Ravin R10 man Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) More pts guys!!!...shot an 8 pt last eve.....not much of a buck but it's the biggest Ive seen all fall,..wish I could have let him walk, but I may as well eat him then a stinkin wolf!.... pics & story soon...ok,not all that big..but Im after meat just like the wolves are now.antlers are optional. buck Sat Friday eve, got in stand at 5 pm. At 6 pm a 6pt with no brows and a small fork walks in...at 6:15 I see a big body deer cross a cut lane 80 yards out, and is heading towards me. He stops out at 40 yards to look and listen, the two little bucks see him and they get all charged up and start clicking antlers and this brings the 8pt right in. He steps behind a balsam, and I come to full draw as he will be walking from right to left and be broadside at 10 yards..he steps out, I settle the pin right behind his shoulder and sqease the release....THWACK!! the four blade muzzy eats him up! He runs 40 yards out the way he came in and stops and looks back...he is doing the fast "sideways tail flicker", sure sign of a mortally wounded deer...he starts walking off slowly, I sat in my stand for about 20 minutes to give him some time... get down and walk back to gator and get a flashlight, come back to where he stopped and right away, I got good blood, I mean somebody pulled the drainplug kinda blood trail!! I figured he's gonna be right here...then the blood almost goes to nothing...then a huge puddle..shoot I've jumped him... cant tell which way he went...I hang my HSS vest orange side out, on a tree and back out.., dont want to jump him again. Come back in the a.m. and I see a trail that splits, I head out directly ahead, no blood trail now, as we had some rain overnight, nothing...I go left and 20 yards there he is...only thing a bear,(which was on cam), overnight, had found him and took a bit of the hind quarter and opened up my entrance hole and ate the innards...I know its not the biggest buck, but this is the best Ive seen all fall, the buck I let go last year was much bigger than this one, and he is nowhere to be found. Im not going to have much time to sit, as crops are not out yet up here, and I'm going to be very busy soon. A bird in hand as I see it. Go Team!! Edited October 20, 2013 by Mathews XT Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Congrats Martin...saw your entry. Good luck on the stinkin wolves. Hope to add more points soon too. Heading back to MO Wednesday. I'll be there till around the 4th or 5th of Nov. then a short break & head back again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny_gun Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Things have been pretty slow in my part of NY. Hopefully I will add one to the score board shortly. I will also be in Iowa for the 1st 10-days of November. Maybe my luck will change then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Congrats ............ I am heading to deer camp tomorrow, rifle season opens on Friday, I feel like a youngster awaiting Christmas Eve lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 Congrats ............ I am heading to deer camp tomorrow, rifle season opens on Friday, I feel like a youngster awaiting Christmas Eve lol. YUP...happens every deer season...Good Luck Lewis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 I'm a bit delayed heading back to MO. Have a few issues on my plate to handle right now. Hope to head that way by Friday morning. Good luck in Iowa ny_gun...you ought to be hitting it right. Good luck to you too Lewis. Enjoy your opener of gun season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 good luck guys..we are just getting started...I've done the best I could from what I've had to choose from, I'd love to wait longer for something better...not sure that is going to happen here this year, camera will show if I should have hunted late season or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Well guys, this is the first time in Nova Scotia history that we are allowed to harvest two deer. We are allowed one with a crossbow, bow or muzzel loader ( which ever you prefer to use ) and one with a rifle. I took a small 6 pointer with a muzzell loader on thursday. I won't post a pic to be entered until I can see if I can upgrade with my 300 WSM. Rifle season opened yesterday. I saw a nice eight point but he was a little too far for a shot on the first day of rifle season ( yesterday ), I then let a smaller eight point walk by my stand, I videded him instead of shooting. Today I checked my cam and have another very nice eight on it, not the one I mentioned above. I am heading back to camp tomorrow night for a week or maybe two .......... all according to how much hassel my wife gives me hahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetro Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Congrats so far lads. Sorry I've haven't been active online recently. But still gearing up for the start of rifle season next week. Hopefully be back and posting pics of my kill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Appears we're on the verge of the rut breaking loose here in MO. Seen a couple of shooters hunting cut bean fields but way to far off. Tried the buck decoy yesterday to try to coax one in close enough. Worked on a smaller buck but not either one of the big ones I saw. Rain the next 2 days so we'll probably be hunting blinds till it blows through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Kids are home and a bowhunting weekend in store!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straight Shooter Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Good luck and enjoy the hunts with the kids:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 3, 2013 Report Share Posted November 3, 2013 (edited) Good luck and enjoy the hunts with the kids:) thanks..Slash did good this eve..sure he will be posting pics soon Again, weekend went way too fast...with all the rain, my trails are mushy ruts from the wheelers, we're wore out from being guide and baby sitter..tried to have Breylen out with us as much as possible, checking cams, moving ladder stand for Ash..then having her practice from it...following blood trail..he's gonna be good, think he is part bloodhound!...got a decent buck in the cooler, had a great time. Edited November 4, 2013 by Mathews XT Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted November 3, 2013 Report Share Posted November 3, 2013 Great Martin...Family affair. Still pre-rut stuff here in MO. Had a nice mature mid 150's 10 point working scrapes near me the 1st morning after 2 1/2 days of rain. Grunted him in to 15 yards but he was facing me and behind a tree trunk. No shot opportunity. Looked around for ~5 minutes then turned & walked straight away. Tried calling him back. When that didn't work tried rattling. He didn't come back but a 3.5 year old 10 came in from a different direction to the rattling. Not big enough but nice to see one respond to rattling and come to the 10 yard line. Rattled in a couple of smaller bucks later that morning. Yesterday set a stand with the help of a young friend of mine hunting with me this past week where I'd seen a 12 point mature target buck twice during the past week. The same one I've posted trial cam pics of in the video & photo forum. He was working one side of a cut bean field. Told my young buddy to go get him. 1st deer to show up was that target buck. Gave him a 10 yard shot. Dead deer! it's the first buck he's ever killed with his bow. One brow tine was broken off since the last trial cam pic about a week ago but the buck still gross scored 157 as an 11 point. Made my week! Been trying for ~5 or 6 years to get this guy a crack at a big one with any weapon. I'll post pics and a detailed story in the bowunting forum when I get home. I'll just say...it was a challenging recovery. Heading home 1st thing in the morning but I'll return next Sunday for 10 to 12 days of bowhunting. By then, rutting action should be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 Team 2 - Whitetail Addiction That's awesome rhino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKstate Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 Glad to hear you guys are starting to see some action! Sorry for my absence over the past couple weeks.... my son was born on Oct. 15th and it has been a pretty hectic start to the 2013 season. I am still planning on making it to the stand several times during rifle season, but my bow season has pretty much been eliminated. Good luck to all and hopefully later in November I can help add to the point total!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sskybnd Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 im still here, not getting to hunt much now, did have a incounter sunday morning though. new the time went back, that wasnt the problume, just so happen not to remember with the time going back that day light would come earleir to, well i went to my hunting buddys house to get him. we went to the stands around 6 on sat, didnt get day light till 715, he said he wasnt sitting in the dark that long tomorrow so i went to get him at 545 sunday morning, told him it looked like it was already getting daylight. he said na it was just bright outside and he wasnt going today, so off to the lease i went. got there well after day light and as i was walking in about 50 yards from my stand a 6 point picked his head up from eating my corn, sees me and rans off only to my surprize about a minute gos by and i hear 2 shots. knowing our ml season just ended. i thought man there pouching over here. i just walked back to my truck and texed my sister to see how they were doing, and told her what had happened, she than informed me that youth season was this weekend, just as this truck pulls down the line beside my lease and theres. he stops i walk over to see them and behold theres a 6 point in the back. there inside the truck sits a boy id have to say is 10 with a smile fom ear to ear. after a brief visit, i walked away thinking god used me to make that boys day.couse had i been in my stand when i should have been i would have got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Sounds like you made a push to that boy, he prob. will never forget his first hunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Hard to beat the feeling of seeing a big smile on a young boy's face like that. Heading back to MO Sunday. My son is going to join me Monday evening & hunt through Thursday afternoon. I'll be up there till Friday the 22nd. Taking my rifle just in case I get the urge to take it to the woods when the MO rifle season opens on Nov. 16th. If I bag a good one before the rifle season opens I'll probably stick with the bow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 Hey Team, hope you are out there trying, we've got time, but hope you luck and lets get some more bucks or does on the ground! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sskybnd Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 hey gang, had a great weekend seen 13 deer in 2 days, seen a spike and another buck but couldnt make out if he was legale or not. so i ended up taking a doe sunday evening. all ready posted it so we can get 5 more points. season dont end till feb 28th and this makes 2 for me this year a button buck ealier in the season and now this doe, so im after the buck now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 14, 2013 Report Share Posted November 14, 2013 Good deal ss.....hey,.. you know you look like Mountan Man on Duck Commander?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Checking in...I'm still in MO. Gun season opened this morning but warm and very windy. Supposed to have rain moving in real soon with good chance of rain through midday Sunday. I'll be here through most of next week. Now I'll at least have a chance to reach out & touch one. Saw a great 8 point this past week...150 class but he never got inside 60 yards. Had a 155 class 10 point coming in while hunting a cut bean field a couple of days ago but a couple of does messed it up. They began blowing at something just inside the timber N of me. The 10 point put on the breaks at 68 yards and decided the blowing does knew something was wrong. He decided to trot off to the NW. My son joined us for 3 days of bowhunting during the week and bagged a doe Thursday afternoon. It's only the 2nd deer he's killed bowhunting. Made my day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 I just entered my 8 pointer in the contest, he wasn't the big one I wanted but it's good enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Good deal NS...congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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