I saw a very big buck as I was walking in Friday in the rain. I don't know excatly how big but at 500 yards all I could see was rack. He must have been bedded in the middle of a open winter wheat field. Hope he stays in the area.
Great Buck Photos.... I will be hunting on Friday and Saturday. I am hoping to get a shot at something this weekend. I really would like to take a doe this weekend. Good Luck everyone.
Went out today at about 3 o'clock. It was overcast, pouring down rain with 15 mph winds. It was a steady rain most of the afternoon, and I kept thinking "If only this wind would break...". Had only seen two does (200 yards away at around 4:30) and then around 5:45 it finally broke and I thought to myself, "alright, it's time!". So I sat there for a bit and then at around 6:15 I looked out into the field and there he was- a 160" with a 10 point frame not including the 3 or 4 big kickers coming off his bases! The catch was, he was 322 yards away. He was heading East, and I needed him to come North. Guess what? He came my way! He came haulin' ass too! I got my bow, ranged the shooting lane he was headed towards (lane is 30 yards!) and as he hit about 40 yards I got ready to draw. I'm thinkin' "This dude is smoked!" I was wrong! He all of a sudden veered off to his left and entered the woods on a big run which gave me no shot. But then it clicked for me, this run split in several directions, one running 25 yards past my stand (broadside) leading to the bean field I was hunting. I thought for sure he was gonna hit the field through this corner, so I got myself situated and ready to draw once I saw him.... he never showed. I waited til 7:30 to get down (dark at 7) so I would have the cover of darkness to get out with, but he never did hit the field. While I was watching this buck, I looked out in the field he came from, and there stood another 130" buck at about 200 yards. I was so pumped but at the same time bummed! The positives are that he didn't wind me, didn't see me, and he had no clue I was there. I WILL be in that stand again tomorrow night with my fingers crossed!!!
We are on the board! I had to wait for 45 minutes while this buck stood kiddie corner from me in the bean field only 60 yds away. My hands got so cold w/ the drizzle and wind I had to rehang my bow until he started to make a move towards me. Finally he started to come over to my shooting lane , but still painfully slow. Then two more steps and he was there, I drew, he looked over not sure what he was looking at, but it was to late for him. I released he ran 40 yds, stopped, started to lay down and flopped over. It was a great downward angle 17yd shot double lung shot. The back end of the arrow broke off inside and the broadhead still continued to pass through and enter the soil 8 inches deep. A great 10 point, I couldn't be happier! I'll need to score him, so if anyone is around the Watertown,WI area I could deffintely use some help.
AWESOME job dude! Way to put us on the board! Now the rest of us just got to pick up our slack, LOL. If only I could have gotten that big one (5 1/2 Y.O. 160ish) to come in a few yards closer the other night...we'd have a heck of a team score goin!
Hey great job jrvs!! Way to get us on the board! I went out this weekend and planned on getting a hang on stand in a ditch with Eagle Soybeans and Milo running down both sides but couldn't find an adequate tree. So I chainsawed down a Walnut tree that was growing right beside another Walnut tree and it will be a great tree for use on my climber. I plan to get out this weekend since I have Columbus day off. Hopefully I can help us out!
Thanks guys, but I feel the pressure to get a doe again, and that far out ways just the pressure to get any deer (EAB zone). My brother is also coming up to hunt w/ me during our gun seasons and there won't be anything worse then seeing another real good buck in shooting distance and not being able to do anything.
Hows everyone doing? No updates for a week now. I didn't see anything this weekend, and next weekend is a early doe only gun weekend, so it will be a couple weeks before I pick up the bow again, to hunt anyway. Check in, whats been going on out there?
I went out Saturday and Monday since I had Columbus day off of work. Got to love Government jobs. Well 7:30 Saturday morning was very unseasonably cold and had two yearling bucks move into the acorns at 20 yards. Didn't see anything the rest of the day. Yesterday morning at 10 had two does come completely downwind of me and they either saw me or smelled me. Not sure either way they bounded back across the field where they came. They were coming to the acorns as well. It was weird hunting with all this foliage still on the trees with temps in the 30's. That doesn't happen very often. I'm not going to get out again until Oct 30th. Want to wait until things heaten up.
Well guys I had a pretty interesting hunt on Saturday evening. Started off by bumping about 7-8 doe while getting to my stand. I don't think they winded me but with it being so quiet in the woods they more than likely heard me. After watching a squirrel chisel away at a bone for 3 hours a doe comes from behind me and passes me before I could get ready. She jumps a fence and is ready to jump another fence to reach the neighbors property until I pull out "The Can" and hit it. I've read many times that "The Can" sounds more like a fawn getting pushed away from his mother more than an estrous doe and that is why bucks might be attracted to the sound. In fact, I've never heard an "estrous" doe bleat. Anyway, I hit the can and the doe turns and looks. She stares down in my direction and after a minute or two would forage and then think about jumping that fence. Everytime she turned away I hit the can. I did this four times and on the fourth time she comes back my direction. As she is coming back, I look to my right and 5 doe are staring my direction as well. I'm not sure if I called them in too or just coincidence. A button buck presents himself at 25 yards and is staring at the doe coming from my left. As the doe passes by a small shrub I pull back and hold. She makes her way to the button buck and stares him down directly in front of my stand. She is slightly quartering towards me but I pick my spot behind the shoulder and release. Simultaneously as I release the trigger the doe lunges at the button buck. The rage pierces back and the doe runs hunched over into the woods. I wait 30 minutes and find my arrow covered in a fatty whitish color. I feared the worse and decided to wait her out til morning and drive the 90 minutes back home. I instantly get online to read about other hunters guts shots and their outcomes. Most weren't positive with many saying they never found their deer. Morning comes and I drive back to the farm and quietly try to pick up the trail. I lucked out and found blood along a well used trail where I saw her head into the brush. After winding around a creek bed and through some thick brush I found my doe approximately 100 yards from my stand. She smelled like hell and the shot was a confirmed gut shot that exited her back leg. The rage broadhead did the job. In my ten years of bowhunting I had never gut shot a deer before. I was extremely proud to have found her. She'll be some excellent sausage. Sorry for the bad pics but I was tired and the temps were in the 70's. Had to hurry to get her cut up.
Great job man! Looks like a good sized one too, congradulations. In my neck of the woods it was very quiet, and it was a doe only gun season. All the corn is up and they are hard to find. I heard from a buddy who works at a check station there were only four deer brought over the four day season. I hope the corn comes down quick so I can find a doe w/ my bow and get another buck tag.
I hear ya jrvs. Farmers are doing their best to get corn out but we are supposed to have rain for the next 3 days that may total 2 inches. I bet they are out there working their tails off. I have a great honey hole stand that is bordered by 50 acres of corn that I'm hoping gets cut pretty quickly. I haven't been up there since mid Sept so hopefully they've already got it down. I plan to be back in the stand Saturday morning.
Well I ordered one of the new Flextone calls today in the hopes that it will help me call a doe in range so I can fulfill my points here and I can get another buck sticker with the rut right around the corner. I'm hoping to get my buck back and score it any day now.
