By the way, did you guys know that muzzleloaders aren’t considered firearms?

How strange.

What would you call muzzleloaders then if they’re not firearms?

Smoke pole?

My little field box. 4x8 enclosed and 4x8 deck, sliding windows and insulated

They're considered firearms, at least in Georgia, just primitive firearms

Here in Colorado, they are not considered firearms. Nice stand by the way.

Dang all I have is basic boxes for blinds

Thanks! Going to add stairs so my pops can get in it easier, but that'll run about another $375 right now, gonna wait til the new year, lumber prices should drop

It's in the middle of a field we used to grow hay in, can get a clear shot for 100 yards east, about 250 north, and roughly 300 south

My dad nailed this buck from our little tree stand this year.

Yeah lumber is really expensive right now

Nice! You must be out northwest

That would be considered an alien here lol

Yeah. We have some pretty nice mule deer here, but we don’t get many white tail.

I was just about to ask if it was mule lol

It’s all whitetail here in Michigan

Not familiar with them

All whitetail here, too

Tho, thanks to some rich nuts, and some redneck idiots poaching from the rich nuts, there have been some strange ones released here

Oof

Mule deer are a lot bigger than whitetail, but they don’t taste nearly as good. I prefer whitetail meat, but that is in short supply.

The rich guys brought in breeds from all over, in high fences, the rednecks broke in to kill them and left the fence damaged, deer escaped

So in a way your doing a favor by taking the mule deer out to the population

The ones they brought in were solid white

Those won’t live long, depending on what predators you got out there.

And when they were released and bred with the local population it created mixed breed, piebald we call it

Sometimes they'll be mostly white, sometimes they just have white patches in places

Weird.

We just have coyotes in Michigan, nothing a big whitetail buck couldn’t handle

Sister in law killed one this year with a piebald belly and socks

Coyotes tear the fawns apart, that's the problem with them

Yeah

Why I'm hesitant to kill a doe when she has young

But then again that’s what the deer on the side of the road are for. To give the coyotes something to eat.

Used to be they would survive without too much difficulty, cuz few predators, mainly bobcats, but coyote population boomed in the past decade or so

I’ve never hunted coyote before. I don’t know anyone who has

U do now lol

It’s pretty fun. You set up the call, and they come right to you.

When I kill a deer I'll set the guts out in the field and pick them off as they come to it

They're ruthless, too