Covid bucks

[bigten05]

I had it early December, went out a fee times that week until I got real light headed in the stand one evening. Then I took a couple days off to actually relax. I should of been out tonight, the buck I passed during muzzy season was there again with the one I've been hunting. Plenty off time to get out there especially if we get the snow they are calling for.

 

[giles]

Only motivation I have for ya is deer meat lol! Making jerky! Get well and get out of that f-ing place as soon as you can!View attachment 143919

Love it!!!

 

[Shoot-straight]

Hoping for a fast recovery! Feel better! Lost my smell and taste nov 11th. Shot my buck on the 12th.

 

[giles]

I had it early December, went out a fee times that week until I got real light headed in the stand one evening. Then I took a couple days off to actually relax. I should of been out tonight, the buck I passed during muzzy season was there again with the one I've been hunting. Plenty off time to get out there especially if we get the snow they are calling for.

Now we are talking! Let's keep these positive vibes going!

 

[Floki]

Well shit Corn Pop…. I tested positive November 3rd never got to tell this story…..

 

[Floki]

 

[Mickey Merrie]

Got the Rice a Rona 11/12 lost the rest of the archery rut and lost first week of rifle... Been hunting ever since between rifle and post Christmas primitive flintlock season. This is the most fun I've had in years. I have now passed on about 50 doe, missed a neck shot on a respectable 8 at about 65 yards as he stared at me. Then had another 8, nothing special, broadside at about 65 yards and fizz silence... I figured I didn't get enough 4f in the pan plus had tilted it all out to the far edge, based on the slight burn pattern.

Anyways I'm having a ball and tomorrow will hunt most of the afternoon and evening in single digits on a honey/hell hole leading from a mess of a swamp to a standing cornfield. been waiting for that N.E. blow and it is starting now here. Monday is the last day so...

I have seen so much wildlife and have doubled my knowledge of this area which I have hunted for over a decade.

You are in my thoughts and prayers young man!

 

[Wildlife]

Follow my lead for more tips on how to get back in the woods rona free.

Get well soon, Dave!

 

[oakswamper]

Feel better

 

[Floki]

I would love to say it was luck… But it wasn’t.. It all started off back in the early years of 1979…. Some say a legend was born…

Some say it was the strongest swimmer,others were to drunk to know and forgot!

But there I was 42 years later living the dream.. In the high times of technology, reality tv, IPhones drones,deer farms, Grunt tubes,Tree tubes lighted knocks, Deer farms, Some kinda non X-ray vision cameo clothes. Deer Hormones,Pheromones, trail cams,cell cams,corn feeders,corn fields, bagged Acons and Nutz….(oh did I mention tick tock)

An exhilarating time to be in the woods,to say the the least. The year was 2021.. It was a year of sickness.. Mask no mask get a shot don’t don’t. None of it truly mattered both revived the same.

But times were changing the one up was real like never before..

 

[Floki]

So after a long month of hunting In October after passing30 deer probably way over 100 in the last two years

I went out to a spot I hadn’t hunted in years.
Wait back up November 3rd day before the fourth..

I had a kid years ago.. Changed my life..Now the little fugger talks walks carries a gun after he took All my dreams and probably calls me an asshole occasionally in his mind. Wouldn’t change it for the world. Dreams change .

Anyhow long story short wood times have been shortened so no getting in before taking him to school..Private school no bus . Not going to lie spoiled ..

So I went to this spot on the 3rd of November late . Hadn’t been there in a few years… It’s a walk from my place to say the least from my place..
(YeahYoung guys)

So I’m going in late headers up the trail it’s cold as fugg, Leaves are a little wet everything’s perfect get to almost the top of the hill,I have a little buck come off hill walking right towards me,I’m on logging road he’s 5yards from me and we have a stare off contest….

Must have went on 5 minutes or so and finally he walks right in front of me and continues on. Young dumb buck….

 

[Cogz]

Get better dudes - we almost certainly have it right now, either the 3rd or 4th time.

 

[Floki]

So I continue on Get down the trail a 100 yards or so right in the middle of a logging trail stands a magnificent buck maybe 60 yards out.. Thing is the logging trail I’m on and he’s standing has a curve to it.

Slowly he starts starts working his way to me.I slide the safety off first time in two years me legs are shaking…Absolutely fugging loving it.. Gets to 40 and he’s starts cutting ring down hill no shot…

 

[Floki]

November 4th go out to the same spot… Made sure to be in before daylight. I’m sitting there smoking a cigarette winds totally wrong . I do t have any of the hight tech shit that’s out no tree grunts cellcams, Corn piles, Deer hormones pheromones,Yada yada .. Was almost like back in 1979…

Sat there smoked cigarettes enjoyed the day not seeing a got damn thing. I was actually writing a post bitching about my day on here…

When all the sudden there I was and so was he……
Everything was wrong by mosts standards the wind right in his face.. My piss right beside the tree..

60 yards out closing in …I pull up my binos then begging to rattle then I hit my primos grunt tube…

Yep here comes…. nah fugg that none of that happened.

60 yards closing in quick I scooped him wasn’t sure then became sure at 40. I hadn’t pulled trigger in two years,wasn’t the buck I was hunting. But I’m realistic and don’t get to attached I hunt small parcels…

He stopped at 20 Quartering to me… I knew then if I didn’t take the shot he would be front on with me at 5 yards….

Deep breath ……Slow steady Thwack ! And I Mean Thwack… I aimed mid shoulder center due to the angle of the deer behind the front leg would have been a gut shot from the angle…

I’m all my years of hunting I’ve never heard a deer make the sound this one did upon impact.. When the arrow hit the deer it made like a high grunt slash bark sound I can’t even explain it..

That was all mid air when it jumped and turned.
About then my adrenaline kicked in the favorite sacred rush of what joins us all together in the brotherhood of hunting

.(A freind of mine once said if ya could bottle that feeling and sell it you would be the richest man in the world.. I believe that.. Glad ya can’t.. I couldn’t imagine how fugged up wallmart would be to shop at)
So it turns and takes off I have a deergasim watching it. Then I hear crash. The woods go silent and I’m left with my thoughts a natural high and so it goes.

Was the shot good is it dead Should I have waited is it big enough Wtf just happened

Go to look for arrow the tale of the tape for educated bow hunters it’s not there.. Very little blood 30 yards out from the shot…

Go back sit down wait play it back through my mind 100 times… Did I hear a crash? Do I go back to the house could this be a deer I bump by looking and never see agin….??????

Then confidence kicked in I knew dam well I heard it crash.. The in between was making me second guess myself…… After 30 yard there wasn’t much blood 50 yards not much more..

Then I came over a little hill and there he was laying. Right where I heard him go down.

The arrow was maybe 5 yards from him. I believe I broke his shoulder when I shot him. Needless to say I was happy as fugg.

I can’t say I did anything special. I don’t follow all the so called rules of deer hunting nor do I believe them. I do what works for me and enjoy myself..

Seems to work for me not the biggest I ever got nor will it be the smallest

 

[Floki]

 

[Floki]

I’ll save the story about the drag for another time!

That story’s for you CORN POP !

 

[giles]

Thanks for sharing it finally!

 

[Sauger]

Giles if you remember I posted my wife's covid buck story last year. I felt bad dragging her out there but she ended with the buck she was after. Get well and get back at it.