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Team 4

Went out today on a new piece of public. Setup along a ridgetop with oaks that had trails and rubs as well as two fresh scrapes. Spooked a spike buck on the way in and two does on the way out. Nothing else.

Onto the next.
 
Who is going to be out this weekend? I've got Friday off but they are forecasting wind and rain - so I'll have to play it by ear. Then Saturday it is going to be cold.
 
We'll get the rain Saturday here in PA. I hunted last Saturday morning in the rain and got soaked b/c they said it would clear off early. I got in there and it rained harder the longer I stayed. I'm not cashing in all my weekends with the wife yet if it's gonna be pouring again. I may barter to hunt Friday evening before the rain. With 3 younguns I gotta pick and choose. I would hunt that cold snap unless it's ripping wind.
 
I am back from my moose hunt. We almost got it done. Both my buddy and I had bulls inside 80 yards, but we couldn't get them closer. If we were rifle hunting things would have been a lot different. I was in my saddle and had a bull grunting at me from a cluster of cedars - I was so pumped just praying I could make that happen. Next time...

Now I am back in southern Ontario and ready to get into some deer hunting. I will be out later this week and on the weekend. More to come...
 
I've been out a handful of days chasing sign and covering a lot of ground. I've been in deer but so far no results. I got very close to sealing the deal with a nice doe yesterday afternoon. I went out about 11, scouted out 3 areas before I found the sign I was looking for, I got set up about 2 pm and had a doe come in off the hillside about 2:30. I flat missed her heart at 25 yards. I aimed low due to the angle and the arrow sailed right under her armpit and stuck up in the dirt. She bounded off but did not seem to know what had happened, the bow being so quiet. I have a bad tendency to shoot high, so I force myself to aim low and sometimes it comes back to bite me.

She milled around eating acorns at a red oak about 70 yards to my north and I could tell she wanted to return to the white oak acorns in the shallow ditch. She eventually worked her way back up on the hill where she initially came from. I hoped she would make another appearance before dark but no such luck. Oh well, it was a fun hunt, and a clean miss is the second-best outcome of any shot in my book. I'll be back after them soon.
 
I've been out 7 times since the season started. I'm barely seeing any deer. Even at my best spots I'm not seeing anything.

I'll be on nights for a week starting next week so my time will be limited. Hoping to get on some deer after that. Don't know what I'm doing wrong right now but it ain't working.
 
Nice job. Very cool way to hunt. We dont have to kill huge deer to climb out of the cellar and win this thing. If we all killed a deer like that and a doe we would very likely win. Even if most of us just killed two does and we got a few decent bucks we'd be very much in the running. Typically its sub 150 points that wins it.

Im getting fired up for my bull elk hunt that starts this Saturday. After that it'll be all about whitetails when I head to Indiana and then Alabama on the 9th. I should be able to put up a minimum of two does at the end of that but I have high hopes for Indiana to produce some decent headgear.

I finally got the euro put together from the velvet mulie. I had to leave the skull in the peroxide a little longer than I wanted so it is a little pitted out but Im pretty happy with the way the horns went back on and the velvet looks great after the methanol soak. I definitely learned a few things along the way for the next velvet deer. The main thing is just to wait for them to shed the velvet, LOL. Much less of a PIA.IMG_6754.jpeg
 
Yeah, I'm after them, but they are just not cooperating for some reason. Deer just don't appreciate all the work I put into them, lol. I plan to get out several more times this week, and one of those is an invite to some private, so that will be a change of scenery. I hunted yesterday evening over a hot red oak on a creek with great sign. That thing was dropping all evening and as far as I could tell was the only hot one in earshot. There were tracks everywhere in the sand under that tree. No deer. It's been weird so far.
 
swing n fling said:
Nice job. Very cool way to hunt. We dont have to kill huge deer to climb out of the cellar and win this thing. If we all killed a deer like that and a doe we would very likely win. Even if most of us just killed two does and we got a few decent bucks we'd be very much in the running. Typically its sub 150 points that wins it.

Im getting fired up for my bull elk hunt that starts this Saturday. After that it'll be all about whitetails when I head to Indiana and then Alabama on the 9th. I should be able to put up a minimum of two does at the end of that but I have high hopes for Indiana to produce some decent headgear.

I finally got the euro put together from the velvet mulie. I had to leave the skull in the peroxide a little longer than I wanted so it is a little pitted out but Im pretty happy with the way the horns went back on and the velvet looks great after the methanol soak. I definitely learned a few things along the way for the next velvet deer. The main thing is just to wait for them to shed the velvet, LOL. Much less of a PIA.View attachment 93400
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that is gorgeous! The bone is super white and you kept all the velvet perfectly!
 
Stay tuned! Started tracking to soon. Bumped it but it went thrashing through the brush. Heading back out close to midnight.
 

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