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Big buck down guys. Was on my phone, looked up and saw him at 15 yards. Made a perfect shot and watched him go down from my stand Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Okay guys here’s the story. Won’t be too long this time so I won’t bore you to death. Got to my stand around 6:10 and didn’t hear or see a thing until around 6:35-40 when I saw a big body about 40 yards in front of me. It was traveling the opposite way the deer usually do in the morning and it was all alone. I’m thinking it was a buck, but it was barely light enough to see a body let alone the head. I decided to text back a few girls that around 7:20 when I decided to look to me left in the middle of a text. I saw a giant body and nice antlers 15 yards from me so I quickly figured out that it was a deer I would take. I put my phone in my pocket, got up and took the shot. I didn’t aim for more than a few seconds and let it rip once I saw it was in the ughh spot. I didn’t see where the arrow hit due to a few alder branches, but it sounded good and I didn’t see an arrow sticking out so I thought I just might have put a good shot on it. It ran down the same path that the deer I Shit last week ran down and got right to the part where it was too thick to see well. I watched that spot really closely because i figured he was right there and just when I was saying to my seeks that he might be going down, he drops. Man what a feeling to put a good shot on a deer and watch it go down. I thought it was a big 8 at first, but turns out it’s a big 5. No brows on be deer as you can see and one of the points broke off. It was a little smaller when I got to it, but still very happy with it. It’s either the biggest body deer I’ve shot or second biggest. It was a damn chore to drag that thing out and my back isn’t too happy about it. Best part is I can still hunt up here for doe and go bowhunting on the island for bucks using my gun tag Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Make the most of a day off. Walleye limit in 18 minutes. Lol. 12 casts and lost 2. Now on to a deer!

Jerrod vila of the dwo crew scored on a nice 144" buck up north

Imagine my surprise when I pop in the SD card to check pics and this rack is the very FIRST pic on my screen! It was like it was staged! LOL He showed up a few times last week.

I tapped out at 10:30. Emptying cupboards in kitchen now. Remodel starts Monday. Move it or lose it guy said. Headed back out for afternoon/ evening sit. Did find these guys on local cams of mine though.

Its pretty good size Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Son and I are set up. Let's go gigantic bucks!!

Absolute mayhem in the woods today! I saw five different buck (No bigguns) grunting and chasing does all over the place. I even stopped on my climb down as two bucks came in pushing three or four more does! They ran them into a small block of trees and more does than I could count blew out of there in every direction lol. Awesome morning. Ive got a lot of video

Everyone knows the order of opertions though. PEMDAS Photos of Buck Export photos onto iphone (if appicable) Manually type story on forum Download photo to forum Accept all the congratulations Safely gut deer and drag out of woods

So I run over to the local Dunkin at lunch to buy a coffee. Girl at the window tells me the car ahead of me paid for mine. (this happened to me once before at a different Dunkin, but there was nobody behind me to return the favor to). So to pay it forward, I ask what did the car behind me order? She says same exact order as mine, so I pay for the car behind me. When I get back to work, I look at the receipt before tossing it in the trash, and I see that I got double charged! So, technically I didn't get a free coffee, and paid twice for one coffee? WTF? Oh well, good karma points for the slob buck I am shooting tomorrow afternoon.

10/25/19 I was contacted by a hunter last night who told me he believed he had gutshot a buck. He had tracked for 75 yards and pushed it out of it’s bed. He wisely backed out and called me at that point. Kunox and I arrived at first light, 13.5 hours after the shot. Kunox quickly took us to the bed, then continued on. We had an occasional drop of blood here and there for the first 300 yards, then nothing for the last 370 yards. We had a property line issue toward the end of the track and the hunter had to walk out and go to the owners house. Kunox was not happy and it was obvious as we waited that he was winding it. After permission was granted, Kunox took us the final 117 yards to the buck. The buck was still warm.

Venison cubesteaks from my first archery deer (doe ) , mushrooms, black pepper and pepperjack cheese

3 for 3 for the kids. 8 10 and 13 year old kids and all 1 shot kills. I had a decent 9 at 6 yards for 10 minutes and gave him a pass. Had to have mom drive up to the gas well to move the 37 deer out of the field so I could get down as it was almost 8pm and they wouldn't leave o. Their own. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk

Yep- heading out with grampy soon

Day 2 in the ADKS, found a bunch of sign 2 does and a small buck and 2 bear. Covered 13 miles yesterday, 5 so far today. Lots of leaves still on and noisy walking but it feels good to be out here.

