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Team 3 Thread

Bigterp said:
I just shot a nice buck at 32 yds , felt good sounded good & he walked off slow tail flicking fast the whole time!!!!! Waiting for dark to sneak out of here… and plenty of good snow to track. Gonna wait a few hours & come back after I warm up & the Elvis leg calms down.
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Good Luck @Bigterp !
 
Bigterp said:
I just shot a nice buck at 32 yds , felt good sounded good & he walked off slow tail flicking fast the whole time!!!!! Waiting for dark to sneak out of here… and plenty of good snow to track. Gonna wait a few hours & come back after I warm up & the Elvis leg calms down.
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Sounds like we may have doubled up!!!
Shot mine at 15 yards coming to a scrape that's been getting worked like crazy since this storm. Double lung for sure... Going to eat some dinner real quick and see if I can recruit some help for the recovery.
 

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OspreyZB said:
Sounds like we we may have doubled up!!!
Shot mine at 15 yards coming to a scrape that's been getting worked like crazy since this storm. Double lung for sure... Going to eat some dinner real quick and see if I can recruit some help for the recovery.
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Same boat!!! I’m gonna eat dinner & get warm & bribe my son to help.IMG_3572.jpegIMG_3571.jpeg
 
Well boys I sure wish we could party hunt for the team ….. I wish y’all could’ve walked up on him. He’s the biggest bodied deer I’ve shot in MD. So I didn’t post this earlier but there were 6-7 bucks that came through. He was the biggest! He was about to step out at 17yds but then hit the brakes & backed up & j hooked about 15 yds lower on the hillside. I had 1 small window a little bigger than a basketball but had a limb midway between us. I rigged a shot by putting my right foot up on top of my edp & taking all the slack out of my tether. It put my arrow flight high enough to lob over that limb. I shot & hit right behind the front shoulder & he walked away slow flicking his tail. I lost sight around 50yds. It was an easy track & he had piled up immediately about 90-100 yds away I just didn’t hear it in the snow. IMG_3585.jpegIMG_3586.jpegIMG_3587.jpegIMG_3588.jpegIMG_3589.jpegIMG_3598.jpeg
 
OspreyZB said:
Sounds like we may have doubled up!!!
Shot mine at 15 yards coming to a scrape that's been getting worked like crazy since this storm. Double lung for sure... Going to eat some dinner real quick and see if I can recruit some help for the recovery.
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Find him yet??
 
I got in and set up early today around 1:00 because the deer have been moving super early the last few nights on all my cell cameras. Didn't get the early movement tonight, but around sunset had a bachelor group of five 1.5 year old bucks work their way past me in bow range. About 15 minutes later a 2.5 year old buck came down a different trail and worked the big community/mock scrape I was set up 18 yards from.

When I found this spot a few weeks ago there were 3 dinner plate sized scrapes all under the same tree. I hunted it that night and didn't see anything, so I ripped open the scrapes way bigger basically making one huge scrape, peed in it, and sprayed the licking branch with DH3 branch catalyst (shameless plug for my buddy Kevin at the Deer hunter podcast, I've had awesome results with his DH3 scrape system this season). Had 2 nice bucks hitting the scrape regularly, mostly after dark but a couple times in the last few minutes of shooting light.

So back to tonight, the 2.5 year old buck is browsing and snaps his head up looking back at the trail he came in on. I look over and here comes a bigger buck. I get drawn back as he walks behind some trees and he stops perfectly broadside in an opening at 15 yards. I settled my pin on the top of his heart and thought to myself "You've got him, just don't rush this" slowly pulled through my shot and watched the arrow bury right where I was aiming. He mule kicked and barrelled through a wall of briars and snow covered holly branches and I lost sight of him in an instant and didn't hear a crash. As usual with the 2-blade Magnus stingers, no blood for the first 30-40 yards, and very little blood after that, but he didn't go more than 100 yards.

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We're supposed to get more snow tomorrow and I've got $300 worth of Delaware tags burning a hole in my pocket so that's where I'll be this weekend.
 
Bigterp said:
Well boys I sure wish we could party hunt for the team ….. I wish y’all could’ve walked up on him. He’s the biggest bodied deer I’ve shot in MD. So I didn’t post this earlier but there were 6-7 bucks that came through. He was the biggest! He was about to step out at 17yds but then hit the brakes & backed up & j hooked about 15 yds lower on the hillside. I had 1 small window a little bigger than a basketball but had a limb midway between us. I rigged a shot by putting my right foot up on top of my edp & taking all the slack out of my tether. It put my arrow flight high enough to lob over that limb. I shot & hit right behind the front shoulder & he walked away slow flicking his tail. I lost sight around 50yds. It was an easy track & he had piled up immediately about 90-100 yds away I just didn’t hear it in the snow. View attachment 98765View attachment 98766View attachment 98767View attachment 98768View attachment 98769View attachment 98770
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OspreyZB said:
I got in and set up early today around 1:00 because the deer have been moving super early the last few nights on all my cell cameras. Didn't get the early movement tonight, but around sunset had a bachelor group of five 1.5 year old bucks work their way past me in bow range. About 15 minutes later a 2.5 year old buck came down a different trail and worked the big community/mock scrape I was set up 18 yards from.

When I found this spot a few weeks ago there were 3 dinner plate sized scrapes all under the same tree. I hunted it that night and didn't see anything, so I ripped open the scrapes way bigger basically making one huge scrape, peed in it, and sprayed the licking branch with DH3 branch catalyst (shameless plug for my buddy Kevin at the Deer hunter podcast, I've had awesome results with his DH3 scrape system this season). Had 2 nice bucks hitting the scrape regularly, mostly after dark but a couple times in the last few minutes of shooting light.

So back to tonight, the 2.5 year old buck is browsing and snaps his head up looking back at the trail he came in on. I look over and here comes a bigger buck. I get drawn back as he walks behind some trees and he stops perfectly broadside in an opening at 15 yards. I settled my pin on the top of his heart and thought to myself "You've got him, just don't rush this" slowly pulled through my shot and watched the arrow bury right where I was aiming. He mule kicked and barrelled through a wall of briars and snow covered holly branches and I lost sight of him in an instant and didn't hear a crash. As usual with the 2-blade Magnus stingers, no blood for the first 30-40 yards, and very little blood after that, but he didn't go more than 100 yards.

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We're supposed to get more snow tomorrow and I've got $300 worth of Delaware tags burning a hole in my pocket so that's where I'll be this weekend.
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Sweet late season bucks guys!!!!! Those are both huge bodied deer, Congratulations! Great shots on both, way to go!
 
@Bigterp and @Jammintree, 20 questions……..:D
1. How was the wind for your setups?
2. Did they come in nose to wind or tail wind?
3. Was wind direction part of your mental setup analysis?
4. With this cold snap, I’m assuming the deer were mostly relating to food. Did your setups factor in anything else besides food? If so why? I know Jammin you said you were also set up overlooking a primary scrape and using lures….
5. What factors did you use in your setup analysis to hang in the locations you chose?

I find the late season rutting activity so interesting. It’s an understated strategy in my opinion. I’ve got bucks still sparring to some extent on one of my cell cams and last year the late season buck I shot was totally chasing a group of does the evening he came out. Totally rutty!
I’m trying to gather how much rutting influence is still happening with the deer compared to food needs.
 
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