nybuckboy

load some good books on tape on your iPod or mp3 player. Turn the volume on super low (you'll be surprised how low) so you hear it and use your eyes to keep looking. This will keep you going when you don't think you can. Load some music too. You won't burn up the phone battery as quickly either.

I'd hang some quality estrous and see if it will be enough to coax him the final distance and stay scent free. But thats just me.

I'm not ashamed to say I hunt mature bucks first. The challenge is the reason. So I'm a trophy hunter first by choice and a meat hunter second because I like venison. MY son and I have both vowed to see if we can grow some bigger bucks on the 100 acres and can say that in the third season we have seen bigger bucks each year on camera and from the stand. A few of the neighboring properties practice similar ways with one saying he has 4 different mature bucks on camera. I always have gun season to get my venison.

Just curious... what do you use for bleat call? Can call (manufacturer); mouth call (manufacturer) etc. When do you use it? Also why do you use it and how well has it done for you (stories)?

Good job Elmo. Enjoyed the story very much. I also enjoy your dedication to hunting even though you do not have much time to dedicate.

Funny you ask this Rock - last year I had small herd of resident does that I can watch from the house. All summer and all hunting season I saw a spike horn with them. This year I still have my group of resident does and this year they have nice 4 point with them. I wondered about the spike being a doe last year and now that this buck with them is a pretty nice 4 point so I tend to agree that this could be an antlered doe.

Deer Dander

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Regarding no deer sightings. Thus far I have sat 4 times and today was the first time any deer have been sighted while in the stand. I don't think you can blame your machine at this point.

Ive said the same thing about the deer calendar. If I hang estrous scent the middle of October and a buck smells it is he gonna question "hmmm that smells like a hot doe but it's too early, it's only Oct 15th so it must be fake". I think if it smells like the real stuff he's coming! No pun intended.

Oh Grampy - so glad to hear you are gonna be back to hunt another day. As we get older, (I can attest), the muscles just don't react the way they used to.

To save the battery... turn it on only when you see deer coming!

I have found that I see less or no deer at all with a direct East wind like this morning. Son and I on opposite corners of property with wind in our face on stand and another friend about 5 miles away and no sightings. I attribute this to deer are used to moving via their trails systems with prevailing west/northwest/southwest winds so they are extra cautious or don't move at all until they have to. Anybody else think this way too?

Sounds like you got the perfect situation!

Link to Deer Dander. It's been around a long time. http://teamfitzgerald.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=29 Had a doe follow me right to my stand and sniff the ladder rungs

They will move in the rain a month from now for sure.

How does Ever Calm compare to Deer Dander. I've had good luck with DD.

Not here to compare or argue about manufacturers or personal likes. I just want to know if anyone shoots a CHILL R because I think it the bow I want to purchase next.

Hard to beat this for fixed broached. Tough blades.

If you are like many hunters, you don't have a lot of days to hunt each season and get a chance to take a nice buck. You can't always wait for the perfect wind for you to hunt this property. Some may take this wrong and I would not dispute if you think this wrong. Hunt the land only when you have the wind in your favor until the last few days of Oct and the first of Nov. After that if you have a day to hunt and the wind is wrong, decide which way in would provide the least disturbance and go in really early in the morning when they are feeding. You may kick a few out but if the bucks are moving the does will be moving and after a couple of hours things could be back to normal. Also around the madison county area I notice the wind comes out of the south often during the season so it may make your north entrance perfect. Don't worry about kicking some out on the way in. When buck are chasing they will be back around.

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You'll save on the water bill w all the pissing outside.

Been thinking about using a drag line later in the season but got to thinking if a buck typically walks across the wind smelling the air for estrous does then if the wind is from the west - then shouldn't my drag line run north/south or visa versa so he would cut the trail at some point?

medium back pack . Carry my rain gear, lunch, thermos coffee inside, water bottle or gator aid in side slots plus in the zip compartments - gut gloves, zip ties, extra screw in step, scent lures and whatever else I may need.

35... 40 tops on a standing unalert deer broad side like a target. But I am also confident on a walking deer at 25 yds