Boone
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Awesome! Way to stick it out through the rain to score. Now lets see some pics.:smiley_clap: 12 yards, gotta like that.
Boone
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That's a great deer. I have one I am looking for too. I also may have a perfect NW wind to hunt him on Saturday. Now if he would only cooperate.............
Good job on the doe!
I still haven't made it out yet and it don't look like I'm going any time soon either.....hopefully a Saturday evening sit is in order.
I still haven't made it out yet and it don't look like I'm going any time soon either.....hopefully a Saturday evening sit is in order.
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I went out Saturday morning for a white knuckle ride in my stand. 15-30 mph winds in the flat country is a motha... lol... Only saw one doe..
Went out this evening (sun) and tried to get out of the wind. About seven i had three dink bucks com in to the front of the stand at maybe 5 yards and work their way around down wind. Thanks to the smoker they never batted an eye, even being 50 yards away with 15mph of wind blowing at them..
I did find some great rubs Saturday evening and put a cam on them... about 8 or 9 on trees bigger than a baseball bat and waist high on the tree.. They are about a third of a mile away from where tank was last on cam a month ago.
Went out this evening (sun) and tried to get out of the wind. About seven i had three dink bucks com in to the front of the stand at maybe 5 yards and work their way around down wind. Thanks to the smoker they never batted an eye, even being 50 yards away with 15mph of wind blowing at them..
I did find some great rubs Saturday evening and put a cam on them... about 8 or 9 on trees bigger than a baseball bat and waist high on the tree.. They are about a third of a mile away from where tank was last on cam a month ago.
I went out Saturday evening and saw 4 deer, but they were a 1/2 mile away at another woods. Went out Sunday morning to a different stand and passed up a nice doe and button buck at 5 yards....too much going on to worry about killing a doe on Sunday. Then last night I took my son with me and we headed to a double ladder stand that is new this year. We saw 4 different bucks and a doe. The bucks were about 60 yards out and two of them looked kind of nice, but I didn't get the bino's on him good enough to tell what they were.
Boone
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Too windy and too wet here in the east side of the state this weekend for me to get out. We checked out the radar and could tell we would get soaked all evening so we didn't go. I am watching the radar now to see if I can sneak out this afternoon for the first time. If not, Thursday evening is circled on the calendar already.
Boone
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Did you take a picture for our youth points?:smiley_clap:
If Saturday is going to be as warm as advertised, I may stay close to home and take a kid or two hunting.
No, I was hunting, he was tagging along. Does that still count? I will take him again, and I am taking my daughter too next time .
Boone
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That's a good question. I thought the point was to get kids interested in the deer hunting by taking them along whether they actually hunted with a weapon or not. I will be taking mine anyway as they have a blast with the whole experience, but they don't have their licenses yet.
Joe, can you answer this?:smiley_chinrub:
Boone
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The truck is packed with my bow and stand and I am leaving work early this afternoon to get in a stand for the first time this year. It'll be a little warm, but I have a shady spot ready for the east wind we are having today. I can't wait!
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Hell ya, good luck Boone! I'm hoping to get out atleast twice this weekend, prolly tomorrow night and Saturday morning. Had a good doe and fawn come thru tonight around 6:30, caught my eye while making dinner. We need more points fellas, early I know, but Team 6 is rolling!
Boone
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Man was it warm out there yesterday, but I have to go when I can. I saw a 2.5 year old 8 pt that has good potential for next year. I also saw 7 different does and had a fawn in my shoooting lane at 15 yards. It was not big enough to waste a tag on. I was hoping the big doe was following, but she was already out in the field I later found out. Headed back out Saturday. Good luck this weekend guys.
Definitely toasty out there, and the weekend is not looking better. Good luck tomorrow Boone, glad to hear you're seeing deer. Hopefully ya get a shot at one.
Gern that's great you're takin the boy! Love those bonus pts. Can't wait to take my son hunting someday.
Camofry, ya still with us?
I'm heading out here after I finish this Yuengling...time to smoke up and turn the thermacell on.........this is not hunting.......IS IT SNOWING YET! Good luck this weekend gents. Here's to bringin down some brown:smiley_cheers:
Gern that's great you're takin the boy! Love those bonus pts. Can't wait to take my son hunting someday.
Camofry, ya still with us?
I'm heading out here after I finish this Yuengling...time to smoke up and turn the thermacell on.........this is not hunting.......IS IT SNOWING YET! Good luck this weekend gents. Here's to bringin down some brown:smiley_cheers:
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Ok guys....I need to get you caught up on the last 24 hours.
I decided that I would go for broke and get my son a crossbow since he is only 8 soon to be 9 years old. He isn't strong enough to pull a 40lb bow yet, but he is a damn fine shot with a rifle and crossbow, so I have a lot of confidence he can make a killing shot. I went and bought a Horton youth crossbow (125 lb pull) today. Brought it home and shot it a few times and it was already dialed in right from the factory. Picked him up from school and we got home and started practicing right away. He was hitting perfectly from 15 to 25 yards, which is as far as I want him to shoot, so we headed out to the best spot I have to hunt. It is a freshly placed ground blind along the edge of a nice thick woods with beans to the left and clover to the right. I have supreme confidence in this place for seeing deer and I knew if I could get this blind placed and brushed in good that we would have a chance.......Last Sunday we hunted in this spot and saw 4 different bucks, but they were out of range for my bow.
