Live from the stand thread

[gwm]

Does that whole field have turnips in it?

It was supposed to be soybeans. We didn't have much growth, due to the drought, so we overseeded with brassicas in late July and again with winter rye over Labor Day weekend. So there's a little bit of beans, brassicas, and winter rye. And, a lot of weeds.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Got the big gun out this weekend. Literally had to find it before I left home. I bet it’s been 10 years. Shot it yesterday to get it back in line. Need to thin some does. Sure is easy to hunt with compared to the bow.

 

[fishin coyote]

Daylight breaking on my 44th consecutive PA rifle opener

 

[hunts_with_stick]

Fishin - many shots?

 

[Derek Reese 29]

I’m out in PA too on a side bank with good cover between 2 food plots if you look hard enough you can see the green rye in one of our little kill plots..lots of small does and a sublegal buck eating acorns this morning…trying to be patient for a buck but if one of those does had snorted..

 

[fishin coyote]

Fishin - many shots?

Heard around 50 the 1st hour or so. It's dropped off to about 1 or 2 every 30 minutes or so. I haven't seen any yet today

 

[356]

Quiet this sit. Snow is starting to accumulate. 5-7” in the forecast. Still trying to help my granddaughter fill her first tag.

 

[Native Hunter]

This afternoon. Tall and narrow racked buck with big body. I know him. Surprised he had survived gun season so far. Ends tomorrow.

 

[Mozark]

I will no longer bitch about hunting in 70 degree weather, nothing so far this morning.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

My last morning gun hunting this year, I will be going out this afternoon to finish the season. I saw one buck, smaller, and 4 does this season. Nothing today yet. Worst season I have had in 21 years of owning my land. The neighbors have taken every buck I had on camera this year that was 8pt or bigger, which there were only 5 that were 2+. I have a big 6 still on hoof, that I will leave for next year. We need a couple mild winters and those that set doe tag quotas to get their heads out of their asses, so the deer can recover.

 

[356]

I accidentally posted this on the “footage from the stand” thread originally, so this is a repeat. My 6 year old granddaughter harvested her first deer this morning. 30 minutes into the hunt a nice buck busted us from the one down wind trail, but I figured he must be lookin for a doe…sure enough, the doe was only 30 yards from the stand and our granddaughter, who has been practicing since March, made a perfect shot with the .243 on a field pod. It was a 20 degree morning with windchill of 8 with 5” of fresh snow, which made the job of tracking pretty simple. I could not be more excited for her and this harvest.

 

[Brian662]

I accidentally posted this on the “footage from the stand” thread originally, so this is a repeat. My 6 year old granddaughter harvested her first deer this morning. 30 minutes into the hunt a nice buck busted us from the one down wind trail, but I figured he must be lookin for a doe…sure enough, the doe was only 30 yards from the stand and our granddaughter, who has been practicing since March, made a perfect shot with the .243 on a field pod. It was a 20 degree morning with windchill of 8 with 5” of fresh snow, which made the job of tracking pretty simple. I could not be more excited for her and this harvest.

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Awesome! Great story, great weather, what memories are made of!

 

[Mortenson]

Congrats to your granddaughter! Had to be thrilling for you both. Get her a hot cocoa!

 

[356]

Congrats to your granddaughter! Had to be thrilling for you both. Get her a hot cocoa!

She is enjoying hot cocoa as I write this. Her dad will be over after church to help process the deer. Pretty good ending to the last day of the special CWD zone season here in our part of NW Missouri.

 

[GMan5465]

Congrats to your granddaughter for tolerating the cold weather and getting her first deer.

 

[hillrunner]

I accidentally posted this on the “footage from the stand” thread originally, so this is a repeat. My 6 year old granddaughter harvested her first deer this morning. 30 minutes into the hunt a nice buck busted us from the one down wind trail, but I figured he must be lookin for a doe…sure enough, the doe was only 30 yards from the stand and our granddaughter, who has been practicing since March, made a perfect shot with the .243 on a field pod. It was a 20 degree morning with windchill of 8 with 5” of fresh snow, which made the job of tracking pretty simple. I could not be more excited for her and this harvest.

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Congrats, great memory! I love hunting fresh snow.

 

[Tree Spud]

Sat for 10;30 to 5 pm today. Was 24 deg F so glad to have heater for last hour. Nice 2-3" of snow was good and bad. Could really see deer better but because it hung on all the bushes, branches and, weeds, distance I could see was cut down. l saw 21 does and 4 bucks. Bucks were 2-, 1-9, and 1-10 pt. Good freshman class.

The deer were out all day. Had 1 buck stay around my stand at 70 yards for over an hour, he even bedded down.

Interesting that the deer were browsing dead leaves on the stem of goldenrod. No shooters but a good day in the stand!

 

[g squared 23]

Sat aaaaalllllllll ddddaaaaaayyyyyyy looooooonnnggg on public today and saw one measly doe. My brother saw his target buck. It’s a good time of year to see a big one on its feet, but it’s not for sissies.


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[Brian662]

Got my #1 (and really only) target buck this afternoon at the end of the WI gun season. I've had this buck on camera so much over the past two years, had an encounter with him at 20 yards last Dec while doing the doe management season. He's my biggest buck to date and will be a hard one to top.
This was as emotional of a moment as I've had while deer hunting. My dad passed away when I was 21 and at the time I only bird hunted. My dad enjoyed to big game hunt, he was never a trophy guy or a management guy, he hunted mostly public land. When he was sick, he wanted his brother to get his 7mm Weatherby because I didn't really have any use for it doing my bird hunting. Fast forward several years, my uncle calls me and said he knows I deer hunt now and wants me to have the gun. Awesome! Except my only property that I own/hunt is in a shotgun only zone in MN. I already had the idea of buying some land in WI to get an extra tag (2) but getting my father's gun was just more reason to do it. Last year we purchased this land in WI and it's always been on my mind to target a trophy with my dad's rifle. When it came together tonight it was the closest I have felt to my dad in a long time, it's been 19 years since he passed and I know he was out there with me today.

Rough score 175 4/8"

 

[Tree Spud]

Great buck and glad you brought the history forward with you Dad!