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  1. My buddy just got this one. His wife already told him that there would be no taxidermy this year...
    23 points
  2. not the big buck i was looking for but any chance to thin these sobs
    19 points
  3. My plan was to shoot the first buck that was in range, and I did. A delicious spike. No buck shaming! He will be very appreciated by the cook of the house, who complained that I only shot big bucks for the last two seasons. Set up a tree stand in the “way back” of my property. Scrapes just showed up within 50 yards of it. 9:00 this morning I see him visiting a scrape and think, I should pass. Then I remembered my promise, and the quality of steak that comes from a deer that age. Then I learned some lessons on what happens when a deer gets too close to your stand. (I’ve hunted from the ground for years, stands only for gun season when I need a longer reach.) He was at about 18 yards. One lung. No blood trail at all. I was so sure it was a good shot. Couldn’t believe I didn’t hear him crash. Ran well over 100 yards deep into the thickest stuff on the property. Took a grid search to find him. Sooo thankful that I did find him!!
    18 points
  4. Just sat down on this bench with a scotch and cigar for a hour watching the rain. Love it, it's what it's all about. Hope the rain clears up for the morning hunt. Deep thoughts by john Sent from my LG-US998 using Tapatalk
    13 points
  5. I have to admit that I enjoy hunting with my crazy friends. Talked to my buddy David last night, he was at Walmart buying a 19” tv for our blind. Lol. Planning to run it off a marine battery. And HE WAS DEAD SERIOUS. He already added a heater. Phade will shoot a booner while we watch cartoons. Somethings just aren’t right. So here we are.
    13 points
  6. Like clockwork, already have to take a dump Sent from my LG-US998 using Tapatalk
    11 points
  7. Just shot buck , not finding arrow, but good blood, now gotta wait, and hope rain goes away
    10 points
  8. From the blind. He's already ate most of his snacks so mine will probably become his!
    9 points
  9. Doe down. Eighteen yards. Of course, I told my wife I’d be in shortly after 6:00 to take her to dinner. Better get to work.
    8 points
  10. As CEO of #NoTreestands, I would love for you to join our team. Your recent doe kill from the ground did not go unnoticed. If you kindly use this hashtag 100+ times in the month of November, we will send you a pair of socks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    7 points
  11. Why does everyone seem to need to shit in woods? I shit before I leave house and wait till I get home. Pretty simple method. I don’t even bother packing TP Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    7 points
  12. This doe was pushed into this big tuft of tall grass/bamboo by a six point as I was getting undressed at the truck. I calmly got my bow from the backseat, went around the back and got my release from my pack, walked around the front of the truck and got ti around 20 yards. She was hard quartering away so I shot just in front of her hip and got about 18" of penetration. She went a ways and the blood trail was terrible, her intestines plugged the hole. Sodfather came out and helped me track and it was a tough one between very little blood and the woods being soaked. Also the yellow maple leaves with the bright red splotches were a MENACE. I was glad he could make it and owe him big time. Shes a big girl, pic straight on doesnt show it. I have way too much stuff in the way of my scale but I'd bet shes 120+
    7 points
  13. We got a half half hour in. Awsome time. My daughter was haveing fun maybe a little loud but it's worth it!
    6 points
  14. Chasing starting in cattaraugus county. Had a small 4 with a brute of a 8 together chasing a doe. Couldn't get a shot. Ended up getting a big doe later on
    6 points
  15. Lunch at work Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    5 points
  16. Only the second hunt this year for me. I was Excited to get going lol
    5 points
  17. Everything changed when their CEO went rogue and starting paying gun control lobbyists. Since then, I went in once and used them to try out some new xbows then walked out. That company will never make a profit off me again unless they clean house of all the flaming Liberal gun grabbers!
    5 points
  18. First: Don't forget to set your clocks back tonight. Second: Don't forget to vote on Tuesday. Vote wisely. The future of the country is in the balance That ends this PSA.
