corydd7
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17 minutes ago, chrisw said:
3 yotes came in, 1 left.
Sent from my moto g fast using Tapatalk
Nice shot chris.
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3 hours ago, BizCT said:
what type of plant is all that red stuff on the ground?
Mountain laurel. I can tell you it's not fun to drag an animal in that thick stuff. The positive, it's very easy to see fresh sign and game trails. They bed right in that stuff. I usually don't hunt in it but I got lazy today and didn't walk to my usual spot.
Great bear terrain. I shot a bear a couple hundred yards away a couple years ago and that's all what is behind my brothers house that killed the bear Saturday.
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Until I fall out of this tree I'm in it to win it.
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Not sure why but I'm about to walk a half hour to a spot on stateland on top of a mountain in the rain and fog. What a hobby.
Saw lots of deer on the 20 minute drive already feeding so there is that.
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1 hour ago, mowin said:
Congrats on the upcoming wedding.
And a little advice, don't let your wife to be read your post about being a ****ing idiot.. lol.
How dare you make that assumption! We have known each other since 14 years old, she knows I'm an idiot!
This hooded monster doesn't control me.
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Oh baby the morning of the eight looks good. But wait I choose to get married October 8th what a ****ing idiot I am.
Headed to stateland for the first time tomorrow evening. It's suppose to rain but apparently that's the early theme of my hunting season.
On a side note just from driving the area I think it's going to be a banner year for hunting. Lots of deer out
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7 minutes ago, mowin said:
Bionic is no longer on the forum.
I just checked that myself. That sucks he use to beep when he drove by my house. Seemed like a nice guy not sure why he left.
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Desertos is the only other option around here and they do say you get your own deer.
Quaker creek is a superior operation though. I dropped my brothers bear off yesterday. Also desortos doesn't do jerky.
Hopefully you snagged some pierogies at quaker creek they are the best!
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3 hours ago, heavuser said:
Story Time!
Man of man, what a rush. This is not only my first bow buck but my first bow deer and first buck ever since I started hunting about 2 seasons ago now. Here's exactly how it all went down.
It started yesterday, for a few hours I was debating not going hunting today due to the weather forecast. I decided that since I had been prepping for this very day, for months, I wasn't going to miss it. This would be my first time hunting before the start of regular season.
At around 4pm I walked into my "spot" to setup my stand, prep work before Saturday's hunt. On the way in I bumped what I thought was a solid 4 point buck. I setup my stand then left. The next day I woke up around 3am, showered, headed out the door by 3:30am. I arrived at my spot around 4am, climbed up my stand and waited.
There was rain, on and off, not as bad as I thought it would be. While I was in my stand, cold and wet, I decided to try and pull back my bow, practice run. I couldn't do it..... my muscles were cold, I was tired. It took me 3-4 tries before I could pull it back. At that point I was extremely nervous. And in that nervousness I realized I am 100% overbowed, 70lbs is not for me. Not only am I overbowed but I increased my draw length by half an inch and ever since the bow randomly jumps forward if I let up on it even just a tad at full draw. No bueno.
7:20am rolls by, I have to go to the bathroom... hell of a chore when you have to get past 3 layers of tight clothing. As I'm about to open the flood pipe I see my shooter buck 15 yrds from me ... Looking back on this, this was a moment I will remember for the rest of my life for so many reasons. My johnson in my hand, buck 15 yrds away from, and my body instantly flooding with adrenaline.
I scramble to get myself decent. After I position my feet, I grab my bow SLOWLY, then freeze. It's crazy how you can be 15yrds away from an animal that is hyper aware of it surroundings and it not see you. I purposely would not look it in the eyes, for some reason I thought this would help me to remain undetected.
His head is down, he's eating acorns in the exact spot I thought he would be. A twig snaps, he turns away from me, ears at the alert in the wrong direction. I pull back my bow, go to aim and the ^&%$ing bow jumps forward.... Thank GOD it was silent. I look at the buck and he goes back to his acorns..... For whatever reason he picks up his head and looks back in the same direction. I pull back once again, all crazy like, full left, because I am clearly overbowed. I put my pin on him. He is hard quartering to me. Only now do I realize this was a stupid, horrible, shot to make. I release my arrow.
I can see the arrow hit him, it looks like it enters high. He does a jump, back legs kick out, he runs about 45yards and then I heard two crashes. I know this sound, I've heard it plenty of times on youtube videos. A crash is almost certainly going to be a death. I pat myself on the back. Within 5 minutes I'm on the ground, I go to retrieve my arrow ..... What I saw next horrified me. The arrows is green, the ground is green, everything smells like stinky a$$. I gut shot the deer.
Now some of you members see me post on here. I have issues with shot placement for some reason. I guess this is the learning curve. All my shots, rifle, shotgun, and bow are always high. Even though my shot placement sucks, I have dropped every deer dead, over the last 2 seasons, with no tracking involved. Pure, dumb, blind, luck.
I pull out my phone, google "gut shot deer with bow". Of course all the results mortify me. After about 10 minutes of trying to figure out what to do I fall back on my initial observations. I heard this the drop. With this in mind I decided to at least walk to where I heard the crash and go from there.
I start to creep forward, very very slowly. I attempt to try to swing hard right and approach the spot instead of walking straight to it. After about 2 minutes I can see him. Belly first, no movement, head next, eyes open ... no movement. I get up to him and poke him, nothing.
Despite all my f-ups and just plain amateur decisions lady luck is STILL with me. At this point I was happy but equally upset with myself. Again, for the third time I messed up a shot. Why oh why oh WHY can I not get this right.
