2019 Live from the Stand
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It is very convenient!Is that even fair ? I mean, c’mon man !
This buck was taken off that back porch last rifle season by my wife.
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Had to Brushhog today for a client. When I got in I ate and relaxed until 6:30, got up and slid into hunting gear and on stand by 6:38
86 degrees and I need my thermacell. These early hunts are all about getting it all figured out for when game time comes around!
86 degrees and I need my thermacell. These early hunts are all about getting it all figured out for when game time comes around!
High of 75 today and it is 68 now. I am midway back into our 90 acres and it is absolutely raining white oak acorns. As soon as I hooked my bow to the pull up rope I had a heavy deer with deep snorts bouncing around about 20 yards from me and it went off into the creek bottom snorting for quite some distance. I went ahead and climbed into my ladder and another deer started snorting at me from about 30 yards in the opposite direction and I figured they just watched me climb up. From first gray light till now I have had some small bucks and does around me eating acorns. Starting to get that old feeling...
Drycreek
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I agree. The only reason deer can’t see me come out of the house headed to my blind is the trees between us. I often see them over the fence around my house. (I had to hog fence about five acres to keep them from rooting up my yard.)It is very convenient!
This buck was taken off that back porch last rifle season by my wife.
My view right now...I should be down in the oaks but I got busted there 4 times this morning. Wind is absolutely perfect for this stand so I am gonna sit it. It was supposed to be 75 today but it made 80...
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First sit for me this year. Temps dropping 30 degrees over night and holding steady all weekend paired with high pressure should make a good weekend here in Ohio!
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I have been watching deer filtering through the white oaks across the field from me but nary a one has set foot in this plot. I can hear 2 bucks sparring down in the white oaks I was in this morning...
Well, I only officially saw 2 deer in the plot at last light. I saw bits and pieces of others at a distance through the woods but could not tell how many or what they were. A north breeze picked up and it was very pleasant. I am going to try the oaks again in the morning...
Passed on this guy at 35 yards tonight. Seasons young and I’m not sure if he’s 3 1/2 or 4 1/2, and we have bigger deer that I’m sure are mature around. Either way, if he survives this year he could be a good one next. Trail Cam photo is the same buck in august. Back at it in the am.
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What a difference a day can make...yesterday morning it was 68 degrees and calm and I sat in a patch of white and aks here on our place and saw deer feeding on acorns from first gray light until after 9:00. It was literally raining acorns and many of them hit me...
This morning it is 51 and breezy. Very, very few acorns actually falling. Have seen 1 silly little spike that I see most every time I come into the woods here on our place and he was just cruising by. Deer must be amongst the thousands of other white oaks on this and surrounding properties that are actually dropping this morning..
This morning it is 51 and breezy. Very, very few acorns actually falling. Have seen 1 silly little spike that I see most every time I come into the woods here on our place and he was just cruising by. Deer must be amongst the thousands of other white oaks on this and surrounding properties that are actually dropping this morning..
Drycreek
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Ok, this ain’t really deer hunting , more like deer viewing, if any show. I can’t bow hunt with this wind here at home, but I can’t resist the 59* temp this morning. If a hog wanders by he’s in deep doo-doo.Update: No hogs died in the creation of this thread.....
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I hope what I am about to type turns out good...I came down to our deer lease yesterday afternoon and sat in a red oak tree in a grove of red oaks that are dropping along a 80 yard wide bench. My stand is middle of the bench so about 40 yards to the hill and 40 yards to the drop. I had 3 does and 2 fawns come in a bit before dark feeding on acorns...long story short they all eventually got downwind and blew at me. To make it worse I thought they were gone when it got dark so I climbed down but apparently they were still there and watched my descent...I really dislike educating deer.
I stayed in our camper last night and since we were supposed to have an easterly wind this morning I decided to try that stand again. It was 44 degrees and quite a hike up the mountain so I left camp at 5:45 and ride my 4 wheeler to my parking area on our camp road and began my. Limb up the mountain. I walk in approximately 3/4 of a mile from our camp road. When I got to my stand using a small red glow hat light I have I could see a set of eyes about 10 yards away and I was thinking “Bear”. I flipped on the white light and it was actually 2 deer but they reacted so quickly I couldn’t tell if they were bucks or does but they bounded a little ways uphill. I went ahead and climbed into my hang on stand and the deer stood nearby blowing and stomping until the sky started to lighten a bit and then they apparently left.
