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Team 7!

redsquirrel said:
Alright team 7, maybe this one will get us kickstarted. NJ public land 6 pointer. Shot at noon yesterday. I hit him a little back and quartering away. Decided to play it safe and let him lay until this morning. I actually found him by moonlight right where I thought he may have dropped.
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Woohoo! Atta boy red

Lets hear the story!
 
Last Friday went according to plan. The rain stopped and I knew the bucks would be back to freshen up the scrapes. It was quiet 25 min walk and the wind was perfect. I was settled in at 1:45 and the action started at 3. Long story short the camera cost me a chip shot. I couldn't get the shot off. An hour later I made history, I missed for the first time in my life. I know it's hard to believe but it's true.I jerked my arm on release while trying to thread the needle through some branches. I have wounded 8 deer in my life and it sucks! Three were mature bucks that I made non lethal hits on. It was an action packed evening non the less.
I hunted it Monday evening with no deer movement.
I found climb marks so someone was in the on Halloween. It's public so time to move on. At least I have my 1st miss on video!!! Lol....come on weekend
 
This time changed has really hindered my weekday sits. My commute is an hour so its tough to get anywhere before sunset now. Even just to scout.

Put in some good time last weekend, heading to hunt a spot this saturday i scouted last week and bumped a nice one from his bed
 
Slow morning for me, but i went on a long scouting trip on a WMA that's open next week and found some awesome sign, and saw two sure nuff shooters. Hiked right at 4 miles on the mountain
 
Thanks for the encouraging words!

Been putting in some hours of in season scouting /hunting on a transition from hardwoods to a conglomeration of ridges with cedars/ honey locust/ briars. Really hard to climb any trees in there. The buck sign is always consistent but it's really thick.

I got drawn for a rifle quota hunt and knew not the average sane person would go there (or at least as deep as I was. Got up early. The wind was in my favor, crept in early and stumbled into 3 tiny hickory nut trees out on one of the points. At height the tree trunk was smaller than my thigh.

As I got set up at the top I heard a deer stand up out of a bed off to the right. A few minutes later I was talking pictures of the sunrise I heard steps and the deer emerged from the trees at my 2 o'clock at about 30 yards and walked right in front of the group of hickorys. I shot him at about 10 yards and he dropped right there.

The drag was awful (and couldn't get truck anywhere close) but after getting that deer in the truck I had an exhausted smile on my face. Next time I'm getting a frame pack and quartering.

The only thing that could have topped this was if the weapon was a bow, but I am thrilled to harvest this buck. Thanks to everyone on here and a few folks on YouTube. I appreciate you all.
 
smcchevy said:
Thanks for the encouraging words!

Been putting in some hours of in season scouting /hunting on a transition from hardwoods to a conglomeration of ridges with cedars/ honey locust/ briars. Really hard to climb any trees in there. The buck sign is always consistent but it's really thick.

I got drawn for a rifle quota hunt and knew not the average sane person would go there (or at least as deep as I was. Got up early. The wind was in my favor, crept in early and stumbled into 3 tiny hickory nut trees out on one of the points. At height the tree trunk was smaller than my thigh.

As I got set up at the top I heard a deer stand up out of a bed off to the right. A few minutes later I was talking pictures of the sunrise I heard steps and the deer emerged from the trees at my 2 o'clock at about 30 yards and walked right in front of the last group of hickorys. I shot him at about 10 yards and he dropped right there.

The drag was awful (and couldn't get truck anywhere close) but after getting that deer in the truck I had an exhausted smile on my face. Next time I'm getting a frame pack and quartering.

The only thing that could have topped this was if the weapon was a bow, but I am thrilled to harvest this buck. Thanks to everyone on here and a few folks on YouTube. I appreciate you all.
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Cool beans. At least you didn't have to drag in the dark! Nice job
 
That’s freaking awesome dude!!

I haven’t had much time in the woods, shot a spike for a doe the other day in my back yard, taking my 10 year old in the morning to try and get her first deer ever and of course the rut is wide open here right now where we are going.


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