Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Bummer! What do you know about where you hit her? What was the blood trail like? What did she act like after the shot? Any hair/blood/grease on the arrow?
Scott S
5 year old buck +
Congrats to the young man. I would've made the same decision he did. Fill that freezer.My son found some success on his first ever youth hunt in IL. Was going to hold out for a buck but about dark his trigger finger got itchy.
Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk
scott44
5 year old buck +
Congrats to him!My son found some success on his first ever youth hunt in IL. Was going to hold out for a buck but about dark his trigger finger got itchy.
Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk
Bill
Administrator
Liver shot/nick If I had to guess because she laid down so fast and the other doe kicking her didn’t make her get up.
If she hunched up rather then bucking when the arrow hit that would another liver sign.
Don’t want to sound insensitive but it is just a doe. God will make more...so climb back in the stand.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Ditto on the liver shot...
ans
Congrats to the kid!
ans
Congrats to the kid!
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
First sit of the year this past Monday night.
Got into the stand around 4:30 and had a pair of fawns drift by to my right almost immediately, a little while later a doe with a single fawn came in. Around 5:30 a quail right along the edge of the woods twenty-thirty yards from me started singing...that made my day! I have been working the dog on quail through the summer so some of them are surviving a little longer than I thought they would.
From 6:00 on it was a constant parade of deer stopping in and going by, right before dark there were at least ten deer around me on all sides, two were small bucks a three point and a basket eight that an adult doe did not like...she just kept blowing at him trying to get him to leave.
I didn't want to blow the stand so ended up stuck in it an hour after full dark before I could sneak down and out to the truck.
Can't wait for rut when hopefully a nice one wonders by close!
Got into the stand around 4:30 and had a pair of fawns drift by to my right almost immediately, a little while later a doe with a single fawn came in. Around 5:30 a quail right along the edge of the woods twenty-thirty yards from me started singing...that made my day! I have been working the dog on quail through the summer so some of them are surviving a little longer than I thought they would.
From 6:00 on it was a constant parade of deer stopping in and going by, right before dark there were at least ten deer around me on all sides, two were small bucks a three point and a basket eight that an adult doe did not like...she just kept blowing at him trying to get him to leave.
I didn't want to blow the stand so ended up stuck in it an hour after full dark before I could sneak down and out to the truck.
Can't wait for rut when hopefully a nice one wonders by close!
bueller
Moderator
Please tell me you grabbed an apple or two to eat in the standFirst sit of the year.
Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
scott44
5 year old buck +
Maybe 3 or 4Please tell me you grabbed an apple or two to eat in the standFirst sit of the year.
Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
Telemark
5 year old buck +
Beautiful day in the mountains. Sat a few posts today. One spot had a view of the Atlantic Ocean in the distance.
Saw a doe, but she saw me first. Heard stags roaring all day. Pulled a camera and got some great photos. A lot of night activity, so might have to do a moonlight hunt.
Saw a doe, but she saw me first. Heard stags roaring all day. Pulled a camera and got some great photos. A lot of night activity, so might have to do a moonlight hunt.
Last edited:
Doe down
Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
How did that turn out?
scott44
5 year old buck +
I heard her crash in the woods but I didn't have a light with me so I had to go back and get one, I found her about 40yds from where I shot her. She's all cut up and in the freezer, had back straps last night for supper.
