Swamp_bucks

Congrats to you both

Planning on this set and i can order a 4th step. Total should be under 60. I have an older hangon ill use tbis year atleast. Just collects dust might as well make it a little quiter and use it.

I have done that but alot of the stateland i hunt gets hit hard for pressure so it can turn into a crap shoot for stand setup. Yea that was my plan

Sportsman guide is probably going to be where i get mine. They have a cheaper sticks and hangon for me to start with.

Im sure this has been discussed. Going to go with a hangon and sticks setup for stateland this year just to difficult to find a perfect tree in the dark for my climber. I had some friends over to shoot bow this am and got to talking about stand height. My practice stand is 7ft off the ground. I like between 8-12' but in good cover because i dont like the steep angle of being up to high and should be quicker to setup 2 or 3 sticks. One friend said 20 because deer can pick you out at 8ft. The one ground hunts the other is new to hunting and didnt have much experiance in it. Whats your preference and why? Any pointers or prefrence for climbing sticks and hangon setup.

Had sometime to work on lawn tonight. Trimmed some plants took some little trees growing in the wrong spot down. Felt like fall all day here. Forgot to take picture of back lawn.

Bow season by myself unless god son wants to go. Gun season i am usually in the same piece as one of my buddies.

Odd question on average how many 8pts do you see during a deer season while on stand? From all your pictures seems like theres a healthy herd in your area. Keep pictures coming love seeing those bigger ones you post.

2nd picture is when i was standing by yellow arrow looking back up the valley. 4 ridges drop down into this spot and all kind of end up at the upper streestand simple where i also found 10 oaks packed full of acorns. Purple lines with water symbol are streams.

So ive been hunting this chunk of stateland on and off for 15yrs with my buddy. He has 4 members of his family that hunt now so ive kinda stayed out so his kids could have that section i hunted. So last year i went searching around in a section i never really went into but to do drives. And found a bunch of tracks and jumped 15-20 deer. So i believe atleast they hang there late gun since its a mile out from main parking lot and only 3 private border it and they are all 100+ acre each. Checked my hunting app and ends up being around 60acres in that back corner. So i finally got out and scouted a little today. Only covered half but heres a screen shot of some of my notes and possible stand spots. Ill keep updates on scouting it and when i hunt it. Couple pictures of hike. Massive dog track.

Usually thats my best time also. Ive seen the most activity but never taken one then. Usually before holloween or after the 10th. I have time to change it if i want to.

Took half days on every friday from 10/25-11/8. Then took 11/11&11/15 for back to back 3 day weekends. But if i get one before then ill take the time off during gun or muzzleloader. Would you take 11/11&11/15 or 11/4&11/8?

I dont no why it worked there, maybe just so many generations had done it. But middle of those fields worked in dark. Walked the edges and got busted everytime. Could be deer just became used to it. Idk but between my grandpa and cousin they have taken alot of mature bucks of that property doing it.

Had same sort of issues when i hunted my families old farm. Had two huge fields before you got to the woods to sit. My cousin whos 20 yrs older always told me to just walk up the middle of the field to get in the woods. Always said if you kept moving they wouldnt care. And i can say i never had a deer blow at me or sprint out of the field. Even when we would take the atv. Could always see the outline in the moon light and they would flip tails up and just watch. Does the farmer allow you to have an atv? If the farmer uses one or the other hunter the deer may not think twice about seeing you drive past them.

Im not good at this but my guess is if its same deer in 2016 he would have to be minimum 2.5 then making him atleast 5.5 now. I would think he would have a massive body compared to 2016. So im going to say no. Nice deer regardless.

Just talked to boss tonight about it. Wont be to many actual days off. But being on 3rd ill be getting out every friday morning between 2 and 4 am from 10/25-11/15. And hoping to get either the 11th,15th or 18th,22nd.

Biggest change is putting more hrs in with the bow and ide like to be able to harvest a couple with it. Biggest goals are getting my daughter and dad deer. Otherwise everythings the same. Have new chunks of stateland i found last year ill hunt.

So after the topic rob started about bh and fp. Started shooting realized mine flew way right about 6". So took some of the tips on here and brought that down alot. Knocking point i realized was not close to level as someone mentioned it should be,added a screw to my whicker biscuit that when i got looking and realized was also tilted down. And ended up sliding it over 1 mark. i need to invest in a bow vice and some levels to help insure i put eveytbing on level. But heres a picture at 30 yrds after adjustments and shooting. They are low but together.

I have 3 different spine arrows, i want to see if there is a difference in them. Otherwise ill starts doing small tweaks. Ive got time to get it in.

After reading this thread decided to shoot my bh and im samr height just 6inches right with fp. Itll give me something to work on this weekend.

With mechanical ive always shot field point because they flew the same as the bh i used.(grim reapers) this year i want to shoot muzzys 100 grains. So as of now just shooting field points. I have a new release and sight so just making sure my form is good. But by september all ill shoot is bh.

I was thinking same thing.

Been thinking of getting one. For bow hunting so string doesnt hit brim of the hat.

If i had the cash ide be all over that gun. Nice gun

Im with you it takes me a little bit to figured out which one of my 6 to sit on 30. And i just added extra ground blinds. I do get having the extra stands to play every wind. My place just swirls except when we get an east wind.