Live From The Woods 2022 - 2023 Edition!

[Five Seasons]

What a fantastic hunt this afternoon.  Until I missed...  Had 8 doe and fawn coming walking by at 15y.  Finally a nice 8pt followed. Have no clue what happened, but my arrow hit 5' to his left.  He then proceeded to walk over and snif my green lighted knock.  Got a second arrow knocked, and was about half draw when he decided to vacate the area.  

5’ left? That’s crazy, best to check the site which I know you will. Check for a sapling deflection maybe?


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[Five Seasons]

Feel like it's getting western out here.  Hunting the land backwards.... looks like few days with westerly wind coming but very unorthodox season so far.

There was that cold snap in early October where a bunch of deer dropped and action was good. The rut will always be there, but those were good days to hunt if you could.

Tough part of life I’d you’re not retired is trying to plan that vacation around weather.


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[DirtTime]

Raining under my trees now that the sun is trying to burn the fog away. 

 

[Five Seasons]

Probably a safe bet that it was not one of those “Wall Hangers” but it’s still meat in the freezer I guess. 

Why’s it a safe bet?


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[mowin]

2 minutes ago, Belo said:

5’ left? That’s crazy, best to check the site which I know you will. Check for a sapling deflection maybe?


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Surprised the hell out of me.  Possible string caught my binoculars, but I think I would have felt that.  The lighted knock isn't super tight and easy to twist when arrow is knocked, so also possible my vanes hit the cable. And there wasn't a twig between him and I. 

heading out to shoot in a few. I'll put my harness and jacket on and see if I figured it out. 

[Bolt action]

8A 31deg, very slight N wind. Been in stand since 6. Really exciting morning to be in the woods. Had a doe walk behind at 40yds on neighbors property at 7:15. At 7:30 i heard thrashing and the loud clack clack as two solid bucks went at it. That was 200ish yds away near another stand. They were loud and big enough that I could see them pushing corn around even from that far away. Then around 7:45 three doe moved from woods to corn about 60 yds to my right, feeding away. Shortly after that I heard the bucks square off again from the same spot. I made the decision to move stands to get a little closer to the action. Didn't bump anything on the way over. Now I'm in that other stand. Cool morning so far.

[Five Seasons]

Slept in,felt damn good too haha.sometimes ya gotta recharge

Same. Oldest championship game is at 1 and the 2 youngest are done, so no hunting and no football is nice for a change haha.


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[G-Man]

This guy showed up.... where are the doe?? Lol .. problems when the buck tag is filled.

[Bolt action]

Farmer friends, help me out. I was walking the property line from stand A to stand B. The neighbor has an orchard. Why would they take their crop, literally tons of apples, and pile them up on the ground? Not coincidentally they moved a ladder stand into the hedgerow overlooking the piles..

[Hock3y24]

6 minutes ago, mowin said:

Surprised the hell out of me.  Possible string caught my binoculars, but I think I would have felt that.  The lighted knock isn't super tight and easy to twist when arrow is knocked, so also possible my vanes hit the cable. And there wasn't a twig between him and I. 

heading out to shoot in a few. I'll put my harness and jacket on and see if I figured it out. 

Use a plastic grocery bag to put nocks in tight, cut off excess.

[Five Seasons]

Farmer friends, help me out. I was walking the property line from stand A to stand B. The neighbor has an orchard. Why would they take their crop, literally tons of apples, and pile them up on the ground? Not coincidentally they moved a ladder stand into the hedgerow overlooking the piles..

Holy shit. I grew up with an apple farmer and all around orchards and have never seen anything like that.

I did hear this year was a boom for apples and the sale price is real low as a result, but don’t understand why they’d take the time to pile them all up. Always thought dropped apples were good fert for the tree.


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[SpacemanSpiff]

4 minutes ago, Bolt action said:

Farmer friends, help me out. I was walking the property line from stand A to stand B. The neighbor has an orchard. Why would they take their crop, literally tons of apples, and pile them up on the ground? Not coincidentally they moved a ladder stand into the hedgerow overlooking the piles..

Probably not enough market to sell them this year. Record size crops for most and many dont have enough bins to pick into. Ive heard some folks are doing that then piling hay on them to try and sell for juice in the winter. Our crop is huge as well. Working dark to dark seven days a week and were still 10 days from being done. 

[turkeyfeathers]

Zipped a coyote at 12 yards 

[Bolt action]

I saw 2 piles about that size 20yds apart. I thought maybe something happened where they were unfit for consumption.

[E J]

12 minutes ago, Bolt action said:

Farmer friends, help me out. I was walking the property line from stand A to stand B. The neighbor has an orchard. Why would they take their crop, literally tons of apples, and pile them up on the ground? Not coincidentally they moved a ladder stand into the hedgerow overlooking the piles..

Farmer may have picked those earlier hoping to get rid of them for juice apples but there is some much juice this year the movement is pretty slow. They may have needed the empty bins to finish their harvest.

[crappyice]

Probably a safe bet that it was not one of those “Wall Hangers” but it’s still meat in the freezer I guess. 

Baiting (even for hunters) is illegal in NY!!
But clearly it is effective!


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[mattypotpie8S]

4th sit in a row with no sightings ughh

[biggamefish]

56 minutes ago, Moho81 said:

My weather app lied to me I was surprised to find that it was only 28 degrees and not 42. I didn’t see a single deer on the drive in this morning.

I’m sitting over a large field with a food plot right in front of me hoping they come out for a late breakfast. Haven’t seen anything yet


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I use AccuWeather and it us consistently 5-6 degrees off in the morning. Seems better for afternoon, dont know why other than land features. 

[cdbing]

Agreed.  Been there myself.  I actually laughed when he walked over and sniffed the knock. 
I'll hopefully get another crack at him.  Things are really heating up fast.  
Hopefully I can figure out what happened this morning.  Took a couple shots Friday afternoon with no issues, and there was nothing between him and I except air. 

My guess would be that the arrow was not seated on the rest.

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[The_Real_TCIII]

5’ left? That’s crazy, best to check the site which I know you will. Check for a sapling deflection maybe?


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Maybe nocked upside down and fletch hit cable or rest?


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[turkeyfeathers]

It’s amazing how these squirrels saw the 2 Cooper’s hawks sail in and now have one at 75-80 and the other at 100 yards perched in trees. 
Coyote death ran into horse farm , oops. My first one and I can’t / shouldn’t go get it. 

[Nomad]

Anyone want to store piles of apples on my bean field PM me !

[mowin]

59 minutes ago, Hock3y24 said:

Use a plastic grocery bag to put nocks in tight, cut off excess.

I actually have some in there. Able to twist the shaft when knocked, but it's difficult with just my fingers. 

Just shot with all my gear on. First was 2“ left, next 4 we're dead nuts. All will the same broadhead.   So, either I fudged up and forgot everything about follow through over the 40+ yrs of bowhunting, or string caught something. Either is possible I guess. 

[mowin]

20 minutes ago, cdbing said:

My guess would be that the arrow was not seated on the rest.

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Drop away rest.  Difficult to not have it seated correctly. 

[Gencountyzeek]

1 hour ago, Belo said:

5’ left? That’s crazy, best to check the site which I know you will. Check for a sapling deflection maybe?


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Had this happen 2 years ago. Turned out my rest decided to quit working.