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I believe it was shot last year in IN by a female.

arrows are a gimmick today. I find one I like and buy several dozen shafts. arrows are being discontinued and modified yearly almost now. look for lot purchasss on at. I bought several dozen epic st for 40 a dozen. last me 4 hears or so and I burn through arrows.

a few blacks on ground I hunt. one will be on my wall once deer season ends.

no offense but you are poking a bear. I didnt post to tell a story. I posted pics of a very large buck for others to enjoy now that he doesnt need to be kept under wraps. Stop pressing.

jealous? please. just enjoy the pics.

me and moog were after him this year. he stayed under the radar for the most part. he was shot by someone we just didnt get along with and karma didnt play out the way it should have.

painful story but just sharing for all to enjoy now that hes dead.

cold and slow morning. get to pm property and blow out 2 small bucks and 6ish doe frin under tge stand on way in. awesome.

its a war in 8h. just passed a 2 or3 yr old six at first light.

I have two z28s. just in case I need another.

Nice!

Congrats!

If you read, you'll see the "for times when you need to get off the ground," meaning a mixture of both methods. Saying only ground or only treestand hunting is ignorant. Both have advantages and hunters have used both methods to kill deer for ages - even before treestands. Indians used high ground all the time to kill. So, back to the OP. I hope you get another crack at a deer this season. It's a blast.

I don't see it anywhere on their site. No info on drop from I can tell.

It's not the deer. It's the hunters. Opening day is that fine balance of enough pressure to keep deer moving at a high frequency throughout the day and not enough pressure to make them not move except within the confines of very small areas. When it's mid 50s and sunny....hunters simply won't be on their feet as compared to 30s. What Doc said is right, the hunters will pick a spot and sit.

Can you walk the corn field? Walk the edge and look for the trails right on the edge with rubs on them. Bucks will make rubs on trees very near the corn field edge with the corn up. They will still use those same trails for the next few days after harvest to get to the corn to feed.

Big time agree. Warm openers are horrible. This one could be one of the worst in recent memory.

Hot Can via walmart, amazon, etc. Easier just to get the regular cambpells and use the warmers...most people use them anyway.

Best invention ever - the soups in a sip can. A few will heat themselves, but the basic Campbell's at walmart are much cheaper - take one and put in your muff and take a rubber band and put your hand warmers around the can. By the time midday comes, the can is nice and heated and the warmers do double duty keeping your hands warm. Always need some water, a sandwich or two, and some snacks.

You'd need the co-efficient and other inputs to determine drop and point of aim.

How big is that huge rub tree? 1"? LOL.

I wear eau d' doe. Moog sat that original stand in the a.m. for the first time and I thought he was going to cry at the truck after he left with his head hung low. How many deer busted you by scent that morning? 40? It would have been anyone in that stand. After that, we realized we could potentially move that stand and get above their noses once they hit the valley floor and it worked like a charm. Two sits and two middle-aged bucks.

The property with these bucks has without a doubt the most swirling, challenging winds I've ever encountered. It has a valley with steep hillsides for the area. While I was already playing the wind and thermals before this year, I gained a new found respect for deer's tolerance and how thermal tunnels work in real life with deer that won't tolerate the human scent. It's disgusting and downright frustrating to see them work and you have to be darn near perfect in your positions and entry/exit to avoid getting busted. Again, I'm not saying I don't practice scent measures, but I plan my setups as if any swirling is a red line I won't cross. Certain spots with swirls often have a location off to the side that may not be as advantageous, but offers a cleaner sit. The spot where I was busted - we moved a stand about 30 yards and got above the deer's nose with thermals in the a.m., and two bucks were killed out of it within the next 8 days - including the buck in the second picture I posted.

Part of the problem with deer vision and scent is that we simply don't smell or see like they do. We have an "understanding" of what they see and what they can smell. They have an organ we do not. It allows them to detect and smell multiple smells at the same time and process them all at the same time. It's like a super computer. The same property these bucks came from I had my first shooter encounter this season with a solid 130-135in 8. He came in like I expected and as he committed to a lane I had already moved into position to shoot, I felt the distinct feeling of wind hitting the back of my neck moving toward the buck and it was like slow motion - the buck picked up that scent within 3-4 seconds, stopped, turned around slowly but purposely, and came back the way he went. That day, I was about as "scent free" as I could be with clothes changed at the location, cleaned clothes, showered, the whole nine. Nothing was going to make that buck come in once he picked up my stink.

Nov 2...posted in the post.