LIVE From The Woods 2018 - Lets hear stories and see some pictures!

[Bionic]

11 minutes ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

BBD @ 3:15...

Congrats! My dream right there, that i want so bad.  Awesome, good for you

[Robhuntandfish]

What a buck WNY!  Congrats.  And make room on the wall.

[OtiscoPaul]

14 minutes ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

BBD @ 3:15...

Good Lordy lord

[crappyice]

Congrats! My dream right there, that i want so bad.  Awesome, good for you

Phew...I scrolled too fast and thought your were talking about Sodfathers picture....not that there’s anything wrong with that!

Hell of a deer WNY!


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[grampy]

23 minutes ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

BBD @ 3:15...

Beautiful buck! Congratulations! Way to go!

[Bionic]

2 minutes ago, crappyice said:

Phew...I scrolled too fast and thought your were talking about Sodfathers picture....not that there’s anything wrong with that!

Hell of a deer WNY!


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I almost thought I read something about sodfathers pic....my eyes are still burning from the bleach that I said I was splashing my face with! 

Still want to puke, stop making me have bad flashbacks of that pic!

 

[mlammerhirt]

BBD @ 3:15...

That's a true monarch of the woods....can't wait to hear the story ......congrats WNY!

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[tarheel95]

Sorry... Meant to reply to Biz's comment on his crossbow and I just clicked reply as opposed to reply to his post directly....

 

Agreed. I have an Excalibur recurve as well. Only downside is the weight and width get a little cumbersome after a while.

 

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[tarheel95]

BBD @ 3:15...

Awesome. Congrats.

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[goosifer]

An eventful but ultimately disappointing first day out for the season. Went out today with a hunting buddy. Was a bit cold with the wind in the morning, and decided to break for lunch at 11:00. About 10:50, I take the bolt out of my crossbow and lower the crossbow down the rope. A minute later, as I am getting my backpack together, a small buck (#1) cruises by 40 yards to my left. I sit back down, he doesn't see me, he wanders away. Oh well, it looked like a 4-pointer, glad I wasn't in a position to be tempted. A few minutes later I am walking down the infamous ATV trail to exit my property . At the beginning of that trail I have a posted sign (the opposite end of the trail where I built the fence). There is a buck (#2) waiting for me next to the posted sign and watching me as I am walking out. I don't know what to do. For a few moments I freeze, he's still there, I start to walk back to go another way, he's still there. So then I rearm my crossbow and start to walk back towards the buck. Five steps in, a deer that is 20 yards off to my right (#3) "blows"? (it sounding like blowing air on top of a half-full soda bottle), turns around and bounds away. I thought, OK, the buck tried to circle around downwind to check me out. So then I continue walking to the end of the trail. Look up, #2 is still there watching me!? I take a few more steps, and finally he runs away. Weird that that deer was so curious. Maybe he was really watching #3, I just happened to walk in the middle of it? Anyway, later in the day, back in the tree stand, around 3:00, I spot a 6 pointer (#4) casually strolling perpendicular to me, 50 yards out. I have time to use the range finder, look at the rack, etc. and I decide to shoot it. I wait for it to get at my 12 o'clock. It politely pauses for me, even continues to wait as I forgot to turn off the safety, and I shoot it. Long story short, in retrospect, I think it was a liver shot (blood was not that dark, but no bubbles like a lung shot). Took a while to find the bolt and slowly tracked it in a 3/4 circle over 300 yards until the blood trail went cold in the thick stuff right at the edge of my property. I used like 3/4 of a roll of tracking tape, marking every 10 feet or so. By then, it was starting to get dark, so we decided to abandon the search. Note, I think at least one of the sightings was the same deer.)

Now, its occurred to me that I may have made some mistakes/poor choices in terms of shot placement and tracking. If so, all I can do at this point is learn from the experience and do better next time.

Edited November 9, 2018 by goosifer

[Chef]

