This year we started our deer hunting season with Travis and Cole Dazel doing the youth hunt and some archery hunting. Neither of them got a deer this year at our farm, but they seen a few deer and got to be in the great outdoors on the farm.

This year our group has twelve people (Glenn, Arlan, Jared, Tim, Shannon, Tom, Morgan, Shaun, Tony, Little Tony, Dave, and Scott). Opening day (Saturday the 8th) Shawn shot a buck to start off the day and little Tony shot his buck in the afternoon.

Shawn deer 2015
Shawn 2015
Then Sunday the 9th Tony shot a deer at the Holmgren swamp and Tom shot a deer in our furthest north stand. So for the first weekend we had 4 deer hanging.

We had a lot of fun messing with each other occasionally and eating well. Jared and Arlan hung out at the shack a bit while others were out, Tony sent a text message (supposed Forward) to us saying "There's two deer standing open field bye mabel". Me and Jared were just taking the garbage out and throwing it in the lagoon. Arlan was quite excited that he got a message about deer just around the corner. He told Jared who grabbed a gun and ran while Arlan was trying to figure this out and plan. We scurried around the woods on foot with loaded guns looking for these supposed deer in the message from the sky. No deer in sight - where is this Tony. He must be messing with us because we mess with him. I decide to call him and he says he is far away and had forwarded this message and had no idea where theses deer are. It was Harlan who had seen these ghost deer. Later Harlan said that the deer were around another corner of the further south woods, so we had not looked far enough. We all laughed a bunch at this as we were unsure of this Tony prankster, then throw in Harlan and we have no idea. Bunches of fun stories!

On Monday (the 10th), Arlan and Dave each shot a deer in the woods north of Arlan's house. There was a very nice coyote that ran out first and got a couple posters attention and nearly distracted Arlan from getting the young buck. Shaun's buck has Arlan's beat for weight, 137.5 lbs. with no hide for Shaun's deer and 128 lbs. for Arlan's with the hide on. Dave shot his deer right in the woods near the end of the drive.

Arlan deer 2014
8 deer hanging by Monday night. 1 not on picture (Scott's).
7 hanging 2014
Glenn 2014  Tony 2014
Jared and Scott texting
Texting neighbors to see how hunting is going!!
By Wednesday the 12th we still have 8 deer hanging. We are feeling good about the hunt and have nice deer.

Scott Weberg stopped by to share stories of hunting on Wednesday evening. The below link is one of the stories.

Video of Scott Weberg telling us a story about George Dahle hunting years ago
Mrs. Weberg  Mr. Weberg
Thursday Forrest Mostrom stopped by the shack to visit and share stories. Click here for a video of Forrest Mostrom telling us a story about hunting years ago

On Thursday late afternoon Jared shot a big doe north of Arlan's house. So by the end of Thursday the 13th we had 9 deer hanging in the quonset. It was quite cold, anywhere from 0 degrees to 15 above, so the deer were frozen hanging. We will have to heat them up a bit to cut up on Sunday. Getting a couple of the hides off was rough - it took an hour or so to remove one of them, usually we get the hide off in 10 minutes or so. There was overnighters in the shack Thursday night due to the celebrations.

Friday the 15th we chased a few woods around the Hofstad's area and were not able to get any deer out around the midday, then we sat in stands or rested.