I switched over to BH tuning boys. It's looking good. 30 arrows a night until Oct 1. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk
These mornings in the 40s are hitting me in the feels… shooting the bow, leaves changing, football starting… my favorite time of year Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
The cameras got hammered on the Illinois farm last night, all three of our best buck’s showed up at a scrapes. plus about a dozen others
I’ve got this weekend to get 2 hunts in, then my weekends are busy the rest of Sept. including an OBX vacation so it can be hot then!!! PA special unit comes in 9/21 so I might be able to get an after work hunt or two in before statewide opener on 10/5
The hunter’s horn sounds early for some, later for others. For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks and sentenced to a cement jungle more horrifying that anything to be found in Tanganyika, the horn of the hunter never winds at all. But deep in the gut of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter’s horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of their forefathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club, and then with spear, and then with bow, and then with gun, and finally with formulae.” Robert Ruark
After a lot of being on the fence I decided that I will be heading to Arkansas tomorrow for the three day velvet buck hunt this weekend. The chances of seeing a buck early season are slim, but at least I’ll be hunting. I’m really not excited about killing a velvet buck now and I don’t want to shoot a small buck there when I have a good one patterned here. In other news, yesterday evening the big 9 point made his usual appearance behind the house just before dark, but this time he was feeding towards the house. I put the dog door insert in to keep the dogs from running and spooking him, turned the lights off and watched with binoculars as he fed just outside the fence 15 yards from the kitchen window. I was bummed that it was too dark to shoot video. He sure is a nice one, but getting to see him so close makes me wonder if he will hit 130” when he sheds velvet. The season opens here on the 15th. I sure hope he sticks with this pattern until then. If he does I’ll find out what he scores.
I'm headed to Montana in a couple days. If it will dry up a little today, I'll drop my foodplot in. It's been too wet to get the tractor down in the flats and I'm running short on time before our trip. Still nothing on my cameras, so time to move at least one. It's almost time fellas
I guess he could be called a back yard buck, but my back yard isn’t like most folks back yards. Outside the fence is miles of woods. These deer aren’t stupid and they don’t let their guard down.