An eventful but ultimately disappointing first day out for the season. Went out today with a hunting buddy. Was a bit cold with the wind in the morning, and decided to break for lunch at 11:00. About 10:50, I take the bolt out of my crossbow and lower the crossbow down the rope. A minute later, as I am getting my backpack together, a small buck (#1) cruises by 40 yards to my left. I sit back down, he doesn't see me, he wanders away. Oh well, it looked like a 4-pointer, glad I wasn't in a position to be tempted. A few minutes later I am walking down the infamous ATV trail to exit my property . At the beginning of that trail I have a posted sign (the opposite end of the trail where I built the fence). There is a buck (#2) waiting for me next to the posted sign and watching me as I am walking out. I don't know what to do. For a few moments I freeze, he's still there, I start to walk back to go another way, he's still there. So then I rearm my crossbow and start to walk back towards the buck. Five steps in, a deer that is 20 yards off to my right (#3) "blows"? (it sounding like blowing air on top of a half-full soda bottle), turns around and bounds away. I thought, OK, the buck tried to circle around downwind to check me out. So then I continue walking to the end of the trail. Look up, #2 is still there watching me!? I take a few more steps, and finally he runs away. Weird that that deer was so curious. Maybe he was really watching #3, I just happened to walk in the middle of it? Anyway, later in the day, back in the tree stand, around 3:00, I spot a 6 pointer (#4) casually strolling perpendicular to me, 50 yards out. I have time to use the range finder, look at the rack, etc. and I decide to shoot it. I wait for it to get at my 12 o'clock. It politely pauses for me, even continues to wait as I forgot to turn off the safety, and I shoot it. Long story short, in retrospect, I think it was a liver shot (blood was not that dark, but no bubbles like a lung shot). Took a while to find the bolt and slowly tracked it in a 3/4 circle over 300 yards until the blood trail went cold in the thick stuff right at the edge of my property. I used like 3/4 of a roll of tracking tape, marking every 10 feet or so. By then, it was starting to get dark, so we decided to abandon the search. Note, I think at least one of the sightings was the same deer.)
Now, its occurred to me that I may have made some mistakes/poor choices in terms of shot placement and tracking. If so, all I can do at this point is learn from the experience and do better next time.

You could call deer search, you could look again tomorrow, you could look more tonight. There is a lot you can still do besides do better next time


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[BizCT]

BBD @ 3:15...

Congrats! Awesome G2’s!


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[Tughill Tamer]

BBD @ 3:15...

Wow! Congrats!!!!

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[Fletch]

An eventful but ultimately disappointing first day out for the season. Went out today with a hunting buddy. Was a bit cold with the wind in the morning, and decided to break for lunch at 11:00. About 10:50, I take the bolt out of my crossbow and lower the crossbow down the rope. A minute later, as I am getting my backpack together, a small buck (#1) cruises by 40 yards to my left. I sit back down, he doesn't see me, he wanders away. Oh well, it looked like a 4-pointer, glad I wasn't in a position to be tempted. A few minutes later I am walking down the infamous ATV trail to exit my property . At the beginning of that trail I have a posted sign (the opposite end of the trail where I built the fence). There is a buck (#2) waiting for me next to the posted sign and watching me as I am walking out. I don't know what to do. For a few moments I freeze, he's still there, I start to walk back to go another way, he's still there. So then I rearm my crossbow and start to walk back towards the buck. Five steps in, a deer that is 20 yards off to my right (#3) "blows"? (it sounding like blowing air on top of a half-full soda bottle), turns around and bounds away. I thought, OK, the buck tried to circle around downwind to check me out. So then I continue walking to the end of the trail. Look up, #2 is still there watching me!? I take a few more steps, and finally he runs away. Weird that that deer was so curious. Maybe he was really watching #3, I just happened to walk in the middle of it? Anyway, later in the day, back in the tree stand, around 3:00, I spot a 6 pointer (#4) casually strolling perpendicular to me, 50 yards out. I have time to use the range finder, look at the rack, etc. and I decide to shoot it. I wait for it to get at my 12 o'clock. It politely pauses for me, even continues to wait as I forgot to turn off the safety, and I shoot it. Long story short, in retrospect, I think it was a liver shot (blood was not that dark, but no bubbles like a lung shot). Took a while to find the bolt and slowly tracked it in a 3/4 circle over 300 yards until the blood trail went cold in the thick stuff right at the edge of my property. I used like 3/4 of a roll of tracking tape, marking every 10 feet or so. By then, it was starting to get dark, so we decided to abandon the search. Note, I think at least one of the sightings was the same deer.)
Now, its occurred to me that I may have made some mistakes/poor choices in terms of shot placement and tracking. If so, all I can do at this point is learn from the experience and do better next time.

So you are picking up the track in the am right?


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[Nomad]

15 minutes ago, goosifer said:

pointer (#4) casually strolling perpendicular to me, 50 yards out. I have time to use the range finder, look at the rack, etc. and I decide to shoot it.

No, offense but I would not take 50 yard shots . 30 years of killing them with compounds ,never shot more then 25, my crossbow I limit to 30 ish . Seldom need to “track” them .

Just a thought .

Maybe you’ve killed a stack of deer at 50 , I don’t know but that’s not a starting distance.

[Steve D]

WNY Bowhunter CONGRATULATIONS Nice Buck

My day wasn't as good as yours but still a nice day. Started out by seeing a doe in the middle of road on my way to hunt. Right behind her was a perfect, symmetrical, basket rack buck that was pretty young and small. I would love to see him when he grows up.

 Hunted for a couple of hours and didn't see anything so I walked for about 1 1/2 hr. and didn't see much sign. Came home grabbed a bite to eat, checked the forum and headed back out.

Kicked a doe out her bed no more than 10 yards from where  I was putting the climber. Between 3:30 and 4:00 I saw a red fox, and three turkeys.

