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Post by M4Madness on Nov 28, 2017 16:45:23 GMT -5
Greetings. I have seen nothing like that photo, I cannot see any point In standing on a little shelf up a tree. May as well sit in front of the fire next to a window with a bow, lol. Trust me, Billy, that photo is not the norm in most places. Lol! I live in a very rural area, and while I see deer occasionally from my home's windows, I certainly don't have deer lying down in my yard.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 26, 2017 19:06:55 GMT -5
Congratulations to your father, Alex!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 26, 2017 8:21:17 GMT -5
Used Hornady 117 grain factory deer load. American Whitetail ammo? That's what I am using.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 26, 2017 7:33:55 GMT -5
I just looked out my bedroom window and there are two does in the horse pasture across the road. One is feeding and the other is bedded right out in the open. A truck stopped and looked at them before driving off. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 26, 2017 7:28:14 GMT -5
Live from the bed. Lol! After hunting the last three days morning and evening, I shut the alarm off this morning and went back to sleep. I have some regret now that it is starting to get light outside, but I really need to get some stuff done today -- like driving 20 miles one way to get our cats some food at Petsmart before they starve. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 19:32:00 GMT -5
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 19:27:09 GMT -5
Congratulations on your buck!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 19:05:56 GMT -5
Well, I actually had a good time on the field tonight. About 15 minutes before sunset, I heard steady footsteps coming right to my tree from behind. There I am clenching my teeth, afraid to turn around as it is right behind me. It stops, and I am wondering to myself if it sees me (since I'm low in a tree) and is trying to sort things out. Then I hear it start walking again. I move only my eyes to look left and down, and it passes right next to me at less than 5 yards.
It's a small 9-pointer -- main-frame basket 8 with some palmation of the right main beam and a flattened out short 9th point sprouting out of the main beam between the G2 and G3 and curving downward. It walked out about 20 yards into the field and started chowing down on grass. It was just on the left edge of my wind.
A few minutes later, I saw an antlerless deer running around the field a couple hundred yards to my left. I thought there might be some chasing going on, but there was nothing around it. Then it spotted the 9-pointer and came running, stopping about 10 yards short off it. I then realized that it was a lonely button buck looking for someone to hang out with. Lol! I watched them for over a half hour, and right at dark they wandered into the opposite woods and I was able to climb down 5 minutes after shooting light ended.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 16:01:40 GMT -5
I have a few Vortex rifle scopes, as well as a laser rangefinder, and have no complaints. I chose them simply due to the warranty.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 15:47:55 GMT -5
I seem to do better when the temps are above 40 degrees than when they are below. I've killed good bucks the first week of October when it was at least 70 degrees, so I have no qualms about hunting this evening.
That said, it will be nothing short of a miracle from God if I kill a good buck tonight. I climbed all the way up a wooded ridge to a hilltop hay field where I saw a good buck on my walk out a few seasons ago. I hate field hunting, but figure I may as well experiment some this season. Anyway, I forgot my saw, and the only decent tree in this spot is a white oak with the first limb at maybe 15 feet if I'm lucky, so my climber's platform is lower than that to allow for the seat section. The tree is just inside of the woodline. I'm facing east into the field, so the wind is coming from the woods at my back. I have some leafy trees forward of me to both the right and left, so even shooting into the field will be a chore.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 9:11:22 GMT -5
Quite windy here. Around sunrise I saw a coyote trotting down the edge of the draw, but didn't have time to get on it. At 8:00 AM, the same spike from last night headed in the same general direction. Nothing else yet.
A young lady I know shot her first deer (a doe) earlier this week. She informed me later that she did NOT check the box for bonus antlerless when she checked this firearm kill in with her bundle. So, I guess we'll see if she gets "the call". Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 5:52:12 GMT -5
Maybe enhanced your beard in photoshop? Just cant put my finger on it.... Exactly! It's that "glow". Lol! Congratulations on whatever you got!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 25, 2017 5:48:05 GMT -5
Congratulations to her on a fine deer!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 24, 2017 16:28:33 GMT -5
Greetings Went out this morning into thick freezing fog again. Have you ever seen the movie "American Werewolf In London"? Everytime you post, I picture the foggy moors from that movie, and you hitting one of those out-of-the-way local pubs afterwards. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 24, 2017 15:39:33 GMT -5
I'm back in tornado alley at the head of a wooded draw where I killed a 10-pointer two years ago with my muzzleloader the opening weekend of firearms season. That was a morning hunt, and the only reason I'm hunting here this evening is so that I can avoid packing my climber all the way up here tomorrow morning. Lol! Lots of trees down, and lots of leafy beech trees as well limiting visibility.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 24, 2017 12:57:56 GMT -5
Well, I decided to try field sitting again this morning, this time on a grassy hillside on the farm being logged. I was facing west, with a southerly wind and the future sunrise being behind me. When they began the logging operation, I pulled this stand from the timber and hung it in this tree in the field because I didn't want to pack it home. Lol! I knew it would be safe in this tree. This morning was the first time I'd ever hunted it. At 7:30 AM, I saw a pick-up truck go flying across that bottom field heading north (right). They started the diesel equipment and left. I was told that they would not be logging during firearms season, but I guess someone was mistaken. At 7:45 AM, a large lone doe came down the woods edge to my left. I looked back, and saw nothing following her, so I drilled her at 48 yards through both shoulders, and she bulldozed just barely into the edge of the woods and expired. At 8:00 AM, the rest of the logging crew arrived and it became very noisy. I NEVER aim for the shoulder, but did this time because I always read of people doing that with a rifle. Big mistake! The .25-06 flat out demolished both shoulders, with huge cubes of bone floating everywhere under the offside hide. I hunted for another hour, and climbed down when nothing else showed up. I had to sign up for Imgur, as Hunt101 keeps giving me an error when I try to upload photos.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 24, 2017 5:43:30 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 23, 2017 19:10:00 GMT -5
At 4:45 PM, a 3-pointer came out of the woods on the east end, and meandered along the woodline until it reached the west end. At 5:30 PM, a spike came out in the same place that the first buck did, and it followed the strip I was in on the downwind side. It cut my wind and never reacted, nor did it care when it crossed my path in.
With five minutes of shooting light left, another deer entered the field about 250 yards west of me. It walked like a buck, but I could not see antlers through the scope.
I had no exit plan (lol), so I had to climb down with the spike feeding less than 75 yards away. I climbed down and packed up my climber with the buck never detecting me. He didn't spook until I started walking towards him to get to my Jeep. He ran like lightning back to the woods he'd come from, but never blew.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 23, 2017 15:34:19 GMT -5
Set up in a 20-yard wide east/west strip of trees that connects a brushy roadside creek to a big set of woods. There are cut cornfields on either side of the strip, right up to it. There are muddy trails running down both sides of the strip. The bad news is that I have to face into the setting sun.
I've never hunted a cut corn field before, so I hope I made the right choice. Lol! It was cut three days ago. Should I have waited until muzzleloader season to hit this?
EDIT: Lawrencecountyhunter, I can see the blinkers, so you should know right where I am.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 23, 2017 12:44:38 GMT -5
Well, my camcorder and right glove are both 20 feet below me this morning. I hope the camera survived the fall. 😱 Luckily, the camera is fine. I got a little footage of an 8-pointer this morning before the drop.
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