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Team 11 thread

Few more days to Oct. 1st. Planning on going out Friday morning. Haven't been to the farm in a while. No idea what's around. Just gonna hunt the morning were I know they like to travel back to there normal bedding. Should be acorns falling. So probably hunt that in the evening depending on wind.
 
Scouted a different area earlier but vegetation is just too thick to set up in.
Back to my familiar haunt on edge of woodlot and marsh
The wind just took a tree down 40yds from me.!
 
Good luck everyone. My area hasn't produced many acorns and it's been very dry and hot. So I'm set up on some public land, next to a water source, by some scrapes and near a tree that has two green acorns under it lol.
 
Only had one doe come out at 6:25 that passed within 10 yards. Lucky for her I'm out of doe tags.
 
Did a "Dress Rehearsal" last night in the dark. Took everything with me I would need. For the first hunt. Ended up ditching the bow hanger idea I was toying with. Spent 5 mins trying to get the strap right. But even with messing with that I was ready to hunt in 24 minuets from un packing to climbing up. 3 moves on the one stick. Which two good moves is all I will mostly need for most places I will hunt. I went 3 just for worst case scenario. Can easily shave off the 4 minutes going back to my slightly heavier bow hanger. So about 20mins to get set up. That was not rushing and taking my time. What I liked better about the one sticking was 14mins I was down and packed up. Way faster than when I fumble around with sticks. After that I pulled out the strop and started to run the Masassias over it. Hopefully tommorow I am posting my kill picture. Lol.
 
MattMan81 said:
Did a "Dress Rehearsal" last night in the dark. Took everything with me I would need. For the first hunt. Ended up ditching the bow hanger idea I was toying with. Spent 5 mins trying to get the strap right. But even with messing with that I was ready to hunt in 24 minuets from un packing to climbing up. 3 moves on the one stick. Which two good moves is all I will mostly need for most places I will hunt. I went 3 just for worst case scenario. Can easily shave off the 4 minutes going back to my slightly heavier bow hanger. So about 20mins to get set up. That was not rushing and taking my time. What I liked better about the one sticking was 14mins I was down and packed up. Way faster than when I fumble around with sticks. After that I pulled out the strop and started to run the Masassias over it. Hopefully tommorow I am posting my kill picture. Lol.
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sounds like you are ready. What weight massais are you shooting?
 
200gr. I'm 655 total I think. Apollo 250s. Shouldn't be much that can get in my way other than tree branch. Lol.
 
I'm running the 125 overkills and have a noticeable whistle, was just curious if you had that, but since the 200s are solid I doubt that's much of an issue for you. I'm right at 550gr total weight this year, gonna probably shoot for a 650 grain build for next year

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Getting back out this afternoon. Probably going back to the same spot but the winds going to be trickier today since its going to be real calm with the weather man showing E/ ENE if it does blow. The X is where I saw the deer last week and came in from the east side with a West wind. Thinking about perusing the other ridge/ creek just north or going right back but just coming in from the West this time.

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jtw0057 said:
Getting back out this afternoon. Probably going back to the same spot but the winds going to be trickier today since its going to be real calm with the weather man showing E/ ENE if it does blow. The X is where I saw the deer last week and came in from the east side with a West wind. Thinking about perusing the other ridge/ creek just north or going right back but just coming in from the West this time.

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Seems like you should be okay with going back in to the same spot with the thermals keeping your scent on the top of the ridge and the light breeze working to push it that way too. I think I'd push back in along that ridge line and keep an eye on what the thermals are doing.

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krub6b said:
I'm running the 125 overkills and have a noticeable whistle, was just curious if you had that, but since the 200s are solid I doubt that's much of an issue for you. I'm right at 550gr total weight this year, gonna probably shoot for a 650 grain build for next year

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I'm around 240fps. I don't hear any whistle. I hear a little from the feathers. But doesn't seem to bad.
 
MattMan81 said:
I'm around 240fps. I don't hear any whistle. I hear a little from the feathers. But doesn't seem to bad.
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Not sure where my speed is, but there is a noticeable whistle that isn't there with my field points. Think I'll look into a solid head design for next year instead of the vented ones I have now.

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