LIVE! From the Stand 2022-2023 Edition

[GoetsTalon]

Text my buddy and said I don't want to sit and be cold today lol. He says just sit from ten to two and see what happens. So here I am lol. Good luck hunters!

 

[matthew]

Seen a doe and a spike this morning nothing since 8 am ...going to eat my lunch at the tree and stick it out the rest of the day

 

[bowhunter1023]

Still sick, but drugged up pretty heavily, so I'll be out this afternoon once I'm done with work for the day. Terrible wind, but our #1 is back and looking for love. If he hasn't locked down yet, I'm hoping to see him this evening.

 

[OhioWhiteTails]

Fresh cut corn field and the best possible wind for tonight. 2 bucks we've been following all season made daytime appearances the last few days. (Naturally, when I was hunting another county).

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

I stayed till 9a. The yearling & 4 pt made repeated appearances. Sun is out & I'm back out too. Dunno if any mid day action will occur, but here I am. No hurries.

 

[Stressless]

Heading out on a tracking job w neighbor Cliff, said it sounded good but he backed out for 3 hrs gonna start at 1500... said it was a dandy, the last one he drew on was the 160 8pt in 2020..

 

[Mike]

Changing it up with some public land. Nice scrape line. One is huge.

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[Spencie]

I’m doing papaw duty so Tyler can hunt. So I’m on stand watching Bluey.
My taxidermist bought my cape off of me. It’s amazing how many people ruin a cape on a buck they want to mount.

 

[Chancegriffis]

Back in. Had a very eventful morning until I hopped down at 9am to get help a neighbor of this permission I have, track his biggest buck. Turns out after we tracked him 1.23 miles through 3 properties, he was still alive. 5.5hrs later! Very good steady blood but turns out he must have missed vitals and just got small arteries in neck. Hit right behind left shoulder and exited left side of neck! Anyways follow up shot from 6 feet put him down! If any of you have followed along with me this year it was the split brow 10 I’ve passed on probably close to 6/7 times this year! Hell of a deer regardless! But I’m back in hoping and praying the giant is still around and I didn’t booger him today!

 

[bowhunter1023]

I'm in. Wind is all over, but I had to make a decision and chose the same ground attack location I was in 10 days ago. The buck I'd like to shoot has been in the Corner Pocket the last 2 nights and has approached from the same direction each time. In fact, every time he's been there (couple dozen) he comes from the S. There's one of 3-4 ways he's getting there and I'm covering 2 of them for sure and could maybe grunt him in from the 3rd. This is an all or nothing sit. If I see something, it'll probably be in bow range, but I'm very likely to be skunked. Wasn't killing him from the house, so I at least eliminated that variable.

 

["J"]

I’m bored, walking from window to window hoping for something to watch. I was going to do some fall turkey hunting but I just saw season went out yesterday. Arg.
Good luck fellas.

When was the last time you had those problems, Mike?

 

[Stressless]

No blood, none: dead at 80yds

Tracked his path in the leaves. Thx for that heavy rain a couple days ago.

 

[Spencie]

2006 & 2007. Tagged out on the 2nd and 4th. Missed out on a lot of hunting those 2 years.

 

[bowhunter1023]

This is stupid. Should have brought my cough silencer...

 

[Mike]

This is stupid. Should have stayed home.

I fixed it for us.

 

[Big H]

Cough into your grunt call

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

So I went back out @ 1130 & nothing moved. 'bout fell asleep, so back home at 1:30. Then, 2 hrs later while in the house, 8pt came in to my blind. I was getting ready to go back out at 4, but the brittany was out running around in the woods. I just want to see some evening rutting activity to get my fix. I stayed in. Just after, somebody flipped a switch & does were everywhere. 5p, cams are still dinging & a big bodied 10 was milling around. He ended up latching onto a doe up behind the house & casually followed her past my shed & into the wood lot next to the house. I was in the porch & was able to stop him a few times but he had no interest.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Got to thinking tonight, I've spent the equivalent of at least one full-time employment year, or 2,080 hours, in the woods chasing whitetails in the last two decades. Makes you wonder what I could have been doing with that time that was more productive I went on to calculate that I've spent more than 1% of my life preparing for and hunting deer. That's 1% of life I'll never get back.

#moveoverspencie
#theresanewworsthunteraroundhere

 

[Spencie]

Got to thinking tonight, I've spent the equivalent of at least one full-time employment year, or 2,080 hours, in the woods chasing whitetails in the last two decades. Makes you wonder what I could have been doing with that time that was more productive I went on to calculate that I've spent more than 1% of my life preparing for and hunting deer. That's 1% of life I'll never get back.

#moveoverspencie
#theresanewworsthunteraroundhere

Amateur!

 

[Spencie]

Got to thinking tonight, I've spent the equivalent of at least one full-time employment year, or 2,080 hours, in the woods chasing whitetails in the last two decades. Makes you wonder what I could have been doing with that time that was more productive I went on to calculate that I've spent more than 1% of my life preparing for and hunting deer. That's 1% of life I'll never get back.

#moveoverspencie
#theresanewworsthunteraroundhere

I just checked my log book. In the last 5 seasons I’m over 1100 hours in the stand. So like I said…amateur.