Headed out tomorrow afternoon Cameras showed movement this evening Let’s hope Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What an evening it was last night! Last night had two things going for it, high pressure after rain all day Monday and it was November first. I ended up seeing 6 or 7 different bucks and 8 does and fawns. There was constant action from 5:15 to dark. One deer in particular really got the blood pumping and made me pick up my bow but after closer inspection I really think he’s a 2 year old deer that I pray makes it one more year. This is a picture of him from earlier in the year. But after having him at 30 yards last night his body has not changed much (still has a skinny unswole neck). But check out this spike! If I had not shot my 6 earlier this year I would have shot him. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Also question…would you guys say this is the same deer? He is my number 1 this year and I had him at 35-40 Sunday morning for about 5 minutes and he would not commit. He’s a deer that I dubbed Baby Giant late season last year when he moved into the farm. Same type of frame, tall brows, and the ear split is telling me it is him. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
At my work rate I may be doing a lot of bowhunting in gun season yet even....sometimes life is just to crazy I tell ya. Good luck to all out there - lay some points down!!!
So as I was planning my takeover of the stand on my cousins property( he doesn’t hunt) it’s his ex brother in law stand and I haven’t seen him up there ever. So as I was looking at the stand it was in pretty bad shape. So I cleaned out a tree about 10 ft from it now I need to find a stand to put in it. A climber won’t work in the tree and I don’t want to take down one of my existing until after season. Don’t know if pics show how bad the stand is. The tree is almost grown around it to the point it looks like the top of the tree could fall off.
Do NOT sit in that! Just Monday a guy I’ve known my hole life fell only 12 ft due to his seat on his stand breaking. He fractured all of his left ribs, fractured left wrist, 3-4 pelvic fractures, and had bleeding around the lower part of his spine. He had surgery for the pelvic fractures and should make a full recovery but it will be a long one. So again please do not sit in that stand. I got news of that and immediately ordered 3 sets of lifelines. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I lived that nightmare myself 2 years ago and I am still dealing with recovering from it…. Anyone who climb without being attached from the ground all the way up is taking their life in their hands Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I may take my 4 wheeler back up there and try rip it down or at least take the ladder section off. I got to the top and looked at it I was originally thinking it should be good for 1 more year but then something was telling me not to so I never did I’d hate for some other knucklehead like me to think it was ok.
lifelines on all of our trees for years now…even the shortest of twelve feet to the 28 footers….those things add a piece of mind you don’t even notice you needed to you climb finally with them.
I tried to hunt from a 30' stand one night that a friend had hung. No way I was killing a deer because I was holding onto the tree with both hands all night! I am not ashamed to say that I waited for him to come by at dark to give me an assist in climbing down. Never, ever again will I go above about 20 feet. I do most of my hunting from ladders or blinds and I use safety lines on the ladders most of the time.
LoL it’s not the norm. I’d say the majority of stands easily sit at above 20 though. The right tree though I love being lower, have two that probably push being only 12/14 feet probably.
I prefer 25 feet. Sometimes I go higher. One of my trees on my property is open so when I hunt that tree I go to 30-32 feet depending on which way I’m facing. I’ve come to have 100% faith in my Summit Vipers.
Even in my summit I don’t like going above 18. I just don’t like heights that’s all there is to it. My hands get sweaty when I’m watching the squirrels climb around up in the trees. I’m a puss when I comes to it there no getting around it. Went on a hunt in Ohio where the stands were pre-hung I walked out to it got halfway up the sticks turned around and back down the tree. The guy told me that was one of the lower ones. Needless to say I hunted in a blind all that week except 1 day I found a set I could get in and got this one.
I agree with the lifelines! I don't hang a stand without them anymore. The least a hunter can do to make sure they get home to their families at the end of the day.
