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Every hunting season is so different. Sometimes long time hunters are unable to show up and sometimes new hunters show up. My brother-in-law Jack with more than 50 years of not missing a deer hunting trip was not there. This year we had two new hunters come to camp at fourteen years old. Were they ever excited? The one constant in Michigan is that the opening day is always November 15th for the firearms season. Now that had an affect on when everyone arrived in camp and 95% of the hunters were eating dinner in the cabin on Saturday night with a Monday opening day. During a dinner of home made Pasties brought in by Tom and Big Roy we had the usual reports of tracks, rubs, scrapes, etc. And speaking of tracks Old Roy and Jig had been in camp three weeks earlier for a weekend of bow hunting and had taken some pictures of tracks made and confirmed by a D&R Agent that were made by a yearling moose. WOW; no one had ever seen moose tracks in the camp area and there was a lot of talk about hoping to see a moose while sitting in a blind.
Monday morning every hunter is up extra early because there is nothing like eleven men bumping around in a 24 foot by 24 foot space full of bunks trying to get into five or six layers of clothes at the same time. The idea is to suit up and get out the door before you break into a sweat. To facilitate hiking to my blind before day light with out getting over heated, my parka and bib insulated pants are in a belt around the waist to leave both hands free to carry the rifle and GPS, with a headlight on my head with no hat to hold the heat.
After the opening morning my big coat and big pants remain in the pop up over night to make the walking easier and to not pick up the smell of bacon grease in the cabin. The morning was calm and the first deer showed up at 7:00 amEA spike horn buck with about 4 inch tall horns traveling from west to east toward the horse barn which is behind me. This young buck was unschooled in danger as it walked within ten yards of my blind trying to decide what was there. Later in the morning two does came by traveling from north to south and entered the main trail into the swamp for their midday nap. About eleven Oclock it is back to camp for breakfast. The only action from our camp is that Old Roy has filled his doe tag.
After the usual big breakfast, I hike back out to the blind as soon as possible for the afternoon hunt because it is opening day and no one has claimed a first buck on our trophy board for the 2010 season. It was a slow afternoon until 2:00 pm when a different spike horn buck came out of the swamp trail and headed north. This buck had the reddish brown color of the swamp browse deer in both his hair and antlers. What a pleasure to see him because next year he will be a nice six or eight point buck at two and one half years old. At about 3:30 a shot that I determined was not my nephew Mark hunting from his Uncle Dans blind turned out wrong and after getting back to camp after dark, Mark had shot a nine point buck at three and one half years old. A monster buck compared to the two and one half year old bucks usually harvested in the U P of Michigan. So after many rounds of congratulations and maybe a snort of alcoholic beverage about five of us load up to go out and put the deer on a four wheeler and get it hauled back to camp and we have our first buck hanging on the meat pole and a name to put on the trophy board for the 2010 season. Everyone in camp is seeing does and bucks. The bucks are too small or the hunters are missing them.
Wednesday was a slow hunting day. Our hunters saw deer and did not take any shots. After the morning hunt and breakfast at eleven Oclock everyone packed up and headed home except Kevin, Old Roy and Me. Thursday morning saw me out the door before daylight because camp is quite and restful now and its easier to hunt more hours because you do not have to socialize as much. Now 9:00 a m and no deer have appeared, when out to my right front there is movement and I put my rifle out the window opening. It just does not look like a deer. It is a big grey and black wolf and she is running circles with her nose to the ground and moving from west to east. I get her in the scope for a closer look and she is big and beautiful. As she moves up to my three oclock position, about fifty yards behind her is a big male black and grey wolf with his head up and holding back to not over take the lead wolf. Next come two light grey fluffy pups that were born the past spring. Then about another fifty yards back was a medium size female of forty to fifty pounds and she was the closest passer to my blind at about thirty five yards out. Those first two wolves both looked to be seventy to eighty pounds per and either one of them could have been a male or female. Because my schedule is to hunt two more days and the other two hunters are leaving after breakfast I break down my blind and chair and hike the swamp line through the hard woods back to camp to catch a ride to town and get a rental car for leaving Saturday. Ten feet before Dicks trail behind camp in the big clearing there is movement to my left front, it is one of the big black and grey adult wolves trotting from right to left. He sees me and runs east toward Jigs blind. From past experience I just freeze and watch. Then from left to right comes the two pups at a trot. About fifty feet away the closest one sees me and stops to stare while the other went over toward the pistol range. After several seconds he spun a 360 degree circle and runs over to the other pup that is behind an evergreen. They then got some kind of message from the adult, not audible to me, and they went toward Jigs blind running fast.
On Friday morning Toms blind on spring ridge was calling me and it was a good choice. At 7:00 am two does came in from the south, got nervous and ran away to the east for the swamp. Sure enough in walked a really nice eight point buck at two and one half years old. I was so close to shooting him. He was in my scope for ten minutes. Since it has been my goal for a while to shoot a four and one half year old trophy buck it just makes senses that you cannot shoot all the two and one half year olds. The odds are sure long yet the excitement for next year is already building.
