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Team 2 Thread

Well guys I was able to get it done yesterday morning, unfortunately I wasn’t in the saddle when I shot him so I won’t be able to submit it in the contest. He’s a mainframe 8 with 2 kickers around his bases so he only would’ve been a 2 point upgrade from my previous buck.

@EricS is yalls rut in GA more in November? It seems to be rocking pretty good in MS at the moment, this cooler weather is definitely helping.

 
@MSbowhunter48 it depends on where you are in Georgia but yes on that property the rut should peak about the 18th of Nov. I did hat a picture of young buck pushing a doe last week so there may be some coming in for the second time. I just thought it was odd that he just showed up on camera. It’s just 50 acres with about 350 acres of cow pasture to the east and south so I don’t get a lot of deer just passing through. I also don’t get many wide bucks. This is the suspect deer from July two years ago.
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Tried hopping on over the weekend but was met with the much deserved holiday shutdown. Hope all you team 2 folks had a great holiday with friends and family!
 
Headed out tomorrow. Rain is supposed to tail off around first light give or take, so hopefully that'll make for a quieter walk in to wherever I decide to go.
 
headed out again tomorrow. last weekend didn't pan out, this one's going to be a bit chilly, teens in the AM warmin to 30 by afternoon. one of the last chances i'll have this season so giving it a go for my second deer (first for the contest). i don't have great cold weather gear so this should be... fun!
 
Good luck. Get some heat packs and keep them on the top of your hands to keep them warm. Do the same with the tops of your feet to keep them warm and wear a scarf or similar around your neck. Keep those 3 areas toasty and you'll be toasty.
 
MSbowhunter48 said:
Congrats on the doe @EricS!
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Thanks. That ended my season here and I couldn’t access the place I wanted to hunt due to high water. I had to get out and move a tree that fell on the road a few hundred yards before I got stopped by water. That apot just got logged in the last couple weeks and the road was torn up with tracks. I decided to walk back and setup there. Saw eight and dropped one in the road so no dragging. Couldn’t ask for a better hunt to end the season. Just wish the rest of my season went better.
 
EricS said:
Thanks. That ended my season here and I couldn’t access the place I wanted to hunt due to high water. I had to get out and move a tree that fell on the road a few hundred yards before I got stopped by water. That apot just got logged in the last couple weeks and the road was torn up with tracks. I decided to walk back and setup there. Saw eight and dropped one in the road so no dragging. Couldn’t ask for a better hunt to end the season. Just wish the rest of my season went better.
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Glad it worked out for you. I hunt areas that flood very often too so I know the struggle of changing water levels throughout the season.
 
well it's supposed to be mid 40's the rest of the week and then drop to high of 20 on saturday. i'll be out saturday trying to get after them again, haven't yet decided on AM/PM or all day. have the whole day blocked. will definitely hunt from ~1-dark, i keep reading things taht say late season AM not great (not sure if i know enough to trust that) but i'm right back in the cant kill them from the house/ dont really want to freeze my butt off debate. enough of the quasi-whining, i'll be in the woods on satuday, hope the wind is right for the spot i found last saturday.
 
thedutchtouch said:
well it's supposed to be mid 40's the rest of the week and then drop to high of 20 on saturday. i'll be out saturday trying to get after them again, haven't yet decided on AM/PM or all day. have the whole day blocked. will definitely hunt from ~1-dark, i keep reading things taht say late season AM not great (not sure if i know enough to trust that) but i'm right back in the cant kill them from the house/ dont really want to freeze my butt off debate. enough of the quasi-whining, i'll be in the woods on satuday, hope the wind is right for the spot i found last saturday.
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Good luck this week… we need 24 points out of you to tie first… no pressure lol


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as long as this forecast holds, i think i'll be in good shape for saturday. most of the deer i saw last time i was out came in from the west/northwest, buck came in from north, swung around to the east. wind forecast is N at the moment, and the orange marker is the spot i'm thinking about sitting. anything i'm missing or being a dumb newbie about?

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thedutchtouch said:
as long as this forecast holds, i think i'll be in good shape for saturday. most of the deer i saw last time i was out came in from the west/northwest, buck came in from north, swung around to the east. wind forecast is N at the moment, and the orange marker is the spot i'm thinking about sitting. anything i'm missing or being a dumb newbie about?

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The direction of travel they come from last time kinda sounds like they are funneling around the edge of that creek. If that’s the case I would kinda get in that pinch between the curve in the creek and the road coming from behind that house, pretty much just a hair more north than the green dot. Or I would atleast get to where you saw the buck last time before he made the swing to the East.
 
MSbowhunter48 said:
The direction of travel they come from last time kinda sounds like they are funneling around the edge of that creek. If that’s the case I would kinda get in that pinch between the curve in the creek and the road coming from behind that house, pretty much just a hair more north than the green dot. Or I would atleast get to where you saw the buck last time before he made the swing to the East.
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Thanks for the input, that's what I was thinking at first, but with wind the exact opposite direction and all the does being further south I'm not sure?

More info- directly to the west of the orange dot is the spot where the buck crossed the creek in that bend (and on second glance looks like the blue lines don't show the creek exactly, the bend is more pronounced here), I believe it's a shallow spot but did see two does cross at the bend you're suggesting(he actually came trotting down the path and then did a right turn into the woods, angled across to orange and then followed a shallow saddle up the hill that runs roughly parallel to the left side of the picture and was heading W up the saddle). Almost all of the does came from slightly southwest of where he dissapeared and followed the edge of the treeline down to where the creek splits and milled about in the grass/forest edge before coming to that creek bend and crossed there. A few of them started slowly working north along the creek but the majority stayed in that corner, and then I think they saw me and most headed back up that same saddle to the west. I was sitting closer to green last time with wind blowing from the southeast but was thinking about shifting over to Southeast of orange and try to hug the edge of the trees/field to the south to be within 15-30 ish yards of where they all crossed the creek, hoping that pause will give me a shot at a doe and my scent will be carried out over the open grass they didn't wander into. I'm not convinced the buck was a reliable pattern because a few hunters walked in deeper (up the path he came down) about 10 min before he came down, so guessing they bumped him, and I have no idea if he'd normally cut through there anyway, almost all the tracks I saw in the snow were doe, so was concentrating on them. Most doe bedding I saw was around/north of green which makes me think they come down that saddle and funnel up along the side of the creek into the thicker stuff.


Edit: I will try to draw on the image a bit tonight to show where the deer came to/from, don't think I'm doing a good job with words.
 
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Hopefully this helps add some, not a great pic, added lines in paint and took a picture of the screen with my phone. Blue is buck, orange is 3 separate groups of 3-4 does, added arrows to show direction of travel. Seemed to me with the wind basically blowing straight north to south being at the orange marker or 10 yards or so to the east would be best? (But please correct me if I am wrong?)
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With a north wind, I’d get on the south end of where they all seem to want to cross that creek. That corner of that field edge should help kinda pinch everything together in that same spot.
 
MSbowhunter48 said:
With a north wind, I’d get on the south end of where they all seem to want to cross that creek. That corner of that field edge should help kinda pinch everything together in that same spot.
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Ah good call, yeah that would put me in a better spot. I don't remember the trees over there but there's got to be something I can get up in
 
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