Live from the stand thread

[Mortenson]

South wind is no good for any of my stands. Got in a blowdown on the riverbank and hid behind it with the field upwind. Using my phone camera and tripod as a “periscope” so I don’t have to stand up til the moment arises!

Rut report here is lots of young bucks cruising and chasing as usual. I stare and watch the big ones across the property in a sea of CRP that I’m not allowed to hunt. There’s always a chance but after 4 years of hunting this treeline, something’s gotta give!
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Mel Johnson would be proud. Minus the periscope

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Well the wind was swirling, and it was way too warm, but I went out anyway. Surprisingly little sign at my spot, but I threw a bunch of estrus urine around to try to cover my own scent. Finally a little 10 point came in and gave me several opportunities. I went ahead and shot him. It's not the monster buck I hoped for, but it's the second biggest whitetail buck of my life, so I'm happy with him. It's the first deer with my new-to-me crossbow and the new arrows and broadheads. I put a lot of effort into this hunt, so I'm satisfied to have a good result.

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Beautiful buck Tele! Congratulations!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I clicked on this thread for the first time this morning. The thing that POPS out to me are the places you guys are hunting. They seem WIDE OPEN to me. A mature buck would never ever ever ever set foot into wide open spaces like that where I own land!! Especially not in the daylight. Big woods northern MN. Elmer Fudd has hit the woods hard in the last month and we have lots of wolves and bears. Gotta be in the thick shit by us.

Been off this thread a while - catching up.

To your point, Buck, here in Pa. we have lots of open hardwoods. In archery season, I've seen nice bucks chasing does or cruising, nose to the ground, in open hardwoods. Almost was run over several times by frenzied chasing over the years. But when rifle season starts, no way a nice buck is sticking his neck out in open woods. The more Fudds out there, the bucks head into the thickest, nastiest stuff to be found. That's where I've always hunted, and it's paid off.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

South wind is no good for any of my stands. Got in a blowdown on the riverbank and hid behind it with the field upwind. Using my phone camera and tripod as a “periscope” so I don’t have to stand up til the moment arises!

Rut report here is lots of young bucks cruising and chasing as usual. I stare and watch the big ones across the property in a sea of CRP that I’m not allowed to hunt. There’s always a chance but after 4 years of hunting this treeline, something’s gotta give!
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With all that open area, a tree line ought to be a good place to be set up. Good luck, Cool Hand!!

 

[Hoytvectrix]

Not a photo from the Stand but on the way there. This guy was locked down with a doe last weekend. For some reason, there is nearly always a buck locked down with a doe right next to a wide open ag field and cattle pasture. There isn't cover for a few hundred yards.

 

[hillrunner]

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

2 more years

 

[Bill]

Not a photo from the Stand but on the way there. This guy was locked down with a doe last weekend. For some reason, there is nearly always a buck locked down with a doe right next to a wide open ag field and cattle pasture. There isn't cover for a few hundred yards.

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Kicked one at the gate across the street from the house that was with a Doe. You know where I mean right across from the house driveway.

A little tall grass and a couple cedar trees 6 foot from the road. They try to hide their hot doe where it’s hard for another buck to find them. Sometimes in plain sight is best. I’ve seen that several times over the years.

 

[Bill]

Oh and I’ve seen does do the same with tiny fawns in the spring. Leave them right in the high grass next to the fence on the road. Right where a coyote doesn’t want to be in daylight.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Kicked one at the gate across the street from the house that was with a Doe. You know where I mean right across from the house driveway.

A little tall grass and a couple cedar trees 6 foot from the road. They try to hide their hot doe where it’s hard for another buck to find them. Sometimes in plain sight is best. I’ve seen that several times over the years.

A number of years ago I saw a buck that had a doe bedded in the middle of a large, picked cornfield. Not a stitch of cover for a few 100 yards in any direction. I told my buddy that it was almost like the buck thought the corn was still standing and concealing them. Luckily rifle season was not open yet or somebody surely would have shot him.

 

[Turkey Creek]

A good buck had a doe penned up below a little stock pond in my back pasture today. He was there this morning and I watched him finally push the doe into a little bunch of trees. Tonight when I got home he was out there in the same spot basically as this morning. Watched him run off a little spike buck. I would like to hunt out there in the morning with the doe as live bait, but the wind is not really looking like it will cooperate. By afternoon the wind is supposed to really pick up, if by chance they are still there when it does I might try to crawl out there through some taller cover to see if I can get a shot.

 

[Mortenson]

Zoomed way in. But our other side of the road. Not the hunting side. A little piece of pasture getting overgrown. Every year bucks and does get together over there.

 

[KY wild]

Interesting, I always assumed the doe was controlling the location and not the buck. I have seen them several times out in the open during gun season and buck not leaving her side. I pulled in my driveway one night and buck and doe was lying so close to the road that you could easily see them with road headlights, so I got out and chased them into the woods. Thirty minutes later a buddy called to tell me a buck was laying by the road in front of my house.

 

[Hoytvectrix]

I think with mature bucks it is them setting the terms on when and where. I think the best bucks I see all year in person during daylight is either the week velvet is shed or the peak rut, but I'm a bit conservative with how, when, and where, I hunt.

Really old bucks learned to choose places that humans infrequently visit. It's it the 3-5 year olds that take the path of immediate least resistance.

 

[Telemark]

I saw a huge buck with a doe out in a picked corn field yesterday right by the highway. It was early afternoon in Knox county while driving back from my uncle's place. I couldn't believe it. Then in the early evening a 9 point buck walked right behind my parents' house with his mouth open, apparently bird-dogging a hot doe.

We just had rain sweep through Ohio yesterday. I'm not sure if that affected things, but the amount of daylight activity yesterday was amazing.

 

[Bill Loser]

Got out late, had 2 bucks run in as I was pulling my bow up. Got to 25 yards but brush between us. 2 more 5 minutes later, one of those was HUGE.

 

[Native Hunter]

I just passed the mature 9 point in pic below. Only second deer I’ve seen this morning.

 

[Bszweda]

First sit of the year for me on new property.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

The fog is intense this am. Neighbor just text and said his grandson shot a “large” antlered deer with his bow and it may have run on my property. We may be having a difficult conversation cause I’m not running all over my property on 11/8

 

[g squared 23]

I’m pounding public ground again, have a guy set up 300 yards away. It’s still a solid spot if i want to shoot a rutted up 3 year old. Super cold weather moves in tomorrow.

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