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Team 3 Thread

Bigterp said:
Agreed! Love getting them work! I brought a leaf inside with a drop of blood on it, but didn’t show it to my beagle until I got caught up with work & could take lunch. All I said was let’s find it & he sat at the back door for 5 mins waiting on us to get ready. He’s a mess!
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Whack that one with your recurve or compound? If recurve, be sure to add it to the trad team thread.
 
Bigterp said:
I went back out yesterday morning & saw 8 does out of range that we’re feeding above me on hickory nuts. So yesterday afternoon I planned to be able to shoot to that strip. I got to the spot & took my pack off at the base of the tree to assess the plan. A doe stood up at a deadfall 40yds away I got an arrow nocked & we had a long encounter she ended up blowing but just walked towards the blowdown & not off the ridge. I used the opportunity to slip towards the obstacle in hopes she would pop out the other side about a 25yd shot. Not quite what happened a nice 8 must’ve been bedded nearby. He fed pastvat 50yds followed by the doe. Both were calm feeding away, this 8 was definitely P&Y caliber. I waited for them to drop below the ridge below me. Then backed out & got terrain b/w us ( the spine of the ridge) dropped everything but my bow rangefinder & chest rig. Ran 200 yds & looped back around to their elevation on the same side of the ridge but easing back towards them. The plan worked well but the doe & a spike I hadn’t seen got above me & the buck was 50 yds below. I flock of turkeys boogered the whole thing up & I lost the ability to work towards the buck. I didn’t spook anything & eventually the buck worked past lower than me & I hiked out after the doe & spike cleared. None would’ve counted for the contest but super cool encounter & dang near came together. I never mentioned I was hunting a family piece an 80 acre mountain above Bristol.
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Don’t care one bit if it counts for points. The story had me right along on the ridge with ya. Thanks for a great hunt!
 
TheBlindCat said:
So my 3rd year bowhunting, today was the first time I’ve got to draw on an animal. I found a spot, small oaks with a 120-ish acre clear cut in the center, I have people on the trail cam I put up a week before season but still does cruising through so thought worth a Monday hunt. This was my 5th hunt of the season but it as warm up until this week (60-80 degrees in northern Wisconsin) and the leaves are now really dropping.

Walking in blew out a deer at dawn 50 yards from the tree I had planned, first deer I’ve seen this year in season. At 7:45 saw a spike moving away from me across a clear cut that I was on the downwind edge. Watched it meet up with two yearling does. Thought I saw the buck wander north. The does eventually trotted straight towards me from 200 yards, one stopped 11 yards from me broadside. I sailed it 6 inches over the back with the recurve. They hopped around wondering what happened, I was able to pull another arrow and cross over my bridge, sailed another at 16 yards 6 inches high.

Got down, retrieved my arrows and climbed up until 9:45 (told myself I was going to sit until 10 but my toes got numb). Rappelled down and packed up, left my pack and went and checked my game cam 50 yards away. Walked back and put on my pack, and there was the spike staring at me from 30 yards. Whoops.

Great learning experience, I know what I did. I concentrated on my breathing as the deer approached but when I drew rather than focus on a single hair I basically just let fly at the whole deer. I’m just glad I didn’t wound one. An exhilarating if disappointing morning. I left and went walking on a different property, but decided to pack it without climbing as there wasn’t much sign and my heart wasn’t in it this evening.

Tomorrow is a new morning, sorry I couldn’t get on the board today though.
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Props for trying to get it done with the trad bow. Sounds like you are in them good this year.
 
Bigterp said:
Ok finally got one in the cooler. All quartered up & cooling down now. It was a 90yd great blood trail. Maverick is a beagle/ jack russel mix & Goose is mountain cur/ plot hound mix (best we know on both) he’s all nose to the ground zig zag & she trails faster with her nose up off the ground & wind
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Congrats! Awesome buck.
 
ofor said:
Props for trying to get it done with the trad bow. Sounds like you are in them good this year.
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Thanks, my goal is a deer on public land with a trad bow, definitely trying to do it the hard way. My struggle has being getting into deer. My wife misses me many nights/weekends/holidays already with work so I don’t hunt evenings. My goal is to hike into places I’ve seen sign or deer early in the morning and then hike late morning afternoon to find track/sign for the next morning hunt. I’m not sure how good a strategy this is, but hey hunts in and I’ve gotten a shot so maybe it will work.
 
Had a deer I was hunting last year show back up on camera after a 10 month hiatus. Scouted my way into the area yesterday afternoon and found a huge fresh scrape under a beech tree. There were big tracks in the scrape, and a big pile of very fresh deer poop a few feet from it. Acorns and beech nuts on the ground. I picked a tree and as I'm climbing I look over and a spike is standing in the scrape staring at me. Around sunset a 4 point came and hit the scrape, and then worked 3 more scrapes in bow range of my tree that I didn't know were there. I left everything in the tree overnight and slipped back in an hour before daylight this morning. Had another year and a half old buck come through at 7:45 sticking his face in every low hanging branch, then I had to leave for work. I left a cell cam on the big scrape and peed in it on the way out this morning. I'll jump back in there this evening again if I finish work early enough, and definitely tomorrow morning for a quick sit before work again while that spot is hot. Have great access in and out so I should be able to get several good sits out of this spot.
 
I have the truck connected to the camper in the back yard. It quit raining for at least a few hours here, long enough for me to get a lawn leaf cleanup in, and I'm headed out to the remote hunting grounds for the weekend. Looks like a wet weekend but tomorrow is supposed to be nice with a light east breeze. I'm a firm believer in @Silvio's east wind whitetail magic so I have high hopes for tomorrow.
 
Well my October is getting all jacked up. Crazy warm opening week, got 5 sits in, passed some doe's and stepped on one of my target bucks sneaking into his bedding area. Thought about setting up for a bump and dump but decided to let things play out as there are other bucks around and wouldn't you k ow it, the buck I bumped came back exactly how I thought he would and I wasn't there.

Had to go to the Chicago area for work this week to babysit one of our sister companies and have to go back Monday through Friday the next two weeks. Basically, that means I can only hunt Saturdays as I can't risk shooting one on a Sunday and not having enough time to track or process it before I leave early Monday morning. So I'm gonna lower my standards waaaaaaay down and if it's brown it's down.

Looking forward to my Ohio rutcation 11-4 to 11-12.
 
Well...I'm not planning making it out for awhile. Family visit this weekend, wife starts fall break next week and I have to get her away for something, she is getting burnt out. Looking like I will watch weather last week of October and go from there on a vacation day. Good luck fellow hunters!
 
I got all of my duties done in time to catch an hour or so in the tree behind the house. The neighbor keeps a hefty pile of corn about 220 yds to the right of the pic, and my white oaks are to the left 30-40 yds. I’m hoping to catch a nanny on the way through tonight. Or, maybe my big 8 will show up. I’m not counting on him though.
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shmelton said:
I got all of my duties done in time to catch an hour or so in the tree behind the house. The neighbor keeps a hefty pile of corn about 220 yds to the right of the pic, and my white oaks are to the left 30-40 yds. I’m hoping to catch a nanny on the way through tonight. Or, maybe my big 8 will show up. I’m not counting on him though.
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Good luck, keep us "not in the woods" updated
 
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