I'm same way man, I worry about nets for fish LOL It was for sure a year I wasn't sure I'd see a tree until November if that...blessed for sure.
Appreciate the feedback, more context to the field. Is is on the neighboring property but not exactly the property line. From our property line the closest point to the corn is 50 yards but likely travel is 200 yards plus. The blue bed in the picture is a place I know to be a buck bed. It’s a 70 year old gravel pit on that 40 so it’s a about a 20 acre area that’s dug out some with high spots in that area which the blue bed is one of the high spots in the gravel pit. A lot of swirling wind allows that bed to be used in basically any wind direction with escapes into water from predators. I can skirt the property edge on the south with a north to west wind and create a “buck fight” scenario with grunts and rattling, I think if he’s in that bedding area or even that area in general he’d head towards the corn field to get downwind to check it out heading towards the corn.
Made it out for another sit. Dead calm, I can hear the squirrels and birds 100 yards away. My dad let me barrow his new sig sauer zulu6 stabilizing Binos they are pretty wild!
I finally got a picture of the buck I saw chasing does in my backyard last Thursday afternoon. This is a PA buck. What's your best guess on what he would score? I'm going to try and get my granddaughter on him asap. She's 16 and her biggest buck to date is 135" 11 point she took in Ohio.
It's definitely a unique buck. I first saw him at 100 yards, and I was like wow, he goes straight up. I think he might go 115 - 120". Hard to tell what the mass is.
Update here....work has kept me out and most of my cams are dying battery wise, so gonna puts in on the four wheeler since Tractor is in shop and do that tomorrow and get out. If all goes well I may hunt Saturday before that evening we have a snow storm system incoming.
Going to get sits for tonight and tomorrow night and then the MN gun season starts on Saturday morning.
I'm headed back to Ohio tomorrow morning. I'll be out for the afternoon. Unfortunately, rain is supposed to me in around 1:00 PM. I have 2 blinds setup, so hopefully the wind is good for one of them. It's the best time of the year guys. Good luck X!
Good luck man! Cams getting checked today and reloaded with new lithiums...rain coming tomorrow, Saturday will be my only chance to hunt so will sit morning till about two hours before we are supposed to see rain here too....got big boy on cam this morning running a doe....hoping to whack a doe and be able to confirm she is down, log it in quick and be buck hunting after (reduction zone buck earned with the antlerless).
I just keep thinking that at any time @atlasman is going to enter a big buck in the contest. He's been keeping us in suspense since Monday morning. I'm sure it will be worth the wait.
I’m so sorry guys…….as I said at the start this year was VERY weird for me. I took on a decades old Good Ol’ Boys Club corrupt political system in my town of just over 3,000 and the battle was a million times worse than I even imagined. We were threatened with guns, had thousands of dollars of illegal money funneled to our opponents and even had election officials removed on Election Day for breaking the law. It was NUTS but in the end the people of our town who have been abused and oppressed for so long showed those scumbags just how weak they are against the will of the people. I won as supervisor and my wife won as council in the largest election the town has ever seen and by unheard of margins of 20%. 720-497 was the final vote tally Having said that sadly my time in the woods has been incredibly limited and I was facing most likely less than a calendar week of hunting chances. The day before the election I had to get out to keep my sanity and a “normal” 8 for our land strolled by and I let it fly. I won’t lie, he’s by no means a big buck and he’s definitely the smallest buck I’ve shot in years but that day brought me so much joy because of the horrible situation and stress we were under that I’ll never forget it. I shot the buck out of a great stand I put up and got to spend the day laughing and pulling him out with my brother and father who I have been hunting with since I was 16. He will be 80 in January It was such a surreal day with what’s going on in my life that I butchered him up sipping coffee alone as my family hunted the evening as the rain drops hit the metal roof of the shed and realized a moment of true happiness.
