Posted: 11/17/2012 3:00:00 AM EDT
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Here is my trophy. 
A split second after shooting him, the trailcam got a pic. You can see the blood right behind the shoulder. I was in the tower stand 20 yards from him. He trotted about 50 yards and tipped over dead. Got him registered and hanging now, he dressed out at 125 lbs. |
| I didn't see a deer, but still had a great day in the woods yesterday. I got out there early and watched the meteor shower while the coyotes were howling. Something came by my stand around six but that was well before legal shooting time and I never had a good view of it anyway. Once the sun came up, I sat and watched the pheasants flying around me. I never saw or heard another hunter anywhere near me. |
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My brother and I are back out today. Got my first deer yesterday - and a nice seven point buck at that! If I can figure out how to post the photo from my phone I will. Eta: Hell of a nice deer for a first deer!!! Congrats!!! 
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I saw 39 deer opening day. 3 bucks. This morning I had a little six pointer walk by my stand. He has no clue the sason is on. Total today is 9 deer. Lucky... Out of our group of four we only saw one deer yesterday. Went behind one of the other guys, they spooked it a bit trying to turn around and it came my way. Saw it clearly for split second in a break in the trees, it stayed behind quite a bit of brush, never had a great shot but i picked the clearest spot and waited for it to walk into my crosshairs. Took the shot, looks like it was a clean miss. We haven't seen or heard another deer since yesterday morning. I even zig zagged through the woods trying to kick something up for my dad. Nothing. |
view from my stand opening morning
I took this guy around 14:30 on Saturday 
Yes I had to do the Arfcom thing and get my foot involved. he is steaks, loins, and hamburger in the freezer now. It was a new record for my family, 1.5 hours from the time I pulled in the driveway until we had it all in the freezer. |
This guy came through the cut corn field chasing a doe around 2:30pm on opening day. First shot was in the pump house. He didnt seem like I hit him as he picked up the pace after hearing the gun shot. Second shot was high but hit the spine and broke him down. We when 10 more yards and died about 20 yards from my stand. The gun in the picture was my first 6.8spc build I did about a month ago and this 9 pointer was my first kill with it.
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Glad you guys got pictures. I've forgotten what they look like... Haven't seen a single one this season...and not for a lack of trying. From sun up to sun down i was in the field both days. Tried 4 different places . I might just see your problem. Pick one spot spend your time getting to know the terrain and how the deer move thru that particular area. Spend some time out scouting (this ALWAYS pays off). I have been hunting out of the same tree for 6 years now and have yet to get skunked (yes I know I just jinxed myself). My brother moves his stand around alot (like a couple of times per season) and he averages one deer every 3-4 years. |
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Glad you guys got pictures. I've forgotten what they look like... Haven't seen a single one this season...and not for a lack of trying. From sun up to sun down i was in the field both days. Tried 4 different places . I might just see your problem. Pick one spot spend your time getting to know the terrain and how the deer move thru that particular area. Spend some time out scouting (this ALWAYS pays off). I have been hunting out of the same tree for 6 years now and have yet to get skunked (yes I know I just jinxed myself). My brother moves his stand around alot (like a couple of times per season) and he averages one deer every 3-4 years. Did scout...two different places and a lot of squirrel hunting. Both of those places were so full of people I had to go elsewhere and wing it. My first spot, I knew a decent 8(for public land anyway) was walking through around sun up. I got setup well before light(and it's a 2 mile walk). I had 8 people walk through my setup between then and 1 hour after shooting light lol. I'm not mad...that's how public land rolls. I stuck it out, but those bumbling idiots had everything within 5 miles heading the other way. I thought 2 miles in would get me out of 90% of people's way. I typically go up north but after a job switch I didn't have the time off. |
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7 of us on stands in the Nicolet have yet to see a single deer. Not a lot of shooting neither. We were out all day Sat & Sun, and 5 guys were out again this morning til 10:00am, and nothing seen yet The 8th guy (82 yrs old), in a pop-up blind on a hill behind the cabin on his own land, has seen a few small does.
One guy saw 3 wolves, another saw 2 bears, I saw a pure white weasel catch & kill a red squirrel. Coyotes howling all 3 mornings. Diver ducks flying low over the trees each morning. Sucks without snow. We usually sit on stand for an hour or so in the morning, then track deer in the snow all day. With no snow, we just have to sit all day, hoping one comes by (we don't use bait). At least it's warm (too warm in fact). It still beats working. 
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Not much shooting around our neck of the woods so this one will have to do...let the meat hunt begin ! http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f234/DIIshoots/2012BUCK.jpg I like your style..... |
 My son out on his 1st day of hunting with me Yes he was dumb enough to shave his head before deer season  We saw a doe to shoot at Sunday morning, he couldn't see it in the woods until after I shot at it. But at least he can follow a track reasonably well. No blood to follow after I shot, just tracks, maybe next time. |
So yesterday I left the woods at lunch time, and drove into Eagle River to get some gas in my truck. While pumping gas at the Shell station on the S.E. corner of the city limits, at 12:30PM, a doe comes hauling ass through the gas station's driveway (coming from the Trig's grocery store on the main street of Eagle River) less than 30 yds from the gas pumps, jumps a fence into an adjacent minature golf, runs through there, jumps another fence and runs across highways 45-70, right through traffic, and into a swampy area just outside city limits. 30 seconds later, a big 8pt buck follows her in the exact same path. 