A few minutes later I had a deer walk into the oaks and begin feeding and in the low light I could tell it was a pretty decent 8 point and as the light improved a bit I was thinking possibly a shooter! I got my bow off the hanger and was looking his body over and finally came to the conclusion he was 3.5 so I was getting ready to hang my bow up when he suddenly jerked his head up and stared down hill. I looked over that way and saw “THE Deer” coming. The one you don’t hemhaw around about and everything in your being is screaming get ready!!! The 8 point went close to my tree to my left and the big buck paralleled him along the edge of that drop (remember 40ish yards). In my haste and seeing him entering an opening I drew my Bowtech Assassin back and as he entered that opening headed to kick the other bucks butt I buried my pin behind his leg and let it rip! I heard a thwack and the buck bounced a few feet and looked at the 8 point and then moved toward the 8 point as if to say “how did you hurt me from there?” I watched the buck stop and look around...now 50 yards away with brush between us so no shot and I was looking for blood on him but my sight is getting so poor I couldn’t see anything. He stood there raising and lowering his head for 10 minutes and I am going “not good”. I then saw him lick behind his front leg and I could see blood. He then turned and I could see blood on the offside. The other 8 point worked over a small tree while the larger buck would flick his tail, move 5 yards, stop 5 minutes, and then repeat. I watched him approximately 30 minutes before he got out of sight going downhill the entire time. I got down and looked at my arrow buried in the ground. White hair and a little blood on it...definitely no lungs. I looked to my left and have great dark red blood and I could see it for as far down the hill as I could see from that spot so initially he is bleeding like crazy.
I snuck out and am hoping I knocked his aorta or heart or some other major vein because he was definitely weaker every time he moved but he never laid down in my sight. Flick tail and slowly move...
Going to give him several hours. My shot was around 7:20 or so. Coming back around 3 and hoping to find him...
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I stayed in our camper last night and since we were supposed to have an easterly wind this morning I decided to try that stand again. It was 44 degrees and quite a hike up the mountain so I left camp at 5:45 and ride my 4 wheeler to my parking area on our camp road and began my. Limb up the mountain. I walk in approximately 3/4 of a mile from our camp road. When I got to my stand using a small red glow hat light I have I could see a set of eyes about 10 yards away and I was thinking “Bear”. I flipped on the white light and it was actually 2 deer but they reacted so quickly I couldn’t tell if they were bucks or does but they bounded a little ways uphill. I went ahead and climbed into my hang on stand and the deer stood nearby blowing and stomping until the sky started to lighten a bit and then they apparently left.
A few minutes later I had a deer walk into the oaks and begin feeding and in the low light I could tell it was a pretty decent 8 point and as the light improved a bit I was thinking possibly a shooter! I got my bow off the hanger and was looking his body over and finally came to the conclusion he was 3.5 so I was getting ready to hang my bow up when he suddenly jerked his head up and stared down hill. I looked over that way and saw “THE Deer” coming. The one you don’t hemhaw around about and everything in your being is screaming get ready!!! The 8 point went close to my tree to my left and the big buck paralleled him along the edge of that drop (remember 40ish yards). In my haste and seeing him entering an opening I drew my Bowtech Assassin back and as he entered that opening headed to kick the other bucks butt I buried my pin behind his leg and let it rip! I heard a thwack and the buck bounced a few feet and looked at the 8 point and then moved toward the 8 point as if to say “how did you hurt me from there?” I watched the buck stop and look around...now 50 yards away with brush between us so no shot and I was looking for blood on him but my sight is getting so poor I couldn’t see anything. He stood there raising and lowering his head for 10 minutes and I am going “not good”. I then saw him lick behind his front leg and I could see blood. He then turned and I could see blood on the offside. The other 8 point worked over a small tree while the larger buck would flick his tail, move 5 yards, stop 5 minutes, and then repeat. I watched him approximately 30 minutes before he got out of sight going downhill the entire time. I got down and looked at my arrow buried in the ground. White hair and a little blood on it...definitely no lungs. I looked to my left and have great dark red blood and I could see it for as far down the hill as I could see from that spot so initially he is bleeding like crazy.
I snuck out and am hoping I knocked his aorta or heart or some other major vein because he was definitely weaker every time he moved but he never laid down in my sight. Flick tail and slowly move...
Going to give him several hours. My shot was around 7:20 or so. Coming back around 3 and hoping to find him...
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Down here where I am hunting I have very few places with cell service and our deer camp is one of those. I wish I had a great recovery story but I searched from 2:00 till dark doing grid searches and searching 2 different creek bottoms and the side hill. The blood trail only lasted 25 yards and then just stopped. Looking the arrow over real well my buddy and I determined the loud thwack I heard was my arrow hitting the breast bone just behind the front leg as I made the mistake of using my top pin which is about good to almost 30 yards on a measured after fact 37 yard shot. Left and right were spot on. I went under all the vitals and what is mistook for weakness was pain from the sheared breastbone. We both came to the conclusion he will live. He never knew he was shot or that I was anywhere in the country so I suspect he will back and hopefully I can follow up...
I am typing this from a stand with very poor service but right now I have a spike chasing does all around me...
I am typing this from a stand with very poor service but right now I have a spike chasing does all around me...
