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  1. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    It’s a funny feeling, right?! On one hand you’ve won - being close to / in range of a specific deer that you’ve spent time, years in my case studying. On the other hand, they walk away to live another day and we go home with memories and lessons, but no meat.
  2. Jammintree

    LOCATING MOUNTAIN BUCKS

    Slope angle is one way to see the steeps
  3. Jammintree

    LOCATING MOUNTAIN BUCKS

    As was said before, mature bucks in big mountain regions can have huge ranges. I focus on trying to keep track of the pockets of deer through the season. They are constantly moving their range for any number of reasons. Before you hunt a specific area you need to be sure that’s where the...
  4. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    It’s been my best season by a country mile in terms of up close encounters. But I can’t seem to seal the deal. It’s humbling to say the least. And yea, that 3 misses - one clean miss and 2 that were non fatal hits…. That doesn’t feel great. Edit: ive had a couple clean misses over the years...
  5. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    I missed the buck of a lifetime today. Will post more when I get a chance.
  6. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Well folks I gotta say, I’m frustrated. I’ve spent alot of time hunting this year and have seen more deer up close than ever. And yet, it’s December and I’ve yet to make a single harvest. Since mid November when I had back to back misses I’ve been frustrated and that’s not a useful state of...
  7. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Today is the gun season opener in my state. I’ve got a preset hung In the heart of a huge piece of public, right over a major eacape route between a whole lot of bedding areas. Let the pushers push.
  8. Jammintree

    Splitting fire wood

    That’s made by a beetle. Sometimes called an Ambrosia beetle. https://www.wood-database.com/ambrosia-maple/ Was that tree a species of maple? Perhaps a Box elder?
  9. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Unless I can drum something up this weekend, this is looking like my first bow season in quite a while that I’m not going to harvest a buck. And it’s not sitting well with me. Gun season starts Monday and it’s looking like we will have snow. So, I’ll pick up a gun and find a track.
  10. Jammintree

    Hunting pressured public during Gun Season

    In the early days of the gun opener I like to get in early and set up high in trees that are over escape routes and particularly on terrain that they get forced to funnel through - thick spots near hard land features like the top end of a steep ravine or body of water. - capitalize on the shock...
  11. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Right around sunrise I had a big buck pass by at 30 yards. He was in thick brush and I couldn’t get an opportunity. Crazy thing is that I have two trees prepped in this same spot for different winds, and he walked right by the other tree. This has been my best year by far in terms of seeing...
  12. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    I just came back from a long weekend hunt in VT with some buddies. The forecast called for snow in the mountains, so we rented an air BNB and went for it. Alas the forecast didn’t pan out and there was only snow above 2,500 feet. Without contiguous snow cover the conditions were quite...
  13. Jammintree

    Crossbow Range

    Last week I missed 2 bucks with a compound. The first was at 25 yards on a windy day - he didn’t respond to the shot sound, but I glanced a tiny twig that was invisible in the early morning light. The second one I missed at 12-15 yards because he definitely heard the bow and jumped the string...
  14. Jammintree

    Crossbow Range

    I don’t know how conditions are where others hunt, but most places I hunt have a lot of branches, live and dead that can be very hard to see at a distance. It doesn’t take much deflection for a shot to miss or worse yet, land somewhere that severely injures the animal without killing it.
  15. Jammintree

    2024-25 Traditional Kills

    Yet another reason why the east coast natives burned the understory. Those little twigs cost me two nice buck this week! Nice job on the double does.
  16. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Well the good news is that I went back this morning and recovered my arrow. A clean miss never felt so good!
  17. Jammintree

    Compound bow on a mountain bike

    Reviving this thread. So I’ve been biking with my bow strapped on my backpack. I do have a sling, but haven’t been riding with it because the trail I’m taking is super brushy and also because I couldn’t find a way to sling the bow so that my sight wasn’t bumping against my body constantly...
  18. Jammintree

    My 2024 Adirondack buck!

    Another gorgeous deer!
  19. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Well team, my name is Mud - Humble Pie. I had a ton of deer pass back in forth in front of me today. I had a decent buck right in front of me. He was bird dogging a hot doe and would not stop. I tried put to one in him at 20 yards through a small opening in the brush… no arrow, no blood, just...
  20. Jammintree

    Team 3 Rules

    Thanks for that. Yeah I considering flashing a note in front of the cell cam, with my number and a request for useful intel if he was willing. But decided against it. This guy has the woods blanked with cams and so it is likely hewill get pics of the deer. However, this guy also has a habit...
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