• The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
  • We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules

Team 2 is #1 - 2018 Thread

Sorry guys - long day - I had to retrieve, field dress and haul them both to the processor, but they didn't open until 1 so I pulled cards and then had a 3 hour drive back to Charlotte. Long weekend. Saturday was a grind. Driving up Friday the loggers texted me to let me know they were working Saturday. They began a 2 month operation 2 weeks ago. But at least they are communicating with me on schedule - I have the guys cell # and we agreed to keep in touch about when I'm hunting and if he was going to work a weekend. Saturday I looked for oaks with acorns all morning and any tree dropping was in neighboring property - and that was only a few. So I went to a clover plot we planted in August to sit a preset. I had not been there since planting and when I got there it had not established. I sat it anyway as it is near a creek and bedding but saw nothing. It was 79 and 97% humidity. I was soaked all day and I walked 3 miles with a run n gun pack. I also lost my Thermacell somewhere on the walk - must have gotten knocked off my pack. Of course mosquitoes were bad that night. Heading back after dark I was beat and smelly. Sunday morning I went to another food plot where I set up overlooking the plot about 30 yards back but where deer would likely come through on their way out to the clover. 10 minutes after legal light I had deer browsing their way towards me. 5 does. The lead doe eventually got to 11 yards and looked up right at me - the stare down went on for a couple minutes and then she took a couple steps behind a tree which allowed me to draw. She looked right back at me and I was having trouble seeing my pins. Turns out my peep sight did not align completely. I put the pin on her best I could and let it fly. She turned and ran - there was lots of commotion as all 5 does ran. I heard a loud crash and many other smaller ones as the group bolted through the scrub trees and old logging debris. But that doe did not react like a deer that had been hit. She just turned and jumped a vine and ran. I was puzzled. She was 10 yards and I could not see the arrow either. I thought I must have missed, but I decided to wait the morning out and would check later. I was hopeful additional deer would move in later in the morning. Well 20 minutes later one of the does came back but only to look to see what happened - she came in looking right for me. She stared me down and started blowing then eventually worked her way out. 10 minutes later I hear something in that same area. It’s a young buck browsing his way behind me. Well at this point it’s been 3 years since I killed a deer with my bow. Last year I gut shot one and 30 minutes ago I just missed a doe at ten yards. This little 6 was getting an arrow - I needed a confidence boost. He gave me a broadside shot 3 steps from where the doe had been. He mule kicked at impact, ran and I heard a loud crash within 10 seconds. I knew he was smoked. I waited 20 minutes then got down and first looked for the arrow where the doe was. Standing there I could not see that arrow but I could see the buck arrow sticking into the ground and it was bright red. I went back to looking at the doe shot site. It was then I saw a good splattering of blood. Now I’m feeling real good. I kept looking but never found the arrow and her blood trail crossed the bucks since I hit both so close together. I easily tracked the buck - he was spraying blood - and then came back to find the doe. I headed in the last area I saw / heard her go, and it only took 15 minutes to find her. Turned out she still had the back end of the arrow still in her and the front section had broken off as she ran through the cover. Felt good to finally get back into killing with the bow. That 6 would have gotten a walk any other day, but I have no regrets taking him - he gave me the boost I needed. Plus this team contest crossed my mind once or twice LOL . Glad to be on the board and hoping to upgrade later.
 
Last edited:
Great story Man, tasty meat and some bonus point for the team

I took my daughter out in the rain on Saturday evening. There was nothing moving until about dark, then all of a sudden 10 deer came into the patch we were sitting including 3 bucks. Unfortunately they were all out of range for her. Great hunt, just seeing deer is a good night, we’ll change our strategy and get her a shot soon!
 
13 more points

Eyed 4 bucks this pm. One was a really really good 10. Connected with the 8 instead. Got dark fast
c2a8e9a65e577a70d47796ec740fdc0b.jpg


Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk
 
Wanted to share my hunt and this is the first chance I have.
On Wednesday evening, I loaded my gear into the truck and then sit down and studied the weather and Google maps for wind directions and what place would work the best with the northwest wind that was being forcasted.
I picked an area that I had taken notes on during my February scouting trips and I felt really good about for Thursday afternoon.
On my Rambo bike, I slipped through a grown up briar infested five year old cut over until the briars was about to pull me off my bike. I left the bike in the cut over and picked my way to the beginning of the open timbered hollow.
There is were I realized that if a buck was bedded on the north ridge of this hollow, he was going to see me walking along this hollow down below him. I studied my surroundings and a alternate path was no question.
I decided to climb the ridge on the south side of the hollow and keep the tree tops between me and the top of the north side ridge and the wind would cover my noise and movement.
After taking the alternate path, I slowly slid back down the south ridge, across the hollow and to the base of the northern ridge where I climb to my perch for the afternoon.
When I reached my perch and settled in, I moved the hybrid stand around the white oak tree so I could peal the bark off and make my preset holes for the fork on the hybrid. These holes will let my move my fork to the hole location on the tree so I can turn the hybrid and shoot in any direction while sitting.
Somewhere around the 6:15ish mark, I looked over and behind my left shoulder to the top of the north ridge...! Holy Cow!!!! At 65 yards, This buck stands up out of his bed, stretching and he shakes his head wildly!! I could see that he is a buck but not sure just how good of a buck. I ranged a tree at 47 yards that was located just at the edge of a trail that I knew he was on. Dialed my pin to 51 yards and I had him but talked myself out of that shot.
Moments after the 10 pointer that I estimated to be a 145 incher, an 8 and two more bucks started down the ridge at a quartering away path, I moved my fork to one of the holes so I could keep my bow side shoulder towards the bachelor's group.
After loosing my adrenaline by almost bouncing out of the tree, my legs were jumping like craaaazzzzy! , I looked back towards the bucks and realized they are on a straight line to me like a train!! I went back into kill mode and I felt as if I was smooth as ice.
I had so many thoughts screaming through my inner voice and I decided to shoot the very first buck because the 10 lead them down the hill and hopefully he was still in the lead.
Dark had crawled into where I could only see a bit of antler and only body form. At 13 yards, I placed my pin between his antlers at the base of the neck on his left sholder side, squeezed the release and my schwaker broadhead and victory arrow was not coming back.
SCHWACK! !! I CONNECTED! !!!!
The buck crashed at 75 yards!! Thank you, I'm praising our GOD with my arms and eyes toward the sky!!
After tracking the blood and realizing that the buck was the 8 and not the 10, I was still thanking Him for this hunt.
I also have to thank John Reed for letting me put the hybrid through the test. I don't think I would have gotten a shot if I was in a climbing or lock on stand because the deer would have been coming straight to me from behind me where it's almost impossible to shoot and if the deer would have made it to the base of my tree, BUSTED! Being at work for eight hours, I smelt like a Caterpillar engine and I'm sure they would have got a sniff where I was preparing to climb.
With a bow, thats the best antlered buck to date and I'm officially the first hunter to take a deer from the all new HYBRID.
 
Autumnrider said:
Wanted to share my hunt and this is the first chance I have.
On Wednesday evening, I loaded my gear into the truck and then sit down and studied the weather and Google maps for wind directions and what place would work the best with the northwest wind that was being forcasted.
I picked an area that I had taken notes on during my February scouting trips and I felt really good about for Thursday afternoon.
On my Rambo bike, I slipped through a grown up briar infested five year old cut over until the briars was about to pull me off my bike. I left the bike in the cut over and picked my way to the beginning of the open timbered hollow.
There is were I realized that if a buck was bedded on the north ridge of this hollow, he was going to see me walking along this hollow down below him. I studied my surroundings and a alternate path was no question.
I decided to climb the ridge on the south side of the hollow and keep the tree tops between me and the top of the north side ridge and the wind would cover my noise and movement.
After taking the alternate path, I slowly slid back down the south ridge, across the hollow and to the base of the northern ridge where I climb to my perch for the afternoon.
When I reached my perch and settled in, I moved the hybrid stand around the white oak tree so I could peal the bark off and make my preset holes for the fork on the hybrid. These holes will let my move my fork to the hole location on the tree so I can turn the hybrid and shoot in any direction while sitting.
Somewhere around the 6:15ish mark, I looked over and behind my left shoulder to the top of the north ridge...! Holy Cow!!!! At 65 yards, This buck stands up out of his bed, stretching and he shakes his head wildly!! I could see that he is a buck but not sure just how good of a buck. I ranged a tree at 47 yards that was located just at the edge of a trail that I knew he was on. Dialed my pin to 51 yards and I had him but talked myself out of that shot.
Moments after the 10 pointer that I estimated to be a 145 incher, an 8 and two more bucks started down the ridge at a quartering away path, I moved my fork to one of the holes so I could keep my bow side shoulder towards the bachelor's group.
After loosing my adrenaline by almost bouncing out of the tree, my legs were jumping like craaaazzzzy! , I looked back towards the bucks and realized they are on a straight line to me like a train!! I went back into kill mode and I felt as if I was smooth as ice.
I had so many thoughts screaming through my inner voice and I decided to shoot the very first buck because the 10 lead them down the hill and hopefully he was still in the lead.
Dark had crawled into where I could only see a bit of antler and only body form. At 13 yards, I placed my pin between his antlers at the base of the neck on his left sholder side, squeezed the release and my schwaker broadhead and victory arrow was not coming back.
SCHWACK! !! I CONNECTED! !!!!
The buck crashed at 75 yards!! Thank you, I'm praising our GOD with my arms and eyes toward the sky!!
After tracking the blood and realizing that the buck was the 8 and not the 10, I was still thanking Him for this hunt.
I also have to thank John Reed for letting me put the hybrid through the test. I don't think I would have gotten a shot if I was in a climbing or lock on stand because the deer would have been coming straight to me from behind me where it's almost impossible to shoot and if the deer would have made it to the base of my tree, BUSTED! Being at work for eight hours, I smelt like a Caterpillar engine and I'm sure they would have got a sniff where I was preparing to climb.
With a bow, thats the best antlered buck to date and I'm officially the first hunter to take a deer from the all new HYBRID.
Click to expand...

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top