Strut10

GORGEOUS pic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The WRONG side.

Decided to do a morning sit yesterday. It was 25 degrees when I left the house. Thought it might be a good morning to call. Well.....................wrong. I sat my creek bottom stand. Straight out front: Over my right shoulder: Left........downstream: There's a pretty good scrape to the left of the double tree in the right foreground of the pic. t Right.............upstream. Ended up seeing 5 mature doe and 2 yearlings. Then at 10:00........ I'm ready to go home and get some breakfast......... this dude came in and made himself to home. Stayed for an hour. Bedded down within 10 yards of me. Neat buck.........forked left G2..........but he needs another year or two.

Good job !!! CONGRATS !!! Pics ??

Nice looking set up !!!! Go get 'em !!!!!!!!!!

This location is low. About 100 yards uphill from the creek bottom. I have another VERY good location about 400 yards downstream.......and the stand is RIGHT over the creek. I like to have "low" stands and "high" stands. Seems some years you can't smell a buck on a ridgetop but the bottoms a crawling with them. And some years.............just the opposite.

The lane back over my right shoulder. Front view, right (downhill): There's a trail coming in right below the pile of fallen logs. Front view, straight out: There's a trail coming around the head of the little gully.....just to the right of the big, gray hickory in the left of the pic. Front view, left (uphill): There's a trail running right along and parallel to, the fallen log in the center of the pic.

Got another stand up this afternoon. This one was a ground-up installation. Never hunted this area before in archery season. Was hoping to not have to move as many limbs and trees as I ended up doing. But it is what it is. The stand is in a fairly tall spruce tree. Ended up with (because I just got fed up and cranked up the Husqvarna) a pretty decent area of view to the front and one lane back over my right shoulder. I may sit it this coming Saturday morning...........just for the heck of it.

Great deer and SUPER recount !!!! MUCHO CONGRATS !!!!!!

It's thick in behind.............where the ridge drops off into a BIG valley. These are pics from last year............... This is to my left: Straight out front..............the flat: And to my right:

CONGRATS, buddy !!!!!!!

I don't put 'em up for EVERYBODY to hunt out of. Hahaha !!!

HA !!! Got it !!!

ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND..................................... I have NO idea why the pic won't work. Tried the link every which way and nada.......................

So...........last evening.......... I shot my bow for the 2nd time this year. Being terminally busy sucks. But I'm finding this bow (it's a 2009 model that I just bought nearly unused last year) to be super quiet.........super fast...........and the smoothest bow I have ever shot by a factor of about 10. My first pin is 0-30 yards. It's kinda nice. My 3 stands have either been or are about to be converted from "crimped-in-China" cables to support the platform to chain, turnbuckles and stainless hardware. I have 2 of the 3 converted and hung one today. This is THE stand location on my entire property. 4 of the bucks I have on my wall have come from here. There's natural "funnels" and then there's natural "magnets". This stand is on the brow of the ridge with about a 4 acre flat out front. The prevailing wind is 99% from the flat into my face.........so my scent blows 200 feet high out across the valley behind me and gone. Platform height is right at 24 feet. So I just don't get picked or busted. IIRC........ I saw 27 different bucks from this stand in 7 days of hunting it last season. Barring some catastrophic change in historical deer movement............here's where I'll be spending 60-70 hours a week come November. [url=https://flic.kr/p/2jPpLyL][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50419627172_ee9f67b92c_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2jPpLyL]2020-10-04_05-03-31[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/152443164@N07/]Yoder 409[/url], on Flickr

Haven't heard this one. Best of luck. Keep us informed.

Sounds like a sweet setup !!!! Can't wait to see pics !!! Best of luck in Missouri.

Checking in. Season starts a week from this Saturday. But I won't likely hunt til November. The first 2 weeks of November, I'm off work with the sole goal of arrowing a mature buck. We'll see how that goes. Also have a pair of doe tags I plan to use with my flintlock after Christmas. I haven't owned a working trail camera for 5 or 6 years. But another guy that hunts the other side of the block I hunt (like a mile away) showed me a pic of a 140-ish 10 pointer, so.................... We'll see.

I'm late too. If you need an alternate or whatever, you can throw me in. Strut10 54 Pennsylvania Oct 3 - January something.

I'm late too. If a team needs an alternate or something............. I'm in.

Congrats all around, Al !!!!!!!!!! What lot size are you building on ?? Love to se a pic of what you're building.

Good deal !!! I need me one of those for the canner. Probably wait til flintlock season to down my baldies.

How ya gonna haul a deer on THAT !!! ? Nice bike !!!! ENJOY !!!!

I've got a pair of them. An Ithaca 37 Featherlite that was my late father-in-law's. I have, honestly, never shot it. And a 1948 Winchester Model 21. Single, selective trigger......28" barrels.........choked full and modified. 6 3/4 pounds of American awesomeness !!!

I'll quit first. If I can't shoot my bow........and I turn it down as far as it'll go............. I'll shoot my 15 year old daughter's bow. Or, I'll spend 2 weeks hunting bear with my flintlock.