This weekend opening muzzleloader who is looking forward to it? I have to say if we get all this snow they are talking about will make things that much better...can't wait! Saying 5"-9" in my area so far

I'm going to stick with my bow..

Ready to roll, excited for the snow.

I am ready to go.

Been hunting w/ my muzzleloader for weeks already, ready for some more time out with it. Love hunting in the snow.

bean - looks like your not too far from me...good luck out there!

Love hunting in the snow. I will be out there.

Hey you have a safe and good hunt if you go out. Going to be an interesting weekend.

I will be watching with baited breath, my most favorite memories are hunting during muzzle season in Indiana, hopefully next year I will be up there. Good luck to all, and stay safe.

I will be out there freezing my butt off. But then again I would rather sit in my deer stand in my underwear then to go to work anyday.

Good luck everybody! Ya'll have at it! PB, hope you have snow camo undies !!!

Mod would please remove pb post.. he used the word "work".. I find it highly offensive!

For once, I'm glad I'm done..... NOT !!

Just put up a couple stands on a new farm that I plan to hunt. However we have snow! I was hoping for a small amount but as of 5:00 Friday we have none.

Be safe all!

It sure would have been a pretty night to be in the stand tonight. Nice layer of snow and still falling, and quiet as can be!!!!

I don't have 4 wheel drive will delay me one day until you guys get out there & mash it down. I'm ready to go for Sunday, so don't shoot them all guys save me one.

4:17 am and I am getting ready to head out .70 mile trip to the hunting ground. Good luck and be safe

Had 2 small does and a fork come by me @ 0845. Eyeballed the 2 little ones for a minute and decided I was too cold to mess with one that small this morning.

I was in my blind before the sun came up. 4 inches of snow on the ground. My first time to ever Deer hunt with a blanket of snow. Did not see any deer this morning. It was interesting to see all of the tracks... most were fresh. Lots of tracks. I will be hitting the woods hard this coming week. My tag only allows me to get a Doe as I have gotten one buck and one doe already during firearm season. My rifle is a CVA kit gun from the later 1970's. The Hawken type cap and ball 50 cal which I borrowed from a good friend. "Happy Hunting" :-)

Went out this morn and seen 13 does and got a tree buck, the snow was a flying when I hit that limb, and then GPD007 dropped a button buck and a easy one to get with the 4-wheeler. I got off another shot and Messed it up. Back to relearning to shoot the smoke pole!!!!!!!!

Three of us hunted all day and did not see a deer. It's tough on public property this time of year.. There were more hunter than I was expecting to be out today

I stopped and saw a friend in Tippecanoe county today. Very few shot fired south of West Lafayette area today.

Not sure if the cold kept hunters out of the woods or the deer just hunkered down after firearms season.

It was a slow drive to our farm this morning. Highway50 was a mess. Secondary roads hadn't been touched at the time. Amazing how many tracks you see. Wonder how they can cover so much ground in a short time.

I buddy took me by the hunting area with his 4 wheel drive & the snow looks to be packed enough to get out. So I'll be trying Sun. morning with my 2 wheel drive truck as long as it doesn't snow any more. Wish me luck!

No 4x4. Sat home all weekend. Bummed Out.

Didn't get out this past weekend either. Going to try and go out Tuesday morning before the really cold weather sets in. Colder than it's been the past several years by a long shot...

How can a deer hunter not own a 4X4 is beyond me ....I always thought those were mandatory for us....I couldnt survive without one....whether is is for hunting/fishing/trapping and to and from work, to me they are a necessity.....

I don't own a 4x4... I have had my truck since 08 and have never needed it... But I also make it an effort not to put myself in situations where I could get stuck also...

