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"OFFICIAL 2013 HUNTING THREAD"
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Man I need to move out to the country... living near a big city in a suburb sucks when all I want to do is get out into the woods to hunt...my hunting ground is 3.5 hours away in Illinois and with a working wife and 2 young kids its near impossible to get down there to hunt... life is too crazy right now.
Did your hunting stop when you had young kids? Do I need to just take a weeks vacation to hunt and make that my deer hunting for the year?
Did your hunting stop when you had young kids? Do I need to just take a weeks vacation to hunt and make that my deer hunting for the year?
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I didn't hunt much while raising our 4. Seems like there was always football/baseball/softball or something going on with them.
We'd hit the woods every now and then, along with going fishing and camping, but we wanted them to have all kinds of experiences.
My youngest is 14 and he's been out a few times with the crossbow, but he's looking forward to this weekend.
I'll be out with the bow tomorrow night, then will focus on filling the freezer with the smokepoles.
We'd hit the woods every now and then, along with going fishing and camping, but we wanted them to have all kinds of experiences.
My youngest is 14 and he's been out a few times with the crossbow, but he's looking forward to this weekend.
I'll be out with the bow tomorrow night, then will focus on filling the freezer with the smokepoles.
twas a good evening for me. FINALLY got my first deer with a bow!
Bumped a deer coming in this afternoon around 3:30, climbed up and settled down and spent the next 2 hours sitting quietly, texting my cousin who's home from college to hunt in the morning and BS'ing on Facebook.
Right after sundown, when it's really the only time I see deer moving in this area, where I've passed on a couple of young bucks, and hesitated on shooting a doe because he didn't stop when I called to her, it came together.
I heard this doe walk in long before I saw it. Finally I found it and stood up and picked up my bow. It was probably only 20 yards away, drinking from a small puddle in the middle of this logging trail.
It was too thick to shoot, so I stood there patiently, knowing I was running out of light. Finally, it headed down the logging trail that I was actually expecting deer to come up.
My scent control must have been good, as it walked directly behind my stand where the wind was blowing. Finally got a clearing at 37 yards, quartering away hard.
Really glad I have that G5 Meta Titanium peep and Trophy Ridge sight to gather every bit of light, as I needed it with 10 minutes of legal shooting time left.
I settled the 40 yard pin a little more than halfway up where I thought the very back of the rib cage would be. I've studied so many pictures/videos of shot placements I felt pretty good and let er fly.
I arrow hit the vitals and the opposite front leg and the deer took off with my Carbon Express green lighted nock glowing out the side.
After a quick prayer thanking the man above, I sight down with a big smile on my face and started texting.
I waiting about 15 minutes and made the walk to my truck to change out of my camo and drove the truck down the logging road to my stand.
It'd been about 30 minutes, so I grabbed the lights, bow and sled and didn't take but a minute to find the blood.
The deer was nice enough to run right down the logging road about 60 yards and take a few steps off and lay down.
I walked up and started smiling.
You can see the pool of blood where the rage did it's work on the exit side.
She... turned into a HE! I noticed his stained glands and lifted a leg... yup... twig and berries... got me a button buck.
Picture of the arrow I recovered
Needless to say, I'm feeling pretty stoked tonight. It took me a long time to get my first doe with a muzzleloader, then got a couple with a crossbow, then finally last year took my first buck on Thanksgiving day with the smokepole and today... I FINALLY achieved my goal of taking a whitetail with a bow. Funny thing is, I didn't get the buck or archery deer on Crane where I was able to hunt last season, but rather on my grandparent's farm... that's pretty amazing to me.
The boy isn't feeling to hot and will probably sleep in tomorrow, so we'll probably hold of hunting until the afternoon trying to fill his tag.
I may still get up in the morning trying to get a buck, but I'm pretty tired, lol.
Bumped a deer coming in this afternoon around 3:30, climbed up and settled down and spent the next 2 hours sitting quietly, texting my cousin who's home from college to hunt in the morning and BS'ing on Facebook.
Right after sundown, when it's really the only time I see deer moving in this area, where I've passed on a couple of young bucks, and hesitated on shooting a doe because he didn't stop when I called to her, it came together.
I heard this doe walk in long before I saw it. Finally I found it and stood up and picked up my bow. It was probably only 20 yards away, drinking from a small puddle in the middle of this logging trail.
It was too thick to shoot, so I stood there patiently, knowing I was running out of light. Finally, it headed down the logging trail that I was actually expecting deer to come up.
My scent control must have been good, as it walked directly behind my stand where the wind was blowing. Finally got a clearing at 37 yards, quartering away hard.
Really glad I have that G5 Meta Titanium peep and Trophy Ridge sight to gather every bit of light, as I needed it with 10 minutes of legal shooting time left.
I settled the 40 yard pin a little more than halfway up where I thought the very back of the rib cage would be. I've studied so many pictures/videos of shot placements I felt pretty good and let er fly.
I arrow hit the vitals and the opposite front leg and the deer took off with my Carbon Express green lighted nock glowing out the side.
After a quick prayer thanking the man above, I sight down with a big smile on my face and started texting.
I waiting about 15 minutes and made the walk to my truck to change out of my camo and drove the truck down the logging road to my stand.
It'd been about 30 minutes, so I grabbed the lights, bow and sled and didn't take but a minute to find the blood.
The deer was nice enough to run right down the logging road about 60 yards and take a few steps off and lay down.
I walked up and started smiling.
You can see the pool of blood where the rage did it's work on the exit side.
She... turned into a HE! I noticed his stained glands and lifted a leg... yup... twig and berries... got me a button buck.
Picture of the arrow I recovered
Needless to say, I'm feeling pretty stoked tonight. It took me a long time to get my first doe with a muzzleloader, then got a couple with a crossbow, then finally last year took my first buck on Thanksgiving day with the smokepole and today... I FINALLY achieved my goal of taking a whitetail with a bow. Funny thing is, I didn't get the buck or archery deer on Crane where I was able to hunt last season, but rather on my grandparent's farm... that's pretty amazing to me.
The boy isn't feeling to hot and will probably sleep in tomorrow, so we'll probably hold of hunting until the afternoon trying to fill his tag.
I may still get up in the morning trying to get a buck, but I'm pretty tired, lol.
Lammchop93
Master
Sitting in the stand. It's a bit misty out this morning. Already sounds like a warzone all around me.
Lammchop93
Master
Just shot a nice buck! My first buck too! I'll go find him in an hour or so.
I only got out for an hour and a half this morning. Its our third childs 1st birthday today so I was lucky the warden allowed me the liberty she did. Years a couple of shots, but not nearly as many as I was expecting. Still a little warm yet.
I heard shots at 730-830, a couple when the sun popped up around 9, and then I took off at 930a. Really sucks work 6/7 days opening week of firearms season.
And a squirrel just about jumped into my lap. Scared the **** out of us both!
And a squirrel just about jumped into my lap. Scared the **** out of us both!
Right on!! We didn't see much of anything today, but were glad to be in the woods.
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