slughunter

I have been spending half of my season behind the camera for a buddy of mine here in WI with his own hunting show (local channel) and the other half hunting my home farm trying to fill one of my doe tags. Well sunday night I finally connected. I was hunting a staging area off of a 8 acre bean feild behind my house right off a 120 acre bedding area. Its about a 1/8 acre opening about 40 yards into the woods with an unbelievable amount of acorns on the ground and 2 rubs and an active scrape. I was set up in a lock on stand about 15 feet in the air. Its only about 300 yards from my house and I could actually hear my grandpa running the mower but that didnt seem to bother the deer. At about 530pm sunday afternoon I had a doe and 2 buck fawns come out into the opening and feed on acorns at about 20 yards away but for the longest time wouldnt turn/look away allowing me to stand and draw my bow. Finally after about 15 minutes they allowed me to draw my bow with the doe at a short distance of 6 yards. With her being that close it made for a tough shot angle but I put my pin high on her back and let the arrow fly. I watched as she ran into some thick brush and out of sight but never heard a crash. I got down 30 minutes later and checked my arrow, nice pink blood but there wasnt much of a blood trail. I followed a slim blood trail and after about 120 yards found my doe piled up. To my suprise the lack of a blood trail was caused from the steep angle shot. Although I double lunged her the entrance hole was high on her back and the exit was on the bottom of her and part of her innerds were actually hanging out of the hole, plugging the exit hole so not much blood was able to leak out. Anyways I am glad to have the "monkey off my back" so to speak and now Im on to hunting bucks. -shane

Looks like ill be helping out our score with a WI doe. She came out with 2 fawns and gave me a easy 6 yard shot. made it about 100 yards before dying. I should have her entered tommorow.

That big 8 pointer I got one bad picture of in velvet came back out and gave me about 10 pictures of him, this one was the best: Double main beam buck, would love to put an arrow in him, hes got a good scrape going already: -shane

Slughunter here, Bow season opens up september 18 and with my current work schedule I get off at around 330 so I should have time to hop in a tree every evening during the early season. Just pulled the game camera cards, got a lot of bucks running around, and 3 that will go pope and young. So we will see what happens. -shane

Thats a good lookin 8-pointer, has really good brows. -shane

yup, thats the leaf river infrared, the ir7ss like yours. -shane

Thats awesome, good to hear! -shane

Would like to hear some score ideas on the first and last buck. This decent 8 pointer is already out of velvet, shooter around this area: High brow buck on one side, I would take him: Kinda Mad this picture didn't turn out better, its been real damp out here at night lately, Definitely a shooter in a lot of places -shane

Looks like 2 healthy WI 2.5 year olds. Body size looks like 2.5 at least to me. -shane

Looks good, looks like a nice shooter to me. We got one buck that shed his velvet too. -shane

Finally getting excited for season to start. These are off the QDM farm I have by my house. -shane

I know what you mean. All my freinds call my bedroom a "trophy room" cause it has 5 deer heads, 2 turkeys, a pheasant, and 5 fish mounted in it. And I got one more deer head and a fish on the way. I cant get enough of my animals mounted, I love taxidermy work. -shane

I think people underestimate deer a lot, They have an incredible abuility to survive injurys. The buck pictured below has a 3 year story with us. In 2004 I was shotgun hunting and made a terrible leg shot on a fawn. I saw it a couple more times that year but could never get a shot off. Then in 2005 there was a 1.5 year old buck roaming around with only 3 legs, which we have strong confidence was the fawn I leg shot. My grandpa missed it twice with his shotgun and I missed once with my bow. Then in 2006 he walked out during shotgun season at 40 yards and my grandpa dropped him. The missing leg deffinetly made for a cool rack. Just proves they can make it through a lot. -shane

I agree, that tall crazy rack guy is pretty cool. I would shoot him in a heart beat. -shane

Great lookin bucks, all of them are shooters by a long shot. Good luck on the top ones. -shane

Season cant come soon enough, My bow is at the shop getting a bunch of work done and then Im ready to rock. -shane

Good lookin mount. I know I would of shot him and had him head mounted.

Take into note that this is from our home farm which doesnt have QDM practiced on it due to large amounts of hunting pressure. I think if I get him in bow range I will take him. Looks to be a 3 1/2 year old. We got pictures of him last year when he was 2 1/2 and I passed him with the slim hopes he would make it, looks like it payed off. What do you guys think? First pic is of him last year. Note the date is wrong on the new pictures Last Year: This Year: -shane

Sounds good, Thanks doc -shane

I planted my plot last thursday and its already coming up about an inch. Just wondering when I should start thinkin about fertilizing it. Any help is appreciated. -shane

Congrats on the new job buddy, Thats great to hear. Sounds like an awesome job and will lead to more time with family. -shane

Hey mike, ill take it, shoot me a pm with your address and ill get a money order out by thursday at the latest. -shane

Thats a really good lookin buck, hopefully he stick around for you -shane

Slughunter 19 bow - Sept. 18 - Nov. 18 and Nov. 29 - Jan. 9, 2011 gun - Nov. 20 - Nov. 28

15 miles from me -shane