Yeah I was feeling the effects of not having a 4x4 this weekend. I had one until a few months ago and replaced it w a two wheel drive pickup. But, I got good friends and family and we got after em with a good old fashioned late season snow on the ground walk n stalk. Snort wheezed in a 9 pointer at 4:30 sitting in a deadfall w my nephew. Not my best, but a mature buck on the ground, bristled up looking for a fight, 50 yards away.......that will get your blood pumping. I think the muzzle loader season will still be good so hang in there if you're still holding a tag. Oh and a big plug for Barnes bullets. Recovered it under the opposite side hide and its a six petal nasty.

If I didnt have a 4x4, there is no way I could hunt/fish/trap where I do. Plus, I need one to get to and from work from time to time....We generally get way more snow than you guys down south, what you guys just got was an exception....I'm on the big lake, and we will get lake effect by the foot when you guys are bright and sunny. My job is one that pretty much requires me to get there, no matter the weather...Late night we got 3 inches, but coming home on I94 was a mess, I'm glad I had it....ok, enough, back to the huntin' stories....

I have a 4x4, just not the money for gas My Toyota Corolla gets me close enough and I guess my legs have to get me the rest of the way. Both of them do pretty good in the snow



I think I can fit one more.

My old corolla brought several deer home, they went in the trunk or on the roof if we ran out of room.

Front wheel drive and manual transmission, it did very well in the snow. 41MPG on the highway too.

And some funny looks when rollin down I-465

Just for the record, after a lengthy drag, my 9 pointer rolled in a beat up old f250 4x4. Man card intact.

My button buck rolled in my Corolla. Credit card intact

Probably rolled right by Double B when he was filling up that f250 at the gas station.

This is the first year that I havent had a little Ford Contour front wheel drive. It did great in the snow. WIfe says no to hauling deer in/on the new van, and my day to day driver is a 2wd pickup. When I was younger I probably would have tried it, especially not having killed a buck yet this year. Nowadays, I think twice about things like the cost of fixing my wrecked truck, and/or the cost of falling out of an icy tree. Fact of the matter is, and it saddens me, but this sport is about to change for me. I still do alot of things "the old way" but I've told my wife recently that I'm done building the fork saddles.I'm about too stiff to get in them anymore, much less do maintenance, or build a new one.(and the ones I've built are gettin' old) I am going to invest in some ladder stands and ground blinds, and a 4 wheeler! My daughter and I have killed 3 deer this year, and we've had a blast. Meanwhile my son who is not quite old enough to go yet, is missing his dad. That same son happens to have a brand new sled, that he was happy to share with the old man. This morning I went into work, feeling a little candy a$$ed for having missed the best snow hunt in years, and I asked my buddy (15 years my junior) if he'd been to the woods. As I listened to him recount his story of getting to the woods late, and being soaked with sweat by the time he got done sliding up and down the tree....I just smiled.

Here's my first hunting vehicle: 1986 Pontiac Lemans Hatchback. Only it was blue.



I once had a 7 pointer in the back and pulled into the check station and the guy just laughed and said "Man you gotta talk your wife into buying you a truck". I pulled into the same check station with a doe the next year and the same guy says "Don't I know you?". At least I was memorable

Man, I thought I was probably the only guy on here who didn't have a truck and drove small cars in the past to deer hunt. I had a similar car John, I think it was a Ford Escort two door hatchback. Put a buck in it one time and had the head resting on the folder forward passenger seat. Drove around 465 in Indianapolis with people giving me all kind of looks.

Ive hauled deer out in a diesal Olds Cutlass and a 1984 Ford Escort 4 sp., 44 mpg, trapped for close to 20 yrs and for 3-4 of those years I used a 1984 Plymouth Champ to haul traps and critters, have backend full of coyotes/fox, coons and muskrats car smelled really nice. ...used a 2 wd pickup rest of time till 2003 now I bring them out with a 4 wheeler, saved my body alot of wear/tear... have to have it now back has 2 blown discs, bone spurs and ostearthritis, plus my knees are shot, sucks getting old.Good thing is I only hunt a mile or so from house so if I cant get truck there the 4 wheeler will make it..