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Live from the saddle 2022

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MNFarmHunter said:
Too quick…

Better flip it over and look for a Made in China tag.


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*Chy-Na
Coincidentally, I also just tested positive for covid. I couldnt smell the ol boy while dressing him and getting him ready to donate to the tent ppl so I knew something was up. Well that was a hell of a season for me. First velvet and first in State. Best of luck everyone!

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*Chy-Na
Coincidentally, I also just tested positive for covid. I couldnt smell the ol boy while dressing him and getting him ready to donate to the tent ppl so I knew something was up. Well that was a hell of a season for me. First velvet and first in State. Best of luck everyone!

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Congrats. Dressing isn’t bad unless you hit the stomach which reminds me of puke. Blood-n-guts, human or animal, never bothering me but the smell of bile and/or stomach acid is too much.

Where’d you hit it with the blood on the upper back?


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Congrats. Dressing isn’t bad unless you hit the stomach which reminds me of puke. Blood-n-guts, human or animal, never bothering me but the smell of bile and/or stomach acid is too much.

Where’d you hit it with the blood on the upper back?


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The amount of ticks and what I believe to have been 1000’s of ,pre winged, keb flies, wolf worms, and little micro maggots I believe were the keb fly larvae laid into the longer thick hair of the tarsal glands, was pretty rough as is. It was a quartering too me shot I took and hit him in neck and slipped it behind shoulder. One I wouldnt normally take but this year I told myself Im just sending every shot going forward instead of wondering and wishing like in years past waiting for that perfect broadside shot we all practice for that inevitably never comes and you go home empty handed.


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Been in tree for almost 4 hrs. Temps in the 60s. Not a bug in sight and l have not turn on thermacell yes. If l dont get attack by noon. Leaving it home next time. Feel really sorry for you southern boys more and more.

Same spot as l saw the buck last year. Abandon treestand on dead tree still there. At end of season, I'm gonna climb to the tree next to it, cut the straps and claiming it.

Beautiful day and so happy to be in the wood.
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Here we go! I got this far from the truck before I noticed... But I am in the tree and remembered everything except to not sweat on the way in. Wind is different than I expected today so sitting in a different spot than I planned while driving in, found a funnel between this water and brambles behind me that has a few well used trails running between where I've scouted doe bedding and what I believe to be a single buck bed. Who knows, just glad to be in a tree with my bow. Already turned around thrice for squirrels.
 

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HuumanCreed said:
Been in tree for almost 4 hrs. Temps in the 60s. Not a bug in sight and l have not turn on thermacell yes. If l dont get attack by noon. Leaving it home next time. Feel really sorry for you southern boys more and more.

Same spot as l saw the buck last year. Abandon treestand on dead tree still there. At end of season, I'm gonna climb to the tree next to it, cut the straps and claiming it.

Beautiful day and so happy to be in the wood.
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Yeah, man, go claim that thing.

Many, many moons ago I had a loc-on, don’t remember the brand, that had the fold out bar and cloth seat. That thing would cut the blood flow to your legs in a skinny minute so you’d either spend all you time standing or take every shot sitting since your legs were asleep.

I finally decided one day I had enough of that dang thing, climbed down, took my sticks and left it in the tree. That was the last day of the season. The next year I came back to that area and someone had taken it. Mad? Heck no, I laughed at the poor fool that took that piece of crap, lol.
 
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Yeah, man, go claim that thing.

Many, many moons ago I had a loc-on, don’t remember the brand, that had the fold out bar and cloth seat. That thing would cut the blood flow to your legs in a skinny minute so you’d either spend all you time standing or take every shot sitting since your legs were asleep.

I finally decided one day I had enough of that dang thing, climbed down, took my sticks and left it in the tree. That was the last day of the season. The next year I came back to that area and someone had taken it. Mad? Heck no, I laughed at the poor fool that took that piece of crap, lol.
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I did the same thing about 12 years ago. Every year I hunted that ridge I'd see the old stand. It was about 25-30 foot up, my guess why no one ever took it. Last year the ridge was logged but the loggers left that tree with the stand still in it. My guess is because the tree grew around the chain and they didn't want to mess with it. I guess you can say I saved that tree lol.
 
Well, I just took a shot at a young deer. Told myself any legal deer I'm shooting and I didn't see any spots! Possibly hit a bit back, passed through completely, it hopped off unhappily and I didn't hear any large crash and thrashing about (granted it's not a big deer) so I'm going to stay in the tree for a while. If anything bigger walks by I'll shoot another, one yearling per trip lol. May change this decision if another yearling walks by, I've regretted not taking more shots than I have regretted taking!


Edited to add: while I wait... #1 I don't want to jump the gun and call this a success yet because I have my second tracking job ever ahead of me, but I am pumped. #2 it's amazing how much practice drives confidence, and #3 I took that shot over my bridge, "weak sided" for my first deer shot (at) out of the saddle and it wasn't as uncomfortable as it feels practicing. #4 now debating getting down sooner and not bothering for another to have daylight tracking vs sitting til dark regardless.
 
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