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Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs and I get to launch an arrow.

DANG !! I had to drive about the same distance from the other direction to pick up your Grandmother... It was worth the drive tho…..<<smile>>...

BIZ PREDICTION: I’m hunting Saturday and Sunday with TCIII and Sodfather. I predict 3 deer killed. I know they are open to does, I’m not. So maybe not 3 bucks, but 3 deer. And if it all happens on Saturday, I predict we flipped all those little towns upside down Saturday night and Sunday. About to start my drive! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Most exciting morning of the season. Walking in across field huge buck tracks everywhere. Doe comes out on other side of field and hasn't seen me. I duck down in am open field . She is looking away and starts trotting away hard. Here comes the buck from across the road huge one grunting and right after her. Only hope she brings him back this way. He's been by this stand 3 times this morn/night by looks of tracks.

Just curious and I'm not asking just because you troll this thread and others constantly, but do you actually hunt? You don't seem to have any hunting related experiences that you talk about..

My son scored on this big buck yesterday afternoon. 22" spread. He's been getting trailcam pics of him, but laid eyes on him for the first time yesterday.

Found my buck about 150 yards from where I shot him last night and about 100 yards into the timber from where I saw him go in. I was right I caught him far back. I hate to do that to a deer but I’m glad we retrieved him. I also lost a good chunk of one of the rear quarters to coyotes. I knew that was a risk but I was hoping we could beat them to it. I have no history with this deer but it’s definitely got some character and is pretty unique. Now I get a couple days to get my shit together for gun! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

. Last day worthy for sure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Super psyched for tomorrow. I haven't missed an opening morning in 35 yrs. That said, daughter is up from out of state with our 2 and 1/2 yr old granddaughter for her annual buck, and between my wife, daughter, and I, someone has to stay behind with Evelyn. I'm thinking I may do the chivalrous thing and volunteer for the morning granddaughter watch. Sounds crazy, but this little smiling face makes it easy. Plus I'm off work til the 25th, back for 3 days and then off for 4 more. I'm more into the ladies getting their deer this year, and I can bat cleanup. As long as they don't have me recovering dead deer all afternoon, I'll be fine with getting out at noon for the rest of the day. Facetimed with her last night and she told me for the umpteenth time that she wants to go get a buck with me. I can always lay the rifle outside on the deck...

Always excited for opening morning of regular season. This will be my 48th opening morning. And I always reflect back to the first few. Hunting with the old farmer guys that have long since passed on. The guys that took a fatherless, stubborn kid who found peace in the woods. Took him under their wings, and started him hunting. From my first opening morning, I can still smell and taste the strong black coffee, and the thick bacon, on homemade biscuits in the farmhouse kitchen. As we made "the plan" on who was going where. They were all shining examples of good men. And I hate to think where I may have ended up without their influences on my life. Ray, Don, Bill, and Warren......will be sitting with me in the morning. Whispering encouragement as always. And I will give my thanks to them again for doing what they did. And at some point, try to pass along to someone else, the values and love of hunting that they gave to me. Well.... My hunting partner took a ride around this morning, and saw one of my target bucks near where I'm going in the morning!!! A four year old, heavy six point that i'm sure will dress out close to 200lbs. Hope to see him tomorrow! Good luck to all of you. Keep safe. Shoot what you like, like what you shoot!!

Local for a few hours. Then archery stuff away , organize gun hunting gear Good luck to all trying to punch a last minute archery tag.

Please......just stop. You contribute absolutely nothing as far as any hunting goes, or to this forum of fine sportsmen and women. Never have I seen you post from the woods, or with a deer. Or with so much as a squirrel. Yet you have the audacity to question Buckmaster7600 about his hard hunted beautiful buck??? What have YOU done this year??? Except sit behind a keyboard, and run your mouth, spewing worthless dribble!!! Sorry. Sometimes I just can't bite my lip any longer. Maybe if we all just ignore you. You will go away, and troll your crap somewhere else.

