Team #23 - The Rack Stackers


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Good name. " Rack Stackers " Very nice.

I apologize for the delay folks, it's my time to go to work. I am a guide here in Missouri and I am also forming a chapter of SCI as well.

Plus going through depositions as I was hit head on 2 years ago, so, I have been quite busy these last 3 weeks.

I look forward to getting some stand time myself in 2 weeks and then during our Gun season. I have set a goal of 2 archery bucks over 160" and my Gun buck over 160" this year.

I know, I know, but, A girl has to have goals huh? Good to be back in here. :)

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Well team, i'll be MIA for a few days, have a couple classes today, and after that, i am heading up to the upper peninsula to do some bow hunting. Hopefuly i can connect on at least a nicec doe. going to be a long day today, i have one class from 12-2, then another from 4-6, and then will be driving for at last 6-1/2 to 7 hours. should get there around 2am. I'll give ya the scoop when i get back.

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Hey,

Everyone now has the ability to upload their sinatures, directly from your computer, instead of having to host them somewhere, and Everyone now has the 30k limit for their signature upload, (instead of 13.0 k) directly from your computer. Also, everyone now has the WYSIWYG editor, even if they did not before. They can change it back if they want, but everyone now has it.

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Then go up to the toolbar in the forums and click on "User CP", and "Edit Signature" (upper left hand side in grey strip toolbar)

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Well, i made it back from my trip to the U.P. on Sunday evening. Was a fun trip, but i came home with the tags still in my pocket. didn't really see much, Turns out that when we got there, we heard a little ways down the road that they were doing some logging, so that might have made them a little skiddish. Friday night, as i was getting out of my blind, i had one blow a couple times at me. never did get a chance to see where it was or what it was. and as i started back to the road, i heard some yotes about 150 yards off, and it sounded like they were starting to get closer, i have never encountered a yote and had no idea what they would do, so i knocked an arrow just in case and had to get my flashlight out as well so i could see :D:D overall i had fun, was relaxing being up in the middle of no where for 4 days. We are heading back up to another area in about a month, an area where i ALWAYS see deer. but until then I have a small piece of land down here that i will be hunting.:cool:

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Well, it's nearly the end of October....rubs and scrapes are popping up, and the pre-rut is about to kick off here......hoping I get a chance at "DDT" in the next week.........great pics of him here under a licking branch and smelling a scrape.........and a close up of the first pic, poointing out his double drops, for those who may not be able to make them out.....

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well team...i failed us today, had a good shot on a deer and missed...here is the story i posted in the bowhunting room in case you haven't read it in there yet...I felt like i was gunna puke after all of it happened...i'll be up all night replaying it in my head

here ya go

woke up late this morning, didnt get out to the woods until 11:30am. at around 1 o'clock, while i am playing yatzee :D I hear a twig snap, and look to the left and see a small spike. about 40 yards away. I get up, draw and can't get a shot so i turn to aim at an opening i think he is going to go by, but he ends up turning and walking into some really think stuff and i lose sight of him. well as i am putting my bow back up on the hanger, i look up over and the same way the smaller deer came in came a really nice 8 pointer..I know it is the same deer I passed up last year and was waiting to get a shot at this year...so here is my chance..right?? he is 40 yards away...I draw he steps into a nice opening I shoot...I MISS :( he kind of just spins around acting like "what the heck was that?" i am sure either i went low or my face mask got in the way and sent it in front of the deer and low. So i take the mask off, nock another arrow, draw back, he is still broadside i squeeze the trigger on the release, and then it happened, my arrow just barely pops off the rest and lands at the base of the tree...i look, and notice my peep tubing came of of the peep, i am shaking and tring to put it back on, and the whole time i am making this racket the deer still stands in the smae spot. so i get it fixed, draw back, and notice my arrow isn't lifting up and by the time i noticed it, the broadhead had hit the shelf on the riser while i was drawing back and it falls to the base of the tree as well. I look at my bow again and noticted my rest broke :mad::(:mad: It is a muzzy zero effect, and the plastic arm that connects to o the cable broke where it connects to the main part of the rest. man i am ticked right now, along with the disappointment of missing the deer i have been wanting all year, my rest is broke and i have to get a new one. :(

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Man that thing is HUGE. He has a lot of character. Good luck chasin him.

