Robhuntandfish

and then suddenly......crunch crunch, you hear a noise to your left. As you turn you see nothing but horns coming thru the thicket. You hook your release and as slow as you can stand and draw. The buck walks within 25 yards and you send out a Bah, he stops and you send it. Pass thru double lung shot as you watch him at 50yards fall into a pile. Hero pics later...... this is how this story plays out! get em TF. You got this (I did not shoot a deer! this is for TFs story!)

downloaded some cam card pics for better pics than from the TV. Motivation for me to get out in 75 degrees tomorrow.

Pumpkin bread french toast with a local butchers pumpkin spiced breakfast sausage. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Good luck Fletch. Hope you find it. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

I bailed 10 minutes in stand. Sweating in the sun in a tee shirt is just ridiculous for hunting weather. Also have to work tomorrow and if get a deer and it's a clean track I am still up til midnight cause of this heat. So done with bow, back out on Sat. Good luck to everyone out tonite. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

I'm only out cause it's the last day with the compound for me and I had a lot of action this morn and I have the day off. Kept my eye out for rattlesnakes on the way in as I am fairly certain I was abducted to Texas at this point. 72 on Nov 3. Yuck. Hunting xbow sat and it's supposed to be 75. Gonna hunt that morn til like 11. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Hunt #20. Dark -10:30 Scrapetree. Hasn't been a lot of action at this stand but the wind was right. Had best action this year. Saw three bucks. Two shooters. A small body buck comes out to my right in trail but is walking the other way. I thought it was the broken forkhorn but couldn't tell for sure. Grunted a few times at him and he turned and came right to me . I guess right to me. Realized he was a 6 pt. He was 3 ft from the stand. But he came up the only spot I couldn't shoot right along right to the treeline. He is standing in path to the stand then spooks as he must have caught a little scent as he is almost standing on my pack. I draw and he stops but then trots down trail about 40 yards. I let down and he just walks slowly the other way. Grunt at him again and he starts coming back but then ducks into woods. Small body and had standard 3 on one side then a weird crown like 3 on the other. After he left I sat down and turn to the main trail to me left to look. Is that a deer in the trail???? Yup and a decent sized body. He turns his head and in the sun I see a glint of antlers. He's about 90 yards away and prob the better 6 thats around. He might have heard my grunts and came out to look. I grunt again but he doesn't come any closer. About 45 minutes later I see a smaller deer can ming down the trail. Looks like a doe. She gets close I'm taking her. Gets to about 45 and I see it's a spike horn. He wanders around eating for about 15-20 minutes then goes back up trail. Wind changing directions so I got down and different plan for this pm stand. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Two shooters so far. One too far and one too close lol Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Pulled 5 cam cards today and got some good bucks around. The big 8 is all over at night, one day pic. Also one pic of Big sixy he's still around at 4am. A decent 6 has also shown up now. Had a broken forkhorn and a spike duking it out. Looks like 2 spikes, a broken forkhorn, a little 6, a decent 6, Big Sixy, a smaller 8 and the big 8 for bucks around. As always mostly night pics. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Hunt #19 CSS stand 2:45-Dark. Didn't see anything. They started cutting little corn field behind me about 4:30. Which I know the deer use at night and I am between that and bedding. Amazing how many scrapes there were on the way in. At least 7 and several of them just right to all dirt. Also a broken off sapling. Corey saw a couple of does in roadkill but couldn't get a shot. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

I can see them and it's a tiny little field...if anything it would've been thru first pass. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

And of course of all nights they come to cut the little corn field behind me about 200 yards. Hopefully they are done in an hour. Of course it had to be tonight. First sit in this stand and it was just getting to prime time Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

I'm in a stand that hasn't been hunted ...a minimum of at least 7 scrapes on the way in and a couple look like this pic. Also a rub with the sapling broke off. LFG. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Pulled cam where I hunted this morning. Have a ton of pics of him but this only daylight. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Hunt #18. Point stand dark -11. This stand had t been hunted yet cause we haven't hardly had a W wind. Bumped two does on the way in and they went into thick stuff. Then about 150 yards down the trail is a trail intersection and about 90 yards down there a buck pops out. No tail up but I bet those does bumped him outa bed. No monster but he looked decent. He goes into thick stuff sorted headed to the stand I'm going to. Get up in stand and get settled and I hear a faint little movement across the trail...must be a red squirrel. Nope up jumps a little spike that was bedded about 30 yards away. He trots about 15 yards then leisurely walks into the brush. Sat til 10:30 and even tried some rattling at 10 but nothing. Headed out and about 1/2 back is a doe in trail at 50. I duck into the brush she has no idea I'm there. Ranged a spot at 35 if she gets to it I will have a shot. But she wanders around a bit and goes into brush. Several new scrapes in the area. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

This is not shaping up to be like Nov 2 for the forum a couple years ago..... Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Bumped 2 does on way in. Then saw a buck cross trail 100 yards out and had a spike bedded at 30 yards get up and stroll away when I got in stand Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

1lb of ground bacon to every 5lbs of ground venison. Can't go wrong Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Great story and reminder about why we are all out there. Good luck Jay. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Rooting for you @DirtTime . After 40 hunts in a season you get an honorary spot in the grinders club. @Fletch @moho @Cabin Fever etc.... Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Off tomorrow and plan to hunt 2 stands that haven't been hunted yet. Finally a W wind and I am off. First stand in the morn might try a little light rattling too after a couple hours. Congrats @dinorocks on the buck!!! Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

18 hunts and frustrated.... I usually get frustrated at about 55. Lol. And then I go out for #56. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Hunt #17 roadkill stand after work til dark. Had a small doe and 2 fawns come out about 5pm from trail to my left. They got in my wind at 24 yards and got suspicious and slowly went back up the trail. They would've gotten a pass anyway. Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

Just feels like one of those nights ..... Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

me waiting for 4pm for work to end and go hunt.......