Made it out this morning for what could be the last sit for Archery. Where did the season/my favorite time of year go? Due to stuff going on I was only able to get out about 21 times. Never saw a deer within range and haven't seen a deer from the stand since 11/6. This morning I set up about 30 yards downwind from a fresh scrape I found yesterday. I didn't see anything again except a gray fox which was kind of neat. There are a couple of bruisers in the area but have not laid eyes on them and don't have any cameras out at the present time. All indications here are they only moving at night or early morning. One of them has been rubbing 8" cedars with new rubs showing up every three or four days. The other one is a hardwood guy and has been tearing the 6" trees up pretty good. Congratulations to all the successful hunters and wish you all luck during the gun season; my not so favorite time of the year.

That’s what she said.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Including Sunday’s hunt I had 50 hours in a tree stand which compared to some isn’t much but with 2 young kids at home and a wife that works every other Saturday it was a lot for me. A buck came by at 4pm from the south working his way north up a logging road. I immediately knew he was a 4 pointer that I had on camera all year long. There was no doubt in my mind that at 4pm on my last day to bow hunt for the year that I was going to do my best to get this deer. He was walking at a good pace without stopping so I had to be careful standing up and moving into a shooting position. I was able to be ready for him as he passed 3 yards away from the stand. I didn’t like the idea of shooting directly down so I waited until he got out in front of me. At about 12 yards he got behind a small tree head facing away from me which is when I drew the bow back and made sure I had my anchor point and was looking through the peep site. He was now quartering slightly away As he continued to walk away from me. When he was at a tree that I knew was 19 yards I gave him a soft "meeep" to stop him and let the arrow fly! Impact spot looked great but it was not a pass through and it even looked like an absolutely impossible amount of arrow sticking out of him as he bounded away. All sorts of thoughts started to run through my head. Did I actually hit him in the shoulder? Is my bow not powerful enough? I’m drawing 62 pounds or at least I thought? All that passed through my head in the matter of seconds almost the same amount of time it took him to start to stumble. That first stumble he did was all the reassurance I needed to know that I did in fact make a good shot. I continued to watch him run away for a few more seconds when his front legs gave out and he nose dived into the ground flipping over himself. He tried to get up again but could only manage to spin around on the ground in a small loop kicking with his back legs as hard as he could. Within seconds all movement stopped and there he lay motionless 100 yards away from the shot. I had finally done it after 4 years of bow hunting, countless hours practicing in the yard, countless hours spent in the woods it was done I had finally taken my first deer with a bow. This is a hunt much like my first gun deer that I will never forget. The 5 minutes that transpired from first seeing him walking down the path to expiring 100 yards away is seared into my memory. I couldn't be happier about it. It’s my first archery kill and for it to happen on my last day, in the last hour is just amazing! Thanks for letting me share! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good luck tomorrow everybody !

My cousins wife not letting him go for opening day lol Grounds for a divorce I think lol

You sure that wasn't Moog with his knife???

Well you wouldn’t buy tires if you didn’t have a car would you? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Sunset from my office tonight. Looking west at WNY and saw a sign from the heavens above. Therefore, I’m heading to WNY tomorrow to hunt the weekend. Please excuse my lack of contributions tomorrow while i make the 380mile journey Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dude tracked a buck that far and that long. Took a bunch of pictures along the way. Killed the thing. A dandy buck at that. The proof is in the pudding. I don’t care if you think it’s super human. He obviously knows how to hunt them that way and does it well. Come back and post when you can match it. P.S I killed the buck in my profile pic

I am ready for tomorrow going to be a good day but also a sad day for me . Going to miss my hunting partners. Hopefully Charlie will be looking down on me from above and helping scare a monster buck to me .

I really don't contribute to this thread as much as I should.

Back in stand, giving a last chance with the bow. Can only hunt until about 1. Good luck all out for final attempt during bow.

Easy.......the one YOU put in the boiler room.

