A First For Me/Believe It Or Not

[Steve D]

So I get up this morning and it is 67 degrees with a steady rain. Grab a cup of coffee and look out the patio doors across my field. I have a ladder stand in a hedgerow about 325 yards from the house that I use for "quick" hunts or when I don't feel like using the climber. It is still I a little dark but I can make out a group of deer out near my stand. I grab the binoculars and lo and behold there are 10 bucks all together in a group not 20 yards apart. At least 8 of the 10 are definite shooters and a couple are tall and past their ears. To far away for me to count points or get a picture but what a sight to see.

I have never seen ten bucks together in my life let alone 6-8 shooters. I knew we had a few around but never even imagined the possibility of 10 at once. Of course three of them passed within 15 yards of my stand and a couple put on a sparring display before they all disappeared into the woods single file.

I am pretty sure they were just passing through but I know it is going to make me feel pretty inadequate if I don't shoot one this year.

Not sure what the rich people are doing today but know I feel pretty rich being able to see something like that.

[moog5050]

Just now, Steve D said:

So I get up this morning and it is 67 degrees with a steady rain. Grab a cup of coffee and look out the patio doors across my field. I have a ladder stand in a hedgerow about 325 yards from the house that I use for "quick" hunts or when I don't feel like using the climber. It is still I a little dark but I can make out a group of deer out near my stand. I grab the binoculars and lo and behold there are 10 bucks all together in a group not 20 yards apart. At least 8 of the 10 are definite shooters and a couple are tall and past their ears. To far away for me to count points or get a picture but what a sight to see.

I have never seen ten bucks together in my life let alone 6-8 shooters. I knew we had a few around but never even imagined the possibility of 10 at once. Of course three of them passed within 15 yards of my stand and a couple put on a sparring display before they all disappeared into the woods single file.

I am pretty sure they were just passing through but I know it is going to make me feel pretty inadequate if I don't shoot one this year.

Not sure what the rich people are doing today but know I feel pretty rich being able to see something like that.

Wow, I thought most groups were breaking up by now.  And that many shooters is quite a group.  You move to Iowa?

[Robhuntandfish]

thats incredible and gotta make you dying to get out there - good luck!!!

Any trail cam up over there to check out?

Edited October 2, 2019 by Robhuntandfish

[Merlot]

How many shots did you do last night? lol. Seriously , where do you live? 

[airedale]

Brings the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" classic scene to mind, after being abducted James awakens on a plane and has a beautiful woman staring face to face with him and tells him my name is "Pussy Galore" to which he replies, "I must be dreaming"

Edited October 2, 2019 by airedale

[Steve D]

9 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

Wow, I thought most groups were breaking up by now.  And that many shooters is quite a group.  You move to Iowa?

No but I thought of Dorothy as I turned away.

[Steve D]

11 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

Any trail cam up over there to check out?

Unfortunately no. I have one at the other end of the field and one in the woods but that will probably change soon.

[Steve D]

9 minutes ago, Merlot said:

How many shots did you do last night? lol. Seriously , where do you live? 

Lol ..I only had a short glass of wine last night. I am in 8h and there have been some real nice ones taken in the area over the years and have seen groups of two or three big shooters together in the summer but never a group of this size.

As Moog noted I would have thought the groups would be broken up by now and I was totally caught off guard and surprised.

[DTG3k]

26 minutes ago, Steve D said:

So I get up this morning and it is 67 degrees with a steady rain. Grab a cup of coffee and look out the patio doors across my field. I have a ladder stand in a hedgerow about 325 yards from the house that I use for "quick" hunts or when I don't feel like using the climber. It is still I a little dark but I can make out a group of deer out near my stand. I grab the binoculars and lo and behold there are 10 bucks all together in a group not 20 yards apart. At least 8 of the 10 are definite shooters and a couple are tall and past their ears. To far away for me to count points or get a picture but what a sight to see.

I have never seen ten bucks together in my life let alone 6-8 shooters. I knew we had a few around but never even imagined the possibility of 10 at once. Of course three of them passed within 15 yards of my stand and a couple put on a sparring display before they all disappeared into the woods single file.

I am pretty sure they were just passing through but I know it is going to make me feel pretty inadequate if I don't shoot one this year.

Not sure what the rich people are doing today but know I feel pretty rich being able to see something like that.

I think you need to check if there are any gas leaks in your house. 

[The_Real_TCIII]

The first year of the 10/1 opener I had a single file line of 9 bucks exit a corn field and stream right under my stand. I killed the 5th one. A few minutes later two more bucks came in from the other direction. Bananas morning. My buddys son was in the woods and killed his first deer that morning as well. The date was 10/9 IIRC

Edited October 2, 2019 by The_Real_TCIII