Team Legend 2014 hunting journal

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11/14 evening hunt-saw 2 doe and another real nice 8 pt but 1 side was broken off. I would of shot but he winded me. Brother was about to go up a tree and a black bear walked in he got to full draw and the thing bolted. It ran past my niece and then into our cut corn field straight at our friend Joe who was glassing the field. He wanted to get back to the standing corn which he did . It was too cool. 

Good luck to all on the gun opener!!!

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Didn't see anything until 9:00 opening day morning. I was in my stand and noticed a deer 60 yards out cutting across the flat. He was running on 3 legs. The deer was huge and had a set of horns to go with the body size. I was waiting for a full broadside shot but he stopped before that happened. I watched as his head turned side to side, he looked in my direction and headed right for me. Not only did he come right to me but stopped 15 feet from my stand to take a breather. His rack had to be 20+ inches wide. I have one on the wall that is 22 wide, this guy might have even been bigger. I pull the gun up on his shoulder and squeeze the trigger, nothing. I thought the safety was on but it wasn't. I try again nothing.

At this point he starts moving to the heavy brush so I cycle the chamber and try again, nothing. I cycle tow more times and once again the gun wouldn't fire. I watched him run off. Not only was he a real trophy but just the fact it was my job to take that animal down. He was lame, such a strong huge deer, now only having three legs to get around on. The late was snapped in half right above the hoof. Was a real bad shot whoever took it. I found out later it was a property owner behind me down the road. What went wrong, there could be number of things but I will never know. I replaced the Remington slugs with Lightfields in the afternoon. I took a doe at 50 yards, gun shot fine………such is hunting. All 4 of us saw deer yesterday. Mine was the only buck. My buddy stopped counting the doe he saw. 

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Doe I shot opening day. She was with 3 other smaller does. May of been the triplets. Gun shot fine!

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Brother shot a big button buck tonight that was it. Saw a few doe in the morning. Bucks are scarce right now.

[Zem18]

Nice doe. She will be good eating. Congrats.

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We went out Tuesday morning for2 hrs. Real cold and windy. Didn't see a thing. Hopefully Ill be back up at Thanksgiving. My neighbors camp had 3 bucks hanging, button, half rack 6 and a small 7 pt. Only real big deer seen was the one I saw Opening morning. Bucks are out there just way too much land for them and not a lot of pressure. 

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Headed back tomorrow. Should be able to hunt last 2 hrs of Friday and the whole day Saturday. If we have snow I will find the tracks of the big buck that I saw on Opening day. I will hunt him down and have pictures up Saturday night, yup my mind is made up!! lol Seriously the amount of land around me and the lack of hunting pressure  will help in my quest!

[Zem18]

Good luck this weekend. Be careful driving up. Lots of snow fell yesterday and it's still coming down today. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Same to you Zemm! Just got back in still hunted in at 3:30 saw very few tracks. Went down to the bottom of the swail and saw nothing. Just a couple of shots that was it back at it tomorrow.

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Had a few beers with my neighbors to the north. They border my backside of the property. 3 generations at the camp it was nice just hanging out trading stories. Two young men there wide eyed and eager to join in on the stories. Nice to see the youngsters carry on the tradition. Probably last hunt at the camp this year hope it a memorable one. BTW the guys told me last night they tracked that buck with the injured leg into their swamp. Guess he is in his comfort zone. Hope he makes it………...

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I'm sitting at camp cleaning things up and going to head home at 9:00. Yesterday was a good one. 

I went to my bottom stand and didn't see a thing, stayed to 9:00 and walked my property. To my amazement there wed twice as many buck rubs than opening week. These were very aggressive rubs thrashing pine trees and a few large rubs were found. Got back to camp by 10:30 and the neighbors I spent the evening with stopped by. They asked if I wanted to join in a push at 1:00 I agreed and we met not at 1 but 2:30. I was a stander and picked a great funnel area. It only took 10 minutes and I had 3 doe come by then a single deer hauling ass. 5 minutes later here come 7 doe right at me 3 hogs 4 yearlings. I didn't have a doe permit so I tried pushing them back into the drive. They wanted no part of that and ran past me at 10 yards. One last look behind me and I see 3 deer headed to the flat on my property. The lead doe stood for 5 minutes before crossing my field. The other two deer with her were a small doe and a half rack buck, probably one of those small 8's I saw. I watched as they cleared my field and headed up the hill side. As the two boys and their father approached he asked did you see any deer? I told them what happened and he said why didn't you shoot a doe? I said I used my doe permit last week, he says I have a few extras in my pocket thought we told you that??? I say nope!!

We laughed and moved on. It was about 3:30 I was headed to a stand along the cut corn. I watched from the trail as some geese were landing, I take a pit stop and turn to see a yearling doe bedded in the brush 15 feet from me. She was sleeping and had no idea I was there. Fist time this ever happened. I watch for a bit and gave a little cough she bolted with out even looking my way from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds! 4:30 30 turkeys walk in and roost all around me. Good size birds hope they make a lot of babies. That's it until Long Island season in January. Be safe folks!

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The drums are slowly beating. I'm getting requests to go up next weekend for muzzleloader/bow. My brother, his son in law and Zach all want to go…..how can I resist?? lol

[Zem18]

Good luck "when" you go.

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Just me and Zach this weekend. Hope he connects with a deer. He has hit the books hard this semester and it would be real nice for him. We have about 6 inches of snow.

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Zach and I had a great weekend. See my other posts about the crazy stuff that went on. He saw a total of 7 deer I saw none. It was great seeing him and enjoying time together. Nothing like venison bacon burger for breakfast and dinner……..

[landtracdeerhunter]

Enjoyed your thread!