TEAM 3 - BARK BUSTERS

[woodsdog2]

Here’s the public spot I was in yesterday. You can maybe see the scrape under the hemlock I was set up over and which that buck was heading too.

 

[HaunSolo]

Was out yesterday all day. Went in on public to let things settle on the private tract I hunt. (My buddy the landowner crossbow hunts a little bit he’s not too serious but I wanted him to have the property to himself a couple of days (he would never tell me no even if he wanted too) plus my little
Voice told me to go on a public tract I had trail cams on all early spring through the early fall. I had some good pics of two decent bucks hitting a scrape I found way back in about a mile. I was all settled in. I went the long way in based in the wind( it is gorgeous country.) Anyway, about 10 or so I started to get antsy. I’ve tried to remove most stuff from my saddle and just put my Doyle’s, tether dump pouch on my pack so my saddle stays light. I didn’t like the position I had the Doyle’s so it seemed like action was slow so I started to move it taking the truck-glides out, I made a little scraping noise by accident pssst!!! There goes a decent buck he was coming in to check that scrape I was downwind from!!! Grrrr! What an amateur mistake!!! Grrrr!! I was so mad at myself. He was at least an 8 but not a 2 1/2 year old probanly a 31/2 year old not 100% sure!! He wasn’t a monster but he was a very respectable buck. So then I also get a picture of this big boy I from the private tract I usually hunt and come to find out my buddy wasn’t even hunting!! He went up to his daughters to see his grandkids for the day!! Oh well. Going back in today after I take my daughters to school for an all day rut sit. I prefer to be there by first light but you have to hunt when you can. I’m hoping the rest of you have better luck than me. You have to zoom in on the buck but he’s pretty decent for my area.

That's a good buck for my area too. He looks more like 3 1/2 than 2 1/2 to me.

 

[woodsdog2]

Check out this monster rub I found yesterday!!!!

 

[woodsdog2]

In at preset location, a funnel near where that nice buck west through yesterday. Using the pursuit platform.

 

[katiesmom]

So EDP update. Trophyline gave me the tap size, 5/16 24 BTW, and a friend of mine who owns a hardware store had it tapped in about 5 min. Working good now.

 

[katiesmom]

Going out this afternoon. Taking the Satori out for its first run.

Update: no one showed. 84 degrees...Nov 8. Sheesh. Thursday is my next chance.

 

[Bigterp]

So I went on a 5 day hunt the Friday before Halloween to 11/3 in the mountains with @GCTerpfan. We were on deer but no big boys…. Was just a little early. Came back & it’s been hot & my cameras are dead & not seeing any deer driving around. We’ll this cold front this morning has them moving. Cameras are lit up & tomorrows wind looks great. Gonna get a quick sit before work

 

[Hunter260]

Just taught a young doe a valuable lesson on keeping her mouth shut. 5 points headed our way

 

[gcr0003]

Just taught a young doe a valuable lesson on keeping her mouth shut. 5 points headed our way

If she blows she goes! Good work man!

 

[HaunSolo]

Just taught a young doe a valuable lesson on keeping her mouth shut. 5 points headed our way

Let's go!

 

[gcr0003]

Taking off two weeks to take a trip with the Mrs. should be ruttin when I get back and then continuing to kick off in Dec, mid Dec, late Dec, and January on different places I hunt. Y’all don’t give up on me yet. Y’all kill a bunch while I’m gone.

 

[HaunSolo]

Taking off two weeks to take a trip with the Mrs. should be ruttin when I get back and then continuing to kick off in Dec, mid Dec, late Dec, and January on different places I hunt. Y’all don’t give up on me yet. Y’all kill a bunch while I’m gone.

Enjoy your trip. I shot my muzzleloader today and I am good to go for next weekend. Its going to be cold, high of 40's. Should be good. Can't wait to have some time off work.

 

[Tree2Tree]

Dropping from almost 70 and rainy today to 33 and possible snow tomorrow.
Going to hit it hard .
Good luck tomorrow everyone.


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[Bigterp]

Gonna be out in the morning as the rain is supposed to stop, kind of an observation sit but hopefully will let me make a more calculated move Sunday morning

 

[woodsdog2]

Went out this morning hoping to intercept something going back to bed. This was in a pre set location near where I’ve been getting some morning buck pics. Half hour before legal shooting until about 7:45 was great whether wise but I saw nothing. Then the rain started in earnest and I got soaked. I got out of the tree around 9:40, circled to a spot where it would be difficult for a buck to get downwind of me and did a ground rattling sequence. My wife wanted me home by 10:30 so I waited about 15 minutes after the sequence and so I saw nothing today. I will most likely be out tomorrow am.

 

[Tree2Tree]

Been a long day
Was not expecting a blizzard to come through
Still no deer

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[woodsdog2]

Where you hunting @Tree2Tree?

 

[woodsdog2]

Saddle hunting sacrilege. Sorry team members, well kinda, I took this wide 8 today at just after high noon. I was hunting out of a ladder with a crossbow!!! I wasn’t in my saddle for once!! Sorry team!!

 

[Bigterp]

Saddle hunting sacrilege. Sorry team members, well kinda, I took this wide 8 today at just after high noon. I was hunting out of a ladder with a crossbow!!! I wasn’t in my saddle for once!! Sorry team!!

Congrats great buck!!!!! I hunted from the ground this morning & had a nice 2yr old come by in range, had that been a bigger one I’d have been in the same boat….

 

[woodsdog2]

Congrats great buck!!!!! I hunted from the ground this morning & had a nice 2yr old come by in range, had that been a bigger one I’d have been in the same boat….

Thanks! I had two other bucks on the cell camera at around 9:30 this am and the stand I was in was maybe 100 yards from thst camera. The one buck I had never seen before. seeing them so close with a potential to have them walk by or be called in kept me from leaving too early. I was going to go to another ladder stand on the same property at around noon but it just felt like something should be coming through where I was at. I’ve shot several other bucks in this location. It’s located where a n-s ridge spur hits the main e-w ridge. Everything coming up or going down into the gorge likes takig along the ridge spur as it’s easier walking and much more gradual than the terrain around it. After I shot this buck, another 8 came by maybe 25 minutes or so later and followed the blood trail that the deer I hit had just left. My point is they wre running again beginning around 9:39 as the rain subsided and the temps kept decreasing.