Tuesday Update: 10/12/21

Starting today we’re going to post an update on the site every Tuesday throughout the season creatively titled The Tuesday Update. It’ll be a recap of the previous week’s hunting action, a look at the current standings, a preview of the week ahead, a weekly poll to get to know our participants better, and hopefully some other fun links that you might find useful. Let’s get it started:

Last Week

For the second consecutive week there hasn’t been a buck taken by anyone in the pool. I’d love to know if this is due to lack of deer movement or lack of hunting time logged by our participants. Is the October lull real? Are we waiting for a cold front to break up this unseasonably warm weather? Are we spending our outdoor time doing other things? Could I ask more questions?

Miles Cornell’s son, Braxton, did take down a buck during the youth hunt, so at least somebody can say they’re having success. We’re being shown up by a child, everyone. It’s a sad state of affairs in the TG Buck Pool right now.

Standings Update

1. Tom Williquette – Score TBD

As of today Tom Williquette’s September buck is the only one on the leaderboard. It has not been scored yet.

Poll Question

Because of the slow activity right now I feel like it’s fair to ask: Is this pool full of gun hunters counting the days until November 20 (it’s 39 days in case you were wondering)? I doubt it. Let’s see how our participants are planning to get their trophy buck this season:

The Week Ahead

The weather is finally starting to cool off with overnight lows dropping into the 30s in some northern areas later this week and daytime starting to feel more like fall in Wisconsin. According to DeerCast Monday is the best day to hunt in the upcoming week in this area. It’s really not looking like action is going to pick up until the 20th if you believe this stuff. I’m not sure what combination of historical data, moon phase, weather forecasting, deer patterning, and general sorcery are used to predict hunting success in these apps, but according to what I’m seeing, this is projected to be a slow week for deer hunters.

This Friday’s Raffle

This week’s raffle prize is a hunting stand chair courtesy of Chris Vanderlogt from Quality Insulators. Check the website Friday for the announcement of the winner.

Links

I’m always curious where people are getting their hunting information. Here are just a few of my favorites. If you have any you’d like to share please send me an e-mail and I’ll get it in next week’s post:

I kind of miss the good old days of sitting around a table with my father-in-law and his buddies as they planned their hunt over several whiskeys and a crudely drawn map, but On X Hunt is a nice app for mapping stand locations and checking weather.

I’m not quite invested enough in deer hunting to find most of this information useful, but DeerCast is loaded with research and info to help with your hunt. Ultimately I end up sitting in the same stand with the same strategy every year regardless of what it says, but I still geek out over the amount of information available. Those of you who are better hunters than I am can probably put all of this info to better use.

All that tech stuff is fun, but when I’m in the woods I prefer to avoid it if I can. I find that a good old pencil and notepad for observations is the best way to go…never mind that most of my observations are unreadable chicken scratches, and those that I can read make little sense.

Fun Stuff

This meme comes from Kip Zilisch.

Let’s get some more bucks on the board! Again, if you have tips, ideas, comments, or general thoughts on any of this or, even better, would like to contribute to it, please let me know. Good luck in the coming week.