I roll him over, entrance wound is by the spine towards the upper half of the torso. Exit wound is on the lower belly. Keep in mind, no blood this entire time, no blood anywhere. I'm almost as excited to gut him as I was to shoot him. I needed to know how a shot this crappy could kill him in less than a minute.
As soon as I punctured the chest cavity ALL excitement left me. This thing exploded, blood and bile came pouring out of the chest cavity, and I mean POURING out, it defied logic. The smell, THE SMELL. Even breathing through my mouth couldn't stop it, the air tasted like some kind of sweet sour rotting death.
I quickly came to put the organ puzzle pieces together. When I hit the spine I must have hit a major artery, I clipped part of the back end of a lung and then flew right through the stomach. I'm assuming he died from the shear shock of the wound, possibly even suffocating as his chest cavity was insanely bloated before I started working on him. All the blood and the bile pooled inside of that cavity.
The broadhead I used was a Grim Reaper White Tail Special. It punched through spine material and shattered 2 ribs. I'm convinced that the huge 3" cut is the ONLY reason I was able to recover this deer.
And well, ya'll know the rest of what happens. Fun quarter mile drag out and off to Quaker Creek, lol.
Since this is my first buck I decided to do a full shoulder mount. I'll be dropping him off on Monday with True-Life Taxidermy. I hear they do some of the best work in NY, hopefully as they charge 850$.
Welp, if you stuck around for that entire story then props to you because you basically when hunting with me this morning
Happy Shooting ya'll, and I can't wait to post again!
You did a great job telling the story, almost better then the result of the hunt. Lol I do the same thing not looking the deer in the eyes I swear it works.
Congratulations on your first bow buck it happened for you much quicker then lots of hunters, your doing a lot right.
My first bow buck was September 29th, early season pays off with cool temperatures.
I live literally 2 minutes from true life, had work done there. Expensive but good work, quick turnaround.
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4 hours ago, phade said:
Partner sends me this lol
Such a cool picture. Food plot looks amazing I'm very jealous.
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Went to help track straight from work just got home. He went 100 yards no blood but we found him in thick mountain laurel.
That's an elk and bear in back to back years for my little bro.
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Well my brother just shot a bear. Looking for a bear at night will be fun lol.
Update waiting on permission to track. Thos what the arrow looks like. Just started to rain.
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Btw the guy on the top right really likes his martini lol
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2 minutes ago, johnplav said:
Swordfish and like 5 apps… incredible
Looks like a beautiful dinner John!
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Awesome deer good luck. He doesn't even look old.
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Two years in a row I get tiny black bugs that eat the leaves. I throw de everytime I can but they are tough.
Not sure what I can do to stop them. It almost makes me want to stop growing them do to length of season, space required and amount they produce.
My plants are the same size as yours. I'll take pictures soon and would love your advice, as your garden produces amazing results.
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Just picked my last 2 watermelons. Brussel sprouts still need time unlike NYtracker mine are still small even though I started them inside from seed in March!
Lots of peppers and butternut squash is close.
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7 hours ago, corydd7 said:
Sat in the rain this morning and saw zippo. Cams are still slow. Sitting on the edge of what's left of a food plot now.
Well to my surprise I had an amazing hunt.
Four bucks only one shooter and six to eight doe and fawn. Started with the four point in the first picture. The fawn in the second picture almost busted me so I decided to focus on hunting instead of photography.
I won't shoot past 25 yards with my recurve so it takes a perfect setup to succeed. I had the four point at 20 yards but just to small especially this time of year.
The last deer was a shooter 6 point that was 10 yards away from seeing his demise. I believe a bigger buck about 20 yards behind him in thick woods grunted to him and alerted him something was up. He took a hard right and walked the edge of the food plot but wouldn't go in. That was the end of the fun no more deer after that. But from 4:30 to 6:30 was a blast.
Also something was up at the front of my property. As a guess at 6 o'clock from 150 yards away I heard a loud snort three times. Either the bucks were bothering the does or a bear or coyotes were hunting. Lots of bear pictures the last two weeks.
By far the most deer I've seen in one day since I bought the 40 acre property six years ago. Now I know why the food plot is down to the ground.
Decided to drive home tonight so I don't miss my wife's sonogram tomorrow.
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Pretty sure I heard a moose in the distance, it's gonna be a bitch to drag out of these saplings.
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Sat in the rain this morning and saw zippo. Cams are still slow. Sitting on the edge of what's left of a food plot now.
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Somebody needs to explain to the deer on my property brassicas taste better after a frost because mine are almost all down to the dirt. Pretty dissatisfied with my food plot season.
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Rain showers all day up at the cabin so I'm just heading up now. Radar says light rain in the morning so I'm bringing my rain gear. I'm only able to hunt wendsday then Thursday morning do to an untimely doctor's appointment Thursday afternoon but it will be good to be up a tree with my recurve.
I'll sneak out and check a couple cams I have easy access to when I get up there. Cameras were very slow a couple weeks ago so hopefully I get some more action.
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Well the weather is looking darn good! I think I'll miss Tuesday but should be able to hunt Wednesday and Thursday.
After three days of rain and a 12 degree temperature drop I might sit on a food source. I'll be hunting recurve only for the second straight year. So far one recurve shot, one kill.
Good luck to all that have the ability to get out. Hopefully I score the first buck of the year for the forum. Second gets no points.
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Need more fertilizer SWEDE.
Deadline.
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Hope your son is doing the best he can.