Well,my last bowhunt was very exciting. I went for a still hunt and covered some ground,the wind gave me good cover. I saw some does here and there,spooked a few in a different area and then i zig zagged along a ridge and the dropped down behind a pond. Just before closing time i see a lone deer come towards me. Turns out it was a decent buck,eight pointer i think. He ate a little,made a scrape and a rub. He was going to walk past me at 60 yds so i crouched down and grunted at him. He looked up but didn't commit,so then i snort wheezed at him,first time i ever tried that. And man did that work,he was pissed and looking for a fight. I drew back when he was behind a tree,but then the problem was he came straight at me. He stopped at under 20 yds and was trying to figure out what i was. It was a good stare down,but then he turned and i let it rip,I had the pin on him the whole time. I heard a weird sound when i released and it must have been a sapling in the way. I grazed him acrosss the chest,i watched him bound off 50 yds or so and then walk off. The arrow layed right where he stood and there was hair,quite a bit but hardly any blood on the arrow. I think it deflected and just grazed him. No blood at the hit site,and i followed his track quite a ways and just got a few drops. I am confident he will be ok,maybe i can check that when gun season opens and i lay my hands on him. The arrow was pointing back towards me and didn't travel past him. That was a pretty exciting end to my bow season.

Got it done this morning! 7pt at 7:30 came in behind me wouldn't stop. Hit him back but got liver and artery. Went down in less than a minute. Was hoding out for something bigger but time was running out.

For those that don’t like hunting the Island...I’m always open to an invite lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Or just continue to sit at your keyboard, criticizing REAL hunters? And talking of things you know nothing about? That would be a real productive opening day for you! Who are you trying to BS?? You haven't stepped foot in the woods all fall, and you have no intention of doing so! My apologies to the REAL hunters out there for disrupting a great thread, right before opening morning. I'm done.

WNy fish fry lunch. Trillium in Cherry Creek Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back in the stand for one last afternoon with the crossbow. I used to be so excited for gun season. Now it's sad bow is over. Well...not over yet...i got 2.5 hours to make something happen! Come on deer!

Is that profile pic from the Cabelas store?

Called an audible. Just picked her up and sighted in. 7600 308 carbine.

Don’t forget the fishnet stockings!

Amazingly done with out mandatory state ar....

Getting pretty excited...

Vancouver Bull steak & potatoes. The Bull was from the tropical rainforests on Mauna Loa , Hawaii

11/10/19 #1 A hunter and his Dad waited a couple hours after the shot to start tracking this buck, and they jumped it within a couple hundred yards. They did everything right....from flagging the blood as they tracked, to backing out immediately after jumping it. Luna took us past their ribbons and just under half a mile to the dead buck. This was a leg hit deer and it looked like he had been chased around an alfalfa field late in the track, there was blood everywhere. There were no other injuries, he bled to death. #2 A hunter shot a buck yesterday morning, found a few brown hairs and a very small piece of flesh. He was unable to find any blood after a good look, so assumed he grazed it. This morning on his way out of the woods he came across blood and followed it for as far as he could, then called me. Luna and I headed over after the first track, and about 15 minutes in, she took me across a paved road. There were no tracks in the snow where she took me, so I took her back across the road. After some exploring over there, she again took me across the road, this time to somebody’s yard about 25 yards away from where we went the first time. The snow was melted in the yard, but not the woods. I told the hunter we need to get permission to enter, but a neighbor told us the bank owned it. Being unable to get permission, I ended the track. I did ask the hunter to take a peak in the woods for sign to verify Luna was right, and he located blood. I got a text later saying he was able to follow it for 300 yards and it never bedded down. #3 I was called by this hunter as I was on my first track, with the second track lined up. I had family arriving from out of state this afternoon, so I declined the track. When the second track ended up being so short, I called the hunter back and said I could take it after all. Naturally, 3 guys had been out grid searching for quite a while by then. I stopped by the house on the way to this track and swapped dogs. The hunter said this was a big buck and the picture he showed backed that up.....it was huge. The buck dropped at the shot, flailed around, got up and ran off. Uh oh.....don’t like the sounds of that. There was minimal blood in a small area about 50 yards from the hit site, then nothing. Kunox and I worked the area extensively and came up empty. I believe this is a high back hit and they may see him again.