3M has daytime buck movement now, big rubs popping up, a small 10, a nice 8, and a few others spotted yesterday.

Multiple new scrapes.pulled cam card on way in.shooter for me

Haven’t hunted in a few days. Need some tree time to clear the head this morning. Keeping it local and going up with the climber. Good luck to all

Lol

I would do forum first, then IG. But everyone has a personal preference. I also would drive any buck over 100" throughout the entire state to show forum members in person. But again, that's my preference.

Here’s another pic, lest you think there were some shenanigans with the first one Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Delivered and smashed over your head? Deal.

Ive driven to my spot without just about anything you can think of lol

My cousin sucks he shut the well pump and water heater when he left here last week. I came from Work and had to shower before I go out that was brutal Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Okay guys, in all okay lol. Absolute giant body on this deer, so it took me a while to drag it out, skin it and butcher it. Took many breaks and a few extra water breaks through out the process. The deer isn’t as big as I thought at first, but still a nice deer in my opinion. I’ll post he story and some pics in a second post Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cool hunt this morning...passed on a nice buck, just a bit out of my range, and across the stream. About an hour later saw another rack buck across the stream, and had a bald eagle fly overhead. Only get to see an eagle where I'm hunting about once every 5 years. It's been slow but today started to show some promising signs.

It was funny I walked by acouple of guys on way in and said good morn. 20 minutes later walking out with a net full of eyes. They were like WTH.... Hit em just right. Just cant seem to hit the deer like that.

Ish Haven't I taught you anything ?!?!!!!!????? Sent from my LM-V405 using Tapatalk

Monster Buck!!

@ATbuckhunter will be banned by 12 noon if he doesn't post a pic!

Hes part owner of Down wind outdoors they do coyote videos they post on here once in a while they have a you tube channel iam friends with jerrod and the crew figured I'd share

Well this is awkward.

Turkey tree talk early, million chipmunks and squirrels my excitement so far.

Head west old man.......

My climber seat and platform are just right so definitely not seeing anything today lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

They teach us that technique in used pen salesman school. It’s located next to imitation Crab salesman school.

It has been real slow bowhunting here so my son and I decided to give it a break and try for some ducks this morning. My son doesn't get out much due to work and his 18 month old daughter and another one on the way due in early December. So I put him on point and shortly after legal shooting time a 6 pack of mallards came in. He bagged a drake and hen out of the pack and was limited out on mallards for the day. It was a beautiful morning and we had a great time. valoroutdoors.com

It’s a huge body deer no doubt !! Easily 200 pounds IMO. Please put your bs chest / ball measurement tool away now

Had a bunch of work to do up at the cabin today. Decided to take a walk and check trail cams. I get up to the corner of my field and theirs some think brush at the field edge . I get to about 30 yards of this bush and I see something moving. I’m in a stare down it a giant. What felt like forever of us just gazing into each other’s eyes. I’m slowly reaching for my phone to hopefully get this on video when he just bolts. I got him now I know where he’s sleeping. I’m going to give it a couple days and get into one of my stands close by. Man that encounter got me feeling good.

I had a car of kids pay for my stuff at mighty taco once ,completely took me off guard. I asked the girl working if I was supposed to pay for the next car and she just laughed and told me no.

Clearly Tacks is trying to raise money for a new cape and mount so I am willing to donate this lightly used pen and well repaired rubberband. All proceeds will be used for the Tacks Mount a Buck program. No reasonable offer refused.

I'm hearing whispers that AT didn't even use a bow to kill this buck. He used his BJJ techniques to make it tap out

Just squirrels and a lone hen. This is getting old! One of these days the deer will realize what they should be doing! Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

BLT with Nundas smoky maple mustard.

