biggamefish

I hunt high presured areas on state land and the older bucks and does seem to walk around with there eyes in the sky. The younger ones not so much. The most wary seem to be the old does. I have put up new treestands where there where none before and a doe will walk in looking up. I don't know if that is memory or just an instinct because that is where the danger comes from. I do know it sure pisses me off when they do an about turn and never get close enough. All in a good days hunt though.

tH41 I thought you where stepping on my toes for a second. Ha Ha j/k I think I have the brother to you one deer.

Good to see ya where do you hail from and where is you deer target area.

I always carry 4 with broad heads and then I have one with a Judo point on it. So that would be five total I have shot two arrows out of my quiver and missed both time do to a twig that i didn't see then a rush shot. I like to have back up so you don't have to get down. That Judo comes in handy when a rabbit or grouse walks by. Or if you have one of those pesky squirrel that wont shut up. They always make a good dinner.

I shot a turkey last night used a 125 grain 3 blade muzzy that turkey didn't go 10 feet.

WNY I think you are right. The people that do want them are wishing for a little to much in my opinion. When they start getting into the food plots people just planted and farmers crops there will be an uproar. If you think hunters hate the coyote wait till the pig arrives. Just be carefull what you wish for.

Got out after work today. Hit an old spot that use to have a couple of runs going through it. It has been a few years and it seemed all grown up and no trails anymore. So I start to walk around to see what I can find and maybe sit for a ground blind. I come up on one side of a ridge and reach the top only to hear some rustling in the leaves on the other downward slope of the ridgeline. I get an arrow out of my quiver and start to sneak over to the other side of the ridge. The rustling is moving from my left to right just over the horizon line so I can't see what is making the noise. I wait untill the breeze blows and move from tree to tree. Stopping behing a clump of beech trees I wait and find out that the noise is turkeys scratching for dinner. I wait untill they move out, draw, release and whack I took a nice sized hen. Not a deer tonight but I will take a turkey anyday. It ended up being a 17 yard shot. The turkey didn't go 5 yards and the other birds didn't even know what happened. They stood around like what was that untill I ran after the bird I hit then they scattered like turkeys.

Ahh the old hp I only used one for a short time then went to the new on board stuff. I do some contruction s/o but not much. Good to see someone else with some surveying back ground. The guns now you really don't have to know anything about surveying you just have to know how to push buttons when told. Kind of scary when it comes down to it. Good luck this season.

I find that with a gun in MY experience they have more shock value than a bow when it comes down to knocking something down. By shock I mean energy that rips and tears things apart. Not to mention a second shot if there is a chance. Don't get me wrong I hunt with the attitude that you only need one shot but it is way easier to take two shot with a gun. Things go wrong with both gun and bow hunting but is seems bow hunting is a little more touchy with shot placment. Just my opinion though.

I would think it is still kinda early for it wait maybe another week. The deer are starting to get curious but I think the big ones would know what is going on if you broke itout to early.

Awsome You guys out west have some beauty's out there.

where did you get him?

where were you a surveyor? I am also a Land surveyor, I currently have my 8 years in and hope to be getting my aplications together in the next couple of years so I can sit for the test. Not looking forward to that test.

Awsome deal can you send me some of your luck I saw two deer for being in the woods for 36 hours sat morning till monday night.

Cabin great advice To add to cabin's note they will side jump if they are being pushed. Up to 6-10 feet off the trail. I have had the trail just end and then you pick up the trail ten feet to the left or right. I have seen it in the snow when tracking is real easy. Also if the trail just ends I have found that the deer will run another 100 or so yards then fall over with no apperent blood trail. If you use two stick with ribbon on them you can tell the general direction that the deer was headed and walk out look back line up the two sticks and then do you grind out farther.

Husker did youget that in ulster? He is a brute.

The first deer I shot I got down put my treestand together (climber) stuffed it in some brush and started trailing. Good blood at first then it started to peter out and I was getting tiny little pin pricks I went and went nothing. I was getting pretty discouraged when the blood just stopped. Now what I started doing circles they ended up with nothing. So I did zag zags getting longer zigs and zags as I got farther out. After about 2 to 3 hundred feet there he was dead. Looking back at it it was a high shot with a decent placment one lung no exit wound. I pushed the deer all that way by not waiting 20-30 minutes. I learned to wait after that one.

