Nomad

I shot a nice 8pt on the 10th he was chasing 3 does at full speed(stopped him with a grunt). Just before this a 4pt was running a doe all over the place . The bucks have been running all over the place . My buddy shot a buck that was humping a doe 9 days ago.

I like mornings better, but do some afternoons as well. Right now I'm doing 2 days of morning and afternoons , 1 day afternoon, repeat for 2 weeks.......... This lets me sleep in every 3rd day. But then this week I'm doing 4 mornings in a row !! I'll only do afternoon if I'm off the next day, even though its been years since i had to track one more then 50 yards or so I don't like shooting them just before dark unless I can come back in the AM . There are no other hunters in my woods or brush lots, and I'm surounded by 100's of acres of clover,corn,plowed fields which puts the nearest ones a fair bit away and food right on top of the deer !

Well... I DON"T turn mine back. I'm off for 2 weeks, hate getting up at 4:15 so I don' change mine, for now. Hey the deer don't change their clocks!!

Great buck !! Gald to see post edited...... was going to point that out to you.

Sam i agree I've been seeing way more bucks then does. I've been out I don't know 12 times or more and I've seen bucks almost every time,one morning 6 bucks ! I think the whole time I've seen maybe 8 does . Lets see what tomorrow brings !

I find cover is key. But with a climber your going up a phone pole tree more or less, so cover is slim to none, unless you can get next to some. When in my climber I go at least 20 and on as big a tree as possible.

My spot has been tore up for some time. Rubs and scrapes everywhere. Been seeing more bucks then ever. Bucks grunting chasing been wild. My friend shot a nice 8pt yesterday Am while it was breeding a doe !

Alone most of the time. I have a great spot that I hunt by myself 90% of the time in bow. I also bring a guest here and there, and they bring me to their spot once in awhile as well, nice break. In gun I hunt it alone 50 % of the time and have a couple of friends who hunt it with me as their time allows. My oldest daughter makes it home form college over hanksgiving and we go 2x's or so. The last week end all the guys who hunt differant areas of the farm get togather and drive some spots, GOOD FUN.

Few years back I shot a buck with "spikes". They had a 12 inch spread and the beams curled around like mean beams just no tines !! He dressed out at 130 #. Neat deer.

speaking of days I work 5 days between now and Dec. 1st !!

Well last night I went to my spot even though we had high winds,I was hoping for a calm last hour. Well during daylight in high winds in an open hay field I had a large 8pt go by looking like he was on a mission . An hour later I had a buck grunting and chasing a doe. This Am a buck chased two doe out of the woods into a field. So yes I would get out there !

BINGO ! Bubba. Just like fish lures are made to catch fishermen,this years camo is made to catch hunters. I think soon the new patterns will first be seen on a runway in Paris...... Put your stand up higher,hunt stands when wind is right,trim less . But you can't put that on a store shelf.

I don't know too much about scents as i don't use them too much however, last year around oct. 25 or so i had great luck. i'd been seeing a very large buck cross a hay field I'm on but way far away. So i used a scent drag to try and move him closer. I left the scent pad out in the field. not long after climbing into my stand i hear all this crashing and snapping out comes a nice buck maybe an inch shy of the eat tips,he comes right to the pad in a wide open field and stays there for a good 10 minutes or so. Due to our rules on the farm and hoping for the really big one I let him walk around at 15 yards for the whole time.

Well who knows ? I'll be out though, Thur.,Fri, and Sat. start of 2 weeks off !!! I'll say last fri. afternoon i saw 9 come by in 1 hour,grunts,rubbing chasing it was great . good luck.

Yes spooked and catching scent 200 yards off are 2 different things to me. A spooked deer will run,stomp,snort . A deer getting a scent 200 yards away will just slip around ,avoid that area. Where's he set up? which way is the wind blowing ? If his scent is blowing into cover set up on the other side or end. One of the spots i hunt scent is no big deal in many spots because they smell humans all day... Yesterday my dog and I walked up on a doe and 2 yearlings at 30 yards,they just looked at us,and I hunt this area . One spot my stand is 75 yards from a construction company lot. All day guys and noise. I watch guys leave work yelling at each other starting trucks etc. with deer as close as 50 yards from them . That scent is normal to them and they learned it poses no threat . Its what they get used to,if they smell folks all day and learn that we pose no threat they don't care if were around. Perhaps we should put human scent by our stands year round, then it would be normal and ignored . Sure works in the suburbs.....

