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This guy came into range for me today. I had seen 3 earlier, but they were behind the brush so I wasn't able to get any shots with them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk30 points
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I just bumped up the Harvest Thread........... Saw three bucks and an unknown Saturday and two hen turkey, that was a great day. This morning this doe came in quiet, she had a good size fawn with her. I grabbed my bow and didn't want to risk standing up so shot from the sitting position, glad I practiced it religiously at the Academy late this summer. I have much respect for my professors......... The best parts are she's a mature doe and I made a perfect shot; that doesn't always happen.24 points
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First blood for the new Hoyt! I was dying to break it in! I knew she wasn't going to go far, so I got on her trail soon. I really wanted to get her skinned before dark, so I wouldn't have to work by lanterns. I dragged her to the edge of the field and went back to unload some gear and get the truck. I was gone for 45 minutes (max) from the time I left her, until I returned. In that amount of time, a coyote or some other hungry critter started to tear into her already! Thankfully, it didn't get much, and only chewed a softball sized hole into her, right where the entry wound was.23 points
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About 10yrs ago I shot a doe with fawns on oct 15, heard her crash waited an hr went looking for her and she had 2 fawns trying to nurse while she layed there dead. I had to chSe the fawns away to gut her, after that it’s just something I don’t want to do. I ask won’t shoot a doe with a fawn because I don’t like seeing the fawns walk around aimlessly for the rest of the season. I’m sure they survive fine but I don’t need meat bad enough to shoot a doe with a fawn. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk18 points
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I got a nice doe this morning; about a 20 yard shot. This is only my second deer with the Rage, I'm almost speechless.......almost. She only went about 50 yards before piling up.17 points
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Was out last evening and didn't see any deer. As I was getting to my vehicle I heard a car VS deer collision right around the bend so I drove over to check it out. The car was gone and a spike was in the ditch with a couple broken legs. Out came the bow and I ended it's suffering. Long story short, the guys came back and said they didn't have time to process the deer and they had the Sheriff sign the deer to me. Can't argue with getting a free tag and other than broken legs there's not much meat damage. Sent from my LGMP260 using Tapatalk13 points
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10/14/18 Today we tracked 3 live deer and put 1 of them on the tailgate. #1 I was called this morning by a hunter that had shot a buck last night. The buck was walking straight at him at 60 yards, and it was thought he had been hit in the chest. No sign of a hit was found last night, but this morning a little white hair and a few drops of blood were located. I was called when the direction of travel couldn’t be determined. Kunox did not hesitate and quickly showed us which trail to take. We began seeing decent, bright red blood as we went into a thicket, and Kunox took us to a 5’ tall fence and wanted to get on the other side. I had the hunter and his friend stay there with Kunox while I took a quick look to see if it had been possible for the deer to go around it, but I didn’t see an opening. I went back and climbed the fence, then lifted up the bottom of it so Kunox could get through. We hadn’t gone 30 yards when I saw fresh blood and Kunox started barking, alerting me to the fact the deer was alive. I called the hunter up and told him to stick close, and off we went. We went about 100 yards and went around the fence, and at this point I could see ribbon where we had marked blood and realized we had circled back close to where we started. We were on a trail and just entering a thicket when I saw the 8 pointer, 15 yards in front of us. I pulled Kunox back and told the hunter to take a shot. His muzzleloader finished him there. It turns out the chest had not been hit. The leg front leg had been clipped but was still usable, but the back leg had been shattered. It’s amazing to me that the buck had been able to jump that fence. The hunter admitted to me later that he had serious doubts when I told him we needed to go over the fence. This track was 400 yards long. #2 A bowhunter called around noon and told me he had shot a doe this morning. He believed his shot had been high. He waited 2.5 hours before taking up the track with 2 friends, and they had tracked light blood for 300 yards, then lost the trail. At this point they backed out and called me. Kunox took up the track and made short work of the 300 yards. He continued past their point of loss, showing us occasional blood. We left the woods and started working some thickets under power lines, and here Kunox started barking. We found fresh blood and followed Kunox as he took us through extremely thick areas, but we never caught up to her. This track was 0.93 miles long. #3 Luna and I headed out for track number three this afternoon. A shot had been taken at a 6 pointer, and it was thought the shot was forward and low. Small amounts of blood were followed into a dry swamp, then the trail had been lost. We started at the hit site and slowly worked through this nasty, bur filled swamp. Some areas were too thick for Luna to get through and I had to carry her. We spent a couple hours walking through the swamp, thick, brier filled clear cuts, and back into the swamp. We had been going hundreds of yards between seeing blood, when Luna started barking. I called the hunter up and told him to put a primer on his muzzleloader and stay close. We picked up the pace and eventually saw a doe and a spike take off. It would be unusual for Luna to switch deer, especially after being locked on for so long, but was a possibility I had to consider. We continued on and she led us in the direction the deer had been. I decided to take her back to last blood and do a restart. We headed back, and part way there came across fresh blood. Luna got on it, but didn’t start barking so I knew we weren’t close. We ended up tracking over a mile, but never even caught a glimpse of the buck.11 points
