Spencie
Senior Member
Just saw a possible shooter or bully 100 yards out going away. 10 yards from the ladder stand I walked by. It’s good to know some things never change.
LIVE! From the Stand 2022-2023 Edition
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Stressless
Active Member
They're on their feet. Just had my first shooter walk behind me, but was buttoned up with a fork and BB in front of me... would have been a chip shot at 18yd... Got My Heart going!
He came back.. mistake. Not a giant but biggest by far I've seen. Dint go 40yds. Watched him go down within 45yds.
14 yds by the rangefinder.
He came back.. mistake. Not a giant but biggest by far I've seen. Dint go 40yds. Watched him go down within 45yds.
14 yds by the rangefinder.
Fed Bear
Member
Almost got skunked today but a lone young doe saved the day with just 15 minutes of shooting light left. Walked the 3/4 miles across the huge alfalfa field and I see a 17-18” wide 120 inch 8 standing less than 100 yards from my truck. Lol
Chancegriffis
Active Member
Good sit today. Non the mess. Got a picture of big boy about 3/4 of a mile away from where he was last night on another piece of property… gonna give chase tomorrow morning
Buckmaster
Senior Member
He followed the script however wrong buck showed up.
Shoot-straight
Member
Lots of small bucks and does. A lot of chasing in the last half hour of light. 2 coyotes that I couldn’t get a shot at. Need to trap some this winter. Won’t be back in the woods until the weekend but it will be all day sits Saturday and Sunday. Can’t wait to actually get cold in the stand!
Sgt Fury
Sgt. Spellchecker
C’mon man, I don’t even remember what a buck looks like—we need pics
Going to sit a stand I have not yet hunted this year. Wind is "okay" for the stand as they generally head back to bedding from the south. They will walk by me toget to bedding. Just hoping I can slide in without bumping anything AND they don't wind me once past me. Banking on Scent Smoker doing it's thing where I generally smoke up and play the wind. During the rut, I get a bit riskier as I think the bucks will tolerate a tad more. It's the does that concern me but smoke generally soothes them. The plan is to observe. Pull 2 cards coming out. Looking to locate the buck I hit. I would LOVE to confirm he is alive. Still feeling terrible about this one. I've made some bad shots and gotten lucky, but this is the first unrecovered in 14 years. A darn good run, but it's a numbers game. Sooner or later it happens. Wish me luck finding him alive. Be safe and aim small today gentlemen.
I am heading out again
Good luck everyone
Congratulations Stresless
Good luck everyone
Congratulations Stresless
TinyTucky
Active Member
Shitty wind today and most the day tomorrow. Doubt I get out until Sunday. Cams have been dead outside of turkeys, raccoons and squirrels. On the bright side, my vacation block for next year got posted, I’m off October 30-Nov 15 so that’s awesome- as long as my rut doesn’t suck as much ass next year lol
handful of hickory chips I get mine at menards. Light it up then blow it out or throw a handful on top of fire to smother it shut the lid and smoke up your body, clothes and equiptment everytime b4 you head out..i have had some big bucks get downwind of me and watch em throw their nose in the air to smell, settle down and work in and give me a shot.
First day of my mini rutcation and I went back to sleep. Hunting is stupit!
Dave NewsomE
Dave NewsomE
Back at it- real slow day for me yesterday afternoon- BIL had 2 shooters but couldn’t get the shot. Good luck
Stressless
Active Member
BLUF: Had a shooter come by, lost lock, reacquired but didn't confirm but 'assumed' it was the same buck.
I am entirely happy with the clean harvest with a vertical bow which I was not at all sure I could do again as recently as Aug. I took a JV lister with potential out of the lineup but it was the biggest buck I've had on camera since antlers started growing in June.
Why we aren't getting bucks to advance in age class in the local area is another thread/thought.
Happy Veterans Day Weekend:
So - here it is in as clear detail as I can recall.
I had a mature doe, a BB and a big bodied broke ass fork within 35 yd of me. The broke ass fork, (BAF) kept looking over behind my back to the bedding area... never bristled or otherwise gave an indication that there was another buck close by.
Then I chance it on this slender green ash I am in and take a glance over my right sholder as I hear a deer walking. It's a mature buck neck to brisket, corse coat neck to main tine length etc. "shooter" in my mind... about 22 yrds but over my right sholder with 3 other deer within 35 yds... might as well have been 1000 yds. Once "Shooter"' is established I don't analyze or look at horns. Preface: "Target Fixation" can and does set in....
