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LIVE from the woods 2016 Edition! - 7th Year, lets make this happen...


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35 minutes ago, Rockspek said:

I again started wondering what I would do if the tree my stand is in came down with me in it.  So I got out of there.  May try to come up with a plan b for this afternoon.  I was on the deer too.

I still look at the smaller trees around my stand and wonder if I could jump onto one and ride it to the ground . Maybe 20 years ago I would go live it a shot.

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No hunting for me today. My lifelong friend and hunting partners wife went to the ER last night with a heart problem. She has been admitted and they are doing a bunch of tests. Been up most of the night. I'm hoping and praying, she will be ok. Kinda puts things in perspective for me. But 5 plus inches on the ground in the hilltowns of 4H and still coming down hard. Winds gusting over 30mph. Roads are VERY slippery . Had to pass on a shot on my #1 shooter buck at last light yesterday .  It was very close to the end of legal shooting time if not a little past it. He was almost 300 yards out. Though I have shot that far at targets, I am not comfortable shooting that far at a live deer. He deserves better than a poor shot from me. My 7mm/08 is more then capable of making that shot. I am not. But will be doing a LOT more long range shooting , before the start of next hunting season. Good luck to all out there, and keep yourselves safe.

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First ever harvest, no monster but meat for the freezer! Was rutting around in a chopped corn field looking for cobs.. 40 yd shot, he dropped where I shot him. Happy camper here on my way home

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I went to the wooden blind ,which gets hammered in a wind storm that is
N/W or W/N it sits on the edge of the bigger field and turnips...bedding...6:30 one big doe feed through...yes Doe...the at 7:15 a doe came in quick behind the blind stopping in several lanes ,but she kept back checking. I decided to hold and see if a buck was behind her....she went across the street....Bang!  8:30 I decided to go check the blinds and lay down some of my own tracks along the property lines while checking  morning deer movements,before the snow covers their tracks. just 3 crossing us and I found the camp behind our southern property(across street) has a new ladder stand set 70Yrds from our line cresting the hill facing their down hill slope...Thank heavens...I have a stand at the bottom of that same slope 70 yrds from their line face up hill.....It has always scared me that one of them would sky line a deer on the ridge and shoot me...last owners , no one hunted. Now from that  stand he can't miss my orange. Any ways the lease guys are shooting up the back corner and the camp son next door is still here...He must be a bad shot...no deer in sight and he must have gone through 3 boxes yesterday... So pulled cards first two,blind I was in this morning...I hope they shoot all these deer this year...freaking nocturnal be-outches..:wink:

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Thanks all. It was a great experience. I have a good buddy to thank for taking me under his wing and showing me the ropes and letting me hunt his small wood lot. Nobody in my family hunts and I just started about 3 years ago in my early 30s, and I'm enjoying this sport. The fact that it took me 3 years to get here makes me appreciate it that much more.

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