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Harvested on 10/6/18 about 730am. 25 yard shot and ran about 30 yards.11 points
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I must be the only one out this morning. Passed on this 7pt, when I was walking in... hopefully won’t regret it later this season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk10 points
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Well we had a good morning nothing down. We had 3 does come in down wind and ended up busting us. My nephew now knows when sit still means sit still. They were just about to commit to walking out of our wind when he moved his foot and off they went. So i told him its ok just a learning expeirnce his first time hunting and had deer come in. Well about 40 mins later i had just put my phone down and we had a spike trotting straight down the hill at us. So i had him stand up and get ready. Spike gets to 25 he starts shaking,i told him to breath. Now spike is at 15 yards quarting towards us and locks brakes. Look over and my nephews arrow is just bouncing off the rest. Spike runs off and my nephew just looks at me with that look of. Oh this is buck fever. He shook for the next hr just laughing at himself. Best hunt ever. Take that moment on his face anyday of the week. Picture was taken right before i noticed the spike.10 points
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So I finally finshed this thing,and building the rest the chimney was a serious pain in the butt. The attic proved to be a real nuisance,and the double roof was no better. But hey,i am a mason,and if anyone is looking for a secondary heat source that requires no power and burns at 90% efficiency,send me a pm. I am excited at finally having one,started dreaming about it 19 years ago. Plus it doubles as a wood fired bake oven,so lots of bread and pizza coming my way. I will issue an invite once i have it worked out9 points
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Made it out Friday evening for a beautiful sit, especially compared to the first 2 morning where it rained on me. Still can't hear the deer moving through the wet ground but had shots at a doe with a fawn and this 7. I'm happy to have had some action. Saturday night the in-laws watched our kids so the wife and I stayed up drinking and some other extracurricular activities. So needless to say I didn't make it out Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon I was too busy with football and chores.8 points
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Well, not tonight, but last night - I figure my first post in this thread, maybe you guys'll cut me some slack. Our first meal from a deer we hunted ourselves. My son did the honors over the Youth Weekend. Also had venison sausage, and local corn and squash from Greene County. The steaks have local bacon pieces on them, were also marinated in apple cider from a nearby farm. Life is good.8 points
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I was jonesing something terrible to hunt today! I just kept staring out the office window fantasizing about what I could be missing! I shot out of work at 3:30, raced to my hunting spot, parked, threw my camo on, reached for my boots, then realized I took my %^&$#@! boots out of the truck last night, not thinking I would be able to hunt today!! F!!!! Drove home and decided to drown my frustrations... Oh well! I'll be out tomorrow morning WITH my boots!!! Vacation starts kicking in tomorrow! In the next 7 weeks, I only have to work 12 days!! WOO-HOO!!!7 points
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Since we are on the topic, I give a doe with fawns a pass for the specific reason I know how hard she has worked to keep those fawns alive. Food, predators, weather etc. I respect her hard work. And that's the exact reason I love shooting mature bucks, they work so dang hard at hiding and surviving I love to end that streak with some hard work on my part. Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk7 points
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2 reasons. 1. Most of us are still humans. Many of us fathers and mothers. So, despite how macho some of you act, it's not super easy to willingly end the life of a doe with a fawn. What mother nature does in a couple weeks or so is out of our control. Let me know when you're gutting a big breeder in december during mz and a fawn comes up and starts crying at you. That is one of my worst hunting memories. 2. Many don't shoot doe early pre or during during rut because local does are better bait than anything else out there.7 points
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Thanks for the good words, everybody! He comes home today and I will have 1 on 1 time with him tomorrow... The hospital was total hectic with visitors and I didn't get to spend a lot of time with the tyke. I will be getting him his lifetime license soon! 9.4 weight and 21-1/2 inches... a big guy!7 points
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Hey fellow hunters! It's been a very busy year so I haven't been on the site much. Last weekend, my Dad and I were st camp. I saw 6 doe but only had a shot at two yearlings, I passed. We drove back home around 5. I knew I would have about 1.5 hours if I rushed out behind my house. I actually didn't get out there until 5:30, I had to give the family hugs and kisses and ask how there weekend was. Finally, I was out there, I climb the ladder, hang my bow and start trimming little sap suckers in my way. While doing so and making noise I see movement at 40 yards, it's a mature doe! As odd as it was, she proceeded to my ladder to about 5 yards. I hit her high in the spine and the quickly dispatched her with another shot through both lungs. I had her gutted and dragged to my garage by 545. It was surreal, my wife is shaking her head from the patio door and yells "sell the camp", lmao! That won't happen. Good luck and have fun!7 points
