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Mike. .Congrats on your buck. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

You're about as lucky as I am . ......

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After reading the letters to the editor in the local paper it shocks me as to how many support Hildabeast .

Happy Birthday ! Have a Great Day ....

No can do . Sundays are for church and football . Plus I have to visit someone in re-hab and give him some support .

Drove to Geneseo and arrived at 6:30 . That gave me an hour and 21 minutes to be ready for legal time . Figured I would take the easy way out and took a cross bow but also had my compound in the car just in case . My son was there before me and was already heading for the woods . Nick said he jumped 2 doe and what he thinks was a buck in the dark . He saw them with his head lamp . He didn't see anything while sitting in the woods stand and decided to leave at 11 so I walked up to the car with him . Before that I was moving an extension ladder that I had used with a chain on so I could take down a big limb to clear a shooting lane . Damned if I didn't have the ladder slip and took a chunk out of the end of my left index finger . I'm on blood thinner and it bled for quite a while . It still stings but I don't want to take the band aid off to check it out . I unloaded the atv and put my chainsaw on it and went back to the willow tree after having a sandwich and a bottle of water .Dropped the big limb . In the meantime I had pulled the trail cam cards . The one I put in the woods last week had the wrong year and times . Didn't realize that until I got home and checked out the pics . Didn't see any deer all morning . Sunset was listed as 5:58 pm . so I shot the de-cocking bolt and got down . Way out in the field was a lone doe . I stood in the thick stuff by the willow waiting for the doe to cross the field so I could get out without being spotted . It was a Long Boring day !

Took cross bow today. Shot a Thumper decocking bolt when I got down this am. It drove the rubber stopper up the shaft 3 inches. Can't budge it back. ????? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

What do deer look like. .. haven't been one all day . Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Haven't seen a thing all day. My son kicked out a couple doe and a buck on his way to the woods. He left at noon.. I sliced the tip of my left index finger earlier. I'm on blood thine r so I bled a lot. Sitting 15 feet up in a stand bored out of my skull Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

All is quiet on the Western Front .... Geneseo. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Gotta be careful confronting locals also . If you only hunt a spot once or twice a week or you are only at your camp on weekends and you piss off a local . Your stands or property could get trashed . They can be there when you aren't . Ya never know !

I am going to give it a try tomorrow and get it out of my system . I am taking my compound bow along as well . I bought one after watching the video that First Light made . Impressed with the ease and simplicity of the crossbow .

OOPS ! Sorry . When I saw the topic I thought it saw a choice between a Dog or Boots .

The property is owned by a Construction Company . The family that farms it gives us permission to hunt it . Where the guy is standing is on someone else's property . We used to be able to hunt there when the original owner was alive . His son now oversees the estate and they built a house on the property on the Rt 64 . The son left a note on one of our stands that it was private property so we took it down . The son had screwed up a couple of my sons hunts by coming into the area and making a lot of noise back when his father was alive on his father's land . He even called the cops and by sons showed them the permission papers signed by the son'd mother . I am guessing this guy is a local . No other vehicles were parked anywhere nearby . I don't know what the original owner's son looked like but we thought he wasn't a hunter . Maybe he was just doing his screw up someone else's hunt routine . Wasn't expecting this to go to 3 pages .

You are so full of it ! It couldn't have been you because the guy in the photo was carrying 500 pounds of Bar Bells !

The only time I am seeing bucks is at night while driving or on my trail cams . I hope that changes this weekend .

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I definitely didn't want to confront this guy . A while after he ducked into the wooded area , I spotted something about 100 yards south of me . I could see orange on the right and blue on the left and thought maybe he or someone else had left some gear out there . Then I saw some movement and the guy got up off the ground . He had been laying on his back . He had to be one weird dude !

I try to place my ladder stands at a 90 degree angle to where I would expect the deer to approach from . If I thought the deer would be coming out ot the thick growth to the south of me I would place the stand facing west . This way I would be shooting to my left with no obstructions to the shooting form . If a deer approached directly from the west I might hit my elbow on the tree trunk when drawing . I also prefer a tree with multiple trunks if possibe . It gives you a bit more cover when the leaves are gone .

Congrats . Great looking buck .

Growie. .. say a prayer to Saint Anthony. It often works for me . Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

That ladder is something someone used a couple years ago when he had a chain-on in the willow . The guy stood on the bottom rung and didn't go any higher .

No idea who he is .... There are 6 of us that have permission . 3 of us hunt bow season . Another guy , his wife and daughter hunt during gun season . I am guessing this is a local .