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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2020 20:23:50 GMT -5
Busted 4 nice does as we walked across the cut cornfield to get set up. They were bedded just inside the trees in the little point that just jutted out into the field that they are feeding in after dark. Saw nothing else while hunting, but on the drive back to my buddy`s place, we saw a huge buck, really tall, in the headlights in the field across the country road from his mailbox.
Hopefully give tomorrow another shot.
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Post by deadeer on Dec 9, 2020 22:20:53 GMT -5
Hunted my favorite all time public spot tonight. Got in quietly, wind perfect, everything textbook, sae zero and heard no shots. Sign was everywhere so am sure nocturnal as everybody is reporting.
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Post by esshup on Dec 9, 2020 23:59:57 GMT -5
Well crud, I shot a fat doe this morning About 60-70 yds away. She reared up like a horse spun around and dropped to the ground kicking. I looked away to put my gun up and could still hear her kicking in the leaves when it stopped. I looked down there and couldn’t see her. Thought she kicked herself behind a big log that was there but when I got down to get her she was gone, just kick marks in the leaves and a little bit of fur but that’s all. No blood. Nothing. I searched around for a bit and heard a deer blowing so I went in that direction and jumped two deer. They both looked healthy and ran off. It’s hard with no blood. Hate this feeling but I think I hit low as I did locate some white fur at the shot site, not much but a few strands. All this with my sidelock that I think is cursed. About 6 years ago the same exact scenario replicated this, same results too. Haven’t had to use the sidelock since but really want to kill something with it as I could with my inline but want to try this. 2 deer shot with this gun in its life and same exact results. Blah!! I'd call a tracking dog. A buddy in Arkansas has one and his wife shot a doe a few weeks ago. No blood, but the dog found it 80 yds away piled up in a multiflora rose thicket. He said without the dog they would have never found the deer, you couldn't see it from outside the thicket.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 7:56:55 GMT -5
In my neighborhood the mature deer stayed nocturnal through the rut. I talked to my neighbors and local hunters the last few days and we all said the same thing. No daytime sighting, only night. I think all the stay at home working is pushing the deer more nocturnal. I know the noise level after 8am didn't go away as much. It would be quiet for an hour and then noisy, just up and down. My roof and barn projects didn't help either.
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Post by SFC (R) B on Dec 10, 2020 14:52:40 GMT -5
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Dec 10, 2020 15:14:47 GMT -5
Gonna be weird hunting in shorts and shoes. But mama wants one more doe in the freezer.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 10, 2020 15:57:22 GMT -5
Warm temps suck. Only rutting activity im seeing is from the dozens of squirrels running mad around me. That's the bad part of the city program
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Dec 10, 2020 16:10:02 GMT -5
Nothing last night. That makes three hunts in a row now with zero sightings.
Maybe tonight will be #4! Lol
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Post by deadeer on Dec 10, 2020 16:29:22 GMT -5
Back on private land tonight. Only hunted this stand one time with xbow, and seen deer. Hoping a decent doe walks by. I am perfectly downwind in woods, butted up to a crp patch the deer bed in. Let's go!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 16:31:15 GMT -5
I'm sitting in my rocker on the front porch. Crossbow right next to me. Not expecting any deer. Seldom even in summer during the evening.
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Post by buckbuster13 on Dec 10, 2020 16:43:39 GMT -5
Nice out tonight no deer yet , neighbor down the road is mowing his lawn in December😃
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 17:47:01 GMT -5
Even though there is one house at end middle part a FedEx and Amazon truck delivery truck drove by, plus air rcare helicopter from St. E flow over back to Cincinnati. Half way to dark I grabbed a beer. My homebrew porter.
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Post by mstr2175 on Dec 10, 2020 17:54:41 GMT -5
Same buck everyday this week between 830am-10am at my creek bottom funnel. Just waiting on his pops
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Post by ukwil on Dec 10, 2020 19:26:01 GMT -5
Had 3 come in at 420. Only 2 left. Big mature doe. 30 yard shot and she ran about 60. Quartering slightly to me, high lung entrance and out her right hip. She died behind a 500k house right behind their inground pool. 😁 I noticed before I shot her something was on her nose. Wound up being a big white patch.
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Post by bartiks on Dec 10, 2020 19:32:12 GMT -5
Congrats on the doe ukwil
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Post by deadeer on Dec 10, 2020 19:35:11 GMT -5
Blew my chance tonight. Had a big doe come in where a tree blocked my view. She popped out at about 30yd, I moved and she pinned me instantly. I couldn't get the gun up by the time she walked by with any kind of shot. First blown chance of the season. Rats!
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 10, 2020 19:42:46 GMT -5
Blew my chance tonight. Had a big doe come in where a tree blocked my view. She popped out at about 30yd, I moved and she pinned me instantly. I couldn't get the gun up by the time she walked by with any kind of shot. First blown chance of the season. Rats! WTH!
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Post by deadeer on Dec 10, 2020 20:13:38 GMT -5
Blew my chance tonight. Had a big doe come in wherenow a tree blocked my view. She popped out at about 30yd, I moved and she pinned me instantly. I couldn't get the gun up by the time she walked by with any kind of shot. First blown chance of the season. Rats! WTH! Losing my mojo late in the season. Kinda got it on coast right now. Lol
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Dec 10, 2020 21:49:28 GMT -5
I at least broke the streak of not seeing deer. Three does fed through right before dark.
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Post by esshup on Dec 11, 2020 0:09:22 GMT -5
Losing my mojo late in the season. Kinda got it on coast right now. Lol Awww jeez, that sucks. I didn't hunt, but pulled trail cam cards. Seeing deer movement starting at 5:30 pm all night long, and it continues until around 8am. Will be out in the stand in the morning, plan on being in the stand at least 1/2 hour before legal shooting light.
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