Fletch

I don't see you carrying a gun in that pic! Now I gotta kill it with my bare hands AND carry it out on my shoulders......Shit I need to step it up!!

Interested to hear the input on this as I was looking into the same with my son. I know one thing they taste great!

Both for me as well. Buck with bow from climber at 15 yards and doe with crossbow from ground brush blind 12 yards.

You don't fail to impress me Wooly!! Great work.

Ouch nice buck lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not since Sunday. The shooting around here may have dampened it a bit... I am still going.

Pulled it at 11:30 Shower Pulled pork nachos Back out about 2:15 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m still out, haven’t seen squat and yes it beats finishing drywall! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Man it is dead out here. The squirrels ain’t even showed up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Up a tree down in the Hole. 32 degrees snow all gone now. Prolly couple days late as this stand was covered in deer opening weekend by the pics smh. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Have you shot a deer with the polymer tips yet! You shooting the lever evolution? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That is the key, having a good setup.

I took out my 30-30 this morning! Will be carrying it tomorrow too.

11/19 am 32 Out for a 2 hour sit this morn. Nada going on. Checked cam on inner stand and all day opening day deer were going through smh. And Sunday afternoon two shooter 8 points Ha.Stand selection is paramount...

Ha missed the Port O Pot lol Yea they could find a better spot eh. But deer laying on pallets in 30 degree temps for a couple days are not going to hurt them either if they were gutted properly and not gut shot or not cooled first. I would not want to lay a warm deer like that. Would it be my preference no, and I wouldn't probably do it, but have you ever been to any industrial meat processing facility?? You'd probably get sick. That said I doubt either one of us should care what someone else wants to do lol.

Some of you guys act like venison goes bad in 30 degree weather in a couple days? I've hung em from a tree or put in my 6ft beer cooler, which can hold 3 mid sized deer, for days. I've cut up plenty of deer but really I'm not a butcher and my time is worth more to me. I have a butcher I trust completely. I have watched the whole process and see the organization and cleanliness every visit. While I do agree every hunter should butcher a deer at least a couple times I don't get the bashing. If I wanted to be a butcher that would be my profession lol. Now if the temps were up and those deer were laying around I would worry. My guy gets em skinned and hanging in the cooler where they may hang for day if they are busy.

Up a tree 32 breeze in my face. Lost almost all the snow, I can’t see 45 miles anymore lol. I may have to change my Friday off as well looks like a wash out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congrats Grampy! Hell of a buck and shot! Dino sounds like an adventure! Can’t wait to read the stories! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just awesome to the participants and the volunteers!!

I would guess road rash it was hit and took a slide, burned off some hair. Then its stellar winter continued when you shot it lol!!

I cant tell from the pic is the hair actually thinner or shorter there?

Just wow!! Special Day for sure. What a memory!! Congratz!

I have done it before and would do it again.

Opening weekend of Gun' It was a frigid and with the frozen snow loud as heck. My boy sat in the heated tower and I sat the far stand out back both for a 4 hour morning sit and 2.5 hour evening sit. My brother hunted his ridge above the hole on my other prop. None of us saw a deer. Also very little shooting close. I had one distant neighbor shoot 10-12 times.......MY BIL and Nephew hit Howland and BIL shot a small buck and they both saw some deer. Sunday I hunted the outer Hole and saw a nice buck and then the same or another chasing a doe but no shot in the am. I sat 6+ hours. Brother up top saw 0. In the afternoon my son and his buddy were in the tower and I was in the far stand out back. I had 2 doe and 2 fawn go by at 45 yards. None were too big. About a half hour after they passed from the direction they went that distant neighbor shot about 6 times. After a bit I have 2 run back by me unscathed I hoped they would head for the boys. Then 2 shots rang out close in front of me on my neighbors and a 3rd deer came through. She was hurt and bedded from me at 80 yards. I put the Ithaca on her and finished her. A few minutes later neighbors friend came up to the line and I waved him over. Showed him where the deer was, congratulated him and gave him a hand. Real nice guy. He shot at it because it looked hurt after the farther neighbor shot and shot at it. I'm not sure which hit it but it was hit in the hind quarters. He also saw the 4th one unharmed so the farther neighbor is confirmed a terrible shot!! My shot was through the chest. He left his knife back at his truck so I loaned him mine. I was hoping he was one of those folks that leave the heart but he wasn't lol Said it was the first thing going in the frying pa when he got home! I walked into one walking out after that. I got down to the tower and the boys told me they had just unloaded at legal dark and were getting there gear together and look out the tower window and a big buck steps out of the brush at 40 yards stopped broad side then kept on going.They think it was a 9, I got a camera there so I'll have to check if I got a pic. Dang, 5 minutes earlier.... I'll be back out Tuesday morn.

Well bow season was a success. Was a fair year for sightings. I saw twice as many bucks as doe. And even though I took a smaller buck I ended up seeing 5 bigger ones most within range. Both the doe and buck I took came off state land. I spent 85 hours in the stand during legal hours. My bro took a nice buck and got the kids out but unfortunately no shots.