Live from the stand thread

[gwm]

Cool view there. Is that a natural watering hole or did you make that?

Natural waterhole that I made bigger. It always held water but I wanted it bigger than it was.

 

[gwm]

This little guy is giving it everything he's got. They ran the field three times.



Time out for a drink.



And now this little guy is going to try to catch up to them.

 

[Bill]

I’m hunting from the barn. Weapon of choice is a Sony Handycam.

 

[Brian662]

130ish" 9 point came out to eat and chase a few does around

 

[356]

Rut Annex Update: Between my meeting that ended at 10:54 and the one that started at 11:00 I arrowed a nice buck. I saw a doe and a fork go through earlier and he was on the same trail. I didn't have time to get video, and I felt the shot was less than perfect. After my 11:00 am meeting I looked at the sight and found white hair and a blood trail that is good, but dark, and no arrow.

This has been an amazing 6 hours, and once I retrieve the buck, it will be a story for many years to come.

This was the hardest retrieval I've had...it was a liver shot and the deer was still alive at 6:32 pm when I found him. A second shot allow me to notch the tag. The deer expired just over the property line in a deep creek bed, and I have a good relationship with the neighbor (but not one where he will help ). Winches will be required, as this is a solo recovery, so I am getting dinner and planning my approach. Here is a picture of the buck on a camera from yesterday. I harvested him just 10 yards from this camera, about 24 hours after this picture was taken.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Good buck movement the last couple of hours before dark last night as the wind dropped off, one of my better bucks would have been killable (not sure I would have shot him, he is a long tined 4x4, but looks to be maybe 3 or 4 years old) if I was in the stand I hunted tonight. Unfortunately, I had other commitments last night. Hunted this morning and saw a half dozen antlerless, the most I have seen in quite sometime. An average size buck bumping a pair of them around, though he wasnt set on chasing anything. Tonight was a bust, had a little spike buck chasing a doe in some brush 15 minute after I got into the stand and then after that it was just me and the squirrels .... lots of squirrels! LOL

 

[Bill]

This was the hardest retrieval I've had...it was a liver shot and the deer was still alive at 6:32 pm when I found him. A second shot allow me to notch the tag. The deer expired just over the property line in a deep creek bed, and I have a good relationship with the neighbor (but not one where he will help ). Winches will be required, as this is a solo recovery, so I am getting dinner and planning my approach. Here is a picture of the buck on a camera from yesterday. I harvested him just 10 yards from this camera, about 24 hours after this picture was taken.

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That corn didn't grow so well.

 

[hunts_with_stick]

This has been one of my worst years in terms of seeing shooter bucks. I have off all next week and will hunt starting sat. Can’t today and tomorrow son has a baseball camp at a college 4.5 hours away so we are leaving today and not getting home until late tomorrow.

 

[bwoods11]

I’ve seen 9 deer & 5 are bucks all but one close …fun sit ! This buck is 2.5 or 3.5 ? Not sure . But a nice one for future

 

[356]

That corn didn't grow so well.

Could be a case of Ground shrinkage :-), but I'm happy with the harvest. I'd say he was 3 1/2. At 192#, he was just under the one I harvested two years ago.

 

[Brian662]

Nice buck, congrats! Good to see all your time and energy pay off!

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Congrats…but that’s not the same deer in the trail cam pic