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10 turkeys walked by at 100 yards. Haven’t laid eyes on one in a couple years.

Actually in stand before sunrise for once. Two separate deer kicked up on way in.

Brushed mine, too, but now saturating palette with large amounts of coffee. Still haven't gotten a deer! Seen a bunch. Optimistic about today because weather is good and without kid there I will be able to hang around longer.

Jokes aside it is actually a nice cabinet.

Well this is awkward.

Then why is it not stuck on anything and being used as a decoration? I agree it looks like one, but I think there is a great deal more to this story.

Would you sell the whale ornament?

This is actually a good idea. You could even put a mirror close in front of it like a rear view mirror to see in behind. Please do it.

What do you want for the table.

Never heard of them. https://sikbroadheads.com/product/abh102sk2 Seems like a decent design but basically the same as rage. Their F4 fixed looks good.

KARMA, etc. I'm sure these people would not post the same if a cattle rancher was killed by one of his cows. Waiting 30 minutes is nonsense. Poke it or, frankly, look at it. It's really not hard to tell if a deer is dead if you look at its face. My guess is since it was clearly a buck (this wouldn't happen with a doe), he came up from behind and surprised it, so it attacked. Not a fun way to go, though.

Nothing close to Rochester, NY exists for leasing. $20/acre would be a dream. If it exists it's locked down for years for sure. I'd happily pay $40/ acre or even more for 25 decent acres to myself on any of the thousands of parcels that exist where the suburbs start to end and rural starts.

PETA did not like that.

Ugh. 8:30 about 10 doe of varying sizes come under stand. Nice little column of them. I cannot get a shot. Just too many eyes. A few minutes later I hear for the first time ever the sound of a fawn. Three deer come along, one of which is a fawn, and it makes its little fawn noises. 10 min or so later I see a doe and two fawn walking in the distance. Too far, walking away from me. For the first time ever I called a deer in. Using my flextone, I made the same quick fawn sounds. Just a few of them. The deer changed course, got to about 50 yards away and spent a good 45 minutes looking at my tree, blowing, running a few yards, jerking around in the brush, blowing, looking at me. Could not believe it never ran! Finally it walks off, I fawn again, then it repeats the same thing for a few min. Finally it starts to make its way to me! Very slowly, very cautiously, but it gets to 25 yards and presents broadside, but a stick is in the way so I don't draw. I think it's going to keep moving at me so I wait, while the two younger ones are directly under my tree eating and what not. Unfortunately one of the young ones finally gets wise to me, looks up, and after a few min of stamping around it blows and runs off and that's that. So, still no deer! Interesting morning, though.

This thread is not disappointing.

I had this very deer under my stand last weekend. He wasn't that big in person, I passed. I'm doing 30 points or bigger only now.

These were $99 after rebate in September at Dicks. I seriously thought of getting one because the benefits of a cell cam are obvious. Reviews were very mixed. I saw too high a percentage of people saying it failed to trigger or setup issues or whatever, I just couldn't bring myself to get one.

^^^ I guess you can't really blame them. There can't be much margin in their business.

I can say I would because I drew on a very white one a couple of weeks ago. She was clever and saw me, bobbed her head for a min or so, and was off. In retrospect I can truly say I'm glad I didn't because a) now somebody else can see it and, b) i subsequently figured out that the guy's land I'm hunting his wife liked this deer, so I think she wouldn't have been happy to hear I had hit it

Another friendly reminder to gun guys that they should buy xbows and get in on this! Is that article accurate do you think? I mean has it been in the past...?

Interesting idea. I wonder if the proof is in the pudding (e.g. point of impact consistency). Aiding stability from the front does make some sense.

Couldn't make it out this morning, so of course the property owner sends me a picture of a buck walking around next door at 7:30 and lets me know there are "20 deer" in the field next door. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful day to be out for you lucky buggers

Well done. What is your filming situation? go pros stuck on tree....? Is it a hassle chasing the deer around with it before the shot? Last year I mounted my iphone on my xbow and got a video of a deer except of course the release of the arrow caused so much vibration the video sucked. I feel like some head-mounted gopro pointing in the direction of the deer would work well. BTW get yourself a lighted nock. It is a must have and particularly with video you could look back and see exactly where you hit it before recovery.

Can’t believe nothing has walked past yet. This stand never pulls empty for this long in AM! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Me too so far, though I saw a bunch on drive in, but Woods are dead so far... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk