Buck_IT

Congrats TF!!!!!!!! Looks like asio_gear on instagram gave you a shout out as well!!!

I appreciate all of your comments guys. I truly do. I feel more motivated than ever this season to right the wrong. I will never forget this event but im going to take this and learn from it. Regardless if the neighbors seen it or not, i live 2 hours away from this property and exhausted all efforts to find him on the properties i was able to search. Does anyone use shooting sticks with rifle while in the stand? The stand i was in has no sides and no limbs to help stabilize my arms while aiming. I've always used shotguns and never had a problem dropping them quickly with a shotgun.

I shoot a Winchester .270. My understanding is the make small holes than could possibly close up relatively quick if not a double lunger or heart shot.

we have a feeling this is what ended up happening honestly. The blood trial ended up turning their direction and if it ran 100 more yards to a know bedding area, it would have crossed in front of them.

I totally agree. its all mentally disheartening to me. I'm an avid bow hunter and property management guy, but covid and having a newborn in the beginning of covid put things on halt. I am getting through this mishap with my wife and daughter so that one thing keeping me going. I'm already back to the drawing board for next year and all the improvements i want to make to the property. I'm defiantly more determined to get my wife and daughter more involved next year to make this a family event. i guess that's what keeps me getting thought this.

I should also note, this was a good 8 point buck, tall, just outside the ears. We have antler restrictions on our property along some of the neighbors.

Hi All, It sure has been a while since i posted. Hope all had a great season thus far. First of all, i'm truly having a hard time with this subject. As we all know, it was opening firearms weekend, i was all pumped up to be back at it after taking a 6 year break from gun season. On our property of 100 acres in 9Y, my stand is the notorious/most productive stand we have. 6:30 rolls around and i begin the ride up the hill to get into this amazing ridgetop stand. 6:45 im in the stand and setting up for the morning. As daybreak is brightening up, im enjoying the time in the woods and already hearing shots around me. 7:15 is approaching and i'm glassing the ridgetop where i sprayed this past spring and planted clover. I'm my scan, boom, BONE!!! right out the garte. I stop, calm down and reach to my left for the rifle. I'm the short time of me grabbing my rifle and flipping the safety, the buck stops, 75 yards, broadside. Set the crosshairs on him and right in the bread house. I calm myself, settle down all while he's still staring at me and POWWWW! I let her rip and the deer starts to book it. As he disappears into the thicket, i hear some crashing and for sure though he down right there. 30 minutes go by and my fellow hunters meet up and we start to find the impact zone. Within minutes we find hair and a couple drops of blood. I was so happy and amped up, but there was some white hair in the mix but also consisting of grey hair as well. We then start walking to the area where i lost him in the thicket and herd the crashing. I walked up right on massive amounts of blood the size of my boot. Look at the blood and its bright red with bubbles and there was lots of blood. As we start tracking the trail, you can see the blood dwindling and every so often, large amounts like he was blowing out the blood. After tracking for close to 300 yards, he ends up crossing a fence line into a large CRP field and we loose the blood trail. From impact at 7:20am to lost blood at 9:00am, i spend the next 6 hours searching for more blood and gridding this 20 acre CRP field. I go talk to neighbors who were sitting over the field in the direction he went and they seen nothing. I called every deer search person i could find with limited service, I was drained, lifeless and in disbelief. The deer could have gone anywhere and exhausted all resources. By 4pm, i had to call it. From talking with everyone, it seems like i may have clipped one of his lungs on the lower end and not both given the distance he ran and the dwindling blood. This is by far the hardest thing ive ever hard to overcome in my hunting career. I'd like to hear back from ppl to see how you've overcome this feeling of: Should i have looked longer, should i have waited a little longer with the shot to assure a steady hand, should i have talked to other ppl around. All words of wisdom would sure help Best Joe

Think ill start this lol. I've always had more success in the evening myself, just seems like i've noticed people on this thread seeing more in the morning lately.

So....if you had an opportunity worked out with your employer to hunt everyday for 3 hours from now till December 17th. Would you go in late (hunt the morning) or leave early (hunt the evening)? Just feeling this out cuz the opportunity is a possibility for me. Also, so far this season, 9Y has been incredible. Had two separate bucks chasing does in adjacent fields. moved in one night for the kill and was frozen by an old doe staring me down, in the meantime, one of my shooters moves in within 5 yards to my opposite hand (i hunt out of a saddle) while im frozen by the doe. So pissed because the action was incredible the last two weekends. This weekend, nothing. Starting to wonder if the full moon effects their daytime movement. 9F has been sloooooooow. Great first two weeks of the season with observation sits, then they disappeared. Haven't seen much in 9F worth of chasing the last three weeks.

Yea we'll see. like i said it was a rumor lol

NET. Dad works with his neighbor

Rumor has it, this deer scored 187. They will wait a couple months and score it again.

So let the buckwheat grow, then broadcast my beans(next rotation for brassicas), peas, and wheat/oats end of july, roll, then winter rye in September? I do Have a older ford tractor with a nice tiller, i just chose the no till method because of time. im hoping this first year will help with the PH

I went with the blend of rye, wheat and brassicas this year for the exact reason to help with future plots. I like the idea of buckwheat, when should that be planted, spring?

Hey WNY, I did see your post with the electric fence, nice set up. But i opted to not till due to the slope these plots are on. I was afraid the soil and seeds would have washed away/relocated. So i opted for the no till method. i might still try the no till method, but might try drilling next year