Shot October Saturday October 6th 6:00 pm Bow: Bear Encounter Release: Cobra Score: Gross 93 1/2 Net 92 1/2
Congrats Joe! nice buck! I think when you score him for the contest you only need to give the gross score.
Alright boys. We're getting on the board. Well done!!! And way to be a champ and book your hunt so close to test you needed to do it at a Starbucks on the road. That's hardcore lol
Yeah, I kept looking over my shoulders to make sure no liberals were looking at me with disdain by seeing the pictures of me with a dead deer. No one said anything, no one kicked me out, so it's all good! God, Family, & Deer Hunting!
Here's the story- My hunting trip to Ohio this year had to be the first week of October. My wife and I are expecting our first son at the end of November or the beginning of December. The bucks hadn't been hitting my feeder like I wanted because of all the surrounding bean fields near by but my buddy and I stuck to our game plan and we were pumped. Almost all of September we had shooter bucks coming in daylight both morning and night. It was awesome, 160 ten pointer, 150 nine pointer, 125 seven pointer, 120 8 pointer, I was pumped. Then, disaster struck, the oaks started raining acorns in the woods right before I got to Ohio .We have tons of old oaks on this 400 acre woods and it was game over. It was hot, the oaks were dropping like I'd never seen before, it was the first week of October, everything was bad. We hunted over oaks, we hunted over the feeder, we hunted over water and after 5 1/2 days of hunting I hadn't even seen a buck while in the stand. We decided to hunt on a 7 acre piece a friend of ours owns that only has 1 oak tree and at 6:00 the nine walked in and I gut shot him at 15 yards. I was afraid to "meep" at him because he was so close so I waited for him to take a step passed a branch and I let the arrow fly. I relearned a valuable lesson, make sure the deer is stopped when you take a shot. I figured since he was so close, once he took that first step I would put the arrow right in his heart but when you took that step, he had already started to take the next one and I put the arrow back 12 more inches than I realized. Even at 15 yards that one step made a huge difference in where that arrow landed. I can only imagine trying to do something like that at 30 + yards. Learn from me boys, don't do it. We checked the arrow and watched the video and decided to pull out of there and give it some time. We came back after 4 1/2 hours and tried to track him but there was no blood. We walked the bottom of the ravine and up both sides but couldn't find him. We tried again in the morning, then again in the afternoon but to no avail. Everyone had given up at this point but I decided to come out one last time and look for him till dark. I owed it to the deer and to myself to do everything that I could to find him. I found him 3/4 up the other side of the ravine a little before dark. Frankly, I'm a little embarrassed that we didn't find him sooner he was only 125-150 yards from where I shot him. He had been dead that whole time. But it was steep and thick all up through there so I'm just fortunate that I found him at all. He's not a giant but I don't really care. I hunted hard, made adjustments all week and I'm happy with how it all turned out. I hope you all get one down this season too! Good luck!
Congrats! I've noticed all my big guys are moving during the night now with the full moon. Did see a solid 140 8pt this am on my way to the property I hunt. He came out of a public area a couple hundred yards from my house so I may need to close in on them.
Joe besr get that buck on the score card. Two pics of you with deer and bow. Plus date and time, team name and measurements.
Hey Rutin. If I can get a stand just a little south of that watering hole. Lets say maybe 70 yards south of it in the hardwoods. But in order to get there I walk right through my food plot and my hole stand. Would I be destroying those two stands ? Or just stick to what's worked. Every Halloween bucks arrive and stick around for the month. Maybe just stay out to not spook deer away. And wait for my usual Halloween and rut.
I notice the same thing around here and the last week of Oct is prime for killing Mature deer trying to stake off THEIR property. Then rut comes and they are ALL over the place. Personally I wouldn't walk past two spots to get to one, I'd want that stand right along the water. Reason being the deer cant skirt you and get downwind. Unless they are hardcore deer and go for a swim to scent check you LOL. If there's a bridal trail going right by there I would walk it and slip into the stand. Those horses aren't scaring them deer at all! Hell I've thought about hunting deer off horses bc they don't spoke them at all (I'm kidding, kinda....) I'll try to photoshop your pic when I get time where I'd put stands (I'm computer illiterate though) and they will be vague bc I don't know the terrain elevation changes. If you can bait I'd throw a big corn pile out and make it so they have to pass one of your stands to get to it. Don't hunt over it... TOO many eyes there before the bucks get there. Trying to draw back on a shooter with does around is near impossible and usually the bucks the last one to get there. Hints why you put it 100 yards away so that when he hangs up coming from his bed and stages til dark you can still kill him. A lot of times bucks will be within eyesight of the bait but wont commit til after sundown. Just a couple tactics that work down here and keep deer around a little longer.
Yes the trail to the bait was my plan on the hole stand. Although I can't say I honestly hunted it last year. I sat maybe twice the whole year in that stand. I had a stacked farm I was hunting instead. This is killing me, season is open and I'm not hunting LOL I have made the ducks and geese pay for it though. Taking out all my lack of deer hunting anger issues on them. That I have a lot of areas to hunt.
I currently have had a camera on my food plot, which has its growth plus a **** ton of corn. Although I seem to be getting lots of birds and coons. I got it!!!! Sit in my new box blind with pellet gun and make the chipmunks, birds and coons pay LOL. Its going to be graveyard in a hurry.
Check my camera last night while I was hunting and the 9 pt I saw a couple weeks ago was on the camera all week. 3 different days he was on there in day light and multiple times at night. I think I am real close to his bedding and not going to move any closer. I am going out Saturday morning to give it another shot, I think this buck is very killable.
Kill him Holt!!! This weekend SUCKS in Ohio!!! Its early muzzleloader and its doe only. Even if you bow hunt its doe only! This state is killing me, thank goodness the moon blows right now and nothing big is moving early enough to kill.
Ya the full moon is so bright I actually left bed and came to my home office. Couldn't sleep, so bright I can read in the dark. I was planning on getting out tomorrow night on a buddies property. I have doe tags so figure I can take one down. See how it goes.
Here's the link to the video of the hunt. Also, I went out for the first time since I got back to Wisconsin and I had a big stink nasty come out right at dark. He blew five does out from the woods and sent them running into the corn field. Is the rut going on right now, haha? I'm going back out tonight with my grunt tube, the does and the buck were vocal last night. I couldn't tell how many points he had, but he had a big body and his antlers extended far beyond his ears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYR9mM0WPB0&feature=youtu.be
Hey boys, good news. I picked up a farm today literally right behind my house. So behind my house is the bush I hunt now. That connects to another property which is all wooded. Then across that street the bush continues and I'm in there now. Here is a map of my discoveries today. And my plan, thoughts please. ok so here it is, the red line is property line. Its 50 acres. I only scouted that south east portion of the bush today. I went in made a bit of noise but whatever I'm going in tonight. Ok so you can see the huge pond at the back and the small one in the front. That orange line I drew is like a swamp or creek bottom. Its a low point which is muddy and mucky and lots of cover. Lots of deer tracks in there. I drew arrows showing the lay of the land. So the house goes way up and the property border is way up. Everything slopes down to this swamp bottom trail and to the ponds. I have a access which is that purple line, that's my trail to my stand. The red dot is my stand. I'm about half way down the slope. Wind is again usually from north and west. What you guys think??? I was thinking of bringing a ton of carrots and corn in with me tonight. Any thoughts???? I have some nice shooting lanes of straight down at the creek bottom. Thanks
Got any oaks near the water? They gotta eat and they gotta drink and my guess would be if you have some oaks dropping near the water its going to be a goldmine for you right now!