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Sat this morn from 7-11. Heard one in the thick brush but never saw it. Got down from stand and into trail and out pops a monster doe about 100 yards up the trail. She is headed my way and at 60 she went back into woods. I had wind advantage and thought it was gonna get a shot . She never saw me but went into woods. So back in the stand til noon hoping she came back out but nothing. Get down again and this time a yote up the trail. Saw this rub about 35 yards from stand. Pulled some cards and does and small bucks. But more movement for sure. Doe I saw today was just huge. I thought when I first seen her it was two deer. Lol No hunting now til Thursday Eve.6 points
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When I found out that does are successfully bred at 95+% in my WMUs, and that the chances of a bearing age doe NOT having fawns is very small, I had to stop shooting does or get over it. I got over it. Even if you don't see them, they are there in many cases. You are fooling yourself if you think otherwise. In some cases, killing the mother of a BB fawn increases the odds of that buck not dispersing off your ground. Everyone has their reasons, but I prefer not to ignore factual information. I'd have to almost stop shooting does to prevent killing one with a fawn. At that point, I am not being a good steward of the herd. And for those that wait for them to be pushed off during rut...in those situations the mothers and fawns reunite after breeding. Typically BB/yearling buck dispersal (permanently) happens later than that.6 points
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Back on track Who's hunting today ?6 points
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Well I am pretty sure nobody here thinks a deer is happy to get a sharp object stuck through their body or a round through the vitals. Or much worse a non fatal or long suffering wound. We as hunters have a responsibility to put the animal we are hunting down with as little suffering as possible. We have to be ok with the decisions we make in the woods. If I was to shoot a big fat momma doe and then watch a fawn crying, lost, circling its mom. Then I wouldn't be ok with that decision no matter how perfect the shot was I placed on momma. There are other hunters that would just think well, that's nature and others where the food provided by momma doe is of great value to them. They are ok with their decisions and there is nothing wrong with their choices either. All are perfectly legal. We all have to do what we are ok with within ourselves.6 points
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So, on my way out to my evening sit I found a crossbow bolt about 75 yards from my house. No blood or hair at all. Considering that my property lines are at least 250 yards in either direction, I’m thinking that I have a trespasser. Pisses me off cause I have a large group of guys who lease all the land around me and warn me every year to stay off of their lease. Not to mention that it’s not crossbow season. I try to get along but don’t step back when you try to push in on me and mine. Could be an interesting season.5 points
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Anyone watch Northwoods law ? Always busting baiting perps in Maine. Stiff penalties too.5 points
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Dinner was leftover beef roast with taters, carrots and onions I made yesterday in the Dutch Oven. But, the homemade apple pie the wife made was the best finale. Sent from my SM-S327VL using Tapatalk5 points
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10/13/18 #1 I was called last night by a bowhunter that told me he had made a high shot on a 6 pointer. He and a friend had tracked for approximately 200 yards, marking the blood with ribbons as they went. They had backed out for fear of pushing him in the dark, and told me they were going back in the morning. They further said they would call me and let me know in the morning if they need us or not. I was called this morning shortly after daybreak and told they had tracked to the edge of a swamp, but weren’t sure where he had gone in there. I put both dogs in the truck and headed out, anticipating a possible second track this opening morning of muzzleloader. Luna quickly got on the track and took us past every ribbon that marked blood, taking us to the swamp. I told the hunter to start flagging blood as we see it, and I followed Luna in. I was surprised and happy to see the buck laying dead, just 20 yards in. Field dressing revealed the the broadhead had clipped the liver. These guys did everything right, from not pushing the deer, to doing a great job of flagging the bloodtrail. Things could have turned out differently if they pushed this deer. The total length of this track was 318 yards. #2 I received a second call this morning just as we found the first buck. The hunter, on public land, shot a 6 pointer with his muzzleloader and had lost blood after 75 yards. Kunox got on the track and moved beyond the point of loss, but we never saw another drop blood. We did a restart after a couple hundred yards and we ended up at a property line...again, not one drop of blood. I decided to try Luna and see what she could show us. She took us right to the same spot at the property line, but this time the buck jumped up 100 yards in front of us and ran off on 3 legs. We were not able to pursue on the private property, so unfortunately the track ended there.5 points
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Can't keep the good news in so here it goes! I am going to be a grandpa again today! This will be # 5 grandchild and its a boy! I will follow up with some pics... Inducing labor right now!!!!!! He has plenty of camo baby clothes and blankets for his trip home!4 points
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No hunting tonight as the weather was pretty nasty, but I did get out real quick to make a 2nd horizontal rub from a pine branch. This one went up quickly as I used 2 trees vs having to bury a post.This is right next to an annual scrape and licking tree. The scrape just got opened up too! It's finally on boyz!!4 points
