grampy

Have a great and safe trip! Best of luck to you hunting! Looking forward to seeing the pic's and video of your trip! Take care sir.

On the few mature bucks I've been fortunate enough to kill, I'd say 30% to 40% of them were killed between 10 and 2. With 10 to 12 being the sweet spot. Sometimes when I'm late getting out for whatever reason, and head in at 9 or 10, either I'll see them and put a stalk on. Or they are just cruising by, shortly after I get in and set up. And late in the season, when my buddy and I do small pushes to each other, that has paid off big too, during the mid day.

Mr. Becker was a great teacher! He gave the hunter education class I took at 16, right in the school, on a Saturday morning. That was back in the day, when schools were not so uptight about such things.

It never gets easier when we lose friends and family. May he RIP in the arms of our Lord.

My Side Of The Mountain, was the first real book I ever bought and read! Think it was 5th or 6th grade. Recommended by an awesome teacher Mr. Becker. Started a life long love of books for me. I've read it to both my grandsons, when they were younger. They loved it too.

Hope it's just a minor hiccup Larry, and with a bit of rest you will be fine. If not, go get yourself checked out. Definitely dont want to make things worse. After I could not pull my bow back in January, it was a surgery and months of rehab and PT, before I could pull it again.

Enjoy the time in Dads stand! He would want that above all. Just look to your left, he's right there with ya my friend. You were always his right hand man. Thinking of you. While you think of him. Good luck out there.

Anything by Jack London, but Call Of The Wild, is one of my favorites. Peter Capstick has some very thrilling reads on hunting the Dark Continent, and Death In The Long Grass, will have you on the edge of your hunting seat.

Happy Belated Birthday!!!

Or uptownredneck? Now there was a pot stirrer among pot stirrers! Even got me going a time or two. And I try, to not get riled up over too much of anything! He may of even gotten banned, not sure.

Way to go Fletch! Congratulations!

Now you are learning! The deer will always be your best teachers. Were you walking where the deer were standing, as you made your way to where you sat? At 6:15 the sun is setting, air temps are dropping a bit. Hunting from the ground, the dropping temperature may hold your scent a bit and even "spread"it out from you just a bit if there is no wind to push it away. You are on the right track by going to where you see the deer. But the older deer will take only so much of you intruding on them before they avoid that immediate area. So change up on them often. Or just get it done on your next sit! Good luck.

Wow! That looks, and I bet tastes unbelievably good! Thanks so much for sharing with us! Your wife is a very lucky lady!

Nice going Matt! Way to go buddy! Nice yote and great shot!

Pretty quiet here so far. But nice to be out.

You did right by dropping what you were doing to offer help. That hunter never would have recovered "his" buck without your help. Your ethics and morals are truly commendable. The other hunter should have voiced that to you, while tagging and dragging "his" buck. Don't let this stop you from helping the next time, for someone else. You are above all the bs. Nice job.

I'm up, so may as well go sit somewhere and swat skeeters. And hey, ya never know.

That will make the drag a bit easier! Also tie the front forelegs up around the ears to streamline em a bit more. Every little bit helps! Best of luck to ya on the 21st.

Pinstripe camo with the #99 in overlapping patterns? A summer sausage grunt tube? A trail cam that emits soft sexy doe bleats? Boots with built in GPS, so you never get lost and can find stands in the pitch dark? Arrows and bullets, designed to fly around trees? Whatcha got? C'mon Biz, the suspense is killing me!

I've been fortunate, to take decent bucks and many deer, from public, and my own private land. I let most all of the deer I see walk now. Though a nice fat doe may be taken, when the time and place is right, for the freezer. Hoping my grandson or my buddies daughter, or a young hunter, will kill the doe or bucks that i don't shoot. Before the season I'll tell myself, I'd like to shoot this or that buck. Again, on our land, or public. But as the season goes on, I'll see a buck and let him pass, only to maybe shoot him later in the season. Because I saw him running doe, or fighting, or just cruising through, with snow on his back and vapor from his nostrils, one cold November morning. Then after I've built up a bit of history, I "may" decide to kill him, and always have those memories of seeing him doing what bucks do. Or having a certain buck bust you a few times, and win some battles, to show how hard he is to hunt, and really challenge me. That is always fun, weather he wins, or I do. I most likely will not shoot a buck, younger than three years old. As that is what it takes to form some of the above criteria, not how big his rack may or may not be. And it will not bother me one bit if I shoot no deer at all. Above all else, I now put more value in the hunt itself, than the kill. And it really makes no difference were that hunt is, my land, public land or invited to hunt a friends property.

Average age so far.....43.7. That makes me feel much younger!.......smile.

I too, have had contact with them handling a dead deer. But never had a problem with them just walking around. With all the infected skeeters and ticks these days, we certainly don't need more of a bug problem.

Blessed with 60 years so far. Looking forward to many more.

Nice job, congratulations!! Beautiful fall gobbler!

A good hard frost or two would slow it down some for sure!