Live From the Stand 2012

[Geno C]

Little on the foggy side, I always imagine a nice buck working through the fog but that never happens to me. I can prob count on one hand through all the years I even saw a deer in the fog.

The sun is trying to make its way through the over cast and it's starting to lift.

[Meat Manager]

3 nice does came around me right aftet I smelled them...never inside 50...hopin they come back...looked spooked.

[TreeGuy]

3 nice does came around me right aftet I smelled them...never inside 50...hopin they come back...looked spooked.

How'd they smell?

[WesternNY]

Dead calm this morning. I had two does a fawn and a large bodied spike come by do far. Spike was following the doe.

[burmjohn]

Ahhh had the big boy at 30 yards but no shot! He chasing does all over.

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[Meat Manager]

How'd they smell?

Thick unmistakable scent of tarsal

[TreeGuy]

Mmmmmmmm. Tarsal make me hot in my camo

[Geno C]

Ahhh had the big boy at 30 yards but no shot! He chasing does all over.

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hope he gives you a shot john!

[Dan92]

Not from the stand but grin bathroom window lol

[WesternNY]

Just had a basket under me.

[WesternNY]

Basket 8

[Meat Manager]

Got about 80 mins til I should head in and relieve the wife of daycare for a bit...still getting occasional strong whiffs of tarsal.

Yeah well if I don't score I'll just go home and have some fresh eggs and some early 2012 venison sausage for brunch. Thank goodness the first one is in the freezer.

Edited October 20, 2012 by 7J Everyday

[josephmrtn]

10-20-12 9:00AM

Partly Cloudy

Cool, temp 57 F.

wind R-L

no deer yet...................

i heard some shots a ways away so someone saw ssomethin...

[Meat Manager]

3 or 4 100yds below me on a wide open atv trail...woods are thick withe scent of tarsal this morning.

Edited October 20, 2012 by 7J Everyday

[biggamefish]

Slow here.

[Paulie]

Didn't see a thing...only one squirrel! To hot this am......

[New York Hillbilly]

What a morning! Didn't have enough battery on the phone to do a play by play so here's a brief summary.

Putted up the hill on my four wheeler to the same brushy island I use as my parking spot before walking to my stand. I no sooner started walking in the darkness (of course without any flashlight) and and got that "what the heck is watching me feeling". Needless to say, I wasn't wasting time getting to my stand when all of a sudden a coyote started barking at me/ four wheeler or both. It was REAL close!!! Way too close!!

So I shift into fourth gear and must have looked and sounded like a semi-truck coming up that hill. A feeling of relief as I grabbed the rungs of my ladder and scampered (as much of a scamper a guy my size and age can muster" up the ladder and into my stand. After getting settled in, I turned on my phone to record the continuous barking from the coyote.

And then much to my unhappy surprise this foolish thing had followed me up the hill. Now it was directly in front of me on the ridge and opened into some of the loudest, spookiest howling and barking I ever heard. I wish I could figure how to put it one here for you all to hear. I played it for my wife and pretty much sealed the deal that she will never go hunting with me no matter how much I beg and plead at this point. LOL!

On the deer note: two fawns walked under my stand and stood broadside in front of me. Their momma came through about thirty yards away and passed by quietly. Then a four point buck came through the woods, walked up to one of the fawns and sniffed it, then turned came directly to me, stood at the bottom of my stand looked up at me as I stood there with my bow in my hands helpless to do anything. As he was looking at me I watched him (out of the bottoms of my eyes) trying to avoid that eye to eye thing from happening but no deal. I watched his facial expression go from clueless, to "huh...what's that", to "oh $&!T...I know what that is .....I'm outta here" And as he was leaving, I drew back just in case he stopped as he was now quartered away from me, but when I drew back he and then fawns all bolted up the hill.

A few gray squirrels, one noisy red one, two female grouse being followed by a male grouse who was all puffed out, fanning and right behind them trying to impress them with his good looks.

An excellent morning on stand!

Edited October 20, 2012 by New York Hillbilly

[Geno C]

Lmao! That's a great morning... That tote encounter would have had me running up that hill too! I'm actually sitting here reading and almost loughed out loud

Sounds like you had yourself a morning

[biggamefish]

First time I ever sat in my tree stand and heard thunder. Weird weather

[ryanrobb52]

Unsuccessful morning but I'm back at it again. Lots if trail cam pics of bucks in the brassicas last week so I guess that's where I will sit.

Damn wind needs to stop though.

[WesternNY]

Just settled in 4 yards from my stand a doe was bedded in the brush about chit myself when she bolted.

[mbucks27]

Been setup for an hour now. Trying something different tonight. Been seeing a decent 8 point in a field right off the road every night. Im setup on grond right where he has been. Put on asat 3d suit and sitting in high grass waitinggg.

[TreeGuy]

Tarsal brings out the yotes

[Meat Manager]

First guy in the lot for my first Sunday sit of the year...48 and windy...

Saw three in a green field on the way to the parking lot.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Just got into my stand. On a DMAP filling mission this morning. Gonna hunt a couple hours then go hang my last set for this property this year.