So we get in the blind about 5:30 tonite and there is a combine running beans about 1/4 mile to the west of us. The mosquitos are about as fucking bad as they have ever been for some reason....and I didn't even think about bringing the thermacell. About 6:45 a doe and 2 fawns stood up from the clover/weed patch and start heading our way. They got to about 50 yards and I turned and looked to the south and there is a scrubby 7 pointer standing at 23 yards right in our shooting lane. I got the bow up on the shooting stick and turned the safety off for him and then another buck, a nice 2 year old 8 pointer probably 15" wide steps right in front of the other buck and is only 15 yards but is facing right at us. I am telling him to wait for the buck to turn broadside.....finally the buck starts walking and is about to go into our south shooting lane and is going to be only 15 yards, but he stops about half way there and is behind some brush. We adjust the shooting stick and bow to the next shooting window to the right and prepare for the buck to walk into the lane........all of the sudden both bucks start looking to the south toward the highway where a combine is coming down the road just south of us less than 1/2 mile. They both trotted back into the woods right next to the blind and never came back out!!!!! So we wait about 5 minutes and I keep telling him that they should come back out now that the combine is gone....we keep watching and all of a sudden here comes 4 deer running at us from the southwest, 3 big does and a real nice buck! The buck splits away from the does and comes right at the blind and before I know it he goes through the first shooting lane at about 15 yards and continues past the second shooting lane at 12 yards and won't stop trotting.......I tried to stop him but he had other plans. He went into the woods right next to us also.
It got dark enough and we snuck out of there without any of those deer seeing or smelling us. The wind was out of the SE tonight which was perfect for this setup.
So we had 3 bucks within 25 yards and didn't get any shots, but none of the deer acted nervous from the brushed in blind or smelled us. I have a good feeling for tomorrow night. We will be in the same spot as long as the wind is good....and the thermacell will be running also!
I decided that I would go for broke and get my son a crossbow since he is only 8 soon to be 9 years old. He isn't strong enough to pull a 40lb bow yet, but he is a damn fine shot with a rifle and crossbow, so I have a lot of confidence he can make a killing shot. I went and bought a Horton youth crossbow (125 lb pull) today. Brought it home and shot it a few times and it was already dialed in right from the factory. Picked him up from school and we got home and started practicing right away. He was hitting perfectly from 15 to 25 yards, which is as far as I want him to shoot, so we headed out to the best spot I have to hunt. It is a freshly placed ground blind along the edge of a nice thick woods with beans to the left and clover to the right. I have supreme confidence in this place for seeing deer and I knew if I could get this blind placed and brushed in good that we would have a chance.......Last Sunday we hunted in this spot and saw 4 different bucks, but they were out of range for my bow.
So we get in the blind about 5:30 tonite and there is a combine running beans about 1/4 mile to the west of us. The mosquitos are about as fucking bad as they have ever been for some reason....and I didn't even think about bringing the thermacell. About 6:45 a doe and 2 fawns stood up from the clover/weed patch and start heading our way. They got to about 50 yards and I turned and looked to the south and there is a scrubby 7 pointer standing at 23 yards right in our shooting lane. I got the bow up on the shooting stick and turned the safety off for him and then another buck, a nice 2 year old 8 pointer probably 15" wide steps right in front of the other buck and is only 15 yards but is facing right at us. I am telling him to wait for the buck to turn broadside.....finally the buck starts walking and is about to go into our south shooting lane and is going to be only 15 yards, but he stops about half way there and is behind some brush. We adjust the shooting stick and bow to the next shooting window to the right and prepare for the buck to walk into the lane........all of the sudden both bucks start looking to the south toward the highway where a combine is coming down the road just south of us less than 1/2 mile. They both trotted back into the woods right next to the blind and never came back out!!!!! So we wait about 5 minutes and I keep telling him that they should come back out now that the combine is gone....we keep watching and all of a sudden here comes 4 deer running at us from the southwest, 3 big does and a real nice buck! The buck splits away from the does and comes right at the blind and before I know it he goes through the first shooting lane at about 15 yards and continues past the second shooting lane at 12 yards and won't stop trotting.......I tried to stop him but he had other plans. He went into the woods right next to us also.
It got dark enough and we snuck out of there without any of those deer seeing or smelling us. The wind was out of the SE tonight which was perfect for this setup.
So we had 3 bucks within 25 yards and didn't get any shots, but none of the deer acted nervous from the brushed in blind or smelled us. I have a good feeling for tomorrow night. We will be in the same spot as long as the wind is good....and the thermacell will be running also!
dante322
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man, I'm goin huntin with you!!!!!
sounds like an exciting time, I bet he had a mile wide grin on his face.
sounds like an exciting time, I bet he had a mile wide grin on his face.
Yeah he was excited but we were both pissed at the mosquitos! At one point he said "they are bitin the shit out of me!" What could I do but laugh and agree with him?