As for me, i Just went and picked up a ripcord arrow rest earlier today and just finished installing it. Going to be doing a lot of shooting tomorrow and tuesday. Hope to be out again by wednesday at the latest. My cousin, who hunts that land with me, went out this morning, guess he got out late, it was alredy light out, but i guess as he was walking to his stand he seen a couple bucks in the bean field about 50 yards from his stand. so i have a few more options it looks like :)

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My first Muzzleloader buck

Well guys, I racked us a few points last night. Here is the story:

First of all, I was walking up a pretty good hill coming up behind a box blind sitting at the top of the hill overlooking a clover/chickory plot. I get about 10 feet from the ladder and a bedded bobcat jumps up and runs down the hill where I just came from. It was a pretty big bobcat. Scared the crap out of me. Anyway, after I had been in the stand about an hour i saw 4 does. There was a 2 1/2 yr old, a 1 1/2 yr old and 2 fawns from this year. The 1 1/2 yr old was real jumpy, they were feeding in the plot for about 15 minutes before they walked slowly off the field back into the woods. About 45 minutes after the does left, this fella walked out into a plot about 100 yards away. he was working a scrape then stretched his head up to lick an overhanging branch. THat is when I took my shot. It was already getting dark so I walked back to the house and got the 4-wheeler and my 11 year old daughter. We got to the place where I had shot him and all I could find was old blood from the deer my husband bagged that morning and the blood was dried up. I grabbed the spotlight and shined it around and there he was about 10 yards from where he was when I took the shot. My daughter screamed "AWESOME MOM" She ran over to it and started counting points. It was one of those mother/daughter moments I will never forget. I moved the 4-wheeler up to him and the two of us got him on the front rack after much teamwork. Started going down the hill back to the house and he fell off. My hubby ended up going back and getting it for me. The deer has 7 points and field dressed weighed 130 pounds. He is my first muzzleloader buck. Here are a few pics.:D

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Last night was the night....I still can't beleive it happened. After several does showed up first, I was watching as the first buck that came by was a young forkhorn.....he screwed around for a while, and I kinda lost interest in watching him, so I started concentrating on trying to do something about keeping my hands warm (man it was cold yesterday afternoon, even in the Double Bull)......

So anyways, I'm not even watching anymore, when I hear the crunch of leaves coming from the other direction......I'm not even excited, just figured it was either another young forky or maybe one of the 4x4s I have been seeing..........then the young fork horn tucked his tale and made a quick exit.......I knew something was up then, but the deer was hidden behind some trees, so I couldn't see him yet.........and of course, I'm still not really paying attention.......the next time I looked up, it didn't even dawn on me yet until I quickly did a double take and grabbed my binos in a swift motion to verify......my goodness, it was him......

I can't remember much of the shot, except it seemed like I was making tons of noise as I reached for the bow , raised and drew back on him.......thankfully it was only a 20 yard shot, cause undoubtedly I would have missed at further ranges the way I was shaking.......perfect boiler room shot, and he still made it about 70 yards.

I let him sit for about a half hour, and by then I remembered I had to hoof it back to my truck to get my knives, and it was getting dark quick.......and forgetting a flashlight is not cool either.......man did I butcher that gut job....litterally.......I ended up with a mess.....not pretty, but got the job done........and of course I had no water with either cause I never even expected to actually shoot a deer tonight.......

Then I plan the easiest route for dragging, turns out there really isn't one........and like I said, it is dark......but when I finally slid him up to the truck, I still wanted to get a couple of field photos......I get him posed by the back of the truck, with the cargo light on....and the battery in my camera is dead !!! So I load him up, come home....charge my camera battery for about a 1/2 hour........then headed out with him to a nearby creek bottom, unloaded him and took a few photos, so I would at least have that much.........

So anywho, here are the pics.....not the best, but the best I could muster under the circumstances.......Clay

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Congrats to both of you on some great deer!! i'm still working on mine :( have had a few encounters but no luck. I have a fawn who keeps coming around my stand, i think the last 6 times i have been out she has come in at least once, sometimes twice in one sitting. will be heading up to the upper peninsula next tuesday for about 6 days for the gun opener, hope to at least score on a doe up there.

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