At 4:30 a doe walks out broadside but was way to small. Ten minutes later she wanders off and another one starts blowing in the direction where she was headed. Shortly after that another one that I couldn't see to my right starts blowing. Next thing I know all three are blowing back & forth. I am down wind and pretty well camouflaged   in some cedars so they didn't see me. I don't know if they got a whiff of the evercalm or what but it lasted till after dark and I waited them out then got down and headed home. Good day with deer seen

[goosifer]

Just now, Fletch said:

So you are picking up the track in the am right?


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The problem is the blood trail just stopped. We looked for over 30 minutes trying to find the next spot of blood. Nothing. And coincidentally, the trail ends right where my property abuts two neighbors (one's on top of the other, so the property lines look like a "T") for which I would need to ask permission. Lastly, I have a bit of a coyote issue on that part of the property, and I fully expect the carcass to be picked clean by morning. (That's what happened to my hunting buddy's deer last year.) So, for those reasons, I abandoned the search. Is that generally considered to be an unethical thing to do?

[goosifer]

5 minutes ago, Stay at home Nomad said:

No, offense but I would not take 50 yard shots . 30 years of killing them with compounds ,never shot more then 25, my crossbow I limit to 30 ish . Seldom need to “track” them .

Just a thought .

Maybe you’ve killed a stack of deer at 50 , I don’t know but that’s not a starting distance.

Well, I can tell you the scope was zeroed in, and it has a dot for 50 yards. Given I had a straightforward, no rush shot, I thought it was a reasonable shot to take. Perhaps that's not true. The hit was a solid pass-through hit, with a decent blood trail. I think it was just a few inches too far back. The height, based upon blood trail on vegetation, looked fine.

Edited November 9, 2018 by goosifer

[Steuben Jerry]

1 hour ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

BBD @ 3:15...

Good Lord, what a buck! Congratulations!!!

[Chef]

Well, I can tell you the scope was zeroed in, and it has a dot for 50 yards. Given I had a straightforward, no rush shot, I thought it was a reasonable shot to take. Perhaps that's not true. The hit was a solid pass-through hit, with a decent blood trail. I think it was just a few inches too far back. The height, based upon blood trail on vegetation, looked fine.

A few inches too far back, then that’s a dead deer.. it sounds to me like it would have been some work to track and you just have no interest in doing that


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[Steuben Jerry]

19 minutes ago, goosifer said:

Well, I can tell you the scope was zeroed in, and it has a dot for 50 yards. Given I had a straightforward, no rush shot, I thought it was a reasonable shot to take. Perhaps that's not true. The hit was a solid pass-through hit, with a decent blood trail. I think it was just a few inches too far back. The height, based upon blood trail on vegetation, looked fine.

You've got to go look in the morning, right? Get out there and wait for sunlight and see what clues you see. Look at the  lay of the land and figure out where he likely went. Grid search from last blood and in locations he probably went to. You sound confident in the shot, even the if a few inches back. You'll find him, coyote chewed or not.

Edited November 9, 2018 by Steuben Jerry

[upstate]

18 minutes ago, goosifer said:

The problem is the blood trail just stopped. We looked for over 30 minutes trying to find the next spot of blood. Nothing. And coincidentally, the trail ends right where my property abuts two neighbors (one's on top of the other, so the property lines look like a "T") for which I would need to ask permission. Lastly, I have a bit of a coyote issue on that part of the property, and I fully expect the carcass to be picked clean by morning. (That's what happened to my hunting buddy's deer last year.) So, for those reasons, I abandoned the search. Is that generally considered to be an unethical thing to do?

Regardless of all of the factors you describe I would be out looking for that deer at first light after securing permission this evening.  I've looked for wounded deer for 2 days because I can't rest easily until I know I did everything I could to find it.  

[goosifer]

And to top it off, it's going to rain in the morning. Regardless, I am not going to continue searching for it. I understand this (self-inflictedly) denigrates me on the board. I am sorry to disappoint you guys. One last question: if I were to find it tomorrow, and it's been eaten by coyotes, do I still have to tag it? If so, can I get a subsequent replacement tag?

[Taylormike]

1 minute ago, goosifer said:

And to top it off, it's going to rain in the morning. Regardless, I am not going to continue searching for it. I understand this (self-inflictedly) denigrates me on the board. I am sorry to disappoint you guys. One last question: if I were to find it tomorrow, and it's been eaten by coyotes, do I still have to tag it? If so, can I get a subsequent replacement tag?

I try not to tell people what to do.  Since you've asked questions I'll give my two cents.  One of the top rules: do not push a deer. If it's a good hit wait 2-3 hours, if it's a poor hit, wait a minimum if 6-8.  Sometimes a liver takes 12 hours or more.

[REDNECK4LIFE32]

Congrats on the deer everyone. Not much but action or any sign of it where I'm hunting in the adirondacks. No scrapes or rubs seeing does no bucks even around seen 8 does last night in my neighbors field not one buck out there. All on camera but after dark on my camera. Glad for seeing more southern tier success. Usually by now if at least have one down it just a bad year up here in my area. Hopefully things pic up. Maybe tomorrow. Weekends looking good for tracking a good many bucks are going down.