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Hey Team...I scored a doe for us! OK Heres the skinny... Got up to our hunting camp around 5pm Weds night. Got all set to go out in the morning. It was 20 degrees!!! YEEHAHHH...I could only sit on stand until 9, didn't see a thing. Man... did I look forward to that cup of coffee when I got back. Got back on stand around 2. The sun heated everything up real nice. It was comfy on stand . At 4:30 I take my bow off the hook and get ready. This is when stuff happens...at this time...show time:). At 5pm the noise starts. I hear rustling and 2 fawns come out to eat apples. 12 minutes later...2 mature doe step out and take the long way to the apple tree. I see them, I draw sitting down, searching with my lip for the kisser button through my mask... and I hold... waiting for them to get in my sight picture. They take the long way... damn...15 yards...20 yards... they stop at 30 and start grooming themselves...I'm holding...I'm holding...One goes over to the fawns...I get a bead on the doe thats all alone. (I know she is a hair over 30 yards, I hit that spot with my rangefinder before... when I got set.) I settle my 30 yard pin on her chest...exhale, aim and let fly...She jumped the string a bit, but I hit her good and the arrow drove right up into her chest and she took off into the brush with the arrow buried to the fletch. I waited 20 minutes and it got dark on me. I came back the next morning with a neighbor. All I thought about was the coyotes in the area. We picked up the blood trail again, found my arrow and her intact. She ran uphill instead of left or right. Weird... This was a special deer to me and I have shot a bunch of doe with my bow... Why?... I consider a Sullivan county deer, as opposed to a Rockland county deer(where I live), to be a honest deer. They are less tolerant of human odor and intrusions. Know what it is like to be pursued by predators and really forage for a meal. Not have landscaping to hold them over in the harsh winter food periods. This was the 1st time I ever had to leave a deer lay over night and recover it the next day...1st deer I killed in this stand also. AND... It was the longest shot I EVER killed anything with my bow. 33 yards. Here she is, a big ole molly.

I've been away a few days bowhunting... Jordan is Rock and rolling I see:). Congrats! and Diane you are doing a fine job with the updates. Come on Steve...Go get one!

Best of luck to the both ya Muggs.

Pics like that make people want to go places like that:) Great ones..Thanks for sharing.

OOUCH!....Thought this was a family board...no need to use that language around here:D

This is so cool hearing the blow by blow of Tims hunt. Keep them updates coming.

Craig Macks wiggling guy is my fav:D

Awwww. What a cutie too... Good going Dad.

Good to see ya around Leatherneck Best of luck to you and the Mrs. for your future plans.

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I'll tell Joe he has a taker for the muzzys.

Very cool....:cool:Congrats to Jordan! Yup, a big dead moose will make you forget aboot:D a broken wheel and a flat tire ...eh?

Atta boy son:D Thats the way to do it. Joe and I got into the woods together at 3:30 and by 4:30 he had his deer on the ground. I got down early to help him with the drag. This one is gonna be tender... Just love the bloody arrow in the quiver... "Where have we seen this before"

Hey Team...I waited for my oldest boy Joe(16) to get home from school and we got in the woods by 3:30. At 4:30, Joe radios me to to say we have meat on the ground. He shot a button buck. I got down to help him with the drag back to the house. I didn't see anything while I was on stand. I will be back out there this afternoon. Good Luck everyone.

Congratulations to your son. The 1st ones are ALWAYS special.

I have a few prong rests. I'll send ya the best one I have if you like, and what draw length/poundage is he? I have lots of outgrown arrows too.

Nice...Congrats Ruth! Your on a roll:). Waiti'n on the pics. My son went out this morning and saw nothing here in Rockland county (3R). We took a ride up to our land in Sullivan cty.(3H) to hunt there the afternoon. I let a button buck and a doe with a fawn pass, hoping they would wonder by my son Joe's stand; who was only about 100 yards away. That didn't happen they didn't read the script:(. Boy am I sorry, I did not spend the time this summer to ERADICATE ALL the Red squirrels from our land. They can make a real miserable time on stand while they are barking at you for 5 hours, I wished I had the shotgun with me . I will be back up at our house in Sullivan Wednesday to give it another shot. Good luck everyone.

I think it IS a Mtn. Lion by the cat like movements and the long swaying tail. The color looks about right too. Thats looks like a dump of some sort where the vid was taken... and it is no secret that cats eat garbage. For confirmation, you'd need tracks and scat.

Go get 'em Steve....Thanks for the update Diana:)

My son and I saw nothing all morning yesterday and for the afternoon, all we saw was a button buck. I think the moon is wrong and there is a lot of light at night for deer to do their business and not travel much during the day. I think they are moving mid day. I will be out at 11am. My son went out this morning, I felt it was futile, we have lots of time left...watch...he'll bring back a big buck saying told ya Dad you should've gone out this morning:D

I'm saying 158. What a whopper Chris...Congrats again!

Thats awesome. Congrats to him and to you Pop;)

I heard from my son Joe, Tim was on to some shooters in the distance...I was getting ready to yell at him for being on the cell while we were in the woods this morning when he stopped several times to text message. I said "stop it with that crap now!...were hunting Joe! Always on that cellphone:mad:"...Dad...That was Tim Andrus I was texting...he's on a hunt in S Dakota and he is looking at some shooters in the distance...my facial expression changed:rolleyes: now that I knew it was Tim Andrus...Joe goes...Oh...NOW its OK I'm on the cell huh Dad?...I said shut up and lets go get breakfast...kids... We will be back out in the woods at 2pm... Go get 'em Tim!

Hey Cody...Good Luck! My son Joe you guys spoke this morning. You have to root for me ...not him...I'm on your team, he is on team #2:D Got out at 5:15 and it was 38degrees...good right... deer will be moving. Nope. We didn't see anything this morning. Nothing was moving, not even a squirrel. We froze our cha cha's off until 9:30 and headed out the woods for breakfast. My son and I are on our way out the woods and he stopped several times to text message. I said "stop it with that crap now!...were hunting Joe! Always on that cellphone:mad:"...Dad...That was Tim Andrus I was texting...he's on a hunt in S Dakota and he is looking at some shooters in the distance...my facial expression changed:rolleyes: now that I knew it was Tim Andrus...Joe goes...Oh...NOW its OK I'm on the cell huh Dad?...I said shut up and lets go get breakfast...kids... We will be back out in the woods at 2pm... Good Luck Team! Anthony