Whewww, buddy! Sucks but still good to see one like that. Maybe he makes it til next yearWell now I feel like an idiot for shooting my little buck. Brought my dad into a spot I scouted yesterday and found all kinda rubs. Brutal hike. I got him to his tree and set up on the flat above him. Needless to say I only have doe tags.
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I hunted all day yesterday and all Ibsaw was this......zoom in on the tallest pine.I hunted yesterday daylight til dark, saw 4 doe and a button head.
Heres a close up if you cant make it out.I hunted all day yesterday and all Ibsaw was this......zoom in on the tallest pine.
Ughhh let's see um?! lol. Letting those cams soak all year is the way to do it. You know where to be next year nowHit it hard all weekend with my dad and a friend and we all struck out.
I saw that giant 8 Friday, then a doe, and Saturday a spike and two does that squirted out the backside of a drive. Then jumped a doe pushing and couldn't quite get a shot.
I optioned to hamstring myself by taking my pap's 94 .32 special all weekend, and with open sights my range isn't much farther than my bow. With my sako I would have downed one.
Picked up a few cameras that were marinating a whole year and found where I should have been hunting this season. A couple big woods giants including that 8 and a big 12, 10 with g2 kickers. Whoops. My injury messed that one up, I couldn't get back there until very end of archery.
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Did a few pushes, one-sticking in super hardcore saddle hunter mode. 3 or 4 minutes up and down, I couldn't hunt like this more than a couple hours, but for quick pushes, holy crap what a system. If these yokel driving crews up here "ran" sonething this efficient deer would he exterpated.
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Onto bobcat trapping season then late season archery. I had too much deer left over from last year which I unloaded on my buddy, so now I have freezer space again.
same thing as primary rut, hunt the pinch points and funnels between bedding and feed. bucks will be cruising looking for the does that are cycling again. scale is much smaller, maybe 10% of the doe population and the little bucks are likely too gassed to go hard looking for does, so the action may be nonexistent unless you are on the x.Well, it looks like I need to proof read. Sad part is I hadn't even been drinking when I wrote that lol. Second rut is real and I have no clue what to do with that info.
Ughhh let's see um?! lol. Letting those cams soak all year is the way to do it. You know where to be next year now
Find the does. With the leaves being down for several weeks now, it gets so much easier imo to stay on fresh sign. That's something I don't hear a lot of the talking heads yap about, how much it sucks for a couple weeks in the crescendo of archery season when the leaves cover up everything.Well, it looks like I need to proof read. Sad part is I hadn't even been drinking when I wrote that lol. Second rut is real and I have no clue what to do with that info.
I would say it was my best card pull ever. It was actually a cell cam that a bear ate the antennae off in Sept, so thanks bear.
It had a bunch more shooters, 5-7 of the 110" garden variety 8 pts. These were the show stoppers though.
Better view of the big 8 I saw Thursday. Pretty sure he survived, but he only showed up here in rifle, and first photos I have of him.
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9 with huge brows. He broke off his g4 later. No pics since end of archery. He became a consistent presence in here in November. There was a slightly smaller 8 that disappeared when this guy moved in.
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I've never really focused on a specific buck but this may be the one that does it. I got him on 2 other cameras, but just once here and there. With those kickers just a sweet buck. We don't get the funky stuff much, most of our older bucks are just real nice 8's that add mass as they hit prime age.
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May delete in a couple days I don't really like posting big buck pics anymore but tucked away in the team threads I'll get a little more open.
Also I really agree on this. It's worked quite well for me in the past scoping out areas I think are good, but not quite confident to invest a bunch of time hunting to find out it might be a gar hole.Letting those cams soak all year is the way to do it. You know where to be next year now
That 8 is gorgeous and the buck with the kickers ain't too shabby either lol. Still time to find um. Good luck!I would say it was my best card pull ever. It was actually a cell cam that a bear ate the antennae off in Sept, so thanks bear.
It had a bunch more shooters, 5-7 of the 110" garden variety 8 pts. These were the show stoppers though.
Better view of the big 8 I saw Thursday. Pretty sure he survived, but he only showed up here in rifle, and first photos I have of him.
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9 with huge brows. He broke off his g4 later. No pics since end of archery. He became a consistent presence in here in November. There was a slightly smaller 8 that disappeared when this guy moved in.
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I've never really focused on a specific buck but this may be the one that does it. I got him on 2 other cameras, but just once here and there. With those kickers just a sweet buck. We don't get the funky stuff much, most of our older bucks are just real nice 8's that add mass as they hit prime age.
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May delete in a couple days I don't really like posting big buck pics anymore but tucked away in the team threads I'll get a little more open.
That last one I'd be hunting hard. Course the deer I'm hunting now is probably a hair bigger, but i ain't posting any pics even on a team thread lol hopefully you can get on him next year!I would say it was my best card pull ever. It was actually a cell cam that a bear ate the antennae off in Sept, so thanks bear.
It had a bunch more shooters, 5-7 of the 110" garden variety 8 pts. These were the show stoppers though.
Better view of the big 8 I saw Thursday. Pretty sure he survived, but he only showed up here in rifle, and first photos I have of him.
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9 with huge brows. He broke off his g4 later. No pics since end of archery. He became a consistent presence in here in November. There was a slightly smaller 8 that disappeared when this guy moved in.
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I've never really focused on a specific buck but this may be the one that does it. I got him on 2 other cameras, but just once here and there. With those kickers just a sweet buck. We don't get the funky stuff much, most of our older bucks are just real nice 8's that add mass as they hit prime age.
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May delete in a couple days I don't really like posting big buck pics anymore but tucked away in the team threads I'll get a little more open.
Hunt it just like you do the first rut, in pinch points and high traffic doe areas. This is where cell cams help a ton, I had a doe hit a scrape at 3:00 am this morning, between 3:15 and 7:00 3 other bucks, 2 being mature hit that scrape and left direction she went. Sure wish I wasnt at work....Well, it looks like I need to proof read. Sad part is I hadn't even been drinking when I wrote that lol. Second rut is real and I have no clue what to do with that info.