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Just stumbled on this site the other day and found it interesting. I live in Rochester (lucky me) and have some land near Cuba/Hinsdale NY, been hunting for about 50 years and reloading for about 25 or so. Not much else to say.4 points
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10/15/18 I was called by a hunter last night who shot a buck and said it hunched up when hit. He found 1 drop of blood 30 yards from the hit site. He and a friend grid searched but were unable to locate any further sign. Kunox and I met the hunter 30 minutes before daybreak and headed in as the sun came up. We started at the hit site, but Kunox went in a different direction than where the blood drop was marked. Looking at the trails, there are a lot of deer in this area and I’m sure he was picking up on one of them. I took him to the blood (which was no longer visible) and worked every trail through the area. Twice he took us to a nearby shallow pond, but after carefully working the area, we found no evidence of our buck. Eventually, this 3 hour track turned into a grid search. The hunter and I were a couple hundred yards apart when Kunox started his high pitched bark. I never saw the deer he was barking at, but a minute later my phone rang and the hunter told me a racked buck had run by in heavy cover. I headed over to him and a few minutes later he found what he thought was a drop of blood. He had touched it, so it was no longer on the root where he had seen it, but was on his finger and thumb. I pulled out my spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide and it bubbled, indicating it was indeed blood. This was 830 yards from the hit site. We followed the running tracks for a while and determined the deer was moving strong, and called the track after a total of 2.4 miles. Of course I have know way of knowing unless he gets shot or shows up on camera, but I suspect a low non fatal grazing shot since he had hunched, but was still alive 15 hours later.4 points
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meanwhile. Haven’t seen a single deer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk4 points
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Nice 7! Any pics/videos of the activities between you and the Mrs? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk4 points
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I woke up this am, andddd went back to sleep4 points
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I for one do not bait and really do not see the need. I prefer getting them in their natural environment under natural conditions. I move around to much and hunt different areas to even think about baiting anyway. Besides with my luck one of the neighboring properties would probably shoot them on the way to the bait anyway and I am not going to help them by baiting. I also have a hard time seeing the difference between baiting and food plots other than one is legal and one is not. There is enough farm land around me that they will eat what they want when they want anyways.4 points
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I say to each his own. If a guy wants to sit and stare all day at a pile of apples or corn or sugar beets, whether it's legal in his state or not, it's no hair off my ass. I won't presume to preach about the ethics of such a thing. If that's what defines hunting for them, that's fine with me.That is not how my dad or grandfather hunted and it's not how they taught me. I hunt with a small group of guys who feel the same as I do. We live all year for the peace and solitude we experience while still hunting in the cold quiet woods or following a fresh track in newly fallen snow and shooting a deer whose track ends where he lays after our shot. There are few things during the course of the year that give me that same sense of accomplishment. I've been doing it this way for 47 years and, with opening day about 5 weeks away, I'm as excited now as I was when I was 15. If all I had was the prospect of keeping guard over a bait pile to look forward to for 47 years, I probably would have given it up decades ago and taken up golf.4 points
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Pulled a 40 lb recurve but can't shoot enough to feel confident with it. Dusted off my Elite, turned it down to 43# and was able to shoot enough to get it sited in. Off to the woods mid week.4 points
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First afternoon sit of the season overlooking clover and turnips. He made his way into the food plot around 6:20 along with two doe and a smaller buck. He was about 25 yards quartering away when I took the shot. My best deer!!!4 points
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Holy smokes I packed my truck for the morning and my boots are on the warmer in my garage!! Much good karma to you sir!3 points
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Was hoping to find a thread like this. After years of waiting for more room to stretch our legs my wife and I adopted a dog. I know ziltch about dogs and we were told he is a Mountain Cur. I looked at pictures and I'm not so sure. All though I love the stinking dog from moment one, I would like to know what his breed is. We picked him up from the local Humane Society and all they knew was he was 8 weeks old and from Georgia. Thanks in advance for input. Btw he had a brother as well, their names were Alan and Jackson, what a sucker I am can't believe we didn't take both. Jackson will have a happy home.3 points
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That shot was snapped at 2:48 pm. He came back through almost a 1/2 hour later3 points
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After getting busted by a doe with her fawn early i wasnt feeling very optimistic. Around 9am a group of 4 deer came out to my right. 2 fawns started feeding around the base of my stand. The 2 larger doe stayed back were i had no shot. This doe eventually came right in and ended up right under my stand. She looked up at me and spun around, made one hop and stopped. She was maybe 10 yards away when i shot. Got down after about 15 minutes to check out were she was standing. I decided to walk in the direction she went, and soon saw her piled up maybe 50 yards from were she was hit. Now onto hunting for a buck!3 points