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2019 Live from the Stand
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Have seen 6 does and a young 8 pt so far...southwind made me move down to our deer lease...
dogghr
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Went for short while yesterday evening. Cold NW wind. Hunted my sons stand who passed this last August. One of the 2 first stands we placed on property when we bought 10 yrs ago. Only 3rd time I’ve ever hunted it as I always kept it for him since job and small kids kept him too busy to hunt much. Always best buck stand o. The farm sitting below a ridge and above a good clover pot overseeded w rye.
I placed a small stone given my daughter at base of tree few wks ago. Got n tree and watched turkeys for a while then a Cooper’s hawk take a squirrel.
Finally heard a buck grunting. He came nose to ground. Nice 3 yo 8. Watched him make new scrape at tree 15 yds away. Amazing how aggressive the are w that. Drew the recurve twice on him but never released an arrow. Just watched him munch acorns for a while till he tired of me and moved into the fields looking for love in all the wrong places. Great evening.
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I placed a small stone given my daughter at base of tree few wks ago. Got n tree and watched turkeys for a while then a Cooper’s hawk take a squirrel.
Finally heard a buck grunting. He came nose to ground. Nice 3 yo 8. Watched him make new scrape at tree 15 yds away. Amazing how aggressive the are w that. Drew the recurve twice on him but never released an arrow. Just watched him munch acorns for a while till he tired of me and moved into the fields looking for love in all the wrong places. Great evening.
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I’m “live from my bed” rather than the stand right now, but I hunted a lot this weekend. Saw deer every time I sat and shot at a doe last evening - it was a stupid shot and poor judgement. I need venison and to take does off the property, but it was too late and dark. After the shot I found no blood or signs of a hit, so I truly hope that I missed.
Random pics from the weekend.
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Live from midway up the mountain on our deer lease. SE breeze, 43 degrees. On stand hour before legal light. Trudged right on in because these woods are so noisy it is best just to get in your stand ASAP. I brought a set of rattling antlers with me and the tickled rack other as I pulled my bow and them up with my haul cord and immediately I heard footsteps coming to my tree in the leaves. The deer stood out Nader me in the dark trying to figure out where the interlopers went for about 10 minutes and then left. A few minutes after light I had a doe and fawn pass by browsing. Getting ready to tickle the horns...
3 does just came running by with a spike in tow...
This spike that I got 10 yards from in his bed yesterday...
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pinetag
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Didn't get a chance to update earlier, but I missed a young buck this morning which makes two misses in the last three days. The last time this happened was about 12 years ago when my scope got bumped and wouldn't you know it, same thing today. Shots were way low and right, which is odd because I shot it a couple weeks ago and all was well. Back at it this evening but my confidence is running kinda low at this point. I hope things get better from here on out this season.
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Are those deer or ducks?
It hit 70 today but the wind switched to the east so I figured I can deal with East wind at home so I came back here from our deer lease. My only real option is these oaks near the food plot...
Not my first choice but you cannot kill them if you’re not out there...
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Not my first choice but you cannot kill them if you’re not out there...
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Drycreek
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I’ve been in my bow blind at home since about 2:30. Nothing yet. Got a little bit of a plot out here but the place to my S and W has nothing but oaks. I imagine that’s where most of the deer are right now. The drought in 2011 killed most of my white oaks but I still have some red and post oaks. Looks like a bust for today
Interesting that your white oaks died. We have been in that same drought cycle for the past several years and we lost most of our red oaks and our white oaks came through with flying colors...
2 does in the plot...getting pretty dim...
A small buck came in and chased the does out of the country I guess...lol
Drycreek
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Okie, to add insult to injury, the biggest white oaks are the ones that died. I had a giant beside my pond, which went dry BTW, and it died. It almost made me cry to look at all the dead white oaks. You could really see it in the satellite image of 2012. I’m sure some of those trees were 75 years old, maybe more. I still have lots of reds, but the white oaks are more attractive to deer IMO.
BTW, I saw nothing this evening hunt......
dogghr
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Okie, to add insult to injury, the biggest white oaks are the ones that died. I had a giant beside my pond, which went dry BTW, and it died. It almost made me cry to look at all the dead white oaks. You could really see it in the satellite image of 2012. I’m sure some of those trees were 75 years old, maybe more. I still have lots of reds, but the white oaks are more attractive to deer IMO.
BTW, I saw nothing this evening hunt......
Sure that’s not the oak blight or gypsy moth that’s killed millions of white oaks? I’ve lost a lot and reds seem to b seldom affected. I’ve seen areas entire mountain sides were dead.
Good luck on ur hunts.
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We got the blight due to the 9 year drought we had and Our property lost 98% of the red oaks. Lost maybe 5% of the white oaks. I certainly wish we had more red oak trees because our white oaks are done on acorns now. Post oaks are dropping now and are absolutely everywhere.
