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Since we don't have a "live from the creek thread". But the creek is in the woods, so does this count?

Well my daughters birthday today so we are gonna check traps together and we are bringing her cousin so hopefully the trapping gods gave me some fur to show them ...enjoy your day yalllllll Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Here he is, so glad we got him..Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

So true , i can't even tell you guys how absolutely sick to my stomach i was after that day , i lost sleep for days reliving the moment i released on him just saying over and over again to aim a couple inches higher, the highlight of my season was seeing him on the trail camera again and not even being able to see where the arrow hit.

This is what it's about shoot or not what a beautiful day in the woods Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

Sure he wants the antlers, but he didn't seal the deal did he? He came up way short and didn't really earn them. The guy who found them wants the antlers too, and has more right to them as far as I am concerned. The first guy lost his claim when he turned around and went home. After that, the whole carcass, antlers and all, became just another remnant laying in the woods rotting, to be found and claimed by whoever comes along.

Shot a doe at 15 yards with crossbow and 100 grain Slicktrick. She dropped within sight at 30 yards. The short blood trail was four feet wide and in spots, four feet high! Complete passthrough.

Mine very similar but I think the fixed broadhead was the difference. Only type of hit that concerns me regarding mechanical heads. Good luck with that buck next yrSent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

No more fancy pants broad-heads for me. Carbon express do great budget heads. I brought a 10 point down with their native head. 3 heads for $15 And the result:

The G5 sliced nicely, maybe I'll one day get to see how they cut through a deer

Less than 9 and a half months until bow season. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

My coworker owns a hunting camp in Northern Stubben Co. He hasn't been happy all bow or gun season. Not seeing anything, wanting to give up. We talked him into buying a smoke pole last week. Sighted it in and he invited a couple of us to his camp this weekend, Hunted a little yesterday and saw some tails. This morning mother nature gave us what we've all been asking for with some good snow cover. We made plans for the morning and went out a first light. As I was heading to a stand down at the bottom of a hill I kicked up some deer heading to the new smoke pole owner. After about 5 minutes I heard the shot and I will just say he was one happy hunter with a nice 1.5 yr doe. I kept telling him the season isn't over with till the sunset on the closing day of what ever season you are hunting. Don't ever give up.

behaved nicely in the quiver. No shot this year.

I shot a small, ahem...very small, button buck with a rage 2 blade 100 gr head last month. Looked like a 2 lung shot but turned out to be liver and edge of gut. Just missed near lung. Shot was very slightly quartering towards. 13 yards. Deer went about 80 yards. But without much of a blood trail. Usually I've seen better blood with this broad head. To me this just goes to show that every hit is different. You just never know what you will get with a blood trail until you take up the track. But with any head, if you make a good enough shot, you should be fine.

Man did I lose some lb's trompin around up some pretty steep mountains .... Perfect amount of snow , windy as hell though ... Lots of fresh tracks from last night , a few from this morning .... Met up with two guys that had just seen a group of 8 deer run off .... We pushed a couple areas , and spread out n walked the ridges , only one other fresh pair of boot tracks we came across ... Also came up on a drag in the snow and then a guy pile with yote tracks everywhere ... We must have bumped them off it as we came through .... Beautiful day in the finally snowy woods , met some nice fellas , but no deer, gonna try again tomorrow ... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Egg sack. Honey hole!

IMO you're not going to lure squirrels into an area this late in the season. Their already going to be where they're going to be. You'll only be feeding the ones already there. Make a peanut butter n jelly sammich for yourself and plunk down next to a big old oak . Better use of the PB

Ramcats worked great once again. Pass through on a doe at 15 yds, pass through on a 9pt at 32 yds. The ramcat went through the shoulder blade and still exited the last rib on opposite side on 9pt.. Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk

Ps..Kindle thinks I use thunderbirds...but I actually use thunderheads

Deer fat, like pork, does not freeze as well as the meat, and it will turn rancid and give the meat a stronger taste, even while in the freezer I will continue to trim ALL the fat, silverskin and connective tissue from my venison. It's a PITA, but makes for better tasting meat, IMHO.

I use their Torrid mech, have been for a lot of years and they are awesome. Big COC head and three blades. Two does this year one down in sight the other under 100 yards and heard her go down in a creek.I get them after the season sometimes for $9 a pack

Horrible, 3 blade rage ,never again. This big boy is thankful though. I haven't told anyone except for my dad who helped me track the 200 yard blood trail til it dried up. I hit him at 7:30 in the first days of archery,walked straight lines for hundreds of yards the rest of the day from the last blood spot ,we ended up getting pics of him on the trail camera a few weeks later which really set me at ease. It must have been a solid shoulder ball hit because it only entered the depth of the broadhead. Sick to my stomach for weeks until we saw him again perfectly fine.

I shoot 100 grain slick tricks. 1 bear no pass through. Went 60 yards. 1 doe went 40 yards. 1 buck went 20 yards. Glad I went back to them. May not leave a blood trail lick rage but get great penitration. If you hit them right you will find them.

Hilary Clinton....

4 coyotes off the farm in 8g. 3 in the first week (dirt hole) and the fourth tonight on a pee post Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Man, don't you guys EVER work????????

Perfectly said, but you left one out that not many would admit, "Deer snuck up on me while I was on my phone.". Good season = getting out there - Bonus is filling a tag. Bad season = not getting out there.

