• The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
  • We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules

Team 7 Thread

St.CroixArcher said:
View attachment 55502
Finally got out yesterday. Wind was real goofy out of the east with some north. Told myself if I was lucky enough to have something come in range I was letting that arrow fly. This guy came by at 3:15. He maybe a 6, 7 or 8. Have to pressure the brows I’m guessing 7. My hand is covering the longer of the two brows. Double lunged him at 25 yards. He trotted off about 30 yards walked another 25 and tipped over. Never knew what hit him. Feels good to get one on the ground.
Click to expand...
Congrats!!!
 
St.CroixArcher said:
View attachment 55502
Finally got out yesterday. Wind was real goofy out of the east with some north. Told myself if I was lucky enough to have something come in range I was letting that arrow fly. This guy came by at 3:15. He may be a 6, 7 or 8. Have to measure the brows I’m guessing 7. My hand is covering the longer of the two brows. Double lunged him at 25 yards. He trotted off about 30 yards walked another 25 and tipped over. Never knew what hit him. Feels good to get one on the ground.
Click to expand...
Congrats! Nice looking buck
 
I went out to a new property with my brother on Saturday afternoon and got skunked. My brother was set up about 150 yards to the West of me and had a wide fork horn under his tree at last light.

found some fresh rubs, scrapes and heavy trails so still gained some new intel for future hunts.
 
1921bfdbb4be67a84dde651fadf0bc9e.jpg

7e589457fde09a7cbf705b5b25ce7f85.jpg

06fc5e15b1dfd438be9fb13cb1c3de6f.jpg



Finished this up and hunted a couple times out of it over the weekend. It didn’t fall apart with me in it…….that’s a plus. Hanging tonight in a cordura model of the same design. I am just a cordura man I guess. To each is own. Some guys like boobs some guys like butts.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
onestringer said:
1921bfdbb4be67a84dde651fadf0bc9e.jpg

7e589457fde09a7cbf705b5b25ce7f85.jpg

06fc5e15b1dfd438be9fb13cb1c3de6f.jpg



Finished this up and hunted a couple times out of it over the weekend. It didn’t fall apart with me in it…….that’s a plus. Hanging tonight in a cordura model of the same design. I am just a cordura man I guess. To each is own. Some guys like boobs some guys like butts.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Props to you guys that make your own rigs.
 
It’s close that’s for sure. Congrats.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
I am back at it. This sit is going about like work did today. Kinda crappy. Went up one tree. Wind app says SE wind, but it’s actually SW. came down moved 100 yards. Now I need deer to show up. So far nada


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
What a crazy day on public land yesterday.
Sat from 9:30-1:00 in one area. Nothing going on so I decided to move to where I had action the week before. When I get to the parking lot there is a guy from out of state there. He asks where I'm going and I tell him and he says he's waiting for his 2 buddies to go scouting and it sounds like he wants to go to the same area. He makes a big deal about not wanting to screw up my hunt so I show him exactly on the map where I'm going. Everyone heads off into the woods. I get to my tree and I'm halfway up and I look up the ridge and see them coming right through where they bed. I give a little shout and they move off. I figure that spot is burned for the day so I come up with plan B to hunt a pinch point off another bedding area. I jump a 250+ pound bear from it's bed 15 yards from me as I'm sneaking over there which is always exciting to have a close encounter with a bear lol. I get to the spot, pick a tree, get halfway up this one and 2 does come at mach 2 from the bedding area 10 yards by my tree. I haul my bow up as quick as possible as I'm looking for the buck. Nothing so I start to climb again and hear a crack from that direction and look up to see the guy coming right through this bedding area. I watched him walk around me and get up where the bear went and then I hear all sorts of yelling lol... At this point I'm thinking I'll just get out of this area because they've been walking through all the bedding areas. As I'm hiking out I look at the clock and I really don't have enough time to make it back to the truck and move so I had a pinch point I had been considering hunting on my walk out so I set up there and figured hey you never know. I saw one deer going away about 150 yards and then 20 minutes before dark I heard the deepest, longest grunt I've ever heard. Initially I'm wondering if its one of those guys but I gotta play the game so I hit the can call a few times and then gave some short tending grunts. I hear the grunt again so I give it another couple grunts and put it away. I grabbed the bow and turned to that area and wouldn't you know it a few minutes later I see a deer step out. He got to about 50 yards and worked a tree over a little bit. At that point he stopped and stared off in my direction for a couple minutes, then he turned around and went back where he came from and I lost sight of him. I figured he didn't see any of the action he heard so he wasn't coming over. After dark I got down and as I'm walking out in that direction I see a set of eyeballs looking at me which eventually take off. I'm sure it was him because I could smell him. Interesting side note, I've had a couple bucks do that before where they won't come in and then will hang around to check it out after dark. I remember one time on this huge buck, for sure one of the top 5 I've ever seen in the woods, I stayed in the tree after dark because I knew he was close and didn't want to spook him. After it got good and dark he walked right over the base of my tree and just stood there. At the time I didn't want to spook him but I wish I hit him with the flashlight to get a better look at him in hindsight.
All in all it ended up being a cray afternoon with an exciting sight but there was some frustration to get there lol. Its public land and I said that to the guy... but he was so concerned with not screwing up my hunt. Normally I would chalk it up to public land but I showed him right where I was going.... if I knew he was still going to walk circles around me I would have just bailed at he parking lot and gone to another spot. Anyways, heading back out to a tree in a few....
 
