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All day sit, no joy.  For all the tracks in the snow you'd think we would be tripping over deer.  My neighbor opted to sleep in today so maybe we'll try a drive next time?  Going to keep mixing it up until I finally see some fur out here.

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25 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

Quiet over there...... Dragging one out?

Negative. Saw 12 in all for afternoon sit. The spike , button , bunch of fawns , one decent deer walked right below my stand , one big body at 250 I couldn’t glass through thick brush and small tree tops. And then a doe hit the big plot at 175. We couldn’t be positive of how big and I was henming and hawing for ten minutes until a fawn hit the plot nearby and size comparison I said take the doe , she’s a shooter.  Well she got to pretty shaky and couldn’t steady enough and be comfortable to squeeze the trigger. Doe eventually got back into golden rod.  Was hoping she’d come back out but didn’t. She got very upset and shed a few tears disappointed in herself. I’m nor was not upset in the least. No dead deer but no wounded deer either. Told her regardless of 50th deer shot or about to and no nerves it’s time to quit hunting.  We still had a great time , was warm without the heater ever turned on.  Heard lots of shooting this afternoon. Our time will come. She’s got just a few more opportunities to go with me. 

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2 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Negative. Saw 12 in all for afternoon sit. The spike , button , bunch of fawns , one decent deer walked right below my stand , one big body at 250 I couldn’t glass through thick brush and small tree tops. And then a doe hit the big plot at 175. We couldn’t be positive of how big and I was henming and hawing for ten minutes until a fawn hit the plot nearby and size comparison I said take the doe , she’s a shooter.  Well she got to pretty shaky and couldn’t steady enough and be comfortable to squeeze the trigger. Doe eventually got back into golden rod.  Was hoping she’d come back out but didn’t. She got very upset and shed a few tears disappointed in herself. I’m nor was not upset in the least. No dead deer but no wounded deer either. Told her regardless of 50th deer shot or about to and no nerves it’s time to quit hunting.  We still had a great time , was warm without the heater ever turned on.  Heard lots of shooting this afternoon. Our time will come. She’s got just a few more opportunities to go with me. 

Sounds like some action there. That's good to hear.  And yeah at 175 i would be unsure of shooting too and I've been hunting for 30 years.  And good for her for not taking a shot she wasn't sure of.  Raised her to have some good judgment, def nothing to be ashamed of there.  You'll get another chance. Good luck!   

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Six point selfie 

other then the two young bucks,  nothing  till last light ,something moving behind me, hoping it came up my way, but it was wise .

In my only hang on, pack clip wouldn’t release from stand strap I hang it on , Orange vest was tangled up in harness strap , my safety line is tied off to one of the climbing sticks. As I slide knot up I must have pulled stick up a bit because climbing down I found it was kinda sideways .....

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Negative. Saw 12 in all for afternoon sit. The spike , button , bunch of fawns , one decent deer walked right below my stand , one big body at 250 I couldn’t glass through thick brush and small tree tops. And then a doe hit the big plot at 175. We couldn’t be positive of how big and I was henming and hawing for ten minutes until a fawn hit the plot nearby and size comparison I said take the doe , she’s a shooter.  Well she got to pretty shaky and couldn’t steady enough and be comfortable to squeeze the trigger. Doe eventually got back into golden rod.  Was hoping she’d come back out but didn’t. She got very upset and shed a few tears disappointed in herself. I’m nor was not upset in the least. No dead deer but no wounded deer either. Told her regardless of 50th deer shot or about to and no nerves it’s time to quit hunting.  We still had a great time , was warm without the heater ever turned on.  Heard lots of shooting this afternoon. Our time will come. She’s got just a few more opportunities to go with me. 

Sounds like a very good decision!! Wiser than her years!! Be sure or don’t take the safety off. Exciting sit with all the sightings.


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Just joined here earlier this week and figured tonight was a good time to join the convo. Really awesome night in the woods in 8H. Had a nice 3 year old 8 point cruise by within 60 yards literally within minutes of getting set up and brushing myself in on the ground, right around 230. Pretty constant action after that. Saw three 3 year olds, two 2 year olds, several yearling bucks, and maybe 20 does.