October candy Made it with butter and brown sugar and a ribeye. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Strange season, but I got a tag filled. I run my own business and make my own schedule, so I have plenty of time to hunt. I saw a 1.5 year old buck opening day at 90 yards, and then not a single deer for the next 10 sits. Not sure if it was the weather, the moon, or what. Took a couple days off from hunting because of rain and warm weather. A small cold front moved through and I hurried to a new stand that I had hung. When I got into town there were off and on showers that hadn't been in the forecast. It was too cold, so I went and sat anyway. I saw 7 or 8 deer from the stand and 7 more on the walk out. That was more like it! Had a couple more deer-less sits. I bounced around to different stands, waiting for a south wind to go back to my new power line stand. Sunday's forecast had a 5mph south wind, so I went in early. I got in the stand just after 3pm and as soon as I sat down a tall spike came out. He was 200 yards away, but they were moving! Half and hour later a doe and fawn came out at 30 yards. Instead of using a brush-hogged trail to cross the power line, they dove off in the tall grass, goldenrod and berry bushes. I could only see the does ears. I had no intention of shooting her, but was surprised that I couldn't see her from 17 feet up. Two hours passed and nothing else appeared. It started drizzling. I decided to sneak down to check the fields with the last 20 minutes of legal shooting light. I came out to the field edge and stood in some tall grass against an 8 foot tall dirt berm and watched the field. There was nothing out, so I dropped my backpack and lounged against the berm. It was still sprinkling and the wind had switched from south to southeast. A buck came trotting out into the middle of the narrow hay field 100 yards up the hill from me. He had a big body and at least a fork on one side. I waited until he started feeding on clover, then got down on my belly and crawled through the waist high brown grass to the very edge of the field, pausing when he picked his head up. I was calm and not amped up. I figured it would either work, or it wouldn't, but I was going to try to get a shot. As he slowly fed closer, I pulled my neck gaiter over the bottom of my face and wiped the scope lenses clean with my sleeve. He continued to feed broadside down the hill. It didn't take him long to close the distance. The field is only 70 yards wide right there, which made the middle only 35 yards away. I had practiced at 32 yards a lot and was totally steady from a prone shooting position. I lined him up and touched off the shot. The crossbow seems fast to me after years of shooting a "slow" compound. The bolt makes a hollow sound and the buck spun and made his death dash to the woods. I watch him stumble into the timber and hear him crash. I went down to the farm house and tell my brother. We head back with flashlights and a knife. The rain had washed the blood out of the field in the 40 minutes I was gone, but I walked to the spot where he went in the woods and find blood spray on the yellow and orange leaves and the grey trunks of the small maples. 40 yards later we find him on the other side of an old stone wall. He looks long in the light of my headlamp. We get him out, cleaned up and hung for the night. In the morning I bring him to a reporting station (I'm in VT as the name implies) and weigh him. 5 points 170lbs. I am thankful. It just goes to show you: You don't have to be good or clever, but you do have to go out and HUNT and you do need to be able to shoot. It can change in a heartbeat.

Well today I almost didn’t get up, I managed to crawl into my truck and go to one of my favorite stands. Used black widow xxx estrous and dominator buck urine on a dragline. Wa supposed to be a east wind but it was blowing NW. 6:45 I hear a snort wheeze and grunting/ hear buck making a scrape, see 3-4 deer in the area of my dragline. They walk off into the woods at 7:05 but I don’t think they went far, at 7:23 I hit the grunt tube, out steps this buck at 18 yards grunting. I sent an arrow through him and was real concerned it was too low, he runs down hill and I loose him in the fog (could only see 50 yards or so) but his tail was down and it looked like a death run. I get down and checked the arrow and have bright blood and immediate blood spray. I sit back down for 2 hours to be safe and call a buddy to help. We went literally 50 yards of blood spraying everywhere through 4 foot weeds. A perfect heart shot. My 2nd biggest buck ever and 2nd biggest with bow. Guess I’ll be antler hunting in PA the rest of bow season. I didn’t weight him but I’d put him in the 170 lbs dressed range.

I got to my stand around 6:10 and was enjoying the nice cold temps until 6:22 when a deer blew 5 times behind me down wind. With the way things have been going for me for the last few months I was already in a bad mood thinking my morning was shot already. I was trying to be hopeful and around 7:42 I heard wha sounded like a couple steps behind me and when I turned I had a fawn standing broadside at 10 yards. I moved really slowly to grab my bow and get up, but at that time the neighbor decided he wanted to ride his quad down to his horses to feed them. The deer are used to us, but it decided to run 10 yards into some thick stuff. It stopped in a small window at about 23 yards quartering away and I figured its now or never. I took the shot and heard a good thump and watched him run away with its tail down. I thought I heard a crash, but I couldnt see where I hit it so I didnt want to rush to conclusions. The path it ran down has a trail cam on it and has very tall grass so I didnt want to walk down it and pick up a tick again. I circled around to where it should have came out in a small grassy opening and found a few drops of blood. I looked for more blood for the next hour and couldnt find anymore. I was getting really discouraged and decided to walk down a path it might have gone down but found nothing. Its all tall grass around as you can see so i remeber telling my self I could walk with in feet of it and not see it. Just at that time I look to my left and see it in the grass off the trail. It was a high quarter away lung shot so the cavity was filled with blood. I dragged it 200 yards to where i skin and quarter all my deer and by the end I was sweating like a pig and exhausted.