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Sunset is something like 551 where I am at. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Sitting in a double chair blind with cross bow. Nuttin. Any bucks I have on camera near here are at night. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Going to do an afternoon sit at my friend's property in Walworth this afternoon . It's either sit there or sit at the computer . Maybe they might come out during the daylight hours . Yeah , right !

Congrats on your recovery . Persistence paid off . Good write up .

Thought I would try a crossbow after watching The Field Archer's video . Took it out Saturday and had to use a de-cocking bolt twice . I had the Barnett Thump Decelerator bolt that has a large rubber stopper on it . In the am I shot it and the stopper was driven 2" up the shaft . I couldn't push it back to the original position . Same thing at the end of day ... 2 more inches . When I got home I opened the vice jaws just a bit wider than the shaft and pulled hard . No luck . I washed the front end of the stopper and tried again . Still no luck . Soooo , I put the bolt on the front side of the vice and pushed . The stopper slid and I cleared away more junk . Had to do this twice . I put the bolt back in the vice and pulled . Voila ! It worked . Is this the normal thing required have to do ? It came with 2 other stoppers that can be put on a bolt .

I usually act ecstatic , fist bump my camera man , giggle and spend 10 minutes whispering into the camera as to how the deer came in and when I decided to shoot . My camera man and I get down and start tracking the deer . I have him get on the other side of the downed deer to film me approaching and put a surprised happy face on like I just found my deer . Another fist bump ! Oh wait , that's not me , that was a TV show !

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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