nybuckboy

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Screw the rest of the stuff!! This is exactly the way to do it. Always has been and always will be. When the girls get horny the boys will always be around. If you've got a lot of doe around you will eventually see the bucks and eventually the big bucks.

Kicked a 3 up on the way to stand and kicked the same 3 up again on way back out. Think it's the same 3 does I've seen before. Saw nothing while on stand. Not going to deter me though cause I know it's just a matter of time.

Things look to be heating up with bucks on the prowl for the does. Hope to get a chance this morning.

never mind

I know this part of the post has been beat to death... "how many pins" I use 1 pin set at 25 and hold top of back at 35. I don't shoot any farther unless it was standing still in the open and I could hold high otherwise no dice. As stated, too many pins are in the way and can cause confusion at the critical moment so choose to keep it simple.

You do not need a 10 pin. If you plan to use more than 1 pin (I don't) just use a 20 and 30.

good job young man

Great buck!!! Good luck.

For all day comfort, which is what the post was about... regardless of the V-Shaped to the back, the Millennium M-100 and the larger M-150 have the best and most comfortable seat, bar none in a lock on stand. Not even close.

When up hold high - when down hold low. Correct?

Millinnium M-100. Absolutely the most comfortable. I have 2, Great to stand in as well and the seat flips up for standing. It has a unique mounting system that allows you to lock the chuck on first and then slide the stand into the chuck. Only 14 pounds too. Here is a link. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Millennium-Aluminum-Hang-On-Treestand-M100-with-Chain-CamLock-system-/131020924427 Another link with reviews: http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1203758

Patience and persistence pays off!

excellent buck and way to be cool and make the shot

TeeBugg - Every hunt is different and there are no 2 the same. The rest of your family may have just been lucky. Luck has a lot to do with it sometimes anyway. If they had been in your shoes the same thing may have happened. Sometimes the deer is right there but a branch or tree is in the way of the vitals. You wait and then the deer turns 90% and is gone or they are just out of reach or the deer is right under you. Or another deer comes on the scene and then the deer you thought you were gonna kill changes direction and you never get the shot. I've been bow hunting about 12 years and have messed up at least a half-dozen times since and anyone who has bow hunted for a few years has done the same thing one way or another a few times themselves. This isn't point and click like it is with a scoped rifle. This takes patience, a lot of hours in the stand (generally)and sometimes everything just needs to align for it all to take place. They don't call the "the elusive whitetail deer" for nothing. Why not tell your self you are gonna go spend some time in the woods and if it all comes together then it will and was meant to be. Enjoy!

Yeah... I said I will throw caution to the wind as I have not seen too much thus far this season. I got in the woods a bit late and actually got all settled in the stand (bow up, arrow nocked and harness on), looked at the time and it was 6:36. Before I climbed into the stand I hung 2 Wildlife Research Estrous gold leafs about 10 yards to the left and right of the stand and about 15 yards out. At 6:55 I heard a snap and a deer was making an appearance thru the thick stuff at a good clip. He stopped (big spike) and had his head up and lips curled and was downwind and sniffing this leaf about 10 feet away. He hung out for about 2 minutes and disappeared. At 7:40 another buck (big tall crotch horn) bounded in to the leaf for a brief moment and then looked around and cut across my shooting lanes and was gone. I passed on both of them. At 8 another was coming toward me at a slow poke walk directly out in front of me but not downwind of the leafs. I thought it was a doe but looked thru the glass and it was little spike. He made his way by but out of the wind of the leaf so I know that was not the reason he came along. I did not see any more deer and left at 11:30. Interesting?

Up and eating some oatmeal with maple syrup. Jumping in the shower in a moment and then out the door. Spot only a few minutes away by 4 wheeler. Good luck to all.

so I guess that means you'll be in the woods in the morning...

I have said this before... do you think if a buck is thinking about getting some sex and the scent of ready and willing doe wafes across their nose... do they look at the calendar to see if it's too early. I say No they don't. Obviously it wouldn't work in the Spring or Summer of the year but it is getting to the time when a doe could come into heat so I think it very well could draw in a buck, any buck for that matter. I do think it will scare off any doe from the area but if you are hunting for a buck try it now.

I was going to mention this as well

special bucks

John... Tanner even recalls you reaching into the back seat of your car that we were in. You even tried to shoot the bow at my house the same day and pulled it back once and said that hurts and did not shoot again that day.I believe it was when you had just began to use the old Oneida Eagle. Not sure what car you had then. Any way lay off the hard work, see the Dr and begin a strengthening program.

John, if me memory serves me correctly you first hurt that shoulder reaching into the back seat from the drivers seat not to long after I first met you and you had moved here. It went pop and you yelled out that day. Am I correct on this? You need to get that looked at or give up any hard work like hanging sheet rock until after the season... of course that is my recommendation.

If the 1 pin works for 20 yds then just use the 1 pin and don't take longer shots. Sight is perfect at 20

Way to go!!