Seen a buck chasing a doe about 100yds away. What I thought was a spike turned out to be the worlds smallest 7p each tine was at best 1”. Then with not enough light to shoot a good 8p at 20yds. It’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow so not sure if I’ll be out which will be my 1st day out of the woods in 10 days.
I had an incredible encounter with what was probably a 130” 8 point. He came in behind me and I heard him working a scrape at 15 yards. Walked to 5 yards behind limbs, no shot. Saw me in the tree, and bounced out to 40. I drew but had limbs in the way, no shot. He walks back towards the CRP field. A doe and spike come flying out of the CRP, he watches them and turns to slowly follow. Works a scrape on my left at 25 yards, limbs in the way, no shot. Starts walking the edge to where I have another scrape at 19 yards. Stops just be fore the scrape and goes up behind some small trees watching the doe and spike, stops in an opening but looking like he is about to chase. I judge for 30, and sail an arrow right over his back. He probably at 23, founda the arrow in the ground at 28 yards. Should have held dead on for 25, dead buck. Right in the middle of the picture behind the small trees. Sat through almost two hours of rain without a rain jacket to blow it when a big one coems to check the scrapes right after the rain stops, 45 minutes before dark. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Saw a 2.5 old buck. 2 does and a dog German shepherd. All in the same area at different times 5-10 minutes apart from each other. Headed back to the same area tomorrow morning
I'm home. Although I didn't get any shots, it was one of the coolest hunts I've ever had! I threw out some grunts. About 5 minutes later, I hear something trotting my way. It's to my left, and it's at the perfect time where the sun is directly in my face looking towards the movement. The deer finally gets behind me, and I see that it's a mature buck with both G2's broken off. I think he came to my grunts originally but changed plans, and he was on a new mission. Unbeknownst to me, there was another mature thick 8 point straight behind me about 200 yards out. He saw him and bristled right up and took off that way. They meet in the far corner of the picked corn field and the broken G2 buck starts making scrapes everywhere. The other 8 goes into some thicker stuff and watches the broken one so his thing. They get about 10 yards apart but never do anything. This goes on for about 20 minutes. Eventually a forkie goes to check it out and gets about 30 yards from the broken buck and thinks better and runs off. That must have set off the broken one because it was then war between the broken buck and the other 8. They proceeded to go at it across the entire end of that corn field for more than 15 minutes. I'm thinking the broken buck runs things because he started the fight and also ended it even though his rack was smaller. I took some video with my cell phone for evidence. It was legit the coolest thing I've seen. These 2 had bodies of tanks and they showed it. Looks like I'm putting up a stand or blind and using a decoy the next couple hunts! Sent from my SM-S908U using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
I didn't tell you guys yet, but after the recovery of fergie, I went on a booze run and when I pulled back onto the easement trail to the property, my headlights caught this guy, another buck, and a doe in the winter wheat field that fronts the deer camp property. He is a freaking beast and I am pretty sure he's only 4.5yo. All I can do is (sort of?) hope my buddy gets him during rifle, or that he makes it till next season. We seem to be his core area so there's only 2 other hunting groups that have a realistic chance at him.
The drone found my buck alive at the 12 hour mark. He was bedded in the thick stuff 875 yards from the shot. None of my options were great, so I decided to slip in in the morning and hope he's right there. Fingers crossed!!!
Alright here we go! Another 2:45 wake up, hopefully this one plays out better than yesterdays with no sightings! Good luck out there today!!
Right there with you. Good morning to all early risers. It's tough getting up this early to sit in the same woods that provided me with no deer sightings yesterday, after a 7 hour sit. So, it can only get better for today. Gotta play to win!
Here we go again. Gonna head back over to my river place this morning with my brother. We're both tapped out for bucks in Indiana. Does are the target. I'll check back in when I'm all settled.
