Buckmaster
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I saw 5 from my living room watching football between 4:30 and dark, a couple shed bucks. They are hungry!
LIVE from the stand 2018-19
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Buckmaster
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Hoping for some deer and/or coyote action here soon in this 10* virtually no wind evening.
Beautiful out to say the least!
Sgt Fury
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Had about twenty some deer come in.....more still streaming in....my a-hole friend comes into my yard with his monster truck and rev the engine 15 minutes before the end of legal shooting time. Bye bye deer. They hauled ass. Now he’s not answering my text. I think he went into hiding, maybe witness protection. I will say this, I was in a elevated blind and the wind was howling all afternoon...windchill near zero. Even with a buddy heater I was cold. Hats off to anyone hunting out of a stand today in this weather.
lung buster
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Addy and i only seen 1 tonight and 60 yds was as close as it came.
A follow up on my hunt this evening.
It was a good one even though I wasn't successful darn it.
Right at 5:25 pm I had a good mature buck come running in from across the field from my West-Southwest and stopped just inside the wood line, approximately 25 yards due West from me, totally downwind 'TOO'.
I suspected that he was bedded in the field previously, got up and ran towards me into the wooded area.
I had my bow in hand ranged for 32 yards, which is the distance to the trail/path along the field/wood line area, the area I originally came from to get to my stand.
As he stood there briefly for about a minute or two just inside the wooded area, on the opposite side of large Ash tree from me, I waited patiently to see what direction he was going to head next.
He headed back out into the field slowly and walked right up to my tracks.
With his nose to the ground right on top of my tracks, I continued watching patiently.
I just needed him to take a few more steps to get into my best shooting lane.
As he continued slowly tracking me heading South- Southeast following my tracks, he stopped just short of my best window by about five yards.
I went ahead and drew back my bow cause I wasn't sure what he was going to do next - bolt or continue his slow walk? I was expecting bolt!
Apparently when I drew my bow back, he must have heard me cause he raised his head and looked in my direction.
At this point I decided once he turns his head away, I'm releasing and sure enough, he turned his head away right after I made my decision.
I watched my arrow fly right towards him and before it cleared the last little bit of the woods, it must have caught a small limb cause my arrow flew right over his back to my absolute amazement. I couldn't believe I missed him.
He reared up and boogied off like lighting, headed straight South-Southeast, then stopped in the middle of the field for a moment or two, approximately 100 yards away from me.
After finishing looking around, he continued walking through the rest of the field heading straight away from me.
Just my luck this season.
He was a real nice looking typical 5x5, at least a mid 140 class I'd say, maybe more.
Never seen him before.
Looked like he might have a couple of broken tines on each side, but looked real healthy.
I continued finishing out my hunt hoping that just maybe he'd circle around and I do believe that's exactly what he did cause right around 6:00 pm, just before quitting time basically, I heard a deer blow a couple of times approximately 70-80 yards directly downwind from me in the woods.
I'm not giving up and I'll be back at it tomorrow and this weekend.
It was a good one even though I wasn't successful darn it.
Right at 5:25 pm I had a good mature buck come running in from across the field from my West-Southwest and stopped just inside the wood line, approximately 25 yards due West from me, totally downwind 'TOO'.
I had my bow in hand ranged for 32 yards, which is the distance to the trail/path along the field/wood line area, the area I originally came from to get to my stand.
As he stood there briefly for about a minute or two just inside the wooded area, on the opposite side of large Ash tree from me, I waited patiently to see what direction he was going to head next.
He headed back out into the field slowly and walked right up to my tracks.
With his nose to the ground right on top of my tracks, I continued watching patiently.
I just needed him to take a few more steps to get into my best shooting lane.
As he continued slowly tracking me heading South- Southeast following my tracks, he stopped just short of my best window by about five yards.
I went ahead and drew back my bow cause I wasn't sure what he was going to do next - bolt or continue his slow walk? I was expecting bolt!
Apparently when I drew my bow back, he must have heard me cause he raised his head and looked in my direction.
At this point I decided once he turns his head away, I'm releasing and sure enough, he turned his head away right after I made my decision.
I watched my arrow fly right towards him and before it cleared the last little bit of the woods, it must have caught a small limb cause my arrow flew right over his back to my absolute amazement. I couldn't believe I missed him.
He reared up and boogied off like lighting, headed straight South-Southeast, then stopped in the middle of the field for a moment or two, approximately 100 yards away from me.
After finishing looking around, he continued walking through the rest of the field heading straight away from me.
Just my luck this season.
He was a real nice looking typical 5x5, at least a mid 140 class I'd say, maybe more.
Never seen him before.
Looked like he might have a couple of broken tines on each side, but looked real healthy.
I continued finishing out my hunt hoping that just maybe he'd circle around and I do believe that's exactly what he did cause right around 6:00 pm, just before quitting time basically, I heard a deer blow a couple of times approximately 70-80 yards directly downwind from me in the woods.
I'm not giving up and I'll be back at it tomorrow and this weekend.
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Sgt Fury
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Good luck! Amazing how many pop cans we can kill over the summer, then a buck shows up and that shit goes out the window. Keep at it, were pulling for ya!
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It appears a deers health may be in jeopardy.
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I referred to this guy as “the warty 8”. Other than being covered in warts he was a pretty, 1.5 year old 8 point. He was shot in the ass during the second gun season which left his back leg crippled. In the picture you can see the leg hanging. The hip bones in that side are very prominent. He was full of pus.
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Our motto while wrestling at Fairfield was "NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE IN" So here I am, back in my blind. My camera took a Shit on me so I have no idea what's been going on since the 12th. Dropped a few bags of corn on Wednesday and there's not much left. Something has been here, just don't know what time.
Back at it...
Hunted a few hours this morning.
Had a gobbler underneath the entire time just gobbling away.
I got'em on trailcam for the past week or so. Nice size bird!
No deer though.
Different stand for this evening.
30* with a stiff SW steady wind of about 10-15 mph in my face.
Good luck to whomever is hunting!