As the title states, what is your plan for opening day? Are you setting up over a field edge? Hot stand of oaks? Tree stand, ground blind or ghillie suit? Any bucks or does you have singled out? I broke my femur and had a hip fracture (at 25) from a fall at work so I'm afraid I may have to live vicariously through you guys for the beginning of the early bow season here in Virginia

Dang Jon, hope you heal up fast.
Me? I don't have the luxury of hunting large tracts of land up north with giant white tails. I'll be hunting public land along the marshes of the St. Johns river and battling skeeters in hopes of getting even a doe or a hog.
Last year everything was super wet and soggy here. But I'm used to it.

I plan to be in a ground blind behind my house. I've had a pretty good 8pt coming in pretty regular there lately. We'll see what happens!

Bisch

I hope to be in my opening day favorite.  A pinch point between two large fields.  About a 100 yard wide oak flat.   We do not have many acorns this year.  This place seems to have acorns on down years. 

This depends on wether my youngest daughter has a morning volleyball game.  If the game is a morning game. I will have a evening hunt on a local wma. 

Hope you heal up fast.
Season opens on September 15th, taking afternoon off and will most likely go to an oak flat on public ground looking for a doe to get things started. 
Probably won't hunt the family farm till beginning of October
Best of luck to all.
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I'll be monitoring the weather and the wind.  If hot, I'll be home practicing with the longbow.  If it's cool I'll be heading north to the Manistee National Forest for some ground hunting in the ghillie suit.  Sitting downwind of some fresh sign or an acorn flat.  C'mon Oct. 1!

I plan to get the Texas archery trifecta.  A deer, a turkey and a hog.
Chances are I'll let everything walk except any pigs. I haven't seen a shooter buck yet this year.

I'll be sitting in my stand I put up about a month ago in the middle of a bunch of white oaks, have a really nice buck cruising I've got on camera past few days. Gonna be around 52 degrees. This will be my first hunt with a traditional bow and to say I am pumped is an understatement.

Not sure yet, if it's cool enough, I'll be somewhere...

Still have a couple weeks to decide what stand I'm hunting. Still checking the acorn crop. I've also got a couple more stand to put up.

I'm itching to be able to go out and scout for some hot oak trees, here in my front yard the oaks are loaded down so I figure they are that way in most of my haunts too

According to wind

I'll be in a ladder stand behind my son's house. There is a place where the deer have been regularly]][9 crossing the property for years. I wasn't expecting to be able to hunt due to back surgery, but it was cancelled because Covid has used up ALL the available hospital beds.

Plan to hunt two ground blind setups that are not expected to be too intrusive this is early season which starts Saturday. My hope is that a deer is dropped such that pup may be put on her 1st track of the season.

Will be hunting a good distance between both bedding areas and food sources Have two targeted deer of the seven 140 plus shooters on the farm.

Have many many more on the leased properties however, I restrict my own hunting to the farm.
Do have two targeted deer of the seven 140 plus shooters on the farm. Am enjoying the strategizing of attempting to experience close encounters with these hooved critters

Opening morning,  ill just be getting off night shift rotation. So that morning I'll have my pack and longbow heading into the black hills national forest in south dakota. See where the wind takes me. Anything that has backstraps would do for me!

Quote from: Terry Lightle on August 29, 2021, 08:03:50 PM
According to wind

Exactly what I was thinking!
Tim B

Season opens here 1st week of Oct. so heat and wind determines where I will hunt my tree seat. Just going out for real is fine by me-haven't missed opening morning since I was 14 except for 2 years in Army. Best of luck to all.

Bear opens here on the 8th. I plan on being in a tree or on the ground depending on which bait is hottest. I had 6 different bears in today at one but it was 2 sows and 4 cubs. The bear population seems to be doing well up here.

Elk opens day after tomorrow, I'm probably going to go dove hunting, supposed to be 2 day full blown monsoon event up in the mountains due to remnants of hurricane Nora, might do a day trip Saturday to sit a water hole. Have vacation next week, I'll pack in someplace then.

Hope you heal up fast!   


I'll be chasing whitetails around the house in a few weeks, can't wait! Likely in my Lone Wolf climber but maybe on the ground not sure yet. I'll just be happy to be in the woods with a bow in my hand.