'm able to be here this week (thanks to "vacation time")!

Good luck to everyone!

Back at it again with the wife. Switched to a plot surrounded by planted pines with the wind in our face.

Sat in a tripod over a cutover this morning. Phone got so cold it shut down. That was a first. Didn't see a thing except a cold north wind.

Dr. B

Seriously? That's messed up.

Dr. B

My seat is frozen. Literally.

Im here just had a pretty 7 point come through

That's a good looking deer.. Handsome little guy

Doe down. First for me from the farm in 2 years. All that hard work finally paid off.

Congrats Joe

Nice Joe

Nice looking buck there split row. Looks to be about 3.5 yr old

That's a big ole nanny

Congrats joe

That's some good eatn right there Joe!

congrats, all I saw was a cow horn spike at 175yds

I saw a doe and fawn and a young 6 point about 5:05

That's a huge bitch! Congrats

Imma call him 4 years old!

Yes that happened coast guard and all very scary deal.

Hunted all day and didn't see a thing.

Looks Pretty buffalo chested to me as well. If it was summer I'd say 4 but with. The time of year I'd say 3

Nice shootin' Joe.