***OFFICIAL 2014 Live from the Stand Thread!!***

Almost got a shot at a coyote. No deer movement. Hunting til 2.

 

Hang in there Brett! I saw a lot of movement this morning

 

I will always take the shot at a yote!

 

Since my uncle shot I haven't heard a single shot.

If all of IL is this quiet and the looming rain, numbers will be down.

I'm meat hunting now, not looking promising either way.

 

Ugh.....


Got out late. Hit the stand 5-10 min before shooting time.

Kicked 2 out of the woods walking to my ladder. Looked one big one small. I hope it was a fawn and doe.

Forgot rangefinder in my jeep.

Saw a doe and fawn across the field early. Turkey going nuts this am. Didn't stay much longer. Pulled the cam there has 1100+ pics since Sunday at noonish. Switched to feeder.

Turkeys came textbook to me. 18-22 birds. They were being skidish acting like they weren't going to hit the feeder in the woods. Forced a shot. Drew back and held it, they didn't like something but didn't think it was me, started moving away and I tried to sneak an arrow between a tree and limb, not sure what I hit but it shredded a fletching.

Mist turned to rain, got a good 20-30 min shower. Gonna hang tight it is letting up now.

Probably sit until 11 or 12 then scurry back to the jeep and temporarily leave to check these pics on my laptop. Hoping I've been getting a lot of 4-6 movement back there. If I like it I'll snag my camera on the other end to check tonight then go back and sit the stand tonight that cam got pulled at.

If I don't like it I'll sit on the opposite end in the stand I have another cam at. Won't check those pics until after my hunt tonight. So I gotta go with my gut for the evening.

Really trying to stay optimistic.

Tough to focus on deer when the Greenhead's are circling over me and diving in the river in front of me and the Canada's are dropping into the wheat behind me.

Had 4 does move through. Wind swirling. May move soon.


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Pics or you missed

Need a reminder of what a deer looks like

 

Nub buck at 10....funny yet cautious young deer. He is going to survive.

 

Seen my first deer, unfortunately it was in the back of the polaris. Not sure if it was my uncle or the other shooter.

What a slow day

 

You guys are killin' me. Here I sit at home nursing a horrific cold. Congested, vomiting, fever and chills. I don't feel like doing anything. I sat all day Friday (day before rifle season in NY) and froze my oysters off. I could just not get warm ever since that sit. Still got 3 weeks of season here... so hopefully I'll recover soon to get back in the woods.

Let's see some photos guys.

 

I'm merely a shadow of what I once was.

 

To get back in stand or not too. Havent seen much action lately.

 

Yeah get back in the stand cause once the season is over you will be wishing you were able to escape to the woods.

It's 20 degrees here but I'm heading out


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I'll post pics after while. All the good pictures are on my other camera. Time to get this old guy quartered up.

 

is this an old pic, or are you in orange with the old shotgun today?

 

I'm in orange, but no shotgun

 

This will be my final all day sit. Nothing but squirrels today thus far. I'd take a coyote at this juncture

 

Can't stay awake. Just got jolted awake by a 12ga. going off. Wondering if it was a deer or gut pile coyote.

Scared the crap out of me

 

What a dreary day. Foggy and rainy. Rain hasn't been around for a bit and shouldn't be the rest of the night. Think the fog is here to stay. No more movement since a spike an hr ago. Hopefully the woods will come alive soon.

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Just had two button bucks come by
I'm meat hunting tonight but they get a pass



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kill!