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


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Currently hanging off the side of my stand as much as I can without falling off. Trying to get some sun to warm up! Lol.

I've got two does about 70 yards out just standing around. Been here for over a hour. They came running in like something was chasing them though. Heard chasing going on just before light too. Come on big buck where you at!?


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BowmanMike, 

Great job! We each decide what a trophy is and you waited for a close shot for your first bow buck  made a great shot and  you were rewarded . You'll go on to kill bigger bucks, but I supect few will mean as much to,you .

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I got my first buck with the bow yesterday afternoon.
I had set up in a spot that had quite a few rubs and some scrapes a little ways off. Found a great tree for my climber,it had two smaller Beech trees next to it,which gave me excellent cover. I was set up 45 yds from a corner in a field. 
Only bad thing about my spot was the noise the dry beech leaves were making,rustling in the wind.
Saw nothing until 4.30,when I was standing up looking behind my tree,away from the field,since I figured the deer would be coming from there.
Then I heard,or maybe sensed something behind me and turned around ever so slowly and there was a deer only 25 yds away coming towards me. A lone buck,and he looked good size to me. My heart rate went way up,funny how that works,but there was some back and forth until I was able to bring the bow up and draw back,so heart rate went down. I shot when he was 16 yds out,never saw where my arrow hit.
He takes off and I listen to his track through the trees and then hear him crash and exhale for the last time.
I waited a few minutes in the tree,then started to pack up and climb down. I found my arrow,clean pass through with lots of bright blood on it. Followed the blood trail for practice and found him only 40 yds from where I hit him.
I hit him pretty high,not too far below the backstrap,but it worked out since I was close to 25 feet up the tree. Found a triangular hole in each lung,he expired fast.
Not a trophy,but I figured I had better not shoot an eight or ten pointer for my first with the bow,because where do you go from there? 
It was an awesome hunt,love it when things come together.
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Congrats


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I walked out behind my house and had a big buck cruising thru. Right after a 7 or 8pt came  thru with a doe. He chased her around till exhaustion. She bedded down and he is sitting on my path waiting. It was pretty cool to see his breath, looked like a smoke stack when he stopped running

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2 hours ago, BowmanMike said:

I got my first buck with the bow yesterday afternoon.

I had set up in a spot that had quite a few rubs and some scrapes a little ways off. Found a great tree for my climber,it had two smaller Beech trees next to it,which gave me excellent cover. I was set up 45 yds from a corner in a field. 

Only bad thing about my spot was the noise the dry beech leaves were making,rustling in the wind.

Saw nothing until 4.30,when I was standing up looking behind my tree,away from the field,since I figured the deer would be coming from there.

Then I heard,or maybe sensed something behind me and turned around ever so slowly and there was a deer only 25 yds away coming towards me. A lone buck,and he looked good size to me. My heart rate went way up,funny how that works,but there was some back and forth until I was able to bring the bow up and draw back,so heart rate went down. I shot when he was 16 yds out,never saw where my arrow hit.

He takes off and I listen to his track through the trees and then hear him crash and exhale for the last time.

I waited a few minutes in the tree,then started to pack up and climb down. I found my arrow,clean pass through with lots of bright blood on it. Followed the blood trail for practice and found him only 40 yds from where I hit him.

I hit him pretty high,not too far below the backstrap,but it worked out since I was close to 25 feet up the tree. Found a triangular hole in each lung,he expired fast.

Not a trophy,but I figured I had better not shoot an eight or ten pointer for my first with the bow,because where do you go from there? 

It was an awesome hunt,love it when things come together.

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Congrats, great buck. I think your buck and the buck i took on saturday were twins....lol20161107_061407.jpg

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