Aaronpaul14
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Good luck this weekend boys! Wind will be right in the AM for a nice travel corridor spot.. fingers crossed for some movement!
He's gonna be a nice one next yearReally wanted to get some points but it’s early enough and this young buck needs to grow! Was fun to watch him though.
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Good stuff @EverettJ89 !!Had a beautiful opening weekend here in Virginia, best weather for the opener in quite some time. My back issues forced me out of the saddle about 4 hours into my first sit of the year Saturday AM, I was way too fidgety in it with the pain and got busted by some nice does that would have ended up right under my tree. Spent the rest of the morning and the evening sitting on the ground. Saw a coyote and some turkeys from a distance but no more deer until I was walking out this morning. Spooked two deer out of their bed but they didn't know what I was. Tried to put a stalk on them and had a blast doing it but failed to get into shooting range as they slowly walked away from me. Tried a fawn bleat and slowed them up for a second... Had a clear look at one but she was about 50 yards up the drainage from me.
Hope you all enjoyed your weekend, I know I did. Felt great to be in the woods again and even though it didn't go as I planned I had a blast. I will be back at em this weekend and plan on working on finding that sweet spot in my saddle to get as comfortable as possible.
Dang. Sorry to hear that. At least you got to enjoy being in a tree I guess.Got to the public access with plenty of time to kill. Walked slowly down my access. As I crest the ridge heading down to the swampy creek bottom I was planning to hunt, I see 2 headlamps pushing through the bottom. I turned around and set up a little closer to the truck. At this point I didn't have time to push into my spot 2 miles back. Had 3 doe at 10 yards 30 minutes before legal shooting light. And so goes the public land blues. At least it was a nice sunrise this morning.
My hunt tonight was a total S-show.
A word of advice to the team, don't do what I did tonight and walk 1.25 miles in, stop to get situated before engaging ninja mode, and realize you're an idiot - left my dang release in the dang truck.
I swore I would never have that happen to me, this being my first year bow hunting I've heard a lot of guys having been in my position... is this a right of passage?
I then pushed through what I thought was a small mountain laurel thicket, it was not small and walking around would have been wise, but I was rushing. There was a ton of fresh bear scat in there, might be going back to tag a bear later in the year.
So yeah tonight was a **** show
My hunt tonight was a total S-show.
A word of advice to the team, don't do what I did tonight and walk 1.25 miles in, stop to get situated before engaging ninja mode, and realize you're an idiot - left my dang release in the dang truck.
I swore I would never have that happen to me, this being my first year bow hunting I've heard a lot of guys having been in my position... is this a right of passage?
I then pushed through what I thought was a small mountain laurel thicket, it was not small and walking around would have been wise, but I was rushing. There was a ton of fresh bear scat in there, might be going back to tag a bear later in the year.
So yeah tonight was a **** show