He goes behind me, winds in this stand SE and are 100% with the thermals, but because I had not put any pine boughs in this one I wouldn't/couldn't check or turn with the other six deer peepers I had in front of me.
Out the right corner of my eye the big boy slides away m'b 75 yards thru trees. Hits a scrape and stands up on its haunches to rub rub for 30 secs... at this point he's following the big doe and I think He's gone, try grunting with BAF 21 yds from me, I'm gonna shoot big boy if given the opportunity.
Big Boy walks off in the direction of the does above to the right or West...
BAF walks off East, BB goes off with mama... I grunt some nothing, grunt louder. Nothing I loose sight of the Big Boy buck and all other deer.
I typed above...
While typing I catch movement, close in my wheelhouse .. glance up see longish tines on both sides of a tree Mmm... Mind says "big boy came back" and I look up and here he's starting to walk off East... it's getting dark, I have one solid shooting lane that way. I saw tines and just went into kill mode. He's now walking right to left behind a screen of trees and brush I left to be able to draw - so I draw, he steps out 'baaa..' I'm looking at the hair I want to split, "Thwack" almost auto-pilot ... Right behind the shoulder, doble lung went 40 yrds, dropped and died well within eyesight.
Then my mind kicks in/my feeble mind. Mmmmm... tines looked a bit smaller, that was the same deer right?, etc.. but Brisket to shoulder don't equate.. not sure why but doubt starts creeping in. Finish the text and climb down. Nope not the same deer Not the shooter I saw but I shot and made a clean harvest and I'm done buck hunting for 2022.
From the time I reacquired or noticed movement the second time to shooting was about 5-6 seconds. See him, he heads off behind brush, hook up and draw, baaa thwack.
Good luck to the hunters still at it!
Edit:
Good to know where your food comes from.
I am entirely happy with the clean harvest with a vertical bow which I was not at all sure I could do again as recently as Aug. I took a JV lister with potential out of the lineup but it was the biggest buck I've had on camera since antlers started growing in June.
Why we aren't getting bucks to advance in age class in the local area is another thread/thought.
Happy Veterans Day Weekend:
So - here it is in as clear detail as I can recall.
I had a mature doe, a BB and a big bodied broke ass fork within 35 yd of me. The broke ass fork, (BAF) kept looking over behind my back to the bedding area... never bristled or otherwise gave an indication that there was another buck close by.
Then I chance it on this slender green ash I am in and take a glance over my right sholder as I hear a deer walking. It's a mature buck neck to brisket, corse coat neck to main tine length etc. "shooter" in my mind... about 22 yrds but over my right sholder with 3 other deer within 35 yds... might as well have been 1000 yds. Once "Shooter"' is established I don't analyze or look at horns. Preface: "Target Fixation" can and does set in....
He goes behind me, winds in this stand SE and are 100% with the thermals, but because I had not put any pine boughs in this one I wouldn't/couldn't check or turn with the other six deer peepers I had in front of me.
Out the right corner of my eye the big boy slides away m'b 75 yards thru trees. Hits a scrape and stands up on its haunches to rub rub for 30 secs... at this point he's following the big doe and I think He's gone, try grunting with BAF 21 yds from me, I'm gonna shoot big boy if given the opportunity.
Big Boy walks off in the direction of the does above to the right or West...
BAF walks off East, BB goes off with mama... I grunt some nothing, grunt louder. Nothing I loose sight of the Big Boy buck and all other deer.
I typed above...
While typing I catch movement, close in my wheelhouse .. glance up see longish tines on both sides of a tree Mmm... Mind says "big boy came back" and I look up and here he's starting to walk off East... it's getting dark, I have one solid shooting lane that way. I saw tines and just went into kill mode. He's now walking right to left behind a screen of trees and brush I left to be able to draw - so I draw, he steps out 'baaa..' I'm looking at the hair I want to split, "Thwack" almost auto-pilot ... Right behind the shoulder, doble lung went 40 yrds, dropped and died well within eyesight.
Then my mind kicks in/my feeble mind. Mmmmm... tines looked a bit smaller, that was the same deer right?, etc.. but Brisket to shoulder don't equate.. not sure why but doubt starts creeping in. Finish the text and climb down. Nope not the same deer Not the shooter I saw but I shot and made a clean harvest and I'm done buck hunting for 2022.
From the time I reacquired or noticed movement the second time to shooting was about 5-6 seconds. See him, he heads off behind brush, hook up and draw, baaa thwack.
Good luck to the hunters still at it!
Edit:
Good to know where your food comes from.
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Chancegriffis
Active Member
Just saw the one I’m after. Watched him and his doe work down the power line set. He’s in the area!