2009 archery buck

[texjim]

My 2009 buck from archery season.

 

[jeff of pa]

nice one Jim

 

[seger98]

Nice buck, I'd rather bow hunt then gun hunt anyday, more of a challenge!

 

[fossis]

Nice one.

Fossis..............

 

[Woodland Detectors]

There ya go.
There's a good eater.
Tell us more.

@ how many yards did you take the aniamal?
Treestand ?
Groundblind?
Bow type?
Broadhead type


I like to hear the nitty gritty

 

[Monty]

I heard a slight rustle of leaves and slowly turned , and there he was! Wait, I want to hear your story! I hunt with a crossbow since I hurt my back and can't draw a regular bow. But I didn't go this year for the first time so I need to hear some hunting stories. Great looking buck. Monty

 

[texjim]

Well I passed this buck up early in the week. I thought the rut was going to get better. That was Tuesday. Friday night comes along so i said i am going to make a scent drag a mile long I never had anything come into a scent trail. I dragged some scent until i found what i thought might be a good spot. Went up a tree seen some does in a distance feeding up the mountain. They went away then i used the Primos can call 3 times a little while later he cam walking up right under my tree sniffed the ground had to think about shooting him. He walked quartering away he got to about twenty yards i said i better shoot him. i shot he ran like i whipped him with a horse whip. i called my wife told her I'm going to be awhile. I use a Mathews Switchback Bow. Carbon Impact arrow with blazer vanes. I used the Bacon skinner broad heads. He ran maybe fifty yards. Oh yeah he still didn't use the scent trail. But he did sniff the ground where I put the bottle so i could get dressed.

 

[Monty]

I never have had much luck with scents either. But I have often set up within yards of al good scrape with a licking limb hanging over and have scored pretty well. Sometimes they won't come back to scrapes for several days, but if you are patient enough they will come back sooner or later. Two years ago I set up on a scrape facing into the wind. I was behind a big oak tree sitting on a como'd bucket I use for dove hunting. Nothing for hours and then I heard a rustle in the leaves behind me. I peered around the tree and there stood a 12 pointer( eastern count ) about 10 feet away, looking at me! My x-bow was laying across my lap and I had a cup of coffee in my hand. I couldn't move or I knew he would spook. He walked around the tree and stuck his nose out and almost touched me. He knew I didn't belong there but since I froze, he was just curious. He slowly turned and started walking away. As soon as he went behind a tree I dropped my coffee and raised my crossbow. He kept that darn tree between us for nealy a hundred yards and I could only get a glimpse of him every now and then. Smart deer or dumb hunter? Anyway he checked another scrape way out of range and just wandered off. Never saw him again that season. It was the closest I ever got to a big buck and had no chance to shoot! Monty

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Congratulations.

I as well hunted the scrapes and rubs with a bit of "rattling" once in a while. It was a huge ritual of our family's to go "up north" for the first two weeks of bow season. Hunting a section of the country infamously named "the dead stream" In upper northern Michigan. We were hardcore. Tents and no showers. 2 weeks prior to our hunt our camo clothes sat outside in a leaf pile to erase any human scent. It was a time when the compound bow was vaguely heard of and the good ole recurves were our main staple. The brodheads were solid and had inserts for razor blades. Fred Bear was a household name and I can remember as a kid taking a fly fishing lesson from him. I watched in awe as he calmly placed a Dry fly in a match box container moving with he current down stream. I'll never forget that

 

[Noodle]

I never have had much luck with scents either. But I have often set up within yards of al good scrape with a licking limb hanging over and have scored pretty well. Sometimes they won't come back to scrapes for several days, but if you are patient enough they will come back sooner or later. Two years ago I set up on a scrape facing into the wind. I was behind a big oak tree sitting on a como'd bucket I use for dove hunting. Nothing for hours and then I heard a rustle in the leaves behind me. I peered around the tree and there stood a 12 pointer( eastern count ) about 10 feet away, looking at me! My x-bow was laying across my lap and I had a cup of coffee in my hand. I couldn't move or I knew he would spook. He walked around the tree and stuck his nose out and almost touched me. He knew I didn't belong there but since I froze, he was just curious. He slowly turned and started walking away. As soon as he went behind a tree I dropped my coffee and raised my crossbow. He kept that darn tree between us for nealy a hundred yards and I could only get a glimpse of him every now and then. Smart deer or dumb hunter? Anyway he checked another scrape way out of range and just wandered off. Never saw him again that season. It was the closest I ever got to a big buck and had no chance to shoot! Monty

Monty, you make me proud. So glad to heard others have their 'misses' too. I get so discouraged, but this helps.

 

[Monty]

Noodle if there is one thing about deer hunting that is universally true it is: They appear when you least expect them! Monty

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Noodle if there is one thing about deer hunting that is universally true it is: They appear when you least expect them! Monty

Um...Don't get me started on that one.

I saw the biggest buck of my life while "watering the bushes" My trusty 30-06 was leaning on an adjacent oak tree 10 foot away.

 

[texjim]

The second season of archery season started the day after Christmas. I hope it snows. I never have shot a deer in the snow. So will see what happens.

 

[Tnmountains]

I have set some cameras up on some scrapes this year that appear every year down this old logging road. I have got pictures of two really good bucks on the cameras. First time back in I saw both for about 3 seconds. No shot.I have been hunting from daylight to dark and not coming out at all. I am seeing a lot around noon-2:00. Will be back in for three more days. The one deer has a lot of non typical stuff going on.

Nice harvest with your bow. Congratulations he will be fine table fare.
TnMtns

 

[allen]

going to get some good meat from that buck !