Looks like a great time, minus the camping in the cold.
I hope you kill a giant, your sure putting in the effort both day and night!
Well, Cleon kicked our ass.
We ended up coming home. On Tuesday it snowed another 3 inches or so and there was more on the way. That made close to 13 inches for the weekend and we just weren't prepared for that.
We saw TONS of sign and lots of deer. I admit that the Hoosier National Forest (at least the part in Brown County we were in) is a great place for an opportunity at deer. Both big bucks and doe. But it is a tough place to hunt in the sense that the terrain is unlike anything here or anywhere else in Indiana for that matter.
I really wish I hadn't wounded that one doe. She probably fed some coyotes that night but I did the best I could. That's the first deer I've ever lost that way and it sucks.
I will go back, I go to Indiana every year anyway, this was my first trip to Brown county though. Probably won't go during the muzzleloader hunt (although everyone we spoke to remarked how unusually bad the weather was, instead I think I'll try a little earlier during the gun season.
I'm glad I don't have to crap in a bucket in the tent with the little propane heaters roaring, piss in a piss bottle at night cause it's 11 deg out, and boil snow water to thaw drinking water anymore. It was cold. Colder than Afghanistan. Colder than anything I've been in. I was completely unprepared for it. The weather reports were WRONG.
I'll be back next year though....
Love Indiana. The terrain is definitely harder to traverse than our flatland. On my cousins farm it is very steep in many areas. I love hunting there though. Will have to check the map to see where Brown county is. All in all, it sounds lkme yo uh had a good time.
Sounds like a good trip all in all and I applaud you for hanging I there, I'd have buckled right out of the gate with the temps and snow. I was stationed at Camp Atterbury just north of you for a short bit and that winter was about par for the time I was there, plain miserable. I hunt Indiana west of where you were maybe 90 minutes and then just west of Indianapolis about an hour.
