"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.

OkieKubota said:
I think our cold weather is over...it is 60 degrees this morning and was 56 when I went to bed last night. Have a rain shower about to hit and then I should be clear to go to my stand...perhaps another 30 minute wait or so...
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Yea I am done hunting until next week, too warm and I typically dont hunt the weekends anyhow as too much commotion and things out of my control that negatively affect my hunts.
 
Turkey Creek said:
Yea I am done hunting until next week, too warm and I typically dont hunt the weekends anyhow as too much commotion and things out of my control that negatively affect my hunts.
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Are you retired?

It's going to be a hot 1 this weekend and 90's again by Monday. My grandson will get to hunt Sunday and I sure hope something is moving in the heat and wind that is coming...

The weather is a roller coaster with 50's for a high yesterday to upper near 90 tomorrow :(
 
OkieKubota said:
Well...don't know how to say this...

I saw 8 deer this evening...laid back 9 was number 8. It was getting pretty dim in the timber when I took my shot and I couldn't pick out the mystical flight of the arrow but it blew straight though him...somewhere... He bucked like a mule and ran right through the brush headlong. He slowed at the edge of the creek bottom before he went down into the bottom. I could hear him stumbling and crashing but he for a short distance. I listened and heard him move a little further but he sounded badly hurt. It got dark quickly.

I got down and found my arrow that was bloody but not with lung blood. More just a muscle type blood that had only stained the arrow and not completely covered it. No blood immediately but I did find it within 10 yards. Poor trail mostly "wiped" type blood on white oak seedling leaves. A few drops of really dark blood. I followed the trail perhaps 25 yards and made the decision to back out till morning. It is 66 now and supposed to be low 50's by morning.

I am doing that roller coaster of emotions thing right now...
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Fantastic hunting Okie. Laid back Nine was quite a deer. For a deer to have survived all of his years he must have been very smart and lucky besides. Also congratulations on the poacher catch;it is difficult to balance low impact needs with catching poachers. I used to not walk my back line tractor trail very often but I walk it now regularly in street clothes and leather work boots. Anybody sneaking in to hunt the back line edge has to deal with deer that are on alert. Enjoying your thread as always.
 
Chainsaw said:
Fantastic hunting Okie. Laid back Nine was quite a deer. For a deer to have survived all of his years he must have been very smart and lucky besides. Also congratulations on the poacher catch;it is difficult to balance low impact needs with catching poachers. I used to not walk my back line tractor trail very often but I walk it now regularly in street clothes and leather work boots. Anybody sneaking in to hunt the back line edge has to deal with deer that are on alert. Enjoying your thread as always.
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Thanks Chainsaw...my season has already been a huge success and mostly my time hunting now is just sitting and enjoying nature.

Laid Back 9 was a fixture on our property from the very first year we owned it and I have never had as much history with a full grown mature whitetail buck as I have had with him. I had another one I was hoping I could tell a story about this fall but so far he has been MIA in 2016 but I am still hopeful he returns since I got pictures of him all the way past all deer seasons last year...

More poacher/trespasser work to be done yet this fall...


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.31" sure did get me wet in an open ladder stand this morning!

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I am in the most stealth stand I have. I packed this ladder stand up a nearly 75 degree slope many years ago and put it in a multi trunked maple tree. I have only hunted it 3 times since I placed it. It is on a flat bench 3/4 way up a huge ridge. Pictures don't do this justice but from the ground you can see less than 15 yards. Wind is blowing my scent out over the huge hollow and there is no way a deer up here could smell me. No ground scent either because as soon as you crest this ridge my stand is the first tree and deer don't typically travel between this tree and the ridge...

This is the hollow I came up out of that the ranch road runs at the bottom of...

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This is my view...

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First customer of the evening. A real brute of a bodied deer...with a 6 point rack...

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Reading along here i knew i must have missed something. So i dropped back several pages. Man, congratulations! That buck is an awesome deer that i know you wanted to bring home.
Also, great decision to leave him alone and come back in the morning. Thats a tough thing to do.
 
Fish said:
Reading along here i knew i must have missed something. So i dropped back several pages. Man, congratulations! That buck is an awesome deer that i know you wanted to bring home.
Also, great decision to leave him alone and come back in the morning. Thats a tough thing to do.
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This thread moves right on along pretty quickly so it's understandable that a lot could be missed...

Thank you for reading. I hope to have a new buck story to tell soon because I have a bunch of vacation and the best time to hunt is coming up :)
 
lakngulf said:
What a life! Man has to go sit in a stand to have cell service. Gotta love it. Hope you have a great sit
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Thanks lakngulf...what is really funny is when I get up on these mountains here on our deer lease I have better service than I do on the ridges at our 80. We have to have something called a micro-cell to get cellular service in our house and it has to be linked to wi-fi which we have to get through our land line phone service with DSL.

I got a call from my boss several years ago while I was sitting up here on a vacation day and a co-worker didn't come in so they wanted to know if I could come in. Conversation went a little like this. "Well it's noon right now and I am 30 minutes from my 4 wheeler and another 1/2 hour to camp. I will have 30 more minutes packing up camp and then an hour drive home. Then unload for 1/2 hour, take about 1/2 hour getting ready and then driving 1/2 hour to work."

They said "just forget it" lol ;)
 
First customer just walked by. Nice 8 pointer. Didn't even get bow off the hanger.

Poor photo due to brush. You can see his body in center of frame..

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Nice rain hat! I got rained on this morning and I was happy about it:D We finally got a soaker yesterday, 2 plus inches. Hoping my plots come back to life after 5 weeks of no rain.
 
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