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Well, I at least saw one this past weekend, well, 2 acctually. The first was a small doe that I was ready to make jerky with, and drew back on her. As I get to anchor, I catch movement out of the corner of my eye and there is another doe walking into the brush, so I concentrated on the first (smaller one.) I had drawn while her head was behind a tree, and was waiting for her to step out, when something spooked her. She took a couple of steps back, blew, and ran up the trail she had come down.

Found out later that a buddy of mine had shot a little 6 pointer and we went to track it. At least we have Jerky in the making. Im leaving in the morning for 5 days at our house in the Appalaichans that butts up against Cherokee Natl forest and a WMA. Ill be out every night and every evening. It will be in the 40's in the mornings.... :)
Chris

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Sunday evening I took my climber out to a new area I had scouted out earlier in the season. I sat a tree at the base of a ridge where there is a travel corridor that the deer use along the base of the ridge that allows them to travel in the woods out of the open CRP Field at a place where there is a saddle that crosses the ridge point. I had a doe come in at me at a severe quartering angle so I couldnt get a shot at here before she got to me, and when I did have a shot she was just to close... she came in and stood directly under my stand... I had to look down between my boots and through the stand platform and see the top of her... it was all I could do to control myself... I wanted to spit on top of her head just to see what she would do for Giggles. well she finally walked out from under my stand and offered me a quartering away shot at 10 yards... if she had gotten any farther away I wouldnt of had a shot because of the still green and thick tree folige in the canopy. So I took the shot and got her.She definatly isnt my largest doe to date but she was very healthy. I didnt see any bucks that evening but I did fing some huge trees with some impressive rubs on them and lots and lots of scrapes in the woods , CRP Fields and AG field edges. So I have scouted out an area where I feel I may have a shot at a good buck based on the rubs I saw in the vicinity of where I found my doe.

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Nice Lady Forge, Ive had Venison for dinner the past 3 nights and looks like you're not too far from it.

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Just saying good luck to you all. No i messed up and got kicked off but no grudges. I havnt been out hunting yet but my bow is almost all the way sighted in. Just got to buy my license,tags, and some broadheads. GOOD LUCK!

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Was gone for 5 days this weekend to east TN and I think I found the most overhunted area in the state. From the road where we went into the woods, we were able to see a dozen markers glowing in the light, and they were everywhere. I guess those people have no sense of direction or something. Anyway, it was a full moon, and we found evidence of the deer moving at night, but couldnt catch them out in the shooting light. This weekend Im going to go back to the stand that I saw the 2 does in and see if I cant get one of them.
Chris

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I just got back from 3 days of Bowhunting in Brown County Illinois. Unfortunately the weather was a bit warm but we still had a great time.
Mary and myself were able to rattle in 3 different bucks, the bucks were really responding to the rattle antlers. Unfortunatly the bucks that came in close enough for me were not shooters they didnt score over 130 which I was hoping for a 140 class or better. I had a big racked buck in the edge of the CRP Field at just under 120 yards that never came close enough for a shot I would have rough scored him at 158 to 162.
I did get a shot on a doe only to hit noman's land on her [:@]( just below the spine and above the lungs) when the limb on my bow cracked during the shot, so she is going to live but I had to order new limbs, bushings and axles for my bow yesterday. Thankgoodness I had taken a backup bow on the trip with me.
I had a 2yr old6 pointer chaseing doe's all over the place . He chased in3 does with 4 fawn's, one doe stood with her fawn under my tree , while the doe with triplets stood at 23 yards but was looking at me head on so I never got a shot at her, she never busted me she never rocked her head, stopped or blewatme but was looking at me with curiosity.The buck would lower his head and strech out his neck and tip up his chin to the does rear end and he would follow the doe's rearend as he chased them off again. the Doe's were running flat out with fawn's in toe they wanted nothing to do with the 6 pointer. And before I new it they were backrunning by again with the young buck chaseing them again.
Now if Raccons and possum's were in season I could of arrowed 6 coon's and a possum[8D]On the evening of the 17th the deer were moving at 4:00pm with the moon full and the weather was warm, I hadnt been in the stand 10 minutes when I started seeing deer Go figure?

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Sry, posted on wrong team forum.

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What a weekend! After not having seen but 2 deer in the stand all weekend, that changed bigtime... Saturday morning me and the usual hunting buddies went to some land one of them has exclusive rights to about 400 acres. We got a late start and after stopping for coffee for one, and some dip for the other, we werent in the stands until light was cracking. So as quietly as a 325# dude can, I picked a tree (one without vines this time) and got up and settled. Not 15 minutes after getting settled in, I see movement to my right. A doe