Colby, even as a 12 year old I never got buck fever. Some people do and overcome it and some people never get it. But alas, PT and I have come up with a plan. I will shoot our deer since I do not miss and he will track/recover them since he misses. The only problem we have is the gas back and forth from New York to Maryland. Anyone want to donate to save The broken bowhunter fund?............lol. P.S Forgot to mention.............seven mile drive from work to home, five dead doe on the side of the road. You may laugh but for years I have used that as my gauge to tell me when the pre-rut has started. Dave
Fred AWESOME buck man!!!!Huge congrats!!! Dave you will be triumphant man, bow hunting is extremely humbling. Anyone getting out this week at all?
Dave it sounds like you and PT have a great plan man id throw a hundred or so to the fund and please shoot the rabbit you don't have to recover that stupid thing. Sent from my ADR6350 using Tapatalk
I was out this morning ... nothing at all .... I will be out tomorrow morning at the very least, maybe in the afternoon, depending on the weather .... but as of Friday afternoon, I am OFF for 11 days right in the middle of the seeking phase here ... I can't wait ... they are caling for cold weather ... love it! BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
83 degrees tomorrow, and for some reason I have talked myself into an afternoon hunt. My favorite field on our farm just had the corn taken out of it, so I'm ready to get a sit in over it. Wednesday should be an awesome day if I can get out.
Hunted all day but from 11-3 Saw 1 deer... Must be the Lull around here... Dave, Stick with it buddy, it's gonna come together. Good Luck to everyone else out there!
Haha good one. No, it's a travel day. But....if I get out of work on time Wednesday AND if I don't end up buying Game 6 tickets, I will be in a stand. I know it's shocking that I could potentially miss a Cardinals World Series game.
Scott, forget the heat, get out there. Friday evening, I was sitting on a cut corn field. Man, at last light, I had deer all around me in the woods. I didn't want to get down, in fear of them catching on to my new stand. In the pitch black, I can hear (and kind of see) deer running around in the field, bucks grunting, it was unreal! Then you know what happened Saturday, It's On!! Dave, don't ever think you're letting us down, we won't ever see it that way! The season is young, the rut hasn't even kicked in yet. You'll get yours! PT, 11 days, prime time? I can hear the bodies hitting the forest floor already Good luck out there guys!
LMAO.... I so want to be you Tony! Eleven days in the woods, maaaaaannnnnnn! Love it! Scott, two surprises are better than one...a monster and the game results after the hunt. It cannot get any better! Us slackers need to pick it up.
As promised, some photos from this past weekend. Right out of the shoot on Saturday morning, three of us walked up on a nice 5x5 and 6x6 mule deer. Sadly, none of us had deer tags. Then this little fella graced us for several minutes. We were hunting above treeline (about 12,700 feet in elevation). Up there, you feel like you are on top of the world, at least I do. Ten minutes later, young Tom Hill dropped his first elk. It's a bull calve but counts as an anterless elk. Tom picked this one out of a herd of 20 (three bulls and 17 cows). It was so cool. I stopped the herd with a sharp loud whistle. The three bulls were buried among cows (no shots whatsoever). The herd bull spent three minutes bulging back to me. When Tom had a solo animal without others behind it, he dropped the hammer. Check out the world below in the background. We spent most of the day packing meat back to the truck... We saw a lot of ptarmigan while walking about, what a cool bird. On Sunday, our first sit was a bust. I took Steel Sullivan and Michele Marks to a spot that either holds elk or not. When they are there, the hunting is good...you usually get a 500 yard or closer shot from a mere 13,500 feet above sea level. We moved back down below treeline for the afternoon hunt. Kudos go out to Michele. As a cancer survivor, she passed her hunter education exam with a perfect 100%. She wants to learn the art of hunting, I'm obliged to teach her. She hung with Steel and I for the entire weekend as an observer. Next year, She'll have her own elk tag! I look forward to the day I can help her call the shot. Michele, Steel, and I cut a fresh set of tracks around 2:00pm (there was about an inch of old snow on the north side of the mountain). We followed the five elk back up the mountain towards timberline-about a half mile. It was obivious a bull was among the mix. At 4:00pm, the three of us landed this young bull. By following his tracks, we caught him out feeding above the trees. . With additional help, we had the meat stored back at camp by 8:00pm.
Will awesome story, sounds like a good time. I'm glad your helping these folks get out and enjoy Colorado. Sweet Pictures.
Since I can't spend my evenings hunting I got roped into carving pumpkins. Now don't laugh to hard cause I'm not artistic but I thought I'd represent team 6. Sent from my ADR6350 using Tapatalk