All done and boy did his head get smashed lol that was a task but it all was fine no rips or tears and went out and put the carcass in my garbage pile set on my back 30... and the glands I got one off without hitting it then the other one I nicked a little bit so I used vons makeup sponges he gave me to soak up the secretion and boy did the sponges stink so I also snuck in a pocket set on my back ditch that runs from the golf course and the other sponge went down a dirt hole so I'll have some action for sure on one of those freshen ups .. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I myself and another member had a good hunt together.We didn't shoot anything and that is not so bad we enjoyed our time in the woods and covered alot of ground.We did the old walk and look/listen .We seen 1 squirrel and 1 red tailed hawk.We did find a mess of trees chewed by beaver and will go after them next season.

Absolutely sounds like someone doesn't want you hunting in that spot. Wether it is theirs or not! Scumbags. I had a similar situation earlier this week. I walked up the hill to my neighbors land where I have a stand (with his permission) and thought that I was a little turned around in the dark as I couldn't find the ladder stand ( first time there this year). I sat on a nearby stump steaming over some dirt bag stealing my stand until light enough to see and to my surprise, there's the stand, about forty yards away! Seems someone decided to move it off of Jakes property and on to their own. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It was nice of them to put new straps on the ladder, I'll be glad to use them on it in its next location, about a hundred yards away with a cable and lock on it all. A group of guys (different than previous years) lease the land off of my neighbors and they have been a difficult bunch. I have found three dead deer, all shot in the hindquarters and lost by them. I've never had a problem with stands or cameras but everything is getting locked down now.

Maybe you should flip your camera over. The world is upside down. Or, you could flip the photos over.

100gr Rage Hypdermic double lunged 20 yds went 50 yds with blood all over Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Best of luck for next season Bud.

Yea I have some shopping to do,I want to get some rifles n my hands and see what I like best.I love my 7600 so I am assuming the 7500's would be really close.I may just get a 7400 and have my smith go through it he has a really good track record for getting them to run like a top when they jam up

I am really looking forward to trying some neck roasts like that next season (maybe even this year if I can find a doe with the ML tomorrow). My wife just got one of them programmable crock pots so cooking it should be easy. Roasts are about the easiest and tastiest venison meal there is. We just put the frozen roast in the crockpot (set on low), along with some whole potatoes, carrots, onions, and cream of mushroom soup, in the morning before work. When we get home (9 hours or so later), there is a heck of a supper ready. With the old crock pot, the kids would turn it down (to "keep warm") after 6 hours when they got home from school. Sometimes they forgot and things dried out a little. The programmable one should solve that issue.

Not for lack of effort on your part that's for sure! You have hung in there when most would have given up. I'm pulling for your persistence to pay off! Way to hang in there! All you need is just a wee bit of luck to complete your season.

I got a new bow this year and decided to try a different broadhead. I read alot of reviews and I went with NAP killzones.i had always shot NAP Thunderheads and they always worked great. I ended up shooting a little guy at 15 yards, arrow clipped a twig a few yards before him and it hit his spine. The broadhead opened completely and completely passed through the spine. It severed the spine, no bent blades, tip still sharp. So I will b getting more next year, 100 grain 2 blade.

Made a terrible shot but the G5 Montec performed. Went through shoulder and severed spine. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Doe and a buck with rage hypodermics...perfect shot on the doe.. I'm not sure if she made it 30 yds..I had to be careful and not walk where she went to avoid being covered in blood...6 point went maybe 70-100yds...great blood trail..terrible shot..he was quarting to me and moving.(I didn't think he was quarting when I shot?). Arow entered through the guts and broke the back leg..like I said terrible shot, just lucky and hit the femural artery.

Made it out to 9h a little late but I'm here , nice blanket of snow ... Little shady goin down some of the hills but we'll see what a day of stalking in the white stuff with the smoke pole will produce , have and either sex and doe tag left so all is fair game .... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It seems we have people who know the whole universe based on having one star in a telescope. The irony is that the dec may be using similar blanket assessment tactics. ny hunters are the issue why we ranked #1 on this list and the DEC is making sure we stay there for generations to come Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Read his opening post again, sllllllooooooowwwwwllllyyyyyyyy.

Can you hang the collar on your wall ?

You can look at these: http://www.scopemonster.com/search.php?Cat=91&Key=Silver The Leupold VX-1 should fit the bill.

Northtown league or southtown? Its a blast deerpassion you got to get into it. I used to shoot it years back before kids...

3D season starts in a couple weeks, if you've never tried it please do. Anyone can come any Sunday and walk on

No, I do but I also understand the concept of accountability.

DEC = Deer Environmental Culling? Backwards CED Cull EVERY Deer! Much better. They do not manage deer, the only concern is eliminating them. Great way to manage deer! And if you do not manage to cull enough of them we will do it for you at night time with silencers so you do not even know.

I'm a big P.O Ackley fan. Have several Ackley chamberings. In the .35 Whelen case though, the shoulder is almost non existent to begin with so the acklely shoulder wouldn't be much benefit except for a little less case stretch and not having to trim as much. You also wouldn't benefit much in velocity with the extra case capacity of the ackley because of the shorter barrel.

Miniature poodles and various other obnoxious little yappy ankle biters...