We don't generally work the first week of hunting season in the field. I don't like being shot at or near and when we have tried in the past we sometimes end up walking up on hunters and ruin their hunting day.
Anyone else take into consideration hunting season to schedule large tracts to be surveyed? I tell my client I don't work in the field the first week of the season. Seems that's when most are out hunting.
There are about 80 different hunting seasons these days. The only one that I try to remember is the primary deer season with rifles for standard hunters. But, we could be getting shot at for months. Muzzle loader, handicapped, youth, bow and arrow, second chance, etc. It's crazy! Add in all the other critters from muskrats to geese and it almost never stops.
Around here gun deer season is the one we worry about. I don't worry about the other seasons that come in. Deer season though; They are everywhere shooting at everything.
I wear blaze orange every day with a blaze orange cap when surveying in the field and have for 20 years.
If in a non hunting area I sometimes switch to lime green.
I wear camo when archery or flintlock loader hunting, unless there is a season overlap and orange is required.
Paul in PA
Right now the bucks are in rut around here.
Around here they go from being very smart and sneaky to completely oblivious to their surroundings.
Yesterday there was a buck standing in the road staring into some brush. I almost had to push him out of the road with the bumper.
I honked my horn and a doe jumped out.
Our season ends before the rut. It's a good thing, because they start tasting very gamey when the are in the rut.
We try to stay out of the woods during deer season. We're not always successful, but lots of orange is definitely uniform of the day.
I'm not really too worried about someone mistaking me for game...until they have a grey-bearded manatee season in Oklahoma...:pinch:
There is much of this county dedicated to hunting leases.
When client wants a survey during the gun season, Nov 1 thru Feb 15, I let them know to inform the hunters, give them my phone number and to contact me if they intend to have a special hunt period, like bringing their family or people in from far away and I will do my best to accommodate their schedule and mine.
Most camps have a signin station that they log in and mark their location for their daily hunt. Others will create one later.
So far, I have seen more deer than the hunters and if anything we push the deer into the hunters path.
It is the deer's native home and we are just passing thru so they just lay down or stay on the other side of the hill until we are gone.
Some hunters can get testy and really do no understand what cause deer to be in any particular place on any particular day.
Let the know to take it up with the people they lease the land from because you have instructions from them are on their dollar.
It's always hunting season in Chicago.
I take off and go hunting too!
As a matter a fact I am in a tree right nowB-)
4.5 days off this week and 3 will be in the woods!
That's just plain wrong.
Do me a favor - grab your phone and quickly turn it off. Don't turn it back on until you have a picture of a nice buck to upload.
This looks like a good place to post a very old hunting joke. Stop me if you've heard this one...
Fella was headed to deer camp for a week's worth of hunting. As in years past his dear wife packed everything for him.
When he returned he was really mad at his wife. She asked him what was the matter?
"You didn't pack me any clean underwear!" he snipped.
"I did" she replied.
"No you didn't. I had to wear the same pair all week long!"
"I did pack your underwear" she held.
"Oh yeah? I looked everywhere AND YOU DIDN'T PACK MY UNDERWEAR. If you did, where were they?"
"In your gun case" she replied....
I take it into consideration.
The boss will be gone during for archery elk season.
Coworker will be gone for rifle deer season.
Coworker will be gone for rifle elk early season.
I will be gone for rifle elk late season.
Pretty much early Sept. to mid Nov. one of us will be gone, or leaving the following week.
The only safety concern we have is if someone else try's to take time off during that window. They then may have to worry about their safety.
A few years ago we were asked to give price to survey about 90 miles of existing gas line in 180 days. The boss and I chartered a helicopter to fly the route and get a better feel for the area. When we got back on the ground and started comparing notes I asked him if he had seen all the deer stands along the gas line. He said he hadn't noticed, why? I told him that their Notice To Proceed was scheduled for two weeks before the first day of deer season. How much are you going to add to the price for all delays caused by irate hunters holding up your field crews because they are tooling down the gas line in their 4 wheelers right through the area he was hunting? We didn't get the job, but I wasn't too upset.
Andy
I actually tried to post a picture of a nice 7 and a 6, My pos phone is not allowing me to.
I'm loving it too, first couple of days off after a year of 90 hr week's, me and my old man gone huntin
Being from MI and having experienced lots and lots of seasons and lots and lots of pretty good venison, Nov 15 is a holiday (opening day). So take that day off, plus 2 days prior and 4 days after. I was fortunate that I lived in the woods so I just walked out my back door, gun in hand, went 1000 ft or so and sat. Boom.... venison.
But I did not work in the woods for those two weeks of "deer camp", respectively.
Just as I suspected. Toss that phone down the hill. Your not supposed to have cell phone coverage at buck camp.
"What babe? Can't hear you...(as your crinkling a paper bag in front of the phone)...going to have to call you in a couple days when...(Crinkle Crinkle)...get some....(crinkle)...recep....CLICK.