Gotta work today but I want to share that things were heating up on my cell cams in CT yesterday. For the first time in weeks I got multiple photos of deer during daylight yesterday afternoon and evening. Lots of deer movement happening after dark too - things are definitely heating up. I will be out quite a bit in the coming two weeks. Stay alert and good luck!
 
Since I don’t have a buck tag left I’m going to get out and check a camera that I’ve had in a bedding area since the first of September and haven’t checked. I shot my buck on Sunday at 3:20 in the afternoon. The younger ones are definitely up and moving around trying to find that first hot doe. The acorns are drying up and crop fields are coming out fast so I think they’re traveling more for food as well.
 
Are we all friends here? Can I ask a question without being judged?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Does this seem weird. It’s freakishly comfortable.

0b33a7538fb6f96b58194ccb41ffe7f9.jpg

8bd9d725ce4ef217ed0968b410561c99.jpg



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
onestringer said:
Does this seem weird. It’s freakishly comfortable.

0b33a7538fb6f96b58194ccb41ffe7f9.jpg

8bd9d725ce4ef217ed0968b410561c99.jpg



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
I’ve seen that trick before, I think maybe in a g2outdoors video. I say, whatever is comfortable is inbounds.
 
redsquirrel said:
What a crazy day on public land yesterday.
Sat from 9:30-1:00 in one area. Nothing going on so I decided to move to where I had action the week before. When I get to the parking lot there is a guy from out of state there. He asks where I'm going and I tell him and he says he's waiting for his 2 buddies to go scouting and it sounds like he wants to go to the same area. He makes a big deal about not wanting to screw up my hunt so I show him exactly on the map where I'm going. Everyone heads off into the woods. I get to my tree and I'm halfway up and I look up the ridge and see them coming right through where they bed. I give a little shout and they move off. I figure that spot is burned for the day so I come up with plan B to hunt a pinch point off another bedding area. I jump a 250+ pound bear from it's bed 15 yards from me as I'm sneaking over there which is always exciting to have a close encounter with a bear lol. I get to the spot, pick a tree, get halfway up this one and 2 does come at mach 2 from the bedding area 10 yards by my tree. I haul my bow up as quick as possible as I'm looking for the buck. Nothing so I start to climb again and hear a crack from that direction and look up to see the guy coming right through this bedding area. I watched him walk around me and get up where the bear went and then I hear all sorts of yelling lol... At this point I'm thinking I'll just get out of this area because they've been walking through all the bedding areas. As I'm hiking out I look at the clock and I really don't have enough time to make it back to the truck and move so I had a pinch point I had been considering hunting on my walk out so I set up there and figured hey you never know. I saw one deer going away about 150 yards and then 20 minutes before dark I heard the deepest, longest grunt I've ever heard. Initially I'm wondering if its one of those guys but I gotta play the game so I hit the can call a few times and then gave some short tending grunts. I hear the grunt again so I give it another couple grunts and put it away. I grabbed the bow and turned to that area and wouldn't you know it a few minutes later I see a deer step out. He got to about 50 yards and worked a tree over a little bit. At that point he stopped and stared off in my direction for a couple minutes, then he turned around and went back where he came from and I lost sight of him. I figured he didn't see any of the action he heard so he wasn't coming over. After dark I got down and as I'm walking out in that direction I see a set of eyeballs looking at me which eventually take off. I'm sure it was him because I could smell him. Interesting side note, I've had a couple bucks do that before where they won't come in and then will hang around to check it out after dark. I remember one time on this huge buck, for sure one of the top 5 I've ever seen in the woods, I stayed in the tree after dark because I knew he was close and didn't want to spook him. After it got good and dark he walked right over the base of my tree and just stood there. At the time I didn't want to spook him but I wish I hit him with the flashlight to get a better look at him in hindsight.
All in all it ended up being a cray afternoon with an exciting sight but there was some frustration to get there lol. Its public land and I said that to the guy... but he was so concerned with not screwing up my hunt. Normally I would chalk it up to public land but I showed him right where I was going.... if I knew he was still going to walk circles around me I would have just bailed at he parking lot and gone to another spot. Anyways, heading back out to a tree in a few....
Click to expand...
That’s a crazy day. So do you suppose the guy didn’t realize it was a bedding area or was he just being a d!ck and trying to screw up your hunt? Way to go using the pressure to your advantage.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top