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Team 9 Thread

Was out all day yesterday and saw nothing until a 6 point came in as I was packing up. Watched me lower my bow 20 yards away curious as can be. Made for a bit of a long day but I’m about to go do it again.
 
Screwed up on a really nice 8 point chasing a doe at 10 am. Walked head on to me at 5 yards and I couldn’t make the shot. Expected him to walk parallel in front of me. In the last two hours I’ve come to terms with not getting a shot at the biggest buck I’ve seen up close by telling myself that now I get to keep hunting :)
 
Day 2 of 2 of missing a giant 8 pointer 2 different book bucks. In 2 days. Branch ****ed me today brush fIckes me yesterday
 
IhuntNY said:
Day 2 of 2 of missing a giant 8 pointer 2 different book bucks. In 2 days. Branch ****ed me today brush fIckes me yesterday
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My biggest struggle this year was setting up to shoot multiple trails and finding clear shooting lanes to both. I have a bunch of preset bolted trees but only hunted out of one pre-set tree once. I felt like I had to choose my hunting height solely on my ability to shoot to my secondary location. A couple of these spots I will hunt again so in the off season I'll go back and knock down some of the stuff that I noticed in certain locations that were an obstacle.
 
TLDR - Sorry I'm no help with points thus far, I broke my leg.




Sorry guys, I won't be much help until (hopefully) towards the end. 4 weeks ago I started my "rutcation" with 25 days of PTO to use up before the end of the year. First day I was out and hunted/scouted for several miles on public. After not seeing much I decided to drive over to a different place to try. Walked about a mile, found a good location and was going back and forth between a couple trees to determine which one I wanted to set up in. That's when it got interesting. As I took a step forward, my toes hit the ground first and my heal went into a depression (shallow hole, low spot, whatever you want to call it) but my body kept going forward. Right when that happened, I heard two pops and ended up on my side. Hyper-extended my knee. After a minute or two of laying there, I didn't think it was that bad and planned on just taking my time and slowly walk back to my truck. As soon as I tried to put weight on it, I dropped again. At this point, I knew I wasn't going to walk out on my own. Pulled my phone out to call someone, but had absolutely zero signal.

I started looking around for small trees or whatever I could cut and use to make splint/crutches/whatever to get me out. I crawled over to one and stood on my one good leg to get started. As I was standing, I tried phone again by holding it as high as I could and toggled "airplane mode" which ended up getting me enough signal to get a pin dropped on map and send text to a buddy that has hunted the area before and knew the area. Of course he was at work and didn't get message right away. Every 5 minutes I would stand, cycle airplane mode, check for messages, repeat. 45 minutes of that and not hearing anything, I finally got a hold of the wife. She was half way to town to drop kids off, so by the time she got back home to look for a set of crutches we had from many years ago and get out to me, it was another hour and half.

She could only find one of the crutches, so she brought a wagon that she uses for the kids stuff while outside during the summer. I sat in that, used my one good leg to help push cart as she pulled it. Had to go about half mile this way until there was enough room through the timber to get my truck back there for the last half. Of course she wanted to drive me straight to the ER, but I wasn't about to let them cut and ruin my pants, LOL. So she followed me and I drove my truck home to change before she took me to ER. Ended up with two breaks on Tibia right below knee and also had a tear in MCL as well as LCL. Two days later, my leg felt like a water balloon that kept getting bigger. Had to go get ultra sound and they found blood clot down in my calf. Another trip to ER came shortly after getting results from that back.

Doctors don't think I will need surgery (which is good because I can't right now since I'm on blood thinners for the clot) but won't know for sure until I go back in a couple more weeks. If I don't need surgery, hopefully I can get back out after some rehab and contribute some points on the board, but no promises.
 
Saw 14 doe and a spike today on the opener of rifle season here in WV. Most deer I’ve seen in a single sit. Drove around to some public with the girls to check the parking lots in the morning and there were only two cars at this spot so I went back at 1:30 and had the place to myself. The 350 acre piece had 7 cars parked in the morning. Probably would have felt a little crowded.

All the deer were inside 75 yards and showed up from about 4:00 on. Pretty wild. I did get busted by the first group of four does because I thought there were only two and when I moved to get my binoculars one saw me. Of the 15 deer I only had good shots on about half and had decent shots on half of the remaining half. Going to go out tomorrow afternoon and a few morning hunts the rest of the week.
 
Well my season might be over. Shot my first buck today! I WAS wearing the saddle during the shot… but it was from the ground. Have a couple doe tags left but I might not have the time or gumption anymore.
 
I've been avoiding the orange army here. Ill be out tomorrow and a lot next week with the muzzleloader. I plan to sit in the saddle morning and evening. Then its back to late archery which I'm really looking forward too.
 
Marmuzz said:
Well my season might be over. Shot my first buck today! I WAS wearing the saddle during the shot… but it was from the ground. Have a couple doe tags left but I might not have the time or gumption anymore.
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Congrats, any pictures? every first buck is a trophy.
 
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Missed this guy mid November. Came from behind me doe picked me in the tree. Didn’t expect deer to come from the water behind me. Had to do the little 180 twist under the rope weak side shot branch blocked the shot had to tip toe to try and shoot over the branch shot
Over his back. Pissed off.
 
Going out tomorrow to hunt some private land my good friend got me hooked up on. Landowner and the neighbor would like a deer to split between them and aren't able to hunt themselves. Have 60 acres of ridgetop to explore with a rifle and see if I can get them one. Should lead to more opportunity next year to hunt. Not sure if I'm going to take my saddle or not though, may just hunt off the ground as I have no idea where I may end up.
 
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