Steve it makes the picture look 100 times better that is why.

So here is a good one. I get on stand on monday at 100 in the afternoon so I am sitting there nothing is moving untill 330 when I see movment damn a hunter comming throught the woods. I hunt state land so it is something I am used to. He is walking straight towards me, closer, closer then turns he is 15 to 20 yards out and never sees me. He has his rubber boots on blue jeans a long sleeved tee shirt and a short sleeve tee shirt on carrying his sent lock suit. Sort of dragging the arms and legs across the ground. I watch him walk 80 yards and stop there he is at his treestand I missed on my way in. Delima do I get down or stand still? The way he was standing he was watching one side of a knoll and a trail and I was watching a totally other trail on the other side of the knoll. I decide he doesn't know I am here I can watch him set up and be fine. If the deer takes his way he has them adn if they go my way I have them. So he is at the bottom of his treestand moves around for 2 minutes then he gets out rubber gloves and a sent wik pours sent on it and walks out like a cartoon caracter sneaking up on his enemy. He was super (sorta) quiet. Now I figure he was wearing the gloves so he wouldn't get his sent in the sent wik but he takes the gloves off and touches every finger insiding them back out. Maybe he was trying to keep the sent off his fingers either way I ddn't see why he put them on touching them like he did. So he gets up after 20 minutes. He was in a hang on treestand with climbing sticks. 16 ft climbing stick and his stand was another 15 ft up after his sticks. He was using branches some of them dead CRAZY. So I wait to get down so he can leave and not find the intersection of trails that I am on. He doesn't get down untill 6:35 it was way dark. Just as he gets down I here something elses coming my way I figure it has to be a buddy to pick him up (why else would he stay so late). Nope turns out to be a doe and 2 fawns. They pick right up on all his movement and just walk the other way. This guys goes up and down his treestand 3 more times and walks around his tree several times. So much for sent. At one point I thought he was taking his stand down. Tons of noise. So after 25 minutes of doing who knows what over there he is walking out. He walks directly underneath my stand. I know it was dark and he didn't know I was there but I had 3 bungee cords (brightly colored) that I think he almost stepped on. He walked out not even aware that I was there. After watching the deer watch him and knowing he was there like that I doubt they will just walk in with out being super spooky. I can scratch that stand off my list for this year. I walked over there afterwards and to boot there are apples about 25 yards out from his stand. No apple trees in the area at all. As the title said SIMPLY AMAZING.

Fact what fun is that. I have left my hat at the bottom of the tree and used a Judo point to nab it with the hooks. Bow when you get it up to the tree you feel like you mastered the universe. Good job WNY

Yesterday was a slow day with a doe and fawn coming in just at dark she walked within 12 yards but she just didn't come out of the brush. Then today with all the wind nothing was moving. Oh well it is all part of hunting.

That is a great idea using the sent away on a dog. Does the sent come back after the dogs gets wet or does the stuff wear off? Never thought to use it in that situation.

Funny thing I was the one to say how many Sleeping pills I would need to take I guess this whole writing on the forum doesn't imply the sarcastic parts of the sentences. I wish I was just wishy washy about hunting ahhh it is just another day for me no big deal! Oh wait nope I would brather lose sleep and be excited about hunting. I think it means you are really looking forward to it.

I knew a guy that was hunting over bait and the first day of gun he got a decent 6 pointer and he called and said I had to come and see it. So I did, well when I got there the nieghbor whos land he was hunting on was acting all impressed about the deer untill I said "Nice deer too bad you shot it over a pile of apples" He was quick to deny while the land owner was there. This guy took his truck and got two full bed loads of apples to put 30 yards from his stand. He thought he was an allmighty hunter. Thankfully I don't talk to him anymore and he moved out of state. He was a loser to say the least. I have been practicing with my bow since the end of july got everything together and now I have time to sit here and write on the forum. Glad I started early now I just hope the weather holds out and the deer cooperate.

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