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Team 7 Thread

Nah man, you did the right thing. Don’t do anything any differently for the contest than you normally would.

I had old man’s remorse about the doe I saw last night, lol. Years ago she would’ve been dead. Nowadays the eyes have faded at close range so my pins are a little fuzzy and I don’t shoot near as much as I used to so the range that I will shoot has narrowed. Especially in thick woods with cloud cover near sunset like I had last night. I need 30 yds and in now and as on alert as this doe was I had already made the decision that she had to get inside 20.
 
My name's Zach, I'm 27 and live in New Jersey. I'm a plumber. I work for my cousin's company and luckily he's very understanding of my hunting obsession. I work overtime all spring and summer then during hunting season I pretty much work just enough to keep the bills paid. My season started out of state on September 1. I spent the first couple days scouting, and not finding a whole lot. It was bone dry and hot so I started walking all the creek bottoms, streams, etc. A lot of stuff was dried up, but on the evening of day 2 I found a water hole that had trails coming to it like spokes on a wheel, and tons of tracks in the mud around it. There were no good trees to get in, so I just tucked myself into the tall grass on the edge of the pond, and within an hour I was at full draw on a beautiful 10 point buck in velvet. Unfortunately the tall grass and brush prevented my arrow from finding it's mark. The next day I got right back in there, on the other side of the pond closer to where the bucks came from. Again, no trees to get in, but there happened to be a utility pole with a 6 foot tall cement base right where I wanted to be.

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5 minutes before the end of legal shooting light I spotted velvet antlers in the tall grass, making their way towards the water hole. I grabbed the bow and got in position, keeping the utility pole between me and the deer. Once he was in bow range I started my shot process that I'd been practicing in the back yard all summer. I've struggled with rushing my shots in the past and this was the first time I was able to make a totally controlled shot on an animal. I shot him at 30 yards and he disappeared into the sea of chest high grass, but the track job was shorter than the shot! I hit right behind the pin, perfect double lung shot.


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Then on opening day in NJ a buddy and I did some 2 man drives where we basically still-hunt CRP fields about 40 yards apart, with our bows (both wearing blaze orange). When one of us bumps a deer, they will often run 40-50 yards then stop to try to see what spooked them, hopefully giving the other guy a shot opportunity. That's exactly what happened opening day, he bumped a group of deer and one stopped 15 yards from me, giving me a perfect shot.

I'll be in a tree tonight setting up on a big 8 point. Had him and a smaller 8 all over me last night in a patch of white oaks on a marsh point, but never had a good shot at the big one. Good luck to everyone else hunting tonight, looking forward to following along with everyone's season!
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
I thought you were running the coast ghost
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No, it's my scouting and testing saddle only! Also my daughters when she climbs with me. I prefer the load to be on my hips not under my legs! But it's good and light for the above mentioned purposes and keeps me from getting my main saddle smelly etc...
 
So make sure you read rules on how to submit your deer pics. Last year had a few on team 6 that didn't count because no pic of the saddle in with the deer. There are exceptions to this but I'm not in that group for lack of posts. Lol.
 
I'm Kurtis from Missouri, got the opportunity to kill 2 bucks total between bow and rifle and as many does as I want to buy tags for. My cousin has been running trail cameras on our farm and there's a good selection of bucks there now, hopefully I can get out there next weekend and get a closer look at one of them.
 
OspreyZB said:
My name's Zach, I'm 27 and live in New Jersey. I'm a plumber. I work for my cousin's company and luckily he's very understanding of my hunting obsession. I work overtime all spring and summer then during hunting season I pretty much work just enough to keep the bills paid. My season started out of state on September 1. I spent the first couple days scouting, and not finding a whole lot. It was bone dry and hot so I started walking all the creek bottoms, streams, etc. A lot of stuff was dried up, but on the evening of day 2 I found a water hole that had trails coming to it like spokes on a wheel, and tons of tracks in the mud around it. There were no good trees to get in, so I just tucked myself into the tall grass on the edge of the pond, and within an hour I was at full draw on a beautiful 10 point buck in velvet. Unfortunately the tall grass and brush prevented my arrow from finding it's mark. The next day I got right back in there, on the other side of the pond closer to where the bucks came from. Again, no trees to get in, but there happened to be a utility pole with a 6 foot tall cement base right where I wanted to be.

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See where this is going? Yup....


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5 minutes before the end of legal shooting light I spotted velvet antlers in the tall grass, making their way towards the water hole. I grabbed the bow and got in position, keeping the utility pole between me and the deer. Once he was in bow range I started my shot process that I'd been practicing in the back yard all summer. I've struggled with rushing my shots in the past and this was the first time I was able to make a totally controlled shot on an animal. I shot him at 30 yards and he disappeared into the sea of chest high grass, but the track job was shorter than the shot! I hit right behind the pin, perfect double lung shot.


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Then on opening day in NJ a buddy and I did some 2 man drives where we basically still-hunt CRP fields about 40 yards apart, with our bows (both wearing blaze orange). When one of us bumps a deer, they will often run 40-50 yards then stop to try to see what spooked them, hopefully giving the other guy a shot opportunity. That's exactly what happened opening day, he bumped a group of deer and one stopped 15 yards from me, giving me a perfect shot.

I'll be in a tree tonight setting up on a big 8 point. Had him and a smaller 8 all over me last night in a patch of white oaks on a marsh point, but never had a good shot at the big one. Good luck to everyone else hunting tonight, looking forward to following along with everyone's season!
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That looks like some points for team 7 to me! Deer killed from a saddle prior to the teams being announce count Go enter that thing.
 
dalton916 said:
That looks like some points for team 7 to me! Deer killed from a saddle prior to the teams being announce count Go enter that thing.
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I forgot to get a picture with the saddle. I'll take a picture of the saddle next to the meat and skull cap in my freezer and post that along with the pictures of my set up to the submission thread later tonight. Maybe papa squirrel will bend the rules for me.
 
What's up fellas! NW Missourian here, only got one hunt in so far and was full draw on a freezer queen but she caught my ground scent and super edgy. She looked up and I mistakenly made eye contact. I'm fortune to have a supporting wife so I'll be getting in one or two hunts in a week minimum until 1-15-23
 
Hey guy my name is Derek..from Southern Ohio..I'll for sure be good for some points this season Besides my home state of Ohio. I will be spending 6 days of the rut in Nebraska then heading over to south Central Iowa for 11 day or so should be a really fun season.
 
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