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3s goes till New Year's Eve (bow only) and it looks like I will need that long to fill a tag! Would love some snow but the best chance I have of seeing snow this warm fall is an old pile from last winter! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Another very boring sit in 3s but at least it was another sit!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

49 degrees and a 3 mph wind ... How could I not give 3s another shot? All quiet so far but the cam shows some does around 4:30 fairly regularly Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back again for more punishment in 3s with the bow. Nice and crisp with some overcast- hope they like it as much as I do Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Couple does just snuck in behind me(no shot) needed them to keep coming past me if I were to have any shot- ten min later a cool looking fox stopped by - red with jet black paws Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back in 3s hoping for some movement - balmy and calm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lookie what showed up on my cam on Wednesday at 1:45 in 20 yards in front of my ground blind. I arrived at my parking spot (only about 75 yards from my GB) at 1:30 that day. Looks like he's been hitting the HGH! I am fearful that an arrow won't be enough to take him down!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Watch a lot of YouTube videos. Especially surrounding removing the hind quarters-as a chef you may be versed in This already but there are some tricky bones to work out that I always F up. 2 hours seems ambitious to me but again I am no chef. I also do it myself(no help) and am super anal about removing all things not meat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Last year I butchers three deer in my suburban backyard. I have 5 neighbors all within seeing distance of my processing area (doubles as fire pit and sitting area when no deer are hanging!!!)when deer are hung from the tree. 4 of the 5 at some point came over and started to ask questions. All started with real apprehension and some "poor Bambi" comments. All that changed when the grill was fired up and some fresh steaks wee prepared. Now two of my neighbors are rooting hardest for my success and volunteered their help for any cuts I will throw their way. Those are some of those middle of the road people who were easily won over. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think they do close school during the owning week in West Virginia. Can't get any teachers or bus drivers (let alone kids) to come to school. Their trade off is not having a February break like we do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Should Monday's hunt be at the same stand is what I think the question is...we should ask grow! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks guys. 2 more hours today combing a nearby wood lot and neighboring high grass. No sign- no birds. The more I replay the shot the higher it seems. Feeling confident it's the blackstrap. Put more cameras up to hopefully catch him walking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have access to a private nursery in westchester (bow only)where the farmer got crushed by deer this growing season and I decided to set up a ground blind to hopefully bring my boys to sit with me. Set up the ground blind at noon Friday. Tuck it in some thick crap so my view behind, left and right is zero. The only view I have is straight ahead and it's a well used deer trail. I can see about 20 yards wide 20 yards from the blind. Decide to hang a camera on a tree 10 yards from blind on my left and figured I would sit the evening since its up and the farmer reported seeing a big deer that morning. Sprayed some buck bomb on the tall grasses around my shooting lane and tucked in for my first ground blind hunt. Since it was early I fiddled with the blind,removing leaves and twigs, adjusted and readjusted my seat, figured out how to get my bow to stay at the ready, practiced drawing back and all was good. At 2:00 a turkey came trotting down the run. She stopped looked at the blind and calmly pecked around a bit and moved on. I guess the blind is pretty good since I was able to snap a pic and she never flinched. So now I was excited since if a turkey didn't mind a new structure surely a deer wouldn't be bothered. Periodically I would grunt and spritz some buck bomb but 2 hours went by uneventfully. At 3:50 all of a sudden I see horns to my left,20 yards away. After seeing that he had more points than I have ever seen while hunting I never looked at his horns again so I had no idea if he was a 6 or 10 but I knew he was my shooter buck. It is inexplicable the feeling of being on the ground near such an amazing animal especially as it was my first bow hunt from the ground. He was fixated on some branches hit with bomb so I slowly raised my bow. Instead of moving on to the next sprayed bush he turns to his right and heads straight towards me, my trail cam, and the freshly spritzed bushes outside my blind. I can feel him checking me out but he is digging the bomb and is willing to risk it. He continues towards me(still not drawn since he is dead on me). Stops at 7 yards to examine another sprayed bush. He then turns his head so I draw knowing I can't shoot now but if and when he turns I have him. When he turns back he goes right back to the sprayed bush for another deep whiff. At that point he steps to his right with only his front paws and turns his head in that direction as well offering a tight shot at the vitals. Put the pin right behind his front left shoulder and release and watch the luminock fly true but a bit high is my initial thought. Since I can't see anything from in my blind I drop the bow and dive out the open window to watch him run back the trail he came on, tail twitching. I watch him for 100 yards until i can't see him anymore knowing that he slowed to a walk. I can't even begin to