My first wolf sighting was two pups in July of 2007. My second sighting was a big adult wolf August of 2009. My nephew Mark counted 17 wolves passing his blind November of 2009. November 2010 brought the Bergmann Pack. Yes, the D&R has been observing them and named them. Now the Bergmann Hunting Camp has the Bergmann Wolf Pack.
The author on this article is Bart Sharp, avid hunter and wolf observer.
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Monday morning every hunter is up extra early because there is nothing like eleven men bumping around in a 24 foot by 24 foot space full of bunks trying to get into five or six layers of clothes at the same time. The idea is to suit up and get out the door before you break into a sweat. To facilitate hiking to my blind before day light with out getting over heated, my parka and bib insulated pants are in a belt around the waist to leave both hands free to carry the rifle and GPS, with a headlight on my head with no hat to hold the heat.
After the opening morning my big coat and big pants remain in the pop up over night to make the walking easier and to not pick up the smell of bacon grease in the cabin. The morning was calm and the first deer showed up at 7:00 amEA spike horn buck with about 4 inch tall horns traveling from west to east toward the horse barn which is behind me. This young buck was unschooled in danger as it walked within ten yards of my blind trying to decide what was there. Later in the morning two does came by traveling from north to south and entered the main trail into the swamp for their midday nap. About eleven Oclock it is back to camp for breakfast. The only action from our camp is that Old Roy has filled his doe tag.
After the usual big breakfast, I hike back out to the blind as soon as possible for the afternoon hunt because it is opening day and no one has claimed a first buck on our trophy board for the 2010 season. It was a slow afternoon until 2:00 pm when a different spike horn buck came out of the swamp trail and headed north. This buck had the reddish brown color of the swamp browse deer in both his hair and antlers. What a pleasure to see him because next year he will be a nice six or eight point buck at two and one half years old. At about 3:30 a shot that I determined was not my nephew Mark hunting from his Uncle Dans blind turned out wrong and after getting back to camp after dark, Mark had shot a nine point buck at three and one half years old. A monster buck compared to the two and one half year old bucks usually harvested in the U P of Michigan. So after many rounds of congratulations and maybe a snort of alcoholic beverage about five of us load up to go out and put the deer on a four wheeler and get it hauled back to camp and we have our first buck hanging on the meat pole and a name to put on the trophy board for the 2010 season. Everyone in camp is seeing does and bucks. The bucks are too small or the hunters are missing them.
Wednesday was a slow hunting day. Our hunters saw deer and did not take any shots. After the morning hunt and breakfast at eleven Oclock everyone packed up and headed home except Kevin, Old Roy and Me. Thursday morning saw me out the door before daylight because camp is quite and restful now and its easier to hunt more hours because you do not have to socialize as much. Now 9:00 a m and no deer have appeared, when out to my right front there is movement and I put my rifle out the window opening. It just does not look like a deer. It is a big grey and black wolf and she is running circles with her nose to the ground and moving from west to east. I get her in the scope for a closer look and she is big and beautiful. As she moves up to my three oclock position, about fifty yards behind her is a big male black and grey wolf with his head up and holding back to not over take the lead wolf. Next come two light grey fluffy pups that were born the past spring. Then about another fifty yards back was a medium size female of forty to fifty pounds and she was the closest passer to my blind at about thirty five yards out. Those first two wolves both looked to be seventy to eighty pounds per and either one of them could have been a male or female. Because my schedule is to hunt two more days and the other two hunters are leaving after breakfast I break down my blind and chair and hike the swamp line through the hard woods back to camp to catch a ride to town and get a rental car for leaving Saturday. Ten feet before Dicks trail behind camp in the big clearing there is movement to my left front, it is one of the big black and grey adult wolves trotting from right to left. He sees me and runs east toward Jigs blind. From past experience I just freeze and watch. Then from left to right comes the two pups at a trot. About fifty feet away the closest one sees me and stops to stare while the other went over toward the pistol range. After several seconds he spun a 360 degree circle and runs over to the other pup that is behind an evergreen. They then got some kind of message from the adult, not audible to me, and they went toward Jigs blind running fast.
On Friday morning Toms blind on spring ridge was calling me and it was a good choice. At 7:00 am two does came in from the south, got nervous and ran away to the east for the swamp. Sure enough in walked a really nice eight point buck at two and one half years old. I was so close to shooting him. He was in my scope for ten minutes. Since it has been my goal for a while to shoot a four and one half year old trophy buck it just makes senses that you cannot shoot all the two and one half year olds. The odds are sure long yet the excitement for next year is already building.
My first wolf sighting was two pups in July of 2007. My second sighting was a big adult wolf August of 2009. My nephew Mark counted 17 wolves passing his blind November of 2009. November 2010 brought the Bergmann Pack. Yes, the D&R has been observing them and named them. Now the Bergmann Hunting Camp has the Bergmann Wolf Pack.
The author on this article is Bart Sharp, avid hunter and wolf observer.
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