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I am in as well

I watched three deer feeding under a hedge apple tree. However, they were not eating the fruit. They were chomping down on the leaves as they were falling. All three would look up and wait for a leaf to fall. When one did, it was a race to see who could get there first. I never imagined deer ate falling leaves. But after wathing them for nearly an hour, I am a believer now.

The youth may be taking hunter's ed out of state. Just a thought.

3whunt team 17 shot 11/22/2008 10 points over 1"

My younger brother shot this ten pointer this morning. The buck came in chasing a doe. One shot from the Savage .223 with a 60 grain soft point bullet and the buck was his. The buck dropped in his tracks, DRT. He isn't the biggest buck in the forest but is my bro's biggest to date. Note...my "little" brother tips the scales at around 330lbs so that makes the deer look quite a bit smaller than he really is. Enjoy!

You might check at the county courthouse and see if they have a plat book. That is how it works around here anyways. They will cost a few bucks, but are well worth it.

text them to your email address and the download them to the computer.

I posted this in here a while back. With the new president and his plans, it really hits home.

That's what I was thinking as well. ***Looks like that feeder could use some corn.

It ain't in Honobia...we losed that lease, but that is another story. This one came from around Ardmore, OK. Open pastures and wooded draws. A totally different environment and a ton easier to hunt.

What a beautiful opening day in Oklahoma. The temperature was just right, not to cold and definately not hot, overcast, and bucks cruisin'. Just after sunrise I had a mature ten point come out cruisin. He didn't stick around very long and soon disappeared into the woods. Saw several does/fawns filter by throughout the rest of the morning. Got out of the stand for lunch around 11:00 am. After meeting for lunch, my dad and I headed back to the stands around 12:30. When I had made it approximately 3/4 of the way back to the stand, I was busted. 3.5 year old 8 point took off running straight away from me. I got the good feeling...and headed on to the stand. Set out the code blue (in tink's bombs), and settled in for the afternoon. It was approximately 1:15 pm. Well the clouds started breaking and the wind picked up. The wind was blowing of the south/southeast directly towards an overgrown field that the deer around here love to bed in. It wasn't a long sit and the ten point below came trotting-in: lip curl and all. It only took him about a minute to cover the 150 yards from the overgrown field. I shot him quartering to me at 35 yards with a 130 grain Ballistic Silvertip .270 WSM. No blood trail at all, DRT.

I shot I 120 lb ten point this evening in oklahoma. Will enter the deer in the next week.

yup..and just think...they will be using your and my money to pay for their gas and mortgage...

Did not get a chance to watch the infomercial...I have already voted, but want to know what if any new lies were put out the for the gullable public..

voted sunday here in texas....obama had quite a bit of support from what I could hear...could not believe it...

Just an update...Hunted pretty much all day saturday the 18th. Spent a total of 8 hours in the stand. No activity at all in the morning...wind was out of the north at 5 mph and the temp was 50 deg..hunted from before sun up until 10:30...didn't see or hear anything. Hung a feeder during the middle of the day and got back in the stand at 2:00 pm. The temp reached 84 deg and the wind switched from out of the north to out of the SW. Had two deer NE of me blow around 5:00. About 6:30 the wind layed and the air current started carrying my scent south. Had another deer blow from my south about 6:45. That was to be the last activity of the evening. Muzzleloader opens this weekend and the moon finally takes a nap. Hopefully will have some good news by next Wednesday when I return from the lease.

Been bow hunting for 12 years....biggest buck was a 105 lb eight point...probably around 90 inches or so.....have since killed larger deer with rifle/ muzzleloader, but that little 8 point (first bowkill) means much more

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I picked out... a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back. Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds.

She looks tasty....congrats...good luck on the upgrade!

I had several close calls this past weekend, but the wind was swirling in the bottom I was hunting. Saw 6 deer (all does/fawns/yearlings), 3 toms, and 5 porkers. Need the temps to drop to get the big boys moving.

count me in too...love the stuff

waisteline and armpits....sounds like chiggers to me....especially if you are walking through tall grass

sound good to me as well.....

Apology accepted....nice buck.....we are on the board

i'll second that