So Adam just got us +50 on a nice doe. Brad is ghosting us with a 120”+ buck haha. Once those are entered that should put us around 440-450. The best is yet to come we got alot of heavy hitters on this team and this weekend should light on fire
Ohio should be rocking for me on Saturday. They are getting what's left of this hurricane I'm getting right now in Florida. 2-4 inches where I'll be hunting on Friday with temps in the mid 60's. Then, my first day of hunting, on Saturday, temps in the low to mid 40's. Can't wait!!!!!
I’m going to our camp Friday early evening, if it’s not raining I’ll try to get out but come Saturday morning it may be an all day sit. Been waiting on these temps all season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That's what I said. I'm going to try and do all day sits the first 3 days. But I'm really hoping I don't have to!!!!!
So quick story on the doe I killed today. I sat in a valley from legal light to 9:30. Saw one buck at about 100 yards. Got back to camp, with rising temps (high of 78*) made an impromptu decision to spend a couple hours midday sitting on a pond, hoping to catch something coming in for a drink in the heat. @LittleChief showed me a gnarly tree that would be perfect, but a climber wouldn’t work, too many branches (win for the saddle boyz). I was up around 11:45 am. At 12:35 the doe came in from the SE, wind in my face. She came to a spot that was a 16 yard shot at the pond. Right in front of her was what I though was a fallen tree branch with the end laying in the pond. Line up the shot and CRACK! My arrow hits a branch that is vertically sticking up from the water and perfectly in line with a fallen branch on the ground in front of the doe. But, from my perspective, 17 feet up the tree, the two different branch pieces looked like one long fallen branch. My arrow deflects and lands in the water in the middle of the pond, gone. The doe jumped back about 10 yards. After she settled down, she walked towards me and came broadside at 12 yards. I drilled her on the second shot. She was slightly quartering towards. The shot took out both lungs, liver and exited guts.
The only draw back to losing my arrow after hitting the branch, was that if the branch had been laying flat like I thought, I would have drilled her theough the heart with the first shot and I would still have my arrow.
It happens! So much better losing an arrow with clean miss than it deflecting and hitting the deer in a horrible spot. Youre lucky!
I'm working tonight but then off til Monday night. I'm planning on being in a tree most of the weekend. Good luck fellas.
Hey man, I've been there too many times. Would always end up finding it but sometimes that first drop can be a b****!!!!!
Sat until 9 am this morning. Didn’t see anything, I was back in the same spot I hunted Tuesday afternoon/Wednesday morning. Saw bucks on both those sits. Tuesday afternoon was when I almost killed the six point. Last night was an almost full moon, clear night and it was in the sky still first couple of hours of daylight. I don’t hunt on mornings like that at home. But, an out of state trip, I put in the effort.
There's been times I go back up into my stand to try and figure it out. Like you said, things look different on the ground and it messes you up sometimes.
