Live from the stand 2011

[Pat Rockets]

Aie, aie aie! Viva le méjico..cervesa..seniorita?

[Pat Rockets]

Goin out in the a.m...

[buck hunter]

JUST GOT HOME NO DEER AGAIN DO'NT KNOW WHERE THEY ARE ????

[Pat Rockets]

Was very warm at end of day..mornin should have some movement

[Geno C]

Didnt see anything in my travels but a fox

maybe cause you had your sun glass on... maybe the deer thought you were to cool for them?

[Pat Rockets]

Haha..2 shay..futures so bright..i gotta wear shades? No?..

[Geno C]

lol atleast if you fall asleep you still look awake...

keep the sun behind you or flip the brim of your hat back to the front haha!

[Pat Rockets]

Thats a dummy i keep in the tree when im not there so the deer wont know the diff..haha

[Geno C]

lol, you headed out tomorrow?

[Pat Rockets]

Hell or high water there fella..

[Pat Rockets]

Held the ol lady down fer 2 of my better minutes;)..never woke her up..man am i stealthy..headed out now..earlier than usuall..with a little pep in my step..now i need a smoke and a nap..lol..

[phade]

Jumped a buck bedded with a doe right off the driveway of the house where i hunt. Been in stand and had a 4 pt sweep in to scent check a bedding area. Nothing else. Pretty quiet.

[phade]

Btw. I didnt see a deer last evening. I did however see some great dancing farm hands.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Mexican hat dance phade?

[phade]

Whatever it was, it was a great deer repellant. One guy got a tractor stuck and everyone kept dancing while the driver worked to get it out.

[WNYBuckHunter]

LOL, had to be amusing though!

[Meat Manager]

Decided to see if the deer are patterning the hunters yet...got to the stand at 10:30, gonna probably hang until 3 and then scout another stand site. Just enough wind mixed with the babbling Brooke for cover noise. Awfully bright and warm though.

[WesternNY]

Went out to the new stand on the north end of my woodlot.

At 850 I saw a nice mature buck, I am guessing 8 or a 10 pt 3.5 year old. 40 yards he was down hill I was in a 18 foot tree stand, saw him for a total of 20 seconds.

I hit him high like 3 -4 inches from top of his back maybe below spine, steep angle arrow was in about 4 to 6 inches and never came out.

I tracked him after 2 hours for 600 yards may be 650. Backed out at 1pm. Sucks.

Got the area marked with gps and going back at 430 with a friend and have permission from the farmer who owns the land where he crossed.

He went to water, not sure if due to his injuries or because it happens to be a deep ditch near a fence line. I had much better blood than expected and thought for sure I must have hit the artery and vein that runs across the back. It went from drips, to pools to spray, had one great spot where it looked like bubbles in the blood.

I should have stopped after 200 yards. ugh!

Sick feeling I have. Going back at 430 PM with a friend.

Keep your good luck deer fingers crossed for me.

I think he could have been my best buck to date.

[WesternNY]

A question, I had blood within 10 foot of the impact area, no hair, fat, muscle, I had blood 4 inches wide by 4 foot within 40 yards..... anyone experience this much blood so soon with just a muscle hit?

I think I may have gotten one of the vessels that run along the back and maybe one lung, but obviously high... not good.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I have never seen that without an exit hole. I think your thought are right. High hits usually take a while to get blood o the ground. how did the shot look front to back?.inline with vitals but high?

[WesternNY]

It looked like it woulda been a perfect double lung if only 4 inches lower.

Where we stopped I had two puddles about the size of pie plates, at the end of 600 yards. I really dont know what to think, at first I was surprised the deer didnt drop then noticed is was lower than spinal cord. Looked at my arrows and tried to remember what I saw sticking out and I really think 6 inches is inside.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

what are you shooting for broadheads?

[WesternNY]

Two blade Rage. I know some will tear me up for them, but it wasnt the broadheads fault. I made a poor shot.

Went back out there for 2 hours may be 2.5 and couldnt find one more drop of blood.

Will check again tomorrow. May just have to walk a grid looking for the deer and not blood.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Get on the phone and see if the dogs are available. I would bet it would be a slam dunk before the rain

[WNYBuckHunter]

4 to 6 inches below the line of the back and just over the shoulders might be over the spine. Arrow could get hung up. I shot a doe like that a few years back and she didnt bleed at all for about 150 yards, then bled like crazy for a few hundred yards. At the end, there were 2 big puddles and some clots, then nothing. Saw the deer a few weeks later healing up and doing fine. Saw her the next year as well with a big scar.