Had 8 does in front of me around 430 and noticed one snap her head back behind her and start running which I knew meant a buck was coming... ten pointer showed up a second later on a full run after her. His antlers looked out to the tip of his nose and I think it may have been a 4 year old I’ve been seeing pretty consistently so I decided he was a shooter. I couldn’t get him to stop with grunts and ended up shooting him on the run at 60 yards or so with a muzzle loader and he ran 150 yards into a creek bed. Got on blood right away and it looked pretty good so after giving him 20 mins I started to work to the creek bed and ended up jumping him right as I got to the edge. I’m afraid I only got one lung and maybe liver so I backed out and am going to come back in 5-6 hours and start searching. I’ve never had to back out on a deer before so pretty torn up and really hoping he’s dead when I come back. Anyone else think this blood looks like the spray you get with lungs?461282D7-479D-4592-89BD-3177DAC57024.thumb.png.3f1747bc2175d0ac18b851e2068c4fdb.png

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Just joined here earlier this week and figured tonight was a good time to join the convo. Really awesome night in the woods in 8H. Had a nice 3 year old 8 point cruise by within 60 yards literally within minutes of getting set up and brushing myself in on the ground, right around 230. Pretty constant action after that. Saw three 3 year olds, two 2 year olds, several yearling bucks, and maybe 20 does.
Had 8 does in front of me around 430 and noticed one snap her head back behind her and start running which I knew meant a buck was coming... ten pointer showed up a second later on a full run after her. His antlers looked out to the tip of his nose and I think it may have been a 4 year old I’ve been seeing pretty consistently so I decided he was a shooter. I couldn’t get him to stop with grunts and ended up shooting him on the run at 60 yards or so with a muzzle loader and he ran 150 yards into a creek bed. Got on blood right away and it looked pretty good so after giving him 20 mins I started to work to the creek bed and ended up jumping him right as I got to the edge. I’m afraid I only got one lung and maybe liver so I backed out and am going to come back in 5-6 hours and start searching. I’ve never had to back out on a deer before so pretty torn up and really hoping he’s dead when I come back. Anyone else think this blood looks like the spray you get with lungs?461282D7-479D-4592-89BD-3177DAC57024.thumb.png.3f1747bc2175d0ac18b851e2068c4fdb.png

Hard to tell from your pic but it looks very dark for lungs


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No useable signal from the tower stand tonight. I'll start off with Arrgh! Out with my grandson tonight in the tower stand. Have two doe walking up my side hill woods at about 140-ish yards. It was close to last legal time, maybe 4:30. Figured we'd take the larger one and I'd still have a buck tag left. Boom, watched it get rocked through the scope, and watched it bolt like it wasn't hit. Waited 10 mins and got down. No hair, no blood, nada. Losing light, tried to pick up tracks, but there's tracks everywhere in there. 20 different trails on the route she took. I watched her run through the woods for about 150 yds, though she did look like she may have gotten squirrely just as I lost sight of her. We walked to where we could glass down the hill to see if we could spot her, but was too dark down there. Decided to back out and not risk pushing her down to that same deep creek bed that my daughter's buck went to. Snow is crunchy and loud. Out at first light for the search. 

This wasn't quite the plan exactly. Hope she's 50 more yards down the hill! Arrrgh!

 

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Just now, chefhunter86 said:


Hard to tell from your pic but it looks very dark for lungs


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I think it’s my phone. It wasnt nearly as dark as it looks in the photo in person. My phone takes terrible photos once the sun is down. That said I definitely think it could be liver or maybe liver and one lung which Is what my buddy thought so gonna give him 5-6 hours and go look. 

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4 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

Looks dark like liver. Still resulting in dead deer. Don’t bump him 

It didn’t look nearly as dark in person but I was afraid if may have been liver. I’ve never hit one there so never seen the blood before. The spray had me thinking maybe liver and one lung. Gonna give him time and come back in a bit. Thanks for the input. 

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2 minutes ago, Moho81 said:

I agree with Turkeyfeathers, let him go the evening and get after him first thing in the morning. If it is liver he won’t be far.


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I’d love to give him the night but there’s a huge pack of coyotes in the creek bed and I’m afraid there won’t be anything left if I give him the entire night. Would you still leave him knowing there’s at least ten coyotes calling the creek bed home?

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