Good job DonBo.

Way to go DonBo

He sure looks delicious Don - congrats on that little porker. The freezer will be groaning from all the weight now.

Good times.

Sat from 10-2 today and had a doe come by at 11:30 and a forky at 10 yards at about 12:00, saw a decent one running a treeline on my way home, sitting all day Thursday and Friday so hopefully the mature ones start to prowl around during the day as well.

I second that stratos, i will be doing the same thing....

Ran a little late getting out tonight got up in the tree at 3:55 at 4:15 heard some deer running in the swamp look out and her comes a doe and two yearlings running right at me once they get into the wood I hear the buck grunting with every step hopeing he follows the does I draw and instead of coming into 15 like the doe's he's about 20 yards in the thick brush and won't stop just kept chasing he was a monster. About ten minutes later have a doe come running through right under the stand get ready thinking the giant is behind her and out steps a little 6 he turns and goes back north alittle while latter look to my left and see a doe walking in the pines and right behind her was a 130" 8 point he was not chasing her just following and feeding he makes his way to 50 yards and then just feeds of into the pines then right at dark had a buck make his way into 40 yards feeding at me and I could see atleast 10" of antlers sticking past his rump on each side he was even bigger than the 1st one and was really wide and tall but it was too dark by the time he turned broadside so I let him walk off and waited awhile before sneeking out of the stand. Man that got the the blood pumping cant wait for tomorrow.

Well, why wouldn't we??

You said you wanted your buck down before gun opener and that's whacha got. Good job!

i sat from 11:30 till dark didn't see any deer.at about 4:45 i heard something making all kinds of noise in the leaves about 20 yards from my stand,it sounded like a deer coming in fast but it turned out to be a red squirrel chasing a grouse i never seen that before,he had that bird running all over before he gave up.

I got a real good feeling about tomorrow. I'll be up in the tree at sunrise. Good luck to all who are headed out. Shoot straight and let's see some pictures after the hunt.

Sat out tonight. Small doe early. A little later i see another doe goin through the slough. Off a ways i hear a buck grunt. So i used the bleat can once. Less than a minute later theres a smaller 8 point right under me. Hes lookin all over for that hot doe. Doesnt find one and goes back in the swamp. Then 2 more does come out at a distance. Right before dark i hear water splashin in the swamp. He gets down wind and starts snorting. Couldnt tell what it was, but definately a mature deer.

With the rain coming in and the clouds, the deer were in the field early. kicked too many does out on my way in. The bucks showed up just about at dark. Had that same little 7 pointer again offer me the perfect shot. Two more bucks came out of the same area, neither were huge. I am not seeing the sign that I have other years. There are some nice scrapes along the field edge, but nothing like I have seen in previous years. I'm still waiting. None of the bucks responded to the grunt calls tonight. The would stop and look, but just mosey on their way. All the does I saw were with fawns yet. A mile down the road, I talked to another hunter. He had a buck breed a doe in front of hiim and he missed a nice 8 pointer. 15 miles away on another chunk of property I hunt, the deer were responding to the rattle bag and grunt tube. It has been an odd fall for me. I don't know if its the corn still standing or the weather. The clock is ticking, 3 days, that place will be crawling with orange.

Missed an 8ptr lastnight at 5 yards...Ugh!!!! This is my third accounter with this 8 and he comes through the woods on a very fast walk and he caught me off gaurd again by coming out of his bed sooner then expected. Need to move my stand to give myself a better angle and more time to see him coming because I'm in a very thick part of the woods and maybe 50-75yards from his bed. I need to seal the deal by Saturday before the orange arming comes along and pushes him out of the country. This by far has been my best opertunity in all the years of my bow hunting that I have had this deer pegged to the same trail and timing for the past two weeks, so close yet so far away.

mr
P.S. If you haven't been following the moon phase on the In-Fish/North American Whitetail calendars do so because he has been seen by me or my game camera exactly on que during those mid-day periods now if I can just get to my stand by 12pm today I should have me tag rapped around and antler, right!!??

How do you miss a deer at 5yds?

WOW!

Saw him last second and he was walking at a pretty good clip just the last two encounters. At that distance it was almost impossible to get him to stop with a grunt so it was fast and firious to say the least. Because it was raining yesterday it was so noisy I didn't even hear him coming just saw out of the corner of my eye and he was coming fast.

mr

Got out today after work for a bit. First couple hours nothing but squirrels and birds. 4 p.m. I see movement and 2 deer rapidly approaching. A large doe yearling in tow come running out of the brush do a hard right and take off running through the woods. Yep, you guessed it. A nice eight come trotting up on the trail and is 40 yards out from my stand. I grab the grunt tube and do a few doe bleats. He hangs up in the brush and sits there for 15 minutes. Finally I start to see some movement and he turns and trots off to where the does went. No rattling, bleating or grunting could coax him away and niether did the golden eustrus I had out blowing right towards him. I sit for about an hour after they ran off and suddenly I hear leaves behind me and turn to see a large doe and a yearling heading right for the back of my treestand. I stand, turn and get ready, I bleat once and they just keep cooking towards me when i see the darned 8 dogging them about 10 yards back. I bleat again and watch as he comes through on a run at 10 yards chasing the doe and fawn. Frustrating. I tried rattleing and everything to get this deer to turn his attention towards me but he sure wanted the big doe playing hard to get! Good night on stand without the desired results.
Tunrevir~