Tominator Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 Sweet. We're on the board. Plan to hunt hard the next 2 weeks. Deer are really moving right now. Seeing fresh road kill and chasing on a daily basis. :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaDeerHunter Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 (edited) Little background: This buck is 5.5 years old and we have known him for four years, he is the giant I posted in velvet in August. I missed him last year with a muzzleloader. He is biiiiiig! Wow, what a day today. Jordan and I hunted a spot this morning in hopes of seeing the deer we call T-rex. This is kinda his home area and where we see him the most and just got a daylight video of him on October 31. The morning started off good as we had some does around us....but no bucks. We were sitting in a piece of timber that is 70 yards wide and maybe 150 yards long or so. The wind was blowing out of the south, and we were on the topside of the timber in our top stand, so the wind was blowing our scent right along the top edge, we were expecting the deer to come in front of us, so it was pretty good. 9:30AM came around and the wind had become stronger and switched to the SW, so it was blowing our scent right in and down the timber....not what we really wanted. We decided to switch to the bottom stand, which was only 70 yards away, that way our wind would be blowing out in the field and not in the timber. Jordan had just put the camera away and I tied my bow up and handed it to him to rope down to me. All of a sudden Jordan says "BIG BUCK COMING!!!!" I grab my bow and he whips the camera back out and gets it back on the treearm, in the meantime I get an arrow nocked and hold the quiver between my legs. At the same time, I heard Jordan say "wacky", but I do not think he knew it was him.........I sure did when i seen him coming! So here he comes, wacky rack, looks like he is going to pass by at 20 yards. wacky ends up taking the bottom trail which provides me with a 40-45 yard shot (30 yards shot from the other stand ) I draw back, he hits the opening, I bleat but he doesn't stop, I bleat again, as does Jordan and he stops....but he is behind some brush. We tried to stop him again a couple more times but to no avail. He went over and rubbed a tree for a couple minutes, before keeping on his way. we tried grunting, bleating, snort wheezing and he didn't care about anything. Either way it was an AWESOME encounter, on video, and we got an idea at just how big he really is....which is BIIIIIIIIGGGGG! Edited November 7, 2009 by IowaDeerHunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaDeerHunter Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 Got a buck down this morning. This is an old mature deer. Hit him back a little but put the rage right through the liver and got an exit hole. He ran 40 yards to our dad and he put a shot in him to just because he seen mine was a little back. He went another 30 yards and bedded and died for good. had ten points, only 9 or 8 might score now since he broke some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Good stuff Iowa. Congrats. I shot a doe (fawn) Sunday morning. I also shot a big doe Saturday morning, but hit her high. As she laid down to hopefully die, 3 different bucks kicked her up and booted her down the hill and we lost the blood trail. Oh well, 5 pts is 5 pts, right? I'll post the pics soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 She's a beast, ain't she? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaDeerHunter Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 ......Nice work Chris! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterbucks1 Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 Hey fella conrats on all the sucess. I just moved this last week and were trying to straighten out the house but the wife let me go out on holloween moring and scored a 4 point I will be entering it when my brings his camera over so I can download them. again congrats to all and good luck. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the one Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 hey its been awhile got doe will post pic latter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muff Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Lots of big boys n the move here this week...got lots on film but nothing close enough to shoot yet....going to be hunting hard all next weekend.....I hope the rut will still be on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 (edited) I shot this buck on monday in illinios. 8 pointer 15 yards with my new bow. I had a great time. I was hunting ontop of a ridge. The sun had just come up and I had put down some doe urine on a scent bomb about 15 yards out. I picked up the can call and gave it a couple of calls. No sooner i set it down I hear something running up the hill in my direction. It was this buck coming in like he was on a string. Lip curled the whole way. I drew back and had a complete broadside shot at 15 yards. He was caught up with the smell of the doe urine. I let my arrow go and it hit him in the chest and broke his opposite shoulder. The arrow did not pass threw. it was lodge in his opposite shoulder he fell right to the ground. At first I thought I broke his back. but he got up and "bulldozered" himself 10 yrads before he tried to get back on his feet. But he fell right back down and bulldozered just out of my sight then it was silent. I was sure he was dead. He did break my arrow. He only went 40 yards before he died. I was using my iceman bow with 400 carbon arrows and the 2 bladed rage. What a great time. I waited about 30 min. before I went to retrieve him. he weighed 220 pounds. Not a huge rack but one I am still proud of.Then to top it off My dad text me and shot a 11 pointer And we recovered it later in the day. It was a hunt to remeber. This is my dads buck he got on the same morning. It was a great hunting trip for us both. I tagged out later in the week with a small doe too. Edited November 15, 2009 by Mirage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Good deal man. 13 points for the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaDeerHunter Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Way to go man! I will be getting my buck entered soon guys.....just so busy here between hunting and college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the one Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 need help trying to down load deer having problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 need help trying to down load deer having problems Try downloading the picture, not the deer. That might be easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the one Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 ok how do i down load picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tominator Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 There we go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 I will enter my buck soon been very busy. I need to upload the tag pics and enter it i am working on it soon! Congrats guys on your nice deer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the one Posted November 20, 2009 Report Share Posted November 20, 2009 Try downloading the picture, not the deer. That might be easier. yes it is easer to up load the pic then the deer:hammer1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 I'll be adding 8 more points for us. I shot a little 8pt Monday. I'll enter the pics one of these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Good job Tom I am going over to the taxidermist house sunday and will get some pics of my tag and rack to enter. The pics of the tag i took in illinois are blurry"cheap camera" i should have known bacuase same thing happend last year I took about 30 pics of the tag and they were washed out by the flash and blurry I will have my taxi take the pic and email them to me sunday. Great job Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetailtrax Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Congrats to everyone that managed to score. I have not been on here for several weeks unfortunately.....just too busy. Our general season came and went and I didn't hunt much myslef, but worked with the kids a ton! Good times. I am taking two days off this week to hunt a bow-only district that is still open. Hopefully I will get an opportunity, but just the opportunity to get out of this office for a couple days sounds good right now. Shooting something would be an added bonus. Again, congrats to everyone and happy holidays. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muff Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Well its over for me tonight guys.....I can not remember having to hunt so hard at the end of a season just to get some meat in the freezer.....so now here it is my last night and its -15f outside and I don't have a deer down yet....not a great year for me....hope I score tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaDeerHunter Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 Well guys....my season ended tonight. It has been our best season thus far as we harvested 20ish deer and our top two bucks on our hit list. Could have shot numerous deer late season here but was waiting for the right buck.....the two feet of snow kinda set us back to. I will be posting my pics of my bow buck and tags soon here (entering them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 If our score gets close to the top, I'll post my buck pics, but right now, we're out of the picture for score, lol. We have muzzleloader season here in Ohio this weekend. I'll be going out some, but I can't take another buck, most I can add to the score is 8 pts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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