Dogs are a great tool to finding dead deer. You don't need deer shearch and they are often very busy. I have a beagle that i started on a deer i dragged out to the road just to see. 5 days later we were out walking, I went to the spot I loaded the deer into my van and he picked up the scent and ran right to where i gutted it. 5 days later and after a heavy rain..... Now yes dragging a deer leaves more blood and scent on the ground but 5 days and rain washes a lot away. After this we used him for real, it was over just as fast. Another i know used his own black lab, who's nose is not even close to a beagle. So I'd grab a buddies dog and give it a go . An insane one like a beagle seems to be the best,basically a 30 pound nose.....

I'm with you. I'm also not sure I'd be posting my lost deer ,bad shot story for the world to see. If you need answers to how to look for, track it etc. well google it or PM somebody who seems like they know what they are doing. Myself, I have not had to track a bow shot deer in many years . Cut on contact broadside and most don't even run more then a few steps,stop and look around...... fall over, job over. If every deer you shoot runs like it was kicked in the a$$ maybe you should switch. Practice with your broadheads, from a treestand and wait for a good shot when hunting. Every time you are walking,at work in a parking lot etc. guess yardage to a car, door,hallway whatever do this untill your always within a yard or two of your guess. Shooting at an alert deer is risky and leads to many a "bad" shot.

Yep windy , saw 3 first morning, 1 of which was a very nice buck making a rub 50 yards out. Today (Sunday) windy as well. Had a GREAT 8pt wide,thick , tall, 10 inch g2's bed 60 -70 yards from my stand at 9:00. Looking like a good season !

I have had great luck with "the can" . BTW if you turn it over and blow into the hole , while tipping it up( waiting for jokes ) you can do longer and more varied calls .

I'll be up a tree. Its windy 1/2 the fall and I got 25 plus days to bow hunt but i'm not missing the first day for 15 mph winds dropping to 9..... Use the right stand,mine is at the base of a sloping cut corn field in a little 1/2 acre woods the slope is always way less windy and the deer like that as well as passing through that patch of woods . Hum strong winds and rain over night, rain stopping and winds dropping in the AM sounds ok to me.

I love to hunt more then many i guess but its just not as important as family,health etc. Sometimes it takes the back burner, years later hey,it's back to being more of a big deal. Good Luck,Its just a hobby ! Thats right i said it .

Wow for me it 35-40 minutes from Webster to Canandaigua , I'll be there all day sat. then Sunday AM as I have 1 kid coming home from college this week end and will be running her back Sunday PM. Sometimes i drive twice a day as its just got good till the last 1/2 hour in the afternoon. I have the seats out of my van,so tons of room for gear and sleeping, as i hunt farm land the van is my base camp. I did build a 4X8 hut tall enough to stand in this year,thats for gun and resting,cooking soup and naps as well . I also hunt by my home in Webster. Last year i got off the sofa at 3:30 showered drove 1/2 mile with my climber and had a doe at 4:10 . Thats really handy !!

I'm a 1 is none 2 is one guy. If I can't hunt with out it I want a spare. release,harness fall in that catagory. Then there is those that just make it easier, like a spare flashlight and batteries, face mask and gloves and hats ! I like a ball cap for the sun and warm times while a watch cap for cold times. I use a day pack with extra face piece,gloves, hat,2 lights, extra Prusik,couple tree steps, baby wipes. In my van is a tote full of clothes, spare boots, and gear. If I get a soaker in the morning I want dry socks and boots for the PM ! How hard is it to keep a stocked tote in your car ??? For those of us with out cabins.....

I shoot management bucks, any buck I manage to shoot.......

Well lets see the wind is most often from the west. If they always or most of the time only walked into the wind,I'd be set up along a beach in California .