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Post by huntnandplumbn on Aug 27, 2015 13:54:19 GMT -5
I think it's only in a hunters nature get a bit frustrated/discouraged when the days keep going bye and the sightings are few and far between. Maybe the recipe is to mix it up a bit. Try somewhere new or hunt in someway different than your usual. Remember after all the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
As for the stories and memories, they are the best part. I often look at my trophy room and think about each hunt and it feels like it was yesterday. As friends and family visit I always look forward to showing them what's new and how it got there and again it feels like it just happened. Doesn't matter if it's my first buck a 7pt that I ever got or the biggest one in the room. They all have a story.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Aug 27, 2015 14:01:16 GMT -5
I think it's only in a hunters nature get a bit frustrated/discouraged when the days keep going bye and the sightings are few and far between. Maybe the recipe is to mix it up a bit. Try somewhere new or hunt in someway different than your usual. Remember after all the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. As for the stories and memories, they are the best part. I often look at my trophy room and think about each hunt and it feels like it was yesterday. As friends and family visit I always look forward to showing them what's new and how it got there and again it feels like it just happened. Doesn't matter if it's my first buck a 7pt that I ever got or the biggest one in the room. They all have a story. Exactly! I've only hunted two seasons. This year I have many more options with my food plot and handicap hunting permit. My private land is only 10ac of woods, but keep trying to make the most of it. The public handicap area will be a nice mix for me. I do the same thing with my two mounts, and the story never gets old in my mind. Both hunts have been special for their experience, and I've learned a lot. It's nice you see you post. Thanks!
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Post by huntnandplumbn on Aug 27, 2015 14:27:16 GMT -5
Two seasons and two mounts... Sounds like your gonna be fine. LOL
Heck some of my best stories are of the one that got away or the one that was lost. Yes even the one that I lost. Gets me fired up just typing it. lol
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Aug 27, 2015 15:11:29 GMT -5
Two seasons and two mounts... Sounds like your gonna be fine. LOL Heck some of my best stories are of the one that got away or the one that was lost. Yes even the one that I lost. Gets me fired up just typing it. lol Let's hear it. We all like a good story. It gets busy around here once the season starts. My first buck is the one on my profile. It was the first deer that I'd ever seen in the woods hunting. Sat for 3 weeks and then he showed up. One of the guys from this site came down to help me find him. The guys on this site have been great to teach me and answer all my stupid questions.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 27, 2015 15:40:25 GMT -5
Two seasons and two mounts... Sounds like your gonna be fine. LOL Heck some of my best stories are of the one that got away or the one that was lost. Yes even the one that I lost. Gets me fired up just typing it. lol Let's hear it. We all like a good story. It gets busy around here once the season starts. My first buck is the one on my profile. It was the first deer that I'd ever seen in the woods hunting. Sat for 3 weeks and then he showed up. One of the guys from this site came down to help me find him. The guys on this site have been great to teach me and answer all my stupid questions. And we had some "stupid" answers... Jon, You bring a LOT to this site. You are much appreciated. Please keep asking any questions and make any comments you want...
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Post by huntnandplumbn on Aug 27, 2015 15:56:47 GMT -5
My lost buck happened on November 4th 2012. I always take a solid week off of work during the first week or two of November. This was the first evening of it. I was tucked just inside of the woods near a field edge on my favorite pinch point. A spot that Never gets hunted until my Vacation. 10 minutes after I had got in my stand I saw a Doe standing on the opposite field edge in front of another stand of mine about 400 yds away. This was all straight behind this huge tree I was in so I would just glance back every few minutes to see what she was doing. On the 3rd look their he was standing next to her. She started to head back into the little wood patch so I started with grunting as loud as the grunt tube would go. He heard it but wouldn't leave her. So I started with the rattling antlers, Even when he looked my way I was hidden by the large tree so I Hammered them together. Even broke one of the tines off in the process. He commited to me but walked the entire way until he was 20 yds away facing straight at me. He was a straight 10 Pt w/ 1 kicker off of his G2 on the left side and a 180" frame. Yes very big. At 20 yds he then got the gusto to run directly under me. I could've spit on his back. Once he didn't see the other deer he turned to leave and I shot him at a very hard quartering away angle. The arrow stopped at the offside shoulder and I could only see about 2" of fletching sticking out as he ran away. I figured to have gotten one lung so the next morning with a blood hound we went looking. Blood even ray Charles could have followed all the way to that same patch he had come out of. Found where he bedded just full of lung blood. That was it. No deer. No more sign. Nothing.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Aug 27, 2015 17:47:43 GMT -5
Oh man! That had to have been exciting calling him in like that, especially getting him to leave that doe. I'm amazed that you didn't find him with the dog. Did you ever find the arrow? That would have been one heck of story to tell while looking at his mount. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a big bipedal monster dragged him off. These guys laugh, but I think they're out there. LOL That's great that you get to take a week off for hunting. Several guys here do it. This year, I'm taking off the entire hunting season. I was amazed at how big and strong those bucks are. If I hadn't caught an artery with one lung, I doubt that I would have found mine. He bled heavily. All these guys on this site were a big part of my story. I was around for a few months before the season started. I must say that they made my experience a great one.
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Post by huntnandplumbn on Aug 27, 2015 20:35:07 GMT -5
Never found any arrow, blood , or even hair. makes for great story but sure would've been a lot better if I could've for comfort him recovered him. Especially since I knew the deer and let him walk the year before .
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