11/8/19 I was called tonight by a hunter that shot an 11 pointer he’d been waiting for. He and three buddies looked for over an hour, but all they could find was a little brown hair. There was no blood, and they couldn’t find his tracks from after the shot. Kunox started at the hair and went into tall thick nasty swamp grass and downed trees, but could only walk about 10 yards in before being unable to get through it. I looked around a short distance and didn’t see any sign so I took him back to the hair. He did the same thing, then turned around and went the opposite way into a thicket. I let him look around in there awhile, and at one point he went hot. Investigation showed tracks too small for our buck. I took him back to the hair and one of the guys said he thought he had smelled the buck in the area Kunox had first gone to. I put Kunox down and he went back to the swamp grass, so this time I carried him around to see if he could smell anything. Sure enough, back goes his head and the sniffer went into overdrive. I watched him as I walked and he took me right to the dead buck. He was only 50 yards away, but you couldn’t see him until you were literally right on top of him. Great bunch of guys....I’d track for them anytime.

First chasing I have seen all season today and hard chasing. And then a big buck in an open field on the way home 80 yards from the road at high noon speaks rut to me.

I think this was the buck I saw this morn.

X2^^!!A first bowkill and to punch a 2nd tag is great.congrats again jay,well deserved!!

I just lol’d in the woods Thanks

Sauce made of tomatoes, spices , jalapeños, peppers, onions , pulled chicken , sour cream , picante, cojita cheese tacos

If it keeps a elf warm in the north pole its good enough for me! Lol

Got into a few today. Sent from my moto g(6) using Tapatalk

Spypoint is playing the pricepoint game - You'll find alot more people who have problems with them than who don't. Their CS has been a huge failure; they cannot service customers. Apparently they're hiring more people to respond. Cams send and then don't randomly. Have to update firmware or visit cam to reset card. They need to focus on refinement. I had to stop selling them because in the 6 mos. I sold them, I had more client issues with their cams than I had with all of my other brands combined for FOUR YEARS. Spypoint also pulled a fast one on some of the Nationwide Micro models - marketed as 4G - someone opened one up and inside are 3G modems. Spypoint admitted to it on social media a few weeks back. They say they'll take care of customers affected. People still like them though - same reason why WGI sells the most cams....cheap is good. Moultrie is expensive from a monthly plan POV. The cams themselves are OK - pic quality ranges from solid to poor. I can't figure out why. Some pics are awesome. Others look like you have beer goggles on when reviewing them. I question their modem and antenna parts - I suspect they're using cheaper internals. Their app is lacking IMO. Stealth has the most annoying cam set-up and connection to network in field takes foooorever (insert Sandlot version here). That said...they've been rock solid. Brutally honest I wanted to hate them, but they work and work and work and work. Some limitations but they've been reliable for me. I have 10 in the field, with one that is now 12 mos. old. Browning - I was fortunate to be provided an opportunity to have an early model Browning - cams 5 through 12 in their production line. So far the cams are a pic taking machine. It doesn't miss a thing and it takes alot of pics if you don't hold it back some on delay and pic per trigger. App is in its infancy IMO. It's brand new and apps usually get much much better after a few weeks and months of revisions and updates. Plan costs are high, but you can have confidence you won't miss a thing with this cam. Offers red IR and blackflash in one cam. Video sent is good. Real good. Spartan - Still the class of the field with the Ghost model. Expensive to buy and expensive to run if not added to a current data plan on Verizon. I have multiples of these out, and I can tell you I haven't had to visit one of them except to put in new lithium in September. Browning slightly better on trigger speed/sensing zone combo, but not by enough to sway. Spartan sent pic quality is still the best; Browning has good nightime image quality on red IR flash. Black flash is better on the Spartan by a considerable amount IMO. You can really control the cam well remotely. Battery life has been excellent - best I've ever seen on internals. Has a true GPS feature and with the internal battery - guess what, if it's boosted, you get coordinates you can track. Cuddelink - Good platform; not the best one to get into cell cams for the first time. UX is horrible if not familiar with Cuddeback. Takes trial and error to get it dialed in. Once it's done though, it works extremely well. Power needs to be addressed from the get-go. I tell clients to buy Cuddelink no later than July 4. That gives them a month to learn how to use it, and a month to perfect it for their ground. From there they can run it through the season with no issues. Great option for people willing to learn the curve and not get frustrated. Cannot communicate to cams remotely though. That is the biggest opportunity for them to improve. Overall, this system is solid. You can even have a whiteflash model for color night images. Probably the best option for people with a large parcel that they plan to set-up and let run year-round.