Those are the only deer I've seen. 
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So yesterday I left the woods at lunch time, and drove into Eagle River to get some gas in my truck. While pumping gas at the Shell station on the S.E. corner of the city limits, at 12:30PM, a doe comes hauling ass through the gas station's driveway (coming from the Trig's grocery store on the main street of Eagle River) less than 30 yds from the gas pumps, jumps a fence into an adjacent minature golf, runs through there, jumps another fence and runs across highways 45-70, right through traffic, and into a swampy area just outside city limits. 30 seconds later, a big 8pt buck follows her in the exact same path.
Those are the only deer I've seen. Whitetail deer...less predictable than women... 
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Quoted: Quoted: So yesterday I left the woods at lunch time, and drove into Eagle River to get some gas in my truck. While pumping gas at the Shell station on the S.E. corner of the city limits, at 12:30PM, a doe comes hauling ass through the gas station's driveway (coming from the Trig's grocery store on the main street of Eagle River) less than 30 yds from the gas pumps, jumps a fence into an adjacent minature golf, runs through there, jumps another fence and runs across highways 45-70, right through traffic, and into a swampy area just outside city limits. 30 seconds later, a big 8pt buck follows her in the exact same path. Those are the only deer I've seen. Whitetail deer...less predictable than women...  |
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Not a picture from the blind, but how about back at it?
This 5 point came in sniffing the doe in heat scent I put out on the blow down this morning. Rolled him in his tracks. This will be the fourth deer I will have to cut since the start of our opener in MI. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/Redneck2_2006/2012-11-22_08-53-32_704.jpg |
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So yesterday I left the woods at lunch time, and drove into Eagle River to get some gas in my truck. While pumping gas at the Shell station on the S.E. corner of the city limits, at 12:30PM, a doe comes hauling ass through the gas station's driveway (coming from the Trig's grocery store on the main street of Eagle River) less than 30 yds from the gas pumps, jumps a fence into an adjacent minature golf, runs through there, jumps another fence and runs across highways 45-70, right through traffic, and into a swampy area just outside city limits. 30 seconds later, a big 8pt buck follows her in the exact same path.
Those are the only deer I've seen. Whitetail deer...less predictable than women...
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I woke up to find it's now winter. About an inch of fresh snow fell overnight, and it's still snowing... and the wind's blowing too. We're under a 'winter storm warning' til 4pm, expecting several more inches of snow. Temps fell from mid 50s yesterday to the current 22. Wind's at 20-25 from NW, gusting over 30, creating some white-outs. Just got back from the woods, was out at sunrise for about an hour, and it's pretty nasty out. No fresh tracks, nothing's moving yet. The deer are likely holed up waiting out the storm, so I'm sitting it out at home for now too.... when the snow & wind stops hopefully they'll start moving, and it'll be time for some tracking. 
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I woke up to find it's now winter. About an inch of fresh snow fell overnight, and it's still snowing... and the wind's blowing too. We're under a 'winter storm warning' til 4pm, expecting several more inches of snow. Temps fell from mid 50s yesterday to the current 22. Wind's at 20-25 from NW, gusting over 30, creating some white-outs. Just got back from the woods, was out at sunrise for about an hour, and it's pretty nasty out. No fresh tracks, nothing's moving yet. The deer are likely holed up waiting out the storm, so I'm sitting it out at home for now too.... when the snow & wind stops hopefully they'll start moving, and it'll be time for some tracking. Just flurries down here, but a pretty strong wind. WAY different than yesterday! Mike |
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Well, we are going to finish out our season cutting up 2 more deer We were at a farm south of Taylor yesterday and my Dad shot a SMALL fawn and I got a spike buck that one of the other boys in the group had put a hole in and was running off. My Daughter did some shooting but didn't connect but she still was all amped up over the event. Another girl that was hunting with up had her shotgun jam when a shell popped out of the magazine and under the bolt so I took the trigger group out and cleared the jam for her. I had my Son field dress the one I shot so now he has an idea on how that's done. Today we cut, wrap the cut meat, grind and package the rest, and get the freezers full again. The little one my Dad shot had ABSOLUTELY NO FAT at all on it. We got to my Dads place a little after dark and got them washed out, hung and the hides off them and I could see the light shining through the ribs. When I got over to where my Dad was to load it I stared to pat his pockets, my kids asked what I was doing and I said"Looking for the can of shoe polish he used to cover up the white spots". They thought that was funny as could be. Then Dad said he didn't have to cover the spots but he did wipe the milk off it's face before dressing it out. |
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The gun in the picture was my first 6.8spc build I did about a month ago and this 9 pointer was my first kill with it. What are you using for rounds in that 6.8? Will it feed a soft point round like the Remington Core-Lokt or does it have to be FMJ or have some sort of polymer ballistic tip? I've been thinking about getting a 7.62/.306 AR-10 type for deer hunting for awhile now but wasn't sure about what ammo it would take. I like the core-lokt ammo in .30-06 so I'm just curious if you can shoot that, or something similarly tipped through your 6.8. CM |
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Should had been where we were this weekend. Sat some fucktards were TARGET SHOOTING on their land all day saturday. All we heard was boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom quiet while they reloaded then repeat. Must have had a good ammo budget. You sure that wasn't the PETA folks? One of our guys had one of those f#cknutz close to where he was sitting. Dill-hole just walked up and down the road firing a pistol for an hour or so. CM |