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What a night in PA! Youth rifle, got out of work at 3, got in stand at 4:30, shot doe at 5:15, ran to car, traded the rifle for the crossbow, 4 spikes chasing doe and all fighting in front of us. shot the buck at 6:05! His first buck. Prefect 30 yard shot. Saw a nice 8pt and 7 doe on drive out!

Here’s the buck he took, passed on two spikes looking for one of the funky ones. This one unfortunately already lost the weird spike out the side of the head somehow. I’ll look closer tomorrow

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They really don't have to be all that old to figure out their survival mode. Have you ever noticed how all the deer seem to vanish into thin air after the first few hours of gun season opener? They find out that panicky running through the woods is not a real good idea. They also figure out where the orange army does not go. Yes they occasionally make mistakes, but not all that often. I had a nice buck that used the old "lay still" method of evasion. It was in a thicket that is in front of my house. I was going down our long driveway to get the mail and I took my gun along. His mistake was not realizing that the new snow of the season silhouetted him very nicely. I'll bet he spent may days watching us drive back and forth on the driveway and even walk up and down the driveway a bunch of times. It would have worked again except for that snow. It was a short drag to the driveway where I loaded him up for butchering. But the point is that they do seem to have some version of reasoning.

Active morning ; doe and buck action. Still hunting the oaks. Had a good crop of acorns and the deer know it

Nephew shot a nice 10 pt late morning opening day. This was after we gutted two other nice bucks and a Doe in the same area. Here they come chasing a Doe. Small buck then the 10 pt he shoots it dead waits a minute and out comes a giant and stands over the dead buck. He just watched for a minute and then it took off in the direction of the Doe. All it takes is one hot Doe to get them to lose their minds....lol

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A lengthy video by Tom Clum sr . Explains mechanics of properly shooting a bow and avoiding shoulder pain by doing it wrong . https://youtu.be/nr3F96kqv9k?si=zD_0YRfu7bquRwoV

Was out driving around and noticed a lot of deer on the move in the rainy weather. Was coming up my road and saw this, she stayed long enough to give me a great picture. I may have this one framed and put in the bunk house. On a side not we did a lot of driving yesterday to West Point and back. I just noticed an alarming amount of road kill. These animals are moving about so be careful.

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I have had this happen a few times over the years. This buck is leaving a sanctuary bedding area and crossing a field and road to go up a big hill to get to a wood lot of acorns and a small corn and alfalfa field. He does all this and still gets back to his bed well before daylight. Pretty sure this is the same buck but hard to be 100% on it. Pretty cool animals.

Cameras have gone silent except for a few small bucks. I have 4 hunters coming in for 5 days. Cold front should help!

Sort of, because deer meat is packaged by volume not weight (ie quart and gallon sized bags are units of volume). The chest girth method uses a perimeter measurement around the deer and that is more directly relatable to volume, compared to the weight measurement. The chest girth measurement doesn’t change that much, as a deer carcass dries out, nor does the number of quart bags required to package up the edible meat. The scale weight reduces sharply as the carcass dries out though. Folks get confused about this, because the grocery store sell meat priced by the pound. In reality, the scale weight of the carcass don’t mean that much, because more than half of that weight is made up of water, and that percentage drops off sharply, the longer one takes to get the carcass on a scale.

They dont get big cause they are dumb. Very smart critters for sure

When the magnolia flowers fall in May it’s like crack for the deer, their under it during the day vacuuming them up. I have to mow the lawn around them, they won’t move.

High expectations for that first buck but have to give him Kudos for wanting one of the best. Not a better feeling when you harvest a deer alone, add in a top of the class animal and it doubles…Take a mature target buck one on one and it’s out of this world. The best thing is that he has plenty of time to make any choice he decides but that first one will be special regardless what he drops the hammer on.

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warm has subsided most of my daytime movement on cams. I have a feeling some bucks will be fired up on scrapes this thurs through weekend and calling may pull them in. Were heading to PA tomorrow evening for youth antlerless rifle, bringing the crossbow thurs-sat, hopefully fill that then go out with crossbow and try to get my son on his first buck. Hes dead set on 6pt or better but we have a few wonky lookin bucks with weird racks I think hed take, pa youth dont have to follow antler restrictions.

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Didn't hunt yesterday just too warm. Shot the two crossbows we have and my 1187 and 35 Marlin. That 1187 is about 37 years old. It was bore sighted and I haven't touched the sight since. That is at 75 yards. 1187 on left 35 top. I'm good!

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Somebody that used to be on the site and I think he's still a member here and over at the other one. Fell from a ladder stand, I don't remember the circumstance. He truly is the reason that I use one