Team 11

Hell YEA man! Thats awesome. I thought same about mine. Amazing how in the heat of the moment they all look bigger. Doesn’t matter one bit though. Great buck! Congrats!

 

Got this tonight. A different 8 pt. Smaller body than the other 8pt beast we have around hope he made it through gun season too.
Then couple more bucks that survived the orange onslaught .

 

Heard this one got killed this gun weekend .

 

I made it to London. I have another flight to Budapest, Hungary. I start my hunt tomorrow.
We are doing well, lads. Stay after it, pour it on when you can. I will keep everyone updated from the other side of the Atlantic. Be safe!

 

Good luck to you and have a fun trip. I think that is so cool what you’re doing

 

Alrighty, little story time.
Morning was boring to say the least, I told myself if I haven't even seen anything that looks like a deer by 9a, I was done for the day. About 8a I saw the same little 4point pass me again, nose down, hauling the mail. Around 810, I turn around and see the buck I shot, I got exicted, he looked huge, nose down just searching. I gave some small grunts, nothing, a snort wheeze or two, nothing, little rattle, got attention, but nose down and keeps going.
Finally, it looks like he's just gonna be gone until he crosses the same path that little 4 was making, he back tracked it right to me. At this point, I still would have put $100 he was 110-120" min. I give him the "meh", nothing, I yell at him, like straight up "Hey MFr", he stops right behind the smallest little tree, no shot. I've been at full draw for about a min by this point, he takes two steps, I give him the hey again, perfect slight quarter away about 18 yards, let it rip, see blood poor out of chest cavity.
Impact site, good pink bubbly blood, looks like coming from both sides of deer. Walk to field edge... not a drop, I panic thinking not this shh again, but I watched where he crossed and entered the other side (75 yards-ish). So I walk the direct line to it, looking down but not hard. I step into where he went into the other woods and it's a bloodbath. Look half left and there he is.
Got both lungs and clipped the heart. He was dead before he even knew it.

I'm happy, a little annoyed at the ground shrinkage, but overall, this was a good day. I cut the antlers off for a new set of rattlers, my old ones are way too dry and hollow. These have a good size and tone to them

 

My first day in Hungary was sort of a bust. It rained the entire day which made muddy road access nearly impossible. I walked into where a climbing tree stand had been set using GPS coordinates. I had 15 fallow deers run past at 40 yards. They were moving too quickly to deliver a shot. I stayed on stand until 11am. I walked out for lunch at to get some dry clothes. I was sopping wet. I was dropped off at 1:15 for the walk back in. It was at that point I saw a large group of mouflon sheep-maybe 30 total (6 rams). I tried a stalk but failed. With that many eyes watching there was very little chance for success. The sheep bolted and I walked back to my stand.. A large group of fallow ran past at 80 yards there must have been 200 plus animals in the group. It was cool to see on forest land. I will be back at it tomorrow. No rain in the forecast!

 

Well team, I know it wouldn't count for score, but missed the biggest buck of my life on Saturday. IL gun season, I brought the bow out and had him at 35. Hit a branch and went right under his belly - footage is super cool, and a damn heartbreaker. Going after him again tommorow.

 

Check this out. My group of three had a little success yesterday. Dave Nissen arrowed a respectable Fallow deer (Europe’s version of whitetail), I missed a shot on a roe deer (running), and Dave’s wife Guinn missed another Fallow. I fell three times in the slippery mud pursuing the mouflon. Two days of rain made everything wet. The mouflon are so good at evasion. On the ground, the closest I have been able to get is 110 yards. Their eye sight is that good! I have today and tomorrow to give it hell! Send me all the luck you can spare. Stay after it gents!

 

Ask and you shall receive. I cannot tell enough souls how hard I prayed. I was in a tree-stand an hour before first light on the last day of my mouflon hunt here in Hungary. I honestly thought the mouflon were going to get the best of me! Thank goodness good friend Dave Nissen revealed a location where he had seen a lot of mouflon the day before. 26 feet up a tree I went with a climber. By 10am, I was convinced my choice of locals was grossly wrong; I hadn’t seen a single creature moving for four and half hours- not even a squirrel! I questioned whether I should have stuck to the ground-stalking. Just thirty-eight minutes later, I sent an arrow through a respectable ram! The prayers and the perseverance paid off.

 

Awesome!!!

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So close to putting one in this deer last night. One more step and i would have let it go at 20 yds.

 

Best of luck in the woods tomorrow!

 

Out with the gun this am, bow closed for a couple weeks. Late season is my favorite, I have a lot of food for those post-rut bucks.

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Ok. After the good buck last week had a monarch doe (i should have just killed) play cat and mouse with me for over an hour! It was exhausting BUT, she never blew and never made me out. She knew i was there but could never pin me. I will still be 99% good for a doe just not ready yet. Its second gun season illinois now so if i go out tomorrow i will have bow in hnd and be wearing my blaze tuxedo.

 

Cool as **** man!!!

 

Good luck Shocker

 

Yeah, Brandon, best of luck!

I am back in Ohio Jan. 1st-4th.

 

I'm back fellas, we took off Thanksgiving Day with the camper. Went to Chattanooga, then Georgia for an overnight stop, then Apopka FL/Disney, then New Smyrna Beach for a wedding.
Glad to be back, had little to no service. It was nice, I basically fished and chilled out with no electronics for a week. I have some catching up to do.

 

Man, sometimes isolation is exactly what the doctor orders! Hungary was that way for me. No phone calls, no problems to manage...nothing but me, the woods, and those critters in the woods. I was in bliss!

Don't worry about catching up, you are good! It is halftime. We are down, but I like our odds!