Live From the Stand / Woods 2014!

[Gmkbpd]

AT your a disgrace. Go hang your bow up and find another hobby.

[growalot]

I can not catch a break this season.It makes me wish I hadn't offered to help families out...only because I'm worried I won't deliver to help them...I'll  have to get the guys at camp to help me out and back me up in gun...I have never seen the deer so nocturnal  EVER...not seen any chasing...heard 3 different fights...cams are starting to go dead..doe are just about gone....

Well, you all know how the winds been...today I almost didn't go...woke very achy and congested...Gotta love public gyms....any ways decided to ground sit...get to an area where turkey's have been scratching settle in and here it comes...a coughing jag right at light that just won't be squelched,,,then the nose but by 7:20...well lets just say by the time I trotted home I almost thought I'd need to call a plummer

So I sit here with chills and now a head ache and my stomache on fire...Is there a bug going around?.....Ps wind is howling BTW

Edited November 3, 2014 by growalot

[jjb4900]

Ya I knew I was going to catch a little flack for this but I cant say its not undeserved. I made a rookie mistake for the first time in a few years. I didn't think it was going to be a bad shot but I forgot to mention that I hit my Tree stand when I shot so it pulled my shot a few inches from where I wanted it to be. It wasn't a bad angle but I normally like to wait for a better one. I wont be able to get out to look for it but the next door neighbor is going to give it a shot. I posted this knowing id get a few responses I wouldn't like but its the truth and its the first deer I have ever not been able to find. 

of course you didn't find it, you put zero effort into tracking it..........I hope karma comes around and you see nothing for the rest of the season, that way you won't have a chance to do this to another deer.....and what's the plan if the neighbor finds it?, you gonna find the time to go tag it or is he going to have to use his tag.......or neither?

Edited November 3, 2014 by jjb4900

[RyanVT]

Hunting in 6a first morning of a week long vacation. Sitting on a island surrounded by swamp. Tryin to get my first ny buck ever.first year ever hunting ny.

[Chef]

. Had a very short sit this morning going to hunt noon to dark! Found this on my way in! Sort of a natural blind 15 yards away going to sit here a bit, then maybe run a drag to my stand later

[BfloHunter]

Im doing everything the wrong way today????

Got in late. No lunch packed. Cold.

I might actually get a deer today lol

Edited November 3, 2014 by BfloHunter

[The_Real_TCIII]

Whenever these stories get posted it's always the same thing all over again when it goes wrong. The sun was in my eyes, the deer jumped the string, my bow hit the stand, the barometric pressure dropped as soon as I released the shot, a bird slammed into my arrow mid flight. It's never I was so desperate to kill a deer that I did something or a bunch of things I should not have.

Once you shot at the first deer I would think the thing to do would have been to wait until you could get down an investigate what really happened. Especially if you thought you hit it in any way. Without following up on that shot I can't figure why you would have shot the second deer. And, without knowing if you had one wounded someplace, why take a marginal shot on a second deer, at the end of the day, when you can't put in the effort to recover it afterwards? To me this isn't a matter of a rookie mistake.

when I miss its because I blew it. Rarely any other reason

[The_Real_TCIII]

Hunting in 6a first morning of a week long vacation. Sitting on a island surrounded by swamp. Tryin to get my first ny buck ever.first year ever hunting ny.

I'm jealous. I think this is going to be "The" week this year for chasing

[two 10s]

Just saw another young buck scouting the area, I've been seeing a lot of late morning movement the last two days.

[jesse.james]

Well kicked one up walking in. Walking out I checked the rub line I found earlier. The # of rubs have doubled. Within 40 yards there are about 14 different rubs and finally one half hearted scrape. Saw zip in the stand. Gotta work tonight but have tomorrow off and I'm gonna hit it hard. Good deed of the day. I get to my truck and there is an older gentleman with the most beautiful bird dog. He is all decked out to pheasant hunt. Very nice chatting with me then he starts heading to the field. He gets about 30 yards in. I'm like that's odd....he looks like he is going hunting but he has no gun. Then I look and it's leaning against his truck. I call him back to get his gun. Glad it was me. Some low life might have jacked his gun

[RyanVT]

I'm jealous. I think this is going to be "The" week this year for chasing

I sure hope so! Nothing yet just some squirrels. Im guessing end of the week judging by weather.

[ncountry]

Hunting in 6a first morning of a week long vacation. Sitting on a island surrounded by swamp. Tryin to get my first ny buck ever.first year ever hunting ny.[/quote

Good luck! I just left 6a for 8m yesterday. This morning is my 1st sit.2 fawns seen so far

Edited November 3, 2014 by ncountry

[RyanVT]

I wish I was in 8m! Good luck! Man all day sits are hard.