    4 points
  19. I’m in for the last hour. Picked a stand all wrong for the wind and it looks like it wants to rain. My daughter didn’t want to come out so I’m trying to come up with a “on the bright side”. It might just end up being hey on the bright side I didn’t get blown out of the tree. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    4 points
  20. It’s going to require all of my salesmanship to keep my sponsors from dropping me this season Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
    4 points
  21. 4 points
  22. Sounds like my typical Friday night! [emoji1787] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    4 points
  23. I just shit my pants. Gonna roll with it. May change my luck Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk
    4 points
  24. First, The New York Times is a leftist rag that supports bigger, more invasive and oppressive government any chance it gets. It's writers believe the government is the solution to whatever ails America. This article is a prime example of a one sided propaganda piece that gives no space to any counter point and passes opinion off as unquestionable fact. Notice how it calls for an outright ban as if it has the right to pontificate on the matter with authority, without offering any other solution. That's a totalitarian mindset. Second, there are major disadvantages to non-lead bullets when compared to conventional lead bullets. Price is just one factor. They do not expand well at low velocity. They foul rifle barrels faster. Copper barrels are much harder to un-foul. When used in smaller, lower velocity rounds like the .38 Special or other pistol cartridges used in rifles, they do not expand well when striking the game animal. There are currently no .22 LR or other .22 rimfire non-lead rounds that I'm aware of, or they are not common in the market. Available copper ammo suppliers are not currently capable of meeting the demands of hunters for even one season, if conventional ammo was suddenly banned. If mandated by law, supply and demand rules of economics would wreck havoc on the price of ammo for years. Third, though it is true Bald Eagles will die if they ingest lead fragments, there is no actual evidence they are dying from eating animal gut piles, or dead animals shot with lead ammo and not recovered by hunters. More likely they are eating lead in scraps thrown in dumpsters behind deer processing facilities that are not required to cover their dumpsters to prevent it. Also, in areas where lead ammo has been banned, such as the region of the California Condor, the death rate of these birds due to lead poisoning has not changed, indicating the problem lies not with hunter's bullets, but somewhere else. Finally, the Federal government actually provides permits to windmill farms, to legally kill hundreds of raptors, including bald eagles, every year, considering them collateral damage in the quest to support "green energy" from wind sources. Choosing to ban lead ammo for hunters, places the burden of raptor relief squarely at the feet of those who have the least ability to fight back with a powerful lobby. There is also the well known desire of the government, to infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of it's citizens in every way it possibly can, to minimize the ability, or the desire of it's people, to engage in lawful firearm ownership. Banning lead ammo gives it one more way to impose oppression on the public regarding it's ability to exercise a Constitutional right. I think we should all be concerned with raptor deaths and doing our part to minimize it, but it would be much less oppressive to educate hunters using lead ammo, to bury gut piles, or not gut animals in the field. Any law should only be directed at pressuring "for profit" processing facilities, to take measures to prevent problems. It always bothers me when public entities, with little understanding of an issue, choose to scream for "simple", "common sense" solutions to problems, that are actually quite complicated. Like the adage says, "If you think the problems the government creates are bad, just wait until you see their solutions."
    4 points
  25. 8J scrapes are still being used every day. Haven't seen any bucks with does, harassing, seeking, trailing or anything. It's just gotta happen soon though!
    4 points
  26. No Dicks for me!!! I will not contribute one cent, to a business lobbying to take away any constitutional right, from anyone! The only way to make a statement, with anything you disagree with in government, happens this Tuesday. Get Out And Vote!
    4 points
  27. Welp, started out to be a good night got in the woods around 4:30 after getting out of work and hour and half drive. Everyhting was going good had a button buck and doe fawn bed down behind me 30 yards. Watched for a while glanced at facebook a little here and there. About 5:15 here comes doe with 2 fawns and another fawn behind her. Looked again and another deer in a scrape saw some head gear but unsure of its size. He starts trailing the doe, im glassing and holy bejesus here comes a monster 10 point. Doe skirts me at around 50 yards. And the big buck stays low. I tried grunting, snort wheeze notta, too locked on that single doe. Well the doe with fawns got a nervous and decided to walk up the hill right to me. I'm hoping and praying that single doe follows, and she does. Holy crap here he comes. Walks 25 yards wide open shooting i stop him he is just looking to see what bleated. I settle the pin down on his heart but thinking last minute the angle is too steep and raise up to the lungs. Well you guessed it he jumped the string dropped a good 8" and went right over his back. If i had put it on the heart probably would have lunged him easy. Good part is after the shot he ran about 30 yards stood there for a quick second and qalked off after the doe. Look at my phone 6:01 this all happened in an hour and half of being on stand. Had a great sit but wish i had a picture of a big 10 point to go along with this story. Here is I think one side of his shed last year. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
