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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 13:18:09 GMT -5
Rain forecast for me from 9:00 PM tonight until 3:00 AM Sunday. I guess I'll give it one last go tonight until next weekend.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 10:18:32 GMT -5
If this were like the movie "Groundhog Day", I'd have the deer figured out. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 9:12:31 GMT -5
We got a good 10 mph east wind here going to hang till 10 30 11 and call it a day need to fix a trailer the dump bed won't go over half way up. See what the weather brings I hope to get back out 3 30 ish if not Sunday am for sure Good luck to every one out I don't know about where you're at, but they're calling for bad storms here in the south-central part of the state tomorrow.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 8:25:31 GMT -5
It's been misting the last hour here, and while not really bad, the east wind has been a little brisk. Very slight fog rolling in.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 7:43:01 GMT -5
I'm hunting the same trail as this 2011 video below, except I'm on the opposite side of it (behind video deer.) I can see the tree that I filmed that hunt from. youtu.be/nOQhD78k-cM
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 7:30:04 GMT -5
Just had a small 8-pointer pass 28 yards upwind of me.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 4, 2017 7:05:34 GMT -5
Set up on the east side of a wooded ridge on an east wind. There is a grown up logging road running north and south, and I am in a triple oak 20 yards west (downwind) of it. Man was it hard to get a climber on this tree! I had to start about 5 feet up, which meant I had to pull myself up into it. Lol!
I triggered a trail camera coming in the main logging road -- I saw the IR panel flash. I walked the same road in/out last night, but never noticed it. I hope it's the landowner's.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 3, 2017 18:49:32 GMT -5
A big bust for me tonight.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 3, 2017 17:09:57 GMT -5
Ah, I feel a lot better now. Lol! I know there's only an hour of shooting light left, but for some reason I couldn't wait. I managed to pee on the rail of my climber's seat section and my left rubber boot toe as well. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 3, 2017 16:08:15 GMT -5
I haven't been hunting weeknights due to not being able to track the next morning, so tonight is my first hunt since last weekend. This year has been so odd, as I usually hunt every single day of early archery and firearms seasons. I'm on the top of a wooded ridge in a very thick spot. A 20-yard shot will definitely be my farthest opportunity. I more or less just decided to climb this tree for observation purposes, especially when a northest wind pretty much screws me out of everywhere for an evening hunt.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 3, 2017 10:46:19 GMT -5
An arrow.
I had an arrow nocked and this pesky limb was in front of me. In the process of tossing my pull-up rope to snag it, I knocked my arrow off my bow. It stuck broadhead first into the ground. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 3, 2017 5:24:38 GMT -5
I rushed the shot...laying here thinking. I had a few more seconds I should have settled in more. Wish I could have it back dangit. I stood up to shoot. I never stand. Why did I this time. The last 10 deer I've shot ive been sitting. I was calm. More calm than I had expected when this time came, I don't think I had buck fever. I just rushed it. He was chasing does but I had his attention, standing broadside. I had time. Everyone's asleep in the house hold, I'm venting fellas. I put two Rage-tipped arrows into a buck the first week of November 2010, and never found him after probably 500 yards of tracking which yielded multiple bloody beds. One snowy night in January, he was struck and killed by a car 300 yards or so from my driveway. He still had the stub of one of my arrows with broadhead lodged in him. It happens, so all you can do is move forward. I will say that after having a single pass-through out of 9 deer and 2 coyotes, I dumped Rages and went with Slick Trick fixed blades and am now 100% on pass-throughs. Mechanicals just rob too much kinetic energy upon opening for my likes. Do you know anyone with a camera-mounted drone? I bet that'd be a great way to search soybean fields for a carcass. I once read of a guy renting a helicopter to find a huge buck he'd shot, and they did recover it.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 3, 2017 5:15:05 GMT -5
Well after a 4 year dry spell in Indiana, I finally got a buck down the other night in Halloween. Anybody want to post the picture for me if I send it to them? Awesome buck!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 2, 2017 17:13:21 GMT -5
Just a question. So if I have my 308 handgun and 308 rifle with me. How many shells can I have on me? 10 total
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 2, 2017 5:08:05 GMT -5
I always hunt the timber, regardless of which part of the season we are in. I've never been much of a field sitter. 99% of the fields where I hunt are hay fields, so not much use in looking out over them. I only have one property that rotates between soybeans and corn, and I'm lucky if I hunt that farm once a year, as I always feel that there are better places to be hunting.
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How far?
Nov 1, 2017 5:17:43 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by M4Madness on Nov 1, 2017 5:17:43 GMT -5
I had pre-season trail camera footage of a buck for at least 3 years straight on a particular farm. I passed on a 12-yard shot on him the first week of October in 2012 1.5 miles from the camera (straight line Google Earth) and killed him the next year the first week of October 1.1 miles from the camera. And this was before any sort of rut seeking phase.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 31, 2017 12:46:13 GMT -5
I got onto photo bucket but I was immediately bombarded with adverts and rubbish being put into my machines. Any other way of putting photos on here? I use hunt101.com. It's free.
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 30, 2017 18:02:35 GMT -5
Dang, three hunters in a 10-acre woodlot? And here I'd feel crowded if a single hunter were sharing 350 acres with me. Lol!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 30, 2017 17:26:39 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by M4Madness on Oct 29, 2017 16:26:36 GMT -5
It may not look as pretty when finished but left tops provide excellent bedding cover and the open canopy will encourage new growth on forest floor providing fresh browse for deer. Our farm was logged 6-7 years ago and I can tell you hunting is way better since. The forest floor is already pretty sapling covered now. Not to mention that in some sections, I have to wade through head high paw-paws. Lol!
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