Robhuntandfish

Congrats SW. Looks like a great buck. Glad you found him and the story had a good ending.

Looks like a lot of fighting going on there.

Nice buck and it's always good to refill the freezer. Congrats. I had a misfire happen to me last year and ended up not tagging one at all.

Welcome in! And great of you to get out there with your grandfather. Hope to hear more from you, and good luck the rest of season and esp on a squirrel or two.

Hunt #26. 10/19 dark - 9 am. 7F Scrapetree. Didnt see anything. Last hunt for the xbow this year. Went out just because. Cut some brush in this stand to see down the trail better for gun. Pulled 4 cam cards and still some good action on them. A couple of daylight bucks and a lot of night pics. And a couple nice ones. Best cam location by this stand the battery died though. Had a doe on cam on one an hour before I went to get it. Looking forward to Saturday gun season now. Have had lots of bucks on cam this year here just need one to step out in daylight.

Good luck @squirrelwhisperer hope u find him ok. I would like others said and wait til about 1.5 hr before dark and then go looking.

I would read that now but have to finish this one first. Lol

Sorry to hear this. We always wish those good dogs lived with us forever. Sorry for your loss.

They definitely deserve some couch time.

My Dad used to tell similar stories. His oldest brother was off in the military and he had 5 younger siblings to help his mom feed. So he used to hunt fish gather ....odd jobs . Anything that fed them for the day. Used burlap bags in streams with his closest brother to try and catch fish. Shot rabbits and woodchucks and anything they could get. Might find some odd jobs enough for the.day to buy some.meat for dinner. Picked berries and mushrooms and leeks anything they could find.

I have to agree with chrisw . I just think the hole kinda plugged up a bit and was prob a liver hit. He was able to keep going. You may even have bumped him and not known as well. I double lunged a doe this year and she still went 120 yards. Gut shot a buck once and he went over 700 yards to where I found yotes got him. Tough to track when there is no blood and they go so far and you don't know what direction. Prob a dead deer but might not even be on ypur property and over 500 yards away. He jjust didn't bed down. Sorry to hear it. Esp since knowing you it was probably a nice one.

Nice buck !! @518BowSlayer Getting it done in the last week of bow to boot.

Any ponds nearby that he could have gone into? Sucks losing one and always amazing how tough they are. Sounds like a liver hit to me. Some of that blood looks dark.

Damn Biz. It's always about timing. But good to see one around in daylight. Nice pic.

Pan seared pork chop with bionic cow rub and a splash of wine. Cornbread stuffing and corn.

That sounds great!. Dunno if I want to be down wind of you guys the next morn and all that chili though. Lol Me and guy i always hunt with do breakfast at the house before hunting on the opener. Im making apple pancakes, venison apple breakfast sausage and some eggs.

You sound like quite the host. Even went so far as to get covid tested before he comes out. Lol Good luck Dan. Sounds cozy and a great spot to hunt from. Last year opening day was 12 degrees if I remember right in the morn. That heated blind would be perfect.

A bunch of empty casings around that stand by the sounds of it! Hope she downs one to.add to it.

So where ya going for opening day of southern gun season? Got a stand picked out? Sit in a traditional spot? Do you go to that spot cause of scouting or another reason? Going to hunting camp? I will more than likely be in the stand we named the " Opener". It's was kind of a a happy accident to have this stand. A few years ago when we first started hunting this spot , I already had gotten a deer during bow season. So this being our first year hunting here i tried to setup my two buddies with the best spots as they had never tagged a deer before. We only had two stands and two groundblinds on the property setup and didn't have a lot of luck during bow at all. And I had tagged in other hunting spots but all three of us were going to gun hunt here opening day. So after getting them setup on what looked like the best trails I thru up a 9 ft stand in a spot kinda out of the way the day before season and just was going to hunt there. Opening day about 7:30 I hear my buddy shooting twice. He texts me he just shot at a huge buck and was gonna check for blood and there was snow on the ground. A couple of minutes later two more shots. So now I wait a few minutes and he said he jumped the deer and shot again. So i go over there and he said he went to look to see if he hit the buck and it jumped up and he shot at it and missed. So he is frustrated, we look, but no blood or sign. There was a blind there we were going to take down after hunting that day and he decides he just gonna go to truck and takes the blind. So we are walking out towards the vehicles, and by my stand and 40 yards from my stand is a huge buck. I pull up and it jumps in the brush. I say ..." Did you see that huge buck.!?". My buddy says ..." I've been shooting at that friggin buck all morn". Lol So I decided to sit back in the stand and he walks by me with the blind. He comes back thru with more ammo after a couple of minutes and calmer and says he is gonna go sit back in his stand. Wasn't 15 minutes later I look to my right and there is a buck. I drop the buck and my buddy comes over to help me get it out. Just a 4 poiner but I was happy with it and it was a great opener we will sure remember. We still laugh about that day. And I named the buck "the par 5 buck". Cause he shot at it 4 times and still didn't get it. He was using a shotgun and the empties are still there by that stand and last time I hunted there told him it looked like someone was duck hunting there with all the empty 12 shells. Lol Glad he has a sense of humor. Anyway the stand that I put up the night before the gun opener the first year at this spot, is still there and we both have taken deer from it now. So the "opener" stand that was an afterthought is now our best gun stand. I will be there opening day since my buddy now tagged one in xbow or would be sure he is there. It hasn't been used all bow season cause it's too thick for bow shots close but can reach out to 170 yards across a swamp with a gun. I am hoping it's good again this year. Am guessing a lot of guys here are in traditional or sentimental spots for opening day as well. Good luck all.

Welcome in. I don't know anything about that area but I don't think it's illegal anywhere in NY to put up a trail cam on public land. That being said it is a risk that someone may take them. Best advice I can offer is to go deeper than everyone else. Get some grasp of the land before going in there. And if you find a spot go in early.

Had a euro done with the bow buck. Not a big buck for sure but been wanting to have one done. GF got me the plaque a couple years ago and now I have the chance to use it. So picked that up today and got it mounted up.

Great news Dan! And I bet they have a cold one ready for you before u get there!

i rub down with one of these

the old Winchester 30/30

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