describe the adrenalin rush! My partner, hunting 70 yards away hears me shoot and starts blowing up my phone. Decide to sit tight until dark. We meet up at the truck at 5:00 and head back to track around 6:00. Good blood at shot and follow that to the arrow that got dumped 50 yards from the shot spot. Full coverage of bright red blood, no gut smell but no bubbles either. We proceed to follow good blood for 200 yards and find where he crossed to high grass. Followed an easy trail for another 100 yard to where he climbed a ridge to a neighboring farm(we have search permission). Tracked him through their parking lot for another 100 yards and see that it's heading to thick shit behind other people's houses. The trail was becoming spotty so we decide to back out since weather called for a cold night and we need to knock on doors to search. Crawled home and swam in cheap brandy replaying everything. Picked up partner at 8 and head back to resume track. Found a nice pool where he laid down in some guys backyard. Met the owner and he granted permission (and subsequently access to hunt his corner as well!). Followed pin pricks of blood to the next neighbors yard and that's where the trail stops. One solid print in soft grass. One pin prick of blood (found using straight peroxide to make blood turn white and bubble- worked great) and he's gone. Nothing - no track, no blood, no sign anywhere. Opened google maps and saw various pockets of woods and searched them completely, found runs everywhere that showed no sign, walked to the front of the houses and checked the street and driveway thinking he went to the largest open space in the area - ironically a cemetery! Nothing. At 1:00 I had no choice but to call it(family obligations). I plan on heading back tomorrow to check for scavenger birds (how long until they find a kill?) and walk the wood lot by the cemetery. Two thoughts I am drinking/thinking about: 1. It's a non fatal hit-entered high of vitals on left side and exited even higher due to how close he was and the fact that I was on the ground. Did I just miss everything good and go through that mythical void under the spine? 2. Still may be high but hit an artery and he bled out. No blood trail since entry/exit are high. Also at the one spot he bed down it seriously look like he intentionally laid on a log where the exit wound was to stop the bleeding. Thanks for making it this far if you did. Hope you are all too busy knocking them down to be reading this. Not expecting many made it this far but I needed to just tell this tale to start putting it behind me (besides the upcoming searches for the coyote and bird ravaged corpse). And before you ride me too hard, know that I know all the many ways I f'ed up the best chance I had all season/career. Time for another cheap brandy! Thanks for playing counselor. Struggling to get motivated to hunt again this season. Good luck and shoot truer than me!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back for the evening giving a ground blind a shot on a different 3s property. Hope this change does the trick Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When leaving a pop up blind do you close the windows? Was wondering if leaving them open would allow wind to blow through essier Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'll give odds that if you switch deer will be by your original tree! At least that's exactly what happened to me this am. Only lone doe crossed right out of the tree I spent most my season in. Decided to move "down" a bit and sure as shit she came right by the tree I left. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I told myself that today I will be hunting squirrel. That way maybe a deer will show up!!! No luck so far wind just started to pick up in 3s. Good luck to us fortunate ones in the woods today Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice job guys...hey chef- what's the first dish served with that one? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I honestly can't remember if I cracked the eye socket when scrapping meat or if it showed up after peroxide bath. I know I busted the nose. Can "over soaking" in peroxide "break/eat through" the bone. Superglue is a good suggestion I will offer to him. Kind of look nice with some "natural" cracks. Still feels a bit oily. Anything I can do about that? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amen...notice it was my buddy's!!! Skunk and tag soup for me so far but I still have time! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here's the result of me cleaning up my buddy's buck from this bow season. Process: Fleshed as much as possible Boiled for 1 1/2 or so. Picking rest of meat and fat and tissue. Re-dunked in boiling water a few times to loosen tough spots. Soaked in straight peroxide from the dollar store for 2 days - found I could get the most out of the peroxide by placing skull in zip top bag with antlers sticking out the top and then that bag went in a plastic container. Air dried. I'm happy with it but there are a few things I wish I was more carful with. I broke one of the eye socket bones and the nose bone. But for $5.00 of peroxide and some time dinking around, I can't complain- he better not either!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Take this thread elsewhere...this is where us city folk go to escape the city, not to be reminded about how great and $hitty it is Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just WHIFFED on a doe. Clean miss- a thing of beauty!!! 32 not 25. Almost grunted her back in but she blew me up pretty quickly once down wind. Hope that was not my chance for tonight Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Heading in to 3s. Expecting different results as I do the same thing I have done for the past dozen hunts....what's that called? INSANITY!!!!! Or foolish optimism! I opt for #2. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

While you were hunting!?!? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk