Fletch

Nice deer, Congratz!

Little sad to see it come. After the opener around here deer are scarce. I hunt a lot of public land and once the shootin starts, forget it. I hope to get a doe this week before bow ends and hope I am in a good spot for pumkin army day.

Congratz!

11/10 pm 49 Three of us tonight behind the house for 2 hours. My bro in law was on the field edge and did not see anything he did hear a couple but this stand does not have a lot of view. My brother saw the little buck again and with him having only one bow day left took a shot at him and shot right under him. He did see another with that buck. I saw one small buck at about 4:15 wasy out behind me. Then about 10 minutes laster I had a doe come in off my left but out 100 yards, she got nervous and turned around and I see another deer come towrds where she was. I could not see the head but am thinking it was the buck my bro missed. He sticks around till dark and he finally is out so I start getting set to climb down and hear more steps coming in. Saw the body I would bet another buck since good sized and all alone. He gets outa range and start to go again and more steps I think he came back? My bro is calling me at this time and I think while I had the phone out the deer saw the light and started blowing and ran off. So much for a quiet slip out!! The deer are officially moving!

Thanks mt. 11/10 am 45 Out behind the house this morn. Sat on the field edge which is real close since I had to coach this morn. I only sat for an hour. My bro on his way in bumped one and it came up in front of me in the dark before I could even climb my stand. Never saw it in the dark. My bro saw 4 two he was not sure what they were and he had a nice buck and a little buck both go by him and not get a shot. He removed one tree on his way out this morn!!

Sounds like a fun watch! Might need to put up a blind.

Thanks guys! Shawn did you get that?

11/9 pm 44 My brother and I took a trip out to Howland Island. We are pretty much rookies being here only a couple times over the last 2 years. We head in and split up each heading behind separate cut corn fields. I sa one turkey and one spike or crotchhorn at about 4:30. My brother saw two bucks both nice ones the bigger he said had close to a 20" spread. He had one on each side of him and could not get one in close enough for a shot. Just for those keeping track, my bro in law out one saw 3 bucks, my bro so far 5 bucks one doe and one unknown and me 10 bucks, one doe and one unknown. So between the three of us 18 buck sightings and 2 doe! 6 of the bucks have been 2.5 or older.

11/9 am 28 My brother and I got out for 2.5 hours out behing the inlaws. I saw a crotch forn at about 7:15 or so. My bro saw one undetermined sex.

I was definetly born into it. I remember as far back as I can being a little guy watchin my Dad and Granpa and Uncle get ready and plan for the opener every year. And when I turned 14 my Dad let me tag along for 2 years until I was 16 and go with a gun. Man those first couple years I missed a LOT of deer!! I have missed only one opening morning in 29 years and that was because I filled my bow tag one year on a big buck the night before the opener and back then you had to go get your next tag. It was and is a way of life for me and my Grandpa was the same way. He actually taught my city slicker Dad to hunt when he married his daughter my Mom. I could listen for hours to their stories of deer camp and hunting back in the days in the Adirondacks. Back when my Granpa was still alive and we went up north to hunt opening weekend every year at camp. We would wake up to bacon frying every morning. We would hunt a morning watch in the mountains and then maybe some still hunting. Later in the season we would do the old fashioned deer drives. Man the history of some of those!! Good times, and I am just starting to get to share em with my 10 year old boy. It gets no better than all this!

11/8/12 pm 40 Got out later than I wanted but at least I got out! Went down to the rabbit hole stand for 1.5 hours. Nothing going on. I need some farmers to seriously cut some corn on the properties around this spot! My brother and I have tomorrow off so we will be after them!

Thanks for sharing your exploits with us. Good reading! Try the snort wheeze on him next time. I had the 9 I got yesterday pretty much ignore the doe can and the grunt. He was headed straight away and I snort wheezed and he stopped on a dime I did one more and he came right back to me.

I may be about 8 inches high after second glance.

Nice buck! Where those woods and I'll let you know if I see anything bigger!! jk I am just north of you now. Grew up in East side of Syracuse.

I live right down the road from 3 rivers this buck was taken about 2 miles from there. I have always wanted to taste a pheasant, I see them a lot around there, but it interferes with deer hunting!!

My sightings have been at 1/3 the level as usual years. We lost apples this year as well. I do not have producing oaks. And any corn or ag is a ways from me. They may be there!! I see the sign they are around at night though. I have not seen one fresh rub! Have seen some scrapes but none being hit a lot. Weird year, it was an easy winter I now there are a bunch out there.

I am going about 102" on this one.

I am going 96" on the left and 88" on the right. Both nice deer and bet they were tasty!

A new wife!! lol jk

Way to go man!! Good thing you did not get down without knowing he was bedded!

Thanks everyone!! I took a short break and did not get out yesterday afternoon or this am. Man it felt nice to sleep in!! Work willing I will be out after a doe this afternoon. Based on my doe sightings this may be a lot harder than a nice buck!! Yikes.

lol that is the look!!

Nice muzzy that has got some tine length!!

I could not find it. It was fresh broken and with the summersault he took I figured that did it. If a backstrap would of flew outa it I would of looked more!!

This may be one of the bucks that I am the proudest of taking. Sometimes it is just a lucky day or something but I feel I really earned this buck. It has been my worst bow season ever for deer sightings. I have been on stand during legal hours a total of 80 hours this season with 8 deer sightings. 1 deer for 10 hours is a very bad ratio I am usually 3 times that average. That being said I have been a bit discouraged with the activity. But I have been dragging my butt out every possible day. I think Zemmer18 from this site said once it is my persistence that pays off in the end. This week has been really cold and the sightings have picked up slightly. I actually passed a little 3 point at 30 yards yesterday, about the fourth passed 1.5 year old this season. It was very tempting considering I really do hunt for the meat. My family loves it and the freezer is scary low! I have been optimistic that the bucks had to start moving sooner or later. So on to the hunt. This morning was a frosty 27 degrees with a heavy frost covering the ground. I headed into my ladder stand behind the house and was set up by 6 am. It was very quiet all morning and I had not heard or seen anything. At 8:15 am I catch movement out front and see a deer crossing from my right to left about 80 yards out. Seeing that it is a nice buck but not working towards me I grab the doe can and give a couple calls. He stops but not really interested continues but does turn a little left. He cuts enough to get at 40 yards broadside which is my max range. He is at a small opening and I draw back and kind of bent over to line up with the hole and just tell myself this is not a good shot and let off. He then turns right and is headed out directly away from me. I grab the grunt tube and give it a couple blows and nothing, crap! Now what? He is at 70 yards…80 yards and going. I give a snort wheeze call with my mouth and he stops on a dime. I do it again and he spins 180 and back at me. He angles a little left and goes right through a lane but he is quartering to me. Then he turns and comes straight at me and now stops facing me at 12 yards. He turns a bit each way and actually gets broadside and looks away. Yea I start to draw and he snaps his head right back around! Oh cruds I am now pulled back like 3 inches and stuck. I start shaking, the bow starts shaking, my eyes are popping outa my head. I am thinking this is it he is going to bust me and be gone. After what seems like forever he turns away and I can let down, no way I could pull it then. He turns and starts walking away quartering away perfectly. I pull back and put the pin on the spot, double check pin so we do not repeat the miss I had two weeks ago!, and let it fly hitting perfect half way back. The arrow stopped on the far shoulder. He takes off and circles up and I see him go nose diving then summersault crash. He went about 70 yards. The whole deal took like 8 minutes and was extremely intense. I had to sit down until the shakes went away!! Got him dragged out and cleaned up he hit the scales at 160 pounds dressed. He will make some nice meals. He is a 9 point but I think most of the 9th point broke off when he flipped.