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Biggest buck ever afar 30 years of bowhunting .... a few years off during that time.

Here is my favorite stand

I shot this guy on 10/12. My goal this year was to shoot a mounter, but I am not too proud and still too young with not many bow bucks under my belt to pass a nice tweener. When I first got in the stand at dark I heard some movement NE of me. Nothing showed. A few hours later I was sitting in my stand when I heard a crunch behind me. I turn to see squirrels. Figures. I hear it again and check again to see him walking down the row of pines I'm hunting in and headed north towards me. He's still out there, but will eventually be a 10 yard broadside if he keeps coming. And what's this? A big body behind him. The 8 stops, slowly backs up and heads east and I never see the other deer. I can sort of make him out but he's about 60 yards through some very thick brush. I grunt a few times and nothing. 5 minutes go by and he starts walking down a parallel run headed north, but this time to my east. Alright i think, second chance. He stays off the run at about 30 and behind a log. I have a narrow spine shot and decide not to take it. He stands there looking NE for what seems like forever. Then he wheezes. Are you serious? I've never seen this in the wild. He makes his way into some brush and out of site. A minute goes by and I hear sparing! Are you serious? Another first for me. 5 minutes go by and I see movement. Now a deer is headed west (basically making a full circle around my stand) but still too far out and in some brush. I see 2, then 3 deer. A forked spike comes in front of me headed west. Broadside 15 yards. No thanks. Then comes a 6 who I'm assuming was bedded down from this morning and also the 8's sparing partner. I see the 8 working a scrape behind him and decide to wait. Well doesn't the 8 take the same run in front of me but then go behind a pine a few yards north. He takes one step out at 22 and I draw, pic a window that in hindsight might have been a risk given some pine twigs and let it fly. He went about 60 yards. Single lung and liver. 10 minutes later comes another 6 from the SE headed NW. Then a doe. and when my dad comes in from his stand to help me drag out comes a huge 6 from the south. very thick beam. I believe he was with the 8 and the body I saw previous and just veered off because he came from that direction. Needless to say I would have been happy with the hunt even without the deer. Some of the best action I've ever had pre-rut. I'll update this later with some trail cam pics. a rage entrance wound! I think he weighed around 145lb.

Airing now ! I really think the guy is not in touch with reality. He's sorry for 8.8 million Americans loosing their health care. That number continues to grow daily. Along with failed foreign policy, failed financial policies, more free trade agreements failures and the list continues to grow. How could 61 million Americans? vote for such a failure?

Change is all I have left in my pocket.

This is where I will be sitting again on opening morning. NO climbing or safety harnesses needed.

Having some fun with grinding.............

I dont know about you guys, but my healthcare premiums doubled this year becuase of obamacare, and im not even in the exchanges, i have a private plan. I hope this county wakes up, if you think obama is bad, hillary will be worse

I love it when people talk about deer being downwind of them like their scent regiment has helped fool a whitetail's nose. Some deer will come downwind of you regardless of your stink and a lot of that has to do with location, familiarity, and disposition. But by far, the majority of deer downwind of hunters are not because of personal scent regiments (although I practice it to a "middle of the road" degree). It's simply because their nose is not catching the stink. Just because a deer is downwind means nothing as to whether one's scent stream is flowing that way. Scent isn't a line - it can be like a cone at times, but most times, it's like a flowing river winding around trees and over brush and the thermal impact can do things most hunters never realize. There's a reason bucks use the thermal tunnel to travel in hill country and enter fields via low spots in the evening in ag country. I think scent regiment comes into play more with ground scent left behind and getting rid of skin cells that would otherwise slough off during the act of walking to and from stand. It also helps with confidence - whatever your belief, do what instills the confidence.

I couldnt draw a tree stand so instead I used Steve863 and his rock.

There is no way anyone goes out 100% scent free. It's impossible. Then your crunching leaves on the way in. Cracking your knuckles while sitting. Playing with your phone. Zippering your back pack. Rubbing your pants again the seat. Your jacket making noise against the tree. It's impossible to be quiet. This is a game a luck, and hopefully the orange army pushes something your way.

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Just read this on Yahoo in the comments . . .thought I would share.... Please bow your heads as we say the messiah's prayer; Our father, who art in the White House, King Obama is your name Thy kingdom come, no gun for anyone In Socialist America as is in China Give us this day our monthly food stamps and forgive us our college loans, as you give us free phones Lead us not into debt ceilings and into Obozocare, And deliver us to your bias “Associated Press” & illegal alien scamnesty For thine is the gaydom, the perversion and the end of America as we know it amen

This will be my 49th opening day of NY gun season.. Even though I don't get as pumped as I used to get, the anticipation is still there.. Stands are all in place, rifles are sighted in, gear is all assembled.. All I'll have to do is get up Saturday morning and make the 5 minute drive to the property... Hunt safe and good luck to everyone...

Roughed in this stand last year and finished it this year. The paint job blends it in somewhat with the tree behind it that is overtaken with wild grape vines. 400 yard look down range. 330 degree view. No deer have been taken from it...yet. That's going to change in a few days.

