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LIVE from the saddle 2023

The last time I forgot something major, I shot my the biggest buck to date. Rode the e-bike way back in the woods and forgot my climber that day. Had to hunt off the ground. Well I get even further back this morning and I forgot to put on my saddle… so I’m hunting off the ground again hoping lightning strikes twice. Been waiting all year to hunt this spot. 33 degrees this morning in Kentucky. Perfect morning.

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Bowtie747 said:
From the saddle 2023 sit thoughts

If you fart in a scentlok suit, and you smell it. Is that proof it doesn’t work?

Setup In a creek bottom! Spot looks great.

Love all the cell cams im seeing this year.
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During your quaffing, did you by chance pick up on a "human signature?"
 
Since its been brought up . . . I've had multiple deer dead down on my last five sits and have gone completely undetected. Here's the kicker, I'm hunting remote and haven't seen a shower since last Thursday morning (5 days) and would consider myself a bit ripe . . . at least I feel that way. Now I'm using Scentlok bibs, jacket and headcover but they've got to be at least 8 years old and have been worn hard and only exposed to the dryer once per season. I can't believe they're overly effective anymore. Is it the scentlok or the absence of soap fragrances that are leading to my scent invisibility? I'm beginning to think I need to just give up on showering during the season. I'm sure the wife would like that. :tearsofjoy:
 
boyne bowhunter said:
Since its been brought up . . . I've had multiple deer dead down on my last five sits and have gone completely undetected. Here's the kicker, I'm hunting remote and haven't seen a shower since last Thursday morning (5 days) and would consider myself a bit ripe . . . at least I feel that way. Now I'm using Scentlok bibs, jacket and headcover but they've got to be at least 8 years old and have been worn hard and only exposed to the dryer once per season. I can't believe they're overly effective anymore. Is it the scentlok or the absence of soap fragrances that are leading to my scent invisibility? I'm beginning to think I need to just give up on showering during the season. I'm sure the wife would like that. :tearsofjoy:
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Campfire smoke? Smoking clothes is said to eliminate ordors

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I had an eventful hunt yesterday evening. Last week a friend asked me if I wanted to come out and hunt his lease with him. I turkey hunt this place once or twice a year with him but have not deer hunted on there since 2018. It is about 50 miles from my regular hunting grounds, so I gladly accepted the offer. From memory I seemed to recall that there were a lot of deer out there. He said he had several good bucks on camera and a pile of does so he said any legal deer goes.

I remembered a spot from this past turkey season where a long logging lane cut through pines past a food plot down into a creek bottom with a good many hardwoods. I chose this spot, and he went up to another plot about 800 yards West. The food plot was about what I expected with this drought, and since I almost never hunt an actual plot, this was not too big a deal. I will usually go between 100 to 150 yards past a plot in order to catch deer traveling to the plot in the evening. This is what I did yesterday evening. I walked the logging path until it rounded a bend, and I found a good two trunked red oak to climb over in a little creek bottom.

I chose a tree 14 yards from the oak and 2TC'd up to about 22 feet into some decent cover. This was about 4:00. The squirrels were soon back at work, going up and down the oak, throwing acorns out. Things looked good.

About 5:00 I began to hear what sounded like tipping around. It seemed to be coming from my right front and directly behind me. It didn't sound like squirrels. After about 10 minutes of this I pinpoint the source and see a big doe and a fawn emerge on the logging lane in front of me. They start scooping up acorns. Meanwhile, although I can't see them yet, I am positive there are at least 2 deer of some sort less than 20 yards to my rear. The deer I can see in front are watching them, but are not concerned. Maybe it's a couple of bucks? Who knows but I dare not turn around to look. After what seems like an hour, but was only a few minutes, the tipping sounds are directly under my tree. I look down and I can see a big doe standing at the base of my tree. I can hear two other deer now right behind her. I'm trapped! If these three weren't directly under me, I think I could arrow the doe out front.

About this time a squirrel decides to have a psychotic episode and starts barking like crazy. This startles the three under me and they bound off about 40 yards to my 5 O'clock. I think "Good, now just leave!" The other deer to my front don't seem to mind too much. Psycho squirrel has another fit and the 3 deer run off but this time they take the other two with them.

I sit until dark hoping the Doe and fawn will return but they never do. It was an exciting evening for sure. It's not often that I have TOO MANY deer to choose from.
 

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