I'm all in on getting together. My honey hole is in pulaski county so central il is a breeze of a drive!
Well guys we leave for wisconsin friday night. I cant tell you how pumped tom and I are for this season, we have four big shooters on camera up there and were hoping to connect on one of them on film this weekend. I can tell you this the deer trails look like cow paths and the bucks are showing up alot in daylight hours on the cameras. We are going to be filming and running and gunning in our lone wolf stands, so if all goes as planned youll see one of us or both if the goodlords willing on the next episode of bowhunt or die !! The new mathews z7 extreme and scentblocker suit are all ready to hit the woods, we did some moch scrapes with the new tinks drippers and they seem to be working quite well, if you guys havent checked these out yet you should. My broadhead of choice this season ended up being the NAP. Hellrazor there flying great out of my bow and im hoping to turn one red this weekend. Well best of luck guys well be updating you from the stand shortly....
Sorry to be last to the party. But, finally checking in. Hello to all and best of luck. I just planted 4 different food plots of Buck Forage Oats last night. About 5 acres total. Finished up in the dark at about 9 PM and got a nice little shower on it this morning. Acorns are starting to drop and our season opens on Oct. 1.
Saw the first couple rubs of the year on the new lease yesterday. Nothing really big, but found some good trails and proof of buck activity.....so that's at least a little promising.
Rubs are a great start since bucks love to come back to them. Trails are even better just watch to see if they lose some activity as the season goes on and the leaves and food sources change. Any deer sign on a new lease is a great thing!!
8 days and counting, its gonna be cold early this year here in northern illinois. I think were gonna see alot of movement mid october I did notice my rut activity last year was hot and heavy the last week of october and then it just tappered off from there,.....anyone agree or disagree and tell me why....
I fully agree I hunted oct 28-nov2 and first 2 days were just crazy 28 deer sightings between 10-12am to bad all were walking a trail 80 yards away from my stand. I even had a big 8 in full chase run a doe right under my stand. It was a great moon phase and this year its looking like oct23-28 is going to be prime. fingers crossed on the weather
here in central il i didnt see a whole lot of activity till the 1st week of nov. which is my fav time to be in the stand but i took a vacation too early last year and didnt get to hunt as hard as i would have liked to. i seemed to always be on the wrong side of the property everytime i would go out lol. taking my vaca a little later this year to hopefully increase my odds
Well best of luck to all of are team mates this season, the most important piece of imformation I can pass on to all of you is to please wear your safety harness this season, the last thing I wanna hear is one of my team mates fell from a stand. Believe me it is definately worth wearing I know of two people this season that have fallen already and one is paralized for life, hunt hard, hunt safe, WEAR THEM PLEASE !!!
Team 10 check in Tek4Life- I received a recent message from you asking me to check in, but as seen below I have checked in. Ok guys lets check in Team 10 jsmith13 Tek4life Genesis 27:3 ****ie tunes dsauer22 txmarshmonkey Sooner PatMcC30 PABuck_HNTR 9pt_joe Fletch920 Record Bound Outdoors Thank you.
Opening day Opening day is 2 days and a wake up away! Will be 47 degrees and overcast with a high of 61 in southern Indiana. Just about the same last year and I had an 8 chasing does! Really looking forward to filling my freezer this season. Best of Hunting, Gents!
Also opens here in Iowa. Good luck to all. This may be the first opening weekend hunt I make in over 10 years.
Alrighty team I got a deer down today!!! It fullfiled two items on my bucketlist of bow hunting. 1) To kill a deer in the spot I've been working on for three years on public land and survive the drag out. This land is so over pressured that you need to be willing to walk and walk. I hiked into a new spot today to hunt the wind that was roughly 1.75 miles in the woods. 2) to kill a buck in the first 30 minutes of the season. He's not much on rack at all but if he hadn't of come within seven yards I'd pass and just leave my bucket list alone. But I really proud for him because of my bucket list. I shot him at 6:38, 18 minutes in the season It took almost four hours to get him out thank god it was pretty cool out. This buck was massive he field dressed at 195lbs Here's his scoring break down L R Diff MB 11 1/8 11 3/8 1/4 G1 2 1/2 3 1/2 G2 3 5/8 3 5/8 0 G3 3 1/2 3 3/8 1/8 H1 1 1/2 1 1/2 0 H2 2 5/8 2 1/2 1/8 H3 2 2 1/8 1/8 Inside Spread 9 1/8 Left Total Right Total Difference Total 26 1/2 27 1/2 1 1/8 Gross Typical Score 63 1/8
This may be a silly question, do only "bucks" count in our team points?? I had some luck with an opening day doe! First time in the competition, and I need a little direction. THANKS!
