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  1. LittleChief

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    Good luck bud!!
     
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    It's really convenient that my brother lives 15 minutes from where I hunt in Kentucky and that he has a shop with a gambrel rigged up. I got the doe skinned, quartered and stuffed in the cooler with the one from last night and then I packed my stuff and drove 2 1/2 hours home.

    Anyway, now I need to lug that heavy cooler into the house, get the deer out and into the fridge to sit for a day or two.

    I think maybe I'll take tomorrow off and sleep in......... maybe.

    I can't get enough of this. :bow:
     
    LittleChief, Sep 28, 2019
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    Back out, set up in an oak grove. Swirling wind. No standards tonight for me. If it’s brown it’s getting an arrow sent it’s way!!


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    Swamp Stalker, Sep 28, 2019
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  5. LittleChief

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    They are pricey but to someone like us they are worth every penny if you can swing it.
     
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    Kill something Joe!!!
     
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    FingerMike Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Image1569702202.666704.jpg ready for something to kill idc if it’s a damn unicorn lol


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    FingerMike, Sep 28, 2019
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    Status update?
     
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    First sit of the year. I forgot a few things but I’m soaked with sweat in a tree surrounded by acorns. Let’s do this![​IMG].


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    Westfinger, Sep 28, 2019
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    Live in Tennessee, sweating but happy to be out. Have seen 6 gobblers and that’s it, pretty much an observation sit tonight since I haven’t had a deer pic in over a week now.


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    Humpythahunter, Sep 28, 2019
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    Good luck tonight guys! I’m giving my property a good week break. I’ve only been out there. Few times all year... and there are deer absolutely everywhere. Not many big bucks showing up, but the amount of does gives me confidence they will be there in a few weeks.


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    MnHunterr, Sep 28, 2019
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    Good luck everybody! Too much lightening around for my taste. I guess I'll just have to drink beer.

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    Ridgerunner3, Sep 28, 2019
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    I like the way you think. :lol:

    Not sure where in Missouri you are, but if you were close to me I'd join you. Drinking alone is depressing and I'm alone. My wife is out doing Ozark Trail maintenance and won't be home until after midnight.:sad:
     
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    It is so hot it does not feel like deer season. Supposed to be 92 out tomorrow.....I guess I will just get a short morning hunt in.
     
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    Well, I hate to say but I will not be recovering the doe. The dog tracker and I looked for three hours. We followed very sparse blood for 400 yards to the public land boundary with private. What little blood we found looked like liver. Nothing bigger than quarter sized drops and even with dogs we only found 4 of those in 400 yards. I guess the shot was farther back than I initially thought. At no point did we find a bed or anything that looked like lung blood. Which is weird because both the tracker and I were convinced the arrow was stuck in the offside shoulder. We took up the track four hours after the shot and it took us two hours to track to the property boundary. Then we grid searched along the property boundary for another 1 1/2 hours. We called it off at 1:30 because he had a family commitment to get to. At this point we were convinced that the deer had crossed the line and died in the 150 acre Milo field of the Duck club on private.

    Fortunately, we met one of the members of the club when we got back to the vehicles. He was heading into make sure the duck blinds were in good shape. He gave me permission to look in the field while he was there which was only going to be about an hour. But the dogs couldn’t stay.

    As soon as we crossed the road, he found a fist sized blood spot in the middle of the gravel road. He gave me permission to follow into the field. I followed blood about 100 yards before losing it in the waist high milo. At this point blood was pinprick sized and I was on my hand and knees trying to find it. I hit a patch about 150 yards into the field where the milo thinned out and I couldn’t tell from bent grass where the trail went. I grid searched about 20 acres of waist high milo before running out of time.

    It ended up being an 8 hour search before I had to quit. Covered about 2.5 miles between tracking and gridding.

    First time I have had to look that hard and failed to recover the deer. It sucks.


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    Well, I hate to say but I will not be recovering the doe. The dog tracker and I looked for three hours. We followed very sparse blood for 400 yards to the public land boundary with private. What little blood we found looked like liver. Nothing bigger than quarter sized drops and even with dogs we only found 4 of those in 400 yarda. I guess the shot was farther back than I initially thought. At no point did we find a bed or anything that looked like lung blood. Which is weird because both the tracker and I were convinced the arrow was stuck in the offside shoulder. We took up the track four hours after the shot and it took us two hours to track to the property boundary. Then we grid searched along the property boundary for another 1 1/2 hours. We called it off at 1:30 because he had a family commitment to get to. At this point we were convinced that the deer had crossed the line and died in the 150 acre
    Milo field of the Duck club on private.

    Fortunately, we met one of the members of the club when we got back to the vehicles. He was heading into make sure the duck blinds were in good shape.

    He gave me permission to look in the field while was their which was only going to be about an hour. But the dogs couldn’t stay.

    As soon as we crossed the road, he found a fist sized blood spot in the middle of the gravel road. He gave me permission to follow into the field. I followed blood about 100 yards before losing it in the waist high milo. At this point blood was pinprick sized and I was on my hand and knees trying to find it. I hit a patch about 150 yards into the field where the milo thinned out and I couldn’t tell from bent grass where the trail went. I grid searched about 20 acres of waist high milo before running out of time.

    It ended up being an 8 hour search befoew I had to quit. Covered about 2.5 miles between tracking and gridding.

    First time I have had to look that hard and failed to recover the deer. It sucks.


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    Good luck guys. My season starts October 15. Supper dry and hot here. We need rain and cooler weather.
     
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    Dead woods here so far... not even a squirrel


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    Sorry to hear that.

    I feel your pain brother. It's happened to me and it's happened to the best of us.
     
    LittleChief, Sep 28, 2019
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    ^^this^^


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    Nothing moving around me yet. 1/2 hour till sunset


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