Live From The Woods 2024-2025 Edition

[landtracdeerhunter]

Had this large flock of geese fly over few minutes ago. 

[GreeneHunter]

Filled 2 DMP's today .... one is small but it's Meat !

 

[First-light]

Driving back from Ohio I saw a buck chasing a doe! lol Those boys have some real nice blinds sitting not far off the highway! Hunted with my brother when I got home nothing doing. We will be hunting hard Wed-Sun. 

[Hock3y24]

we sat morning and evening yesterday in a spot we havnt hunted, nothin, found some good sign though. off wed through mon but will be in pa starting sat. AKA cabin hunting for a doe in my pajamas and the utv driver/der pickup crew chief. 

Edited November 25, 2024 by Hock3y24

[Four Seasons]

Love these Letchworth ridge runners. If it wasn’t for the ladies they would live forever. Great Morning. 

Edited November 25, 2024 by Four Seasons

[airedale]

He is a beauty!

Al

[Four Seasons]

3 hours ago, airedale said:

He is a beauty!

Al

Thanks. Kinda cool where he piled up there in front of some of his handy work there behind him. 

[suburbanfarmer]

7 hours ago, Four Seasons said:

Love these Letchworth ridge runners. If it wasn’t for the ladies they would live forever. Great Morning. 

Congrats and got it with a hand gun ..amazing

[First-light]

Quiet night. Few shots but nothing here. 

[Hock3y24]

Ill be out with my son in the morning, then running to PA camp to set up water and get the heat turned on very low. Probably an evening hunt too back over the NY border. 

[GreeneHunter]

Anyone use this butcher for to get a Deer Butchered or Donate ?   Berkshire View Custom Butcher Shop - Hannocroix NY ?

[Hock3y24]

Doe and two fawns, my son slept in lol

[landtracdeerhunter]

Hunting the open till 7; then entering the woods along a brushy area. Don't take long, deer surface. A lot of vegetation still on the willow yet.

Now to be in the right spot at the right time 

 

 

[First-light]

Hunted my new box blind. 7:45 a parade of Does come in and the really huge doe was with them. Had my chance at 80 yards and missed her. It was all me not the gun. Looked pretty hard for sign at impact zone nothing. She lives on. 

[Hock3y24]

4:52

[First-light]

Don't get any more live than this! Reveal camera caught the Doe my brother shot at 4:58. She came into the food plot with two fawns. Found blood and hair. Tracked across the field into thick pines. Heard her trying to move breaking branches so we backed out. Going back in an hour or so. Shot was in the shoulder but could of been a little low. 

[First-light]

Hey gang we went back and found her bed. Thoughts? Plenty of dark blood. Tracked for another 50 yards just a spot here and there nothing great. We decided to stop and pick it up in the am. Now I know we are expecting snow but these are giant pines she is in and the snow wont make it to the pine floor. 

Edited November 28, 2024 by First-light

[Hock3y24]

30 minutes ago, First-light said:

Hey gang we went back and found her bed. Thoughts? Plenty of dark blood. Tracked for another 50 yards just a spot here and there nothing great. We decided to stop and pick it up in the am. Now I know we are expecting snow but these are giant pines she is in and the snow wont make it to the pine floor. 

I’d give it two hours and go back, that deers not going far. 

[First-light]

30 minutes ago, Hock3y24 said:

I’d give it two hours and go back, that deers not going far. 

Just don't know where she is hit. A lot of blood in bed but when she moves just a spot hear and there. I was on my hands and knees looking. 

 

[landtracdeerhunter]

Figure a damp drizzley day. Figure a big shooter shows at a distance  The deals getting close, but just quite get the icing right.

[Hock3y24]

Dad shot right under a doe at 8am, clean miss at least. I sat with him in the blind cause we had to walk the hill and carried one gun to save weight. We tapped out early. Back at em tomorrow am then I’m headed to PA. 

[Doc]

Well, the turkey-bird has precedence today. No hunting for me. We'll pick up the hunt again tomorrow.

[First-light]

Hey great news!!!! So we backed out tracking that doe for the second time. Thought was let her lay and die and we would go back to last spot and start again. We called up an overhead shot online and made a plan upon the last blood. We did sleep in and got out there at 8am. Don't you know our cameras blew up with two chases and that same food plot had 8 doe in it at 7:45! Hunt the storms! So we started at a point that would lead us to last blood. We were 30 yards apart and after 5 minutes my brother whistles I found her. She was about 40 yards bedded under a tree. The shot entered her mid section quartering to and exited out the the back leg. Caught the guts. Shot was high my Brother was lucky to get her. I'm glad we didn't push her last night. Learn from this but it was a gut shot but the shot was high and drove through and exited the backside. We didn't know she was gut shot even at that first blood bed. No evidence of stomach waste in blood. I say she is 140-150 mature doe. A Thanksgiving blessing for sure!

[New York Hillbilly]

Glad to see you went back, and were able to find her. 

[Hock3y24]

Took to my dad I’ve seen deer every sit this year 3-14 of them. Tons of tracks but nothing seen. He’s gonna hit a few spots this weekend I told him too. I’m heading to PA camp.