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The guys are still here. Few chases no really big bucks showing up. Friend shot this half rack yesterday. Xbow 20 yards heart shot.

At 5:30 I hear crunch crunch crunch and I stand up. I get my bow ready and here comes a healthy spike of about 12” each side, with the right side a small extra point, making him a 3 pointer. He took his time coming up my footsteps all the way to my stand, and then passed me about 10yards. First quartering towards , then broad side, and then quartering away as he passed me. Easy shot, but I chose to pass. With it supposed to get to 70 degrees again this week, it was gonna either have to be a big buck or I was not shooting. Then I head more crunching and see a buck about same size as the first but with only one 4-5 inch spike on the right side. He stayed behind me about 40 yards and stood there for a long time watching the first spike. The first day spike went past, the second spike stayed there staring, and then down in the gully behind the single spike I see another buck. This one was a bit bigger a deer and turned out to be a narrow 6 pointer. They both got antsy with the wind swirling and finally trooped off up the hill. So even though I did not shoot, it was still a lot of fun. It has been a long time since I saw three bucks together. It looks like this may be a fun season.

Just a quick photo of the Deer hoist on the job, works great for an old geezer like me. Al

Is there a speed ring on the scope? If not you need to shoot those distances to see where those lines actually hit on distances. Sniper370 in reality is a slow xbow and with heavier bolts you maybe doing at best 320fps..still plenty fast but not for 40yrds Shoot the different distances to see where the bolts actually hit and put it on a paper and tape it to the bow.

shoot a target at 20 feet.

4:30 yesterday a “doe” comes trotting down a trail right below me and stops, talk about luck. I look thru the peep site at full draw and quickly notice 1 little spike antler. Surprisingly big body for a little spike. I let down, he caught the movement above him, went Oh Crap and bolted away.

Best to put a safety ram stop in the boom lift cylinder.

I feel the scope usually holds good unless one drops it from a tree stand but sometimes the actual rail screws if not loctite will come lose or even the cheaper scope mounts are affected by temps. I put blue thread locker on every screw..

Centerpoint Sniper 370 , CP400 bolts , match grade . 4 blade fixed Muzzy Trocar Vortex crossfire scope

This makes life easy

Check out Erwin WMA near Addison.

Not much of a Deer hunter these days and usually from the middle of the season on, but last night I decided to get out the first thing in the morning. Got bundled up and grabbed the Howa Superlight 6.5 Creedmoor and headed out. A frosty start to the day and as the daylight started coming on the woods began to come alive. Walked to one of my favorite Squirrel hunting spots and sat down on a stump. Squirrels and Blue Jays were in the Beech trees gathering mast, I could hear Turkeys talking. Was not sitting for five minutes and saw a Doe walking through the trees, I have a permit but I let her slide. Then a parade of Turkeys appeared started toward me and low and behold a Buck was walking along in front of them. Put the crosshairs behind the front shoulder and shot, he hunched up and took off running but I knew he would not go too far. I walked back home and got my Airedale pup Ruff and brought him to the spot the Buck was walking when I shot. There was no visible blood but I put the pup on the track and away we went, not 50 yards and there he was deader than a doornail, A good introduction to Deer tracking for young Ruff, I believe he will handle Deer tracking quite well. Good part he was not far from a logging road so I got my tractor and drove close enough for an easy drag and flopped him into the loader bucket and brought him home to dress out. One of my shortest Deer hunts ever. Al

Congrats on a fine looking buck.

I do not care how anyone votes , but I'm thinking that every time I see a Harris / Walz sign on a lawn there should also be a " Future Home for Illegals " sign on that same lawn ..... that's what they're Voting for correct ? Or is that way too Logical ?

Taken 10/5/24 Scored 200 2/8"

This is in one of the most traveled areas of big bucks during rut. Right between bedding and food. They travel through here so often. I made this stand so i could have two people in it. Adult and child. Mentoring the young ones is so special. "rock and Roll ave"!

Fillet knife and meat cold but not frozen. Comes right off

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