[turkeyfeathers]

Well I had an interesting day today! I saw nothing all morning but that's because I got there an hour late thanks to daylight savings time, but I had trail cam pics of a couple does and a decent 8pt at 6am. So when I leave my stand I see a deer that I always see in the same exact spot at the same time. I decide to give a stalk a try and I actually got with in 15-20 yards but it turned out to be a small spike so I let him be. While i was eating my lunch in my car the spike actually came in about 15 yards from my car and stayed around for a little while. Fast forward to 4 I had a doe come in at 20 yards which as we all know is a chip shot right...I guess my body didn't know that 'cause I choked and shot right under it. I actually hit it but with the shaft so all I did was give it a shock. 1 min later that same spike and 4 does came in the same path. I took a shot at a fawn that was in the group and I thought I was a little far forward but it did a face plant into the ground so I figured dead deer running. When I see it go down right away I got a little worried and gave it a little time before I got down. I found the blood right away and I could see it was lung blood so I just walked to where I last saw the deer. Turns out that it was just a single lung shot. I had to leave it because I lost the blood eventually and I needed to go home. I saw it run into the property owners brother's property as I was leaving but I know its done by now. I usually never take the shot angle I took but I figured it was a fawn and that it would blow right through the deer which was some what true but I didn't get a complete pass through. It was a good day but this put a real damper on my drive home.

Last year on Thanksgiving I shot a slob of a buck at 11 :30 with my shotgun.. 75 yards off rest, checked cheek weld, breathed. Not sure what happened.(wasn't buck fever) Think I hit a few inches too far forward. Deer went quarter of a mile, bedded down and bled some, another half mile and bedded down again. Snowmobilers were out and shouldn't have been and booted him across a field. 4.5 hours later I was still tracking him. He went miles and miles. Mind you it was 14 degrees out and I'm now saying screw walking around the shallow parts of the creek and boots were filled with water, I'm stripped down to a short sleeve shirt and orange vest, no hat, no gloves as there's 1.5 - 2 feet of snow on the ground.I had no water, no food and exhausted like I've never been before but kept going.  Eventually lost daylight and the way he was hoofing it I almost was positive he'd make it.  I returned and found a ton of coyote tracks and thought oh no. Followed their tracks for miles and never led me to him. I missed Thanksgiving dinner at my inlaws who already don't think I like them, my wife was so pi$$ed. I told her to ask her friends  husbands who hunt what they'd do as I know their ethics are like mine. The same thing. I would have looked equally as hard for the deer had it been a doe,basket rack or this buck. I pulled the trigger it's my responsibility ! A couple days later his rub was hit fresh and it wasn't the day I shot him. Pretty comfortable to say he made it. I didn't eat from that day (Thursday) til Saturday as I was disgusted i wounded a deer. Didn't sleep that night as tired as I was. Moral of the story : IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN DO TO RECOVER ANY DEER YOU HIT ! 

[two 10s]

Just had another young buck stroll through below me.

[BfloHunter]

This year has been so tough. I can count the deer I've seen on one finger. Isn't this supposed to be primetime? Feels like I'm being punked. Lol

[two 10s]

And another.

[Fletch]

Two 10s please send coordinates!

[monkeyman2269]

There locking does down saw to monsters with does in feilds. On the way to work

[two 10s]

Two 10s please send coordinates!

9P, that's all I can say. ????

Nothing big, just lil guys. Letting them all get a pass, being patient isn't easy.

[ATbuckhunter]

Well I was able to talk to my professor today and get the class off to go look for the deer before my midterm. I found him about 400 yards from the place i shot him. Turns out that my shot was a double lung shot but the little guy still ran all that way before going down. Do any of you know how he could have made it that far with a double lung shot. I know of some one who tracked a double lung shot deer for 700 yards before so I'm thinking that the adrenalin kept the guy going. Ill post the pics when I get home from class today. Only thing ill say is that some of you guys act like you never had a laps in judgment before and in no way was i making any excuses for what happened. 

[BizCT]

Well I was able to talk to my professor today and get the class off to go look for the deer before my midterm. I found him about 400 yards from the place i shot him. Turns out that my shot was a double lung shot but the little guy still ran all that way before going down. Do any of you know how he could have made it that far with a double lung shot. I know of some one who tracked a double lung shot deer for 700 yards before so I'm thinking that the adrenalin kept the guy going. Ill post the pics when I get home from class today. Only thing ill say is that some of you guys act like you never had a laps in judgment before and in no way was i making any excuses for what happened. 

Pics or it didn't happen! lol

[Fletch]

AT congratz

 

You must remember we are a group that is very passionate about our sport and when we think someone is disrespecting the game we will let them know. If that is what it took to get you steered in the right direction then well done. I hope it was just a greenhorn moment and a learning experience.

[Chef]

Trying something new and out of the box this afternoon... There is no where to hang a stand by the apples here and the deer have been hitting them hard the past few afternoons i set up in the garage 25 yards away. Using shadows and the ranger to keep me hidden if something comes I'll draw re position then shoot I hope it works

[jjb4900]

Well I was able to talk to my professor today and get the class off to go look for the deer before my midterm. I found him about 400 yards from the place i shot him. Turns out that my shot was a double lung shot but the little guy still ran all that way before going down. Do any of you know how he could have made it that far with a double lung shot. I know of some one who tracked a double lung shot deer for 700 yards before so I'm thinking that the adrenalin kept the guy going. Ill post the pics when I get home from class today. Only thing ill say is that some of you guys act like you never had a laps in judgment before and in no way was i making any excuses for what happened. 

we all make mistakes...it's how you came off describing it that was a little disturbing.