***Official Live From the Stand Thread 2021

Douxxe of the highest order

 

No COVID for me. Just a cold. Passed on WI anyway, my cough was worse today and it's green goop so didn't want to get my buddy sick.
Think I'm heading up to MI tomorrow.

 

Not going deep tomorrow for previously mentioned reasons/prior commitments. Looks like I get to sleep in an extra half hour. 1930, I'm going to bed!

 

https://forums.bowhunting.com/threa...stand-thread-2021.99697/page-368#post-1682965

 

I'm torn for tomorrow. I love the blind spot, have given up on a big buck making scrape, but think one will travel through there.

My gut tells me to sit the stand, I have no clue what it was like before I got there and had all the action. They are starting to cruise and that is where to be when they do.

Thinking I'll sit the stand and then if successful, focus on the blind for 2nd buck tag.

Either way, I'm wearing the gilley suit, need to find my backpack for gear as it has no pockets

 

i didnt have time to read thru, thx

 

I’m heading to MD in the morning! Going to be a cool 32 degrees, got the fanatic ozoned and packed up, alarm set for 4am, I’ll be in the tree all day or until a kill!

 

so you'll be done by 0900 then.

you taking your secret weapon tomorrow?

 

ended up seeing 12 does and 3 bucks. something has got to give at some point. See how the weather is tomorrow and maybe i'll take my son in there to the blind. he wants to start his own youtube channel so looks like we will be filming again. i told myself i am retired from making videos. well here we go again.

 

This is for LC in regards to me hunting sick today.

 

Okay. So I looked everything over better in the stand. And there was a small amount of blood on the arrow. After dark I got down and ended up finding blood 20 yards from impact. This is first blood.


This is best blood.


I only tracked 40 yards, I wanted to get some second opinions. It’s been just over two hours now.

what are everyone’s thoughts?

 

Nothing for me. Rain never stopped until after dark. As I was leaving in the truck, the doe I was after was standing right there on the side of the road. Rain had them moving late. Until next time

 

He was 13 yards away, if anything slight quartering too but pretty much broadside. My feet are at 17 feet and I’m right at 6’ tall. Felt like a good shot, and felt like it broke clean right where I wanted. Sliding sight set to 22 yards.

at the shot he jumped like he was hit then ran 20 yards and stood there. That’s where I found first blood. I couldn’t see anything on him through the brush.

then he followed a doe for 30 yards or so, she continued into the corn field and he took a pretty hard 90 into the thick stuff.

 

That's a tough one. Were do you think it hit? Did it seem low or high? How did the buck react after the shot?

 

More on the shot would be helpful. Is that bubbles in the second pic? 1st pic looks watery in parts of it.

What did blood look like when you stopped?

Went from a miss to this, not a lot to go on

 

I don't know, your eyes don't lie to you most times. If it looked good and you felt good, how high was entry? May need to fill up a bit to get that good bubbly blood and nose spray. Maybe you are seeing exit blood. Rutting bucks are adrenaline filled and sex crazed, they can do not so normal stuff after shot.

Could you tell from his trail which side the blood would have been on?