** OFFICIAL 2012 DAILY DEER HUNT CHAT**

[HICKMAN]

didn't get much of a hunt in, forgot my stupid cocking rope for the crossbow.

 

[Mrmonte]

didn't get much of a hunt in, forgot my stupid cocking rope for the crossbow.

I forgot my release once on a quick after work hunt. I wont make that mistake again, I bet you dont either.

 

[Hookeye]

Only thing I ever forgot (once) was 3 screw in steps (always pull bottom 3). Got to stand and then remembered.

So I sat there. Looking up now and then at that great stand placement.

Killed a 10 pointer at less than 20 yards after an hr.

 

[RGriff69]

Had an 8 point chase a doe right in front of me. She never stopped for a shot. They ran across the field to where I have another stand set up. He was grunting the whole way!

 

[HICKMAN]

Glad I noticed before I got to my stand, got some decent scouting in on another location.

My rope is currently tied to my truck keys, lol.

 

[trapperDave]

didn't get much of a hunt in, forgot my stupid cocking rope for the crossbow.

Never had any issues cocking mine by hand.

 

[HICKMAN]

Never had any issues cocking mine by hand.

200# recurve

 

[Hoosierdood]

200# recurve

Sissy....

 

[djl02]

Missed my chance at a shooter,2 smaall bucks came down trail right in front of me and the big boy went behind me. stopped in the brush and I was commited to the right side of the tree. Should of been on the left side,Then I would have had a shot. Never gave me a shot and couldnt move .Maybe next time

 

[herby31]

so between school, work, weather, and warranty issues with my xbow scope, my first full season is still deerless (my next deer will also be my first ever). but i had a close encounter last night that made me want to stick it out. I was walking in to my stand on some public ground (more than a mile in) and stopped for one last pee.

When i turned around to continue walking, I heard movement in the woods opposite me across a wide trail/access road. just 5-6 feet inside the edge of those woods was a 6 pt, working a licking branch above a scrape I hadn't noticed before. I was upwind of him and he didn't smell me or spook! there was thick enough brush in the way to keep me from having a shot, but i watched him with my xbow scope hoping he would move into an opening.

he never did, and a few grunts couldn't draw him out. he just walked away into thicker cover. the reason i was so excited by this is that he never seemed to notice me- my camo and scent control must have been working well, I guess i just need to get out there as much as i can and not get discouraged.

 

[Hookeye]

Small forky this morning. The two buttons came by, without mommy. Guy at the parking spot was getting his cart ready when I pulled in, said he shot a doe last night back by where my stand was. Seen her with the buttons a couple times. Not today!

Not big but hey, tag filled on public ground- good for him

I doe bleated at the two knotheads and they spooked. Over the oak ridge they went, and then the wounded rabbit started bawling. Whoever it was switched calls to more of a jackrabbit type............and then evidently left (no shots fired).

Quail restoration project nearby, DNR had bulldozed more, and trucks in and out today. I said enough and got my cart, yanked my sticks and stand.

I'm hunting private this weekend. Nothing decent seen on that big area up north. Used to be a lot of deer, and the doe killer took a bruiser there before. So something has gone on.

Oh well, I saw some deer.........small ones, same ones.........over and over.

Beats seeing nothing

On way home way out in picked beans...........lone buck, medium rack. 1/2 mile from where I'll be Sat. Recurve I'd pop him, but not gun.

 

[Jason R. Bruce]

My trail cameras are averaging 300-400 pictures a week, very few shooter bucks and even those are marginal. One camera had 1240-sum photos on last check but I'm thinking I must've forgotten it on the last check and that's 3 weeks worth of photos. Cruising through the photos real fast it was all does, yearlings and a couple spikes. Honestly haven't looked at all the pictures yet. I went ahead and sat there for four hours and saw 26 does and 7 bucks.

Seeing 20-40 deer a day from the stand, haven't hunted the same location twice yet, no shooter bucks thus far. I'll try to sit in a good spot all day Saturday or Sunday and see what kind of mid-day activity is going on. This is the time to be out there but coyote hunting all night and running traps before daylight really puts a damper on my deer hunting anymore. I averaged out my number of deer seen and hours on stand and came up with an average of a deer every 12 minutes. Hard to catch up on sleep in those conditions!

 

[JNG]

I had the opposite experience today--sat for 9 hours, no breaks, and saw 0 deer.

 

[HICKMAN]

I'll be out tomorrow night.

Sunday is the first gun hunt on Crane, REALLY looking forward to that.

 

[FordMan08]

After a week of being sick of making a bad shot and searching, we found the buck I killed last saturday. (When I saw a bad shot, I mean the arrow deflected and hit him poorly)

 

[Llamaguy]

My first deer. I sighted my rifle in on a windier day than I thought and hit the spinal cord. Quickly ran over and finished it (hence the cropped picture). Should be a nice and tender baby doe.

 

[DragonGunner]

10:50 am had a buck walk out in the picked corn field to eat some corn...not hunting, just watching from the living room. Seems they are staying up later.

 

[ISP 5353]

I hunted yesterday from 1 till dark and did not see anything. Trying it again this evening.

 

[Hookeye]

Had a BIG doe and 2 fawns come in and join a button that I had been watching for 15 minutes or so. They were all around 35 yards, and the brush/trail would have them pass at 20. Time 8:30.

So I was just sitting there with my Hoyt waiting for them to move in and..............

it sounded like a Monster truck rally. Some giant 3 wheeler spreader comes down the road, romping...........pulls into picked beans and hammers down along the woods.
Deer freak and go back and over, blow out across other road. Guy makes 4 passes and then goes across the main road and proceeds to drag race the other bigger field.

I had bulldozers trashing fencerows when on public ground.

Me and big equipment seem to be clashing this yr.

 

[jsheets1]

Went and sighted in the shotty at Kingsbury yesterday. I decided to walk some public ground afterwards I had heard about. Has anyone ever hunted the Galena WCA? Saw a fair amount of sign. I think I might take the bow out there next Friday morning to fart around.