12 min and 50 secs.......

I just did a simulated one based on opening day rifle, came up with this on the deer movement on a 100 acre lot.

Im not even gonna say it....

If that were my only option to hunt.....I am buying beef...lol

LOL Exactly. Any closer than 40 yards I don't know how you would tip your gun at that angle out a window. Guess scent control isn't an issue up there. Other than to the geese I mean.

I'll bring a dozen ears of corn.., a 10lb bag of apples.., pockets full of salt packets.., and a tub of extra crunchy Peter Pan peanut butter. Usually by the time I get to my stand, everything has fallen out the hole in my backpack and I'm left with a couple sandwiches, cookies, and coffee,lol!

Mountain Lion....

How big is that huge rub tree? 1"? LOL.

I could have reached out of the stand and stabbed him or swung a bag of pennies on his head if I had a tag. If you look at the screenshot, it is a still of a video of about 5 minutes of him. Here's another buck that swung around me that morning and ended up downwind He was about 7 yds at this point.

My husband doesn't do ANYTHING to remain scent free....no scent free showers, no scent free clothes, nothing! and then every year he shoots not only a doe but also a good buck off the ground with his bow. I don't know how he gets away with it although I think he may have a horseshoe up his ass.

hey Mike, Nice to meet you guys this week. Good luck the next few days. Well last friday I got it done. Biggest buck Ever... Also Biggest buck I've seen in the park.

im sure we all have the problem of the dryer having a dryer sheet smell. i use those scent killer fresh earth dryer sheets, i use like 3 of them and boy do they work good...

Is it within the framework of the board rules to say go penetrate yourself with whichever broadhead you prefer.I got plenty of support about what a troll you are so ill stick around. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not sure but it looks like he's trying to quit smoking.

I tend to hunt in escape routes that enter thick cover and let other hunters move the deer to me. If I hunt secluded areas that don't see many other guys I usually set up on a ridge to cover the most area. The deer are on their feet and moving around, so you can't go wrong wherever you go. Good luck out there!

The sale of Girl Scout cookies where I live was moved from,early Fall to January. For the first hunting season of my life ,like since the ,70's I have no Girl Scout cookies to take afield. If I don't score I know who to blame. Oh and being the Dad of two former Girl Scouts,who the heck thinks delivering them in the dead of winter, when it's dark,cold and deep snow is a good idea?

Awesome recipe had to share season tenderloin with you choice of seasonings then start to wrap from top and use tooth pick to hold and overlap each piece like a mummy and cook on a slotted pan to catch drippings for 25 30 mins on 350-375 if you like your meat rare like I do or a little longer for well done ... optional use broiler for five to ten extra minutes to crisp up bacon ...

Would not catch me up there How high is that?!

He must have some big balls to build that stand and climb into it!!! lol

Mine may have been built at work,but I'll deny that. Brought down whole on a landscape trailer. I love it I can sleep in it on cot, cook on my Jet Boil, and I guess shoot a deer from it. Yesterday I was getting dressed by my car parked in front of it as a 2 1/2 walk by..

powerbars for me. I unwrap them before hand though because the wrappers are noisy and stick em in a ziploc.

I sure hope you don't mean you delayed your hunting for this? haha

I am!!!! Only 7 hours, 51 mins and 15,14,13,12 secs to go before I get out of work, rotate the tires on the truck, pack the truck and get ready to leave tomm morning. Gun is sighted in, bags are already packed and the frost this morning put a smile on my face.

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Man... that guy on the right looks way to happy with that fawn on his lap..... makes me wonder if his zipper....... never mind...

You don't need a treestand, stay on the ground ,it is more exciting way of hunting. Learn to work the wind. Learn how to break up your outline. You will learn when and how to move and draw and you will become a better hunter if you put your time in.Then you can call yourself a hunter and not a shooter from a treestand.

wish that deer would have whipped around and knocked a tooth or 2 out. doesnt look like he has many tho

But I can carry some#6 shot to shoot squirrels while I am deer hunting with the shotgun. I won't be shooting squirrels with my arrows. Too expensive. A over 45 an arrow I won't use my deer arrows on a turkey. Keep a different one for those.

guys...i have a few boxes of RAGE that i have to sell otherwise RAGE will cancel my work status with them, any takes?? help a brother out

Buy the leafy suit asat and you can wear it over anything - runs big too. Costs a little over $100.

I try to spread it around and share the hunting excitement with everyone. Wife really tries hard not to let her guard down. Guys at work don't hunt...just pop'em in the @ss for the hell of it.

Shawn is going to report you. On a serious note. That sucks. That would have been a great deer on someone's wall

Boom ,, Bang... Bang ... Pop ,,.... BOOM.. Lol thats the sounds of rifle season 50 shots later there might be a deer down lol.

I hear ya and agree. I would think that I would lean towards that approach too if I was in the right area like yourself.

There are a slew of reasons not to delete them. The first being that they are not violating any of the forum rules. The second being that there are probably ALOT of people that actually learn lessons from them. Lots of good advice and tips for tracking, etc are brought out in most of them. Gotta take the good with the bad.