    3 points
  28. Countdown is on: Only 12 hours til I'm finally hunting this season!!
    3 points
  29. Just had a 4 chase a doe up the hill Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    3 points
  30. 3 points
  31. 3 points
  32. I bet you vote for Cuomo also. Nothing like financing your own demise.
    3 points
  33. Thought I lost my tin almost had a heart attack.., it was in my sweatshirt pocket Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    3 points
  34. Thanks for posting this. It takes guts to post your own f-ups and many of the keyboard warriors here lack those. By "going public" with this, you will help countless others avoid the same mistakes and hopefully get some good suggestions on how to avoid a repeat yourself. It sounds like you already figured out one way (aim low on an alert deer). Just how low is the question. I think you grossly underestimated how much he ducked at 8". I can tell you from recent experience that a mature buck (est 3.5 year old), measures about 43" around the chest behind the front legs. Looking at last years shed, which you posted, that buck was probably even older and bigger this year. That means that if you held for a center lung shot, he had to duck at least 20", for the arrow to miss clean over his back. The most important factor here is the attitude of the buck at the instant you released your arrow. When you grunted earlier, you told him that there was another buck in the area. That got him "ready" for an attack. You also "stopped" him with a bleat. It is hard to imagine a situation where a buck would be on a higher state of alert than that one was after hearing that bleat. That is the instant you released your arrow from a range of 25 yards. That is the exact range where the effect of "string jump" is the greatest. Closer don't give them as much time to move as far and farther is more out of the "danger-zone" where they react to the sound of a bow's release. In more than 30 bow-seasons, I have seen all this before, unfortunately multiple times. I was never so lucky as to have my arrow "miss them clean". I struck 3 in the shoulder blade, not getting any penetration, in my early years. They always duck down and back. The last deer I killed with my vertical bow must have been alerted by the sight of my draw. That stopped him about 25 yards out. When I released my arrow, aimed at the center of his chest as he stood quartering away, he ducked way down and back, taking the arrow thru the neck. That made for an easy recovery but was certainly not where I intended to hit him. I have two suggestions for you. Aiming low on alert deer is the one you already figured out. The second is to avoid shooting at alert deer altogether. You might be able to eliminate the "stopping" of walking deer, by practicing at moving targets with your bow. A balloon, tied into the middle of a tire swing, in front of a round bale might be good. You could tie a rope to it and release it, trying to pop the balloon with your arrow at various points in the swing when you release it. That would give you experience at different speeds. It is a lot easier to hit a target moving at a steady speed than it is to hit one that accelerates quickly and unpredictably after you release your arrow. I eliminated the "alerting" of them catching the draw motion by switching to a crossbow at the earliest opportunity (like today). Throughout the year, I take thousands of shots at moving targets. It is easy, cheap, fast, quiet, and convenient for me to do that by shooting at a can hung from the tab by a wire from a tree branch behind our back deck, with an adult-stocked Daisy red-ryder bb gun. All that practice made killing two moving deer last season a piece of cake with both shots striking very close to my point of aim. I had called the buck in from about 100 yards away, by making a sound like a buck clearing a scrape (I pawed the leaves out of my tree blind). He approached at a fast walk. Cruising along 30 yards away and without warning, he caught my crossbow bolt thru his chest. During gun season, I heard a doe approaching at a fast run. I aimed at an opening she was headed for and hit her in the shoulder blade, with a 12 gauge slug, when she reached it from a range of about 40 yards.
    3 points
  35. Got this guy fri afternoon at 530. 42 yard shot.
    3 points
  36. Points if you can find him in the corn
    3 points
  37. weather looking good for tomorrow. I have that 10 point Buck coming and going at 9 am and 1 pm along that ridge.
    3 points
  38. New set up I made today . I finally get to get out tomorrow. Don’t think I’ll sleep tonight feeling like my kids on Christmas Eve!
    3 points
  39. this old girl has more than her share of character and I hope to add a lot more as it’s the only rifle I’m carrying this year. Pic taken today with the first fresh rub I’ve found in the Dacks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    3 points
  40. Well, leftovers for dinner but my lovely wife is happy to see a nice doe hanging in the barn. Celebration beer. Bronx Brewery Built for This NEIPA very tasty.
    3 points
  41. . Little small to let one rip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    3 points
  42. This. I already hated the place. Since the anti-gun lobbying, the refusal to sell rifles and shotguns to men and women old enough to die in battle for this country, the refusal to sell AR platform rifles or standard capacity magazines at all, the destruction of thousands of fine AR rifles (pointless and an obvious PR stunt)... all of this on top of already being a lousy place to do business and hurtful to the LGS's of the world... nope. No more. As for protesting the SAFE Act by refusing to buy a hunting license.. that was a bad idea to begin with. No one - NO ONE - would care. In fact, it would probably backfire as the left would say it shows no one needs a hunting license, hunting should be banned or curtailed, etc. Plus it would hurt us, with no recourse. Simply boycotting a company that opposes everything we believe it does not hurt us - we can buy elsewhere. And I do, and will.
    3 points
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