Live from the stand thread

[Turkey Creek]

Hunted yesterday afternoon and got skunked for the 1st time this season, never saw a deer. Hunted this morning and saw 9 antlerless and 2 bucks. One being a one antlered spike and the other was more mature, but ran across a opening with some taller cover in it and I never got a good look at him, don't believe he was a shooter though. I am pretty sure all the mature bucks are locked down with does at this point. I am going to give it one more go this afternoon, but then more than likely I will be done hunting for a few weeks.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Well…the big deer we blood trailed is alive! I just watched him walk across my field at 11:30 in the afternoon. Unreal

Are you an archery only guy? Seems like you might have had him with a rifle?

Also, do you know where he was hit?

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Are you an archery only guy? Seems like you might have had him with a rifle?

Also, do you know where he was hit?

Yes archery only. this was not me who shot him. My neighbors grandson.
And no I don’t know. He was limping some. I’m leaning toward back cause he was favoring his backend.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Yes archery only. this was not me who shot him. My neighbors grandson.
And no I don’t know. He was limping some. I’m leaning toward back cause he was favoring his backend.

Yes, i'm just saying if you saw him walk across your field it seems like you might have been able to kill him with a rifle at that time if you were a rifle hunter?

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Yes, i'm just saying if you saw him walk across your field it seems like you might have been able to kill him with a rifle at that time if you were a rifle hunter?

Ohh 100%. He would have been dead but that’s pretty low way to kill a buck

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Ohh 100%. He would have been dead but that’s pretty low way to kill a buck

shooting a deer with a gun is a low way to kill them?

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

shooting a deer with a gun is a low way to kill them?

From my porch in sweatpants…yes. That’s not hunting. That’s shooting

 

[omicron1792]

Turned my alarm off this morning and didn’t go to farm. Lo and behold target buck was right where I thought he would be at daybreak. Sucks.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

From my porch in sweatpants…yes. That’s not hunting. That’s shooting

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

I'd hunt/shoot a wounded deer any legal way possible.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

I'd hunt/shoot a wounded deer any legal way possible.

I dont think the hit is fatal. If I ran around just whacking every deer with a limp I’d be done the first day they start fighting, I saw two deer yesterday alone that were limping.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Turned my alarm off this morning and didn’t go to farm. Lo and behold target buck was right where I thought he would be at daybreak. Sucks.

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I love it when a plan comes together.... LOL.........been there done that!

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Ohh 100%. He would have been dead but that’s pretty low way to kill a buck

 

[omicron1792]

You guys that live on your land have it made for hunting. I’m 1 hour and 15 minutes away and it probably stops me from hunting 75% of the time.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

I dont think the hit is fatal. If I ran around just whacking every deer with a limp I’d be done the first day they start fighting, I saw two deer yesterday alone that were limping.

I hope it works out and the buck recovers, but I find a lot of dead bucks after the seasons with marginal wounds. Wounded deer are always a target, especially if it is the largest buck in the neighborhood.

 

[omicron1792]

I hope it works out and the buck recovers, but I find a lot of dead bucks after the seasons with marginal wounds. Wounded deer are always a target, especially if it is the largest buck in the neighborhood.

I tend to agree with you here. Two birds with one stone

 

[Mortenson]

From my porch in sweatpants…yes. That’s not hunting. That’s shooting

Wear camouflage sweatpants around deer camp?

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I hope it works out and the buck recovers, but I find a lot of dead bucks after the seasons with marginal wounds. Wounded deer are always a target, especially if it is the largest buck in the neighborhood.

I hope he lives too. Just a risk worth taking in my book. I couldn’t imagine telling the story on how I killed a 160’s buck by shooting it off the porch

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I hope he lives too. Just a risk worth taking in my book. I couldn’t imagine telling the story on how I killed a 160’s buck by shooting it off the porch

Better than the story of a lot of guided or put and take high fence operations.. I get it though. When i bought my house (on 6 acres) i thought the prospect of shooting a doe or turkey off my deck sounded cool. I cant bring myself to do it in practice.

 

[Telemark]

You guys that live on your land have it made for hunting. I’m 1 hour and 15 minutes away and it probably stops me from hunting 75% of the time.

You're not kidding. I don't hunt bad weather in the spots near my home, but we had a 5 day hunt in Sweden, and it rained almost every day. Well I didn't drive 12 hours to sit in the cabin, so I hunted every day. One evening, I had been hunting all day and was soaked to the bone, then I went on stand and got as close to hypothermia as I have ever been.

It is a real luxury to live close to your hunting grounds. Being able to monitor food plots and deer activity and hunt when it's convenient makes it so much more enjoyable.