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Live from the stand 2021/22

Outdoorsfellar

Dignitary Member
Supporting Member
Why did you put the corn pile behind the big rock?
Actually, I throw a bucket of corn over that cement block & its all up beyond as well. The does feel secure standing in the woods eating. I have other spots as well, but now the bucks r hitting it too & it was just dumb luck that he was up that close. I shot last year 's buck as he was walking across just behind where this buck is standing.
 

bowhunter1023

Owner/Operator
Staff member
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Appalachia
We had a party, but like rut hunts can go, it was chaos and no good shots offered. But she got to hear a buck grunt up close and personal, see chasing and rubbing, and one of the scrub bucks still had velvet. Riding it out, but I'd say we're done after all that commotion.

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Floki

Junior Member
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Ehhh the evening hunt… Well I’m hunting some thick shit and I’ve had turkeys running around back and forth screeching yelping clucking even sounded like the bitches were fighting.

Add in 10 squirrels running around and I’ve about had enough.😂 If I woulda have saw one of them hens she woulda it an arrow.

Before ya say anything 😂 this place is over ran by hens … Biggest group I have counted was 85
 

Outdoorsfellar

Dignitary Member
Supporting Member
A recap for me today..... Unbelievable needless to say. A few years ago, I started putting corn out in different spots to condition the does to come in. That way, the bucks will come looking for them. There is so much buck activity this year, I never would have dreamed of it back then. I certainly never would have guessed that big guy would have come in so soon, let alone hang out for the length of time that he did. I just couldn't chance a shot at that angle & my shooting window wasn't the same as the window I took the pic from, so it was a different perspective as I told Rick. There's a house 20 yrds away from where that buck stood. The lady hasn't lived there for a good while , so it's kinda overgrown & it's turned into a mecca. She allows me to have my popup there. Anyway, tomorrow is another day. I'll be my Sniper's Nest & it'll be tough. I'm back in a downfall tunnel on a inside curve where there is a 4 trail junction. I have some camo fabric up creating a blind & it took deer a while to get use to it. I'll probably try more grunting & some rattling, so it'll be a fun morning. That odd sound I heard this morning was like a deep huffing sound. It was when I figured those two bucks were together, though I couldn't see them at that time.
 

Smawgunner2

Active Member
1,446
67
Athens County
Well....I got into camp on Friday and just before pulling in saw a buck chasing 3 doe. I thought...it's game on! Saturday through today ...saw more coyote than deer. The rut hasn't hit hardly at all from my perspective. Seen a few rubs and a couple scrapes but no daylight movement. So I'll pick it back up on Friday at the ass crack of dawn. It's gotta be full on then. Till then good luck all!
 

hickslawns

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40,353
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Ohio
Work got in the way. Took my evening drive after shooting my bow. Binoculars and camcorder. Saw my big boy. Daylight. Small doe squatting in the field. Tail up. Looked constipated. Big boy 20-30yds away feeding. Didn't seem interested. Like she wanted to lose her virginity to that buck but he was waiting on his Viagra to kick in or something.

Or maybe she literally WAS constipated. 😂

Not sure but he was a beauty. Roughly 1/2 mile to mile from where I saw him last night. He'll go 150's. He is mature. Probably one of the few mature bucks to survive the EHD last year. And even pre-EHD he would have been on the high end of bucks our area offers. Generally 130-140" is a trophy in these parts with occasional 150-160-170 taken. They are like unicorns though.