Live from the stand thread

I guess it's not live anymore I already made it home showered passed out in my chair and then I woke up again. didn't see anything all day heard one shot and as I'm walking back to the cabin three nice doe in the middle of are road about 70 yards put one in my crosshairs looked at my watch it was 455 I just put my gun down I kept walking.
 
Deer everywhere this morning. Could hardly get in the stand. No big bucks, but got to watch a lot of sparring. Dang coyote came out of a dogwood thicket, grabbed a cow pie and ran back into the thicket. Thought I was videoing, but realized that I didn't hit record. So instead I got one crappy picture
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It was a stressful quick morning hunt. I just thought I would sit out and relax, and take a doe for table fair this morning. While living on your hunting land has so many positives, it has its negatives as well. I slept in a little more then usual when I hunt, because it gets light later. But I still needed to feed and let the dogs out. Well one of my dogs are older, hard of hearing, and getting more stubborn by the day. He decided he wanted to go for a walk, wouldn’t come back in, then he walked to the fire pit, and decided to dig up old burnt food, I had to wander around yelling for him, while he wanted to play keep away from me. That started my stress. Then I left, and figured out which stand I wanted to sit in for the wind, I climbed in it, and it is windy today and one of the ladder straps decided to play a vibration song, and also rattle the stairs as well. I tried to ignore it, couldn’t, I climbed down at like 7:15 and tied a rope around the strap so it stopped vibrating in the wind. I get back into stand, and happen to look up, and there is a big dead branch barely dangling on a small branch 20 feet above my head. I tried to ignore that as well, but decided in the wind it was just to dangerous to chance it. So I went back in the house.

Oh well, I will try a different stand this evening.

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Closing out the 2021 gun season with a very windy cold front blowing through. Not expecting to see any but it's amazing how much trees sway in 35+ gustsIMG_20211211_161832022.jpg
 
Amazing night in the stand. No kidding, I saw every buck that was on camera this year. At one time there were 8 bucks in the clover plot. At the last minute of legal shooting light my old target buck that I've been looking for all week stepped out, but evaporated just as quick. Couldn't close the deal on him as I didn't want to take a sketchy shot. Ended the night greatly disappointed, but still happy :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
 
Anyone else still have a deer season on? Out today trying to do my part to help IL's government fight this nasty disease of chronic-19 aka CWD. Still waiting to see my 1st sick deer after all these years.

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Anyone else still have a deer season on? Out today trying to do my part to help IL's government fight this nasty disease of chronic-19 aka CWD. Still waiting to see my 1st sick deer after all these years.

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Good to see masks and the vaccine is working apparently.
 
Thanks - not a freshie, just 1 the pup decided to gnaw on. Maybe she can be trained to find them and has a redeeming quality after all!
 
Got out with the flintlock but didn’t take any pictures. Saw over a dozen at one time this evening including 4 bucks. Couldn’t get a clear shot at the biggest one so I didn’t take it and passed a few of the doe. Depending on the weather on Monday this may have been my last set of the season.
 
Nice way to end the season. Chris and I hunted hard for 3 days this weekend to get a shot at this doe with 20 minutes of season left. Next year he'll be nearly 11 and possibly the shooter.

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Looking like we're eating buck tag soup for the 21/22 season. About 5-10 more minutes left. It's always a bitter sweet thing but in less than 10 months I'll be back at it. Time to get the chainsaw out.View attachment 40302
Right there with you. I had every intention of shooting a doe this year too. Saw quite a few deer but nothing I wanted to shoot in range. Even when I had the opportunity to shoot a doe it was either bad timing or not a shot I really wanted to take.
 
Right there with you. I had every intention of shooting a doe this year too. Saw quite a few deer but nothing I wanted to shoot in range. Even when I had the opportunity to shoot a doe it was either bad timing or not a shot I really wanted to take.
Bad timing was my issue. I could have killed a ton of spikes but the doe always wanted to come in 5 min b4 dark on Sunday night
 
Chainsaw season just as fun as hunting season in my book, lots to do and never enough time. I don’t get super depressed until May when the buffalo gnats strike and signal the start of another long and dreadful summer.


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Chainsaw season just as fun as hunting season in my book, lots to do and never enough time. I don’t get super depressed until May when the buffalo gnats strike and signal the start of another long and dreadful summer.


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Just spent two days chainsawing and other work and it never got above freezing. I would take that a hundred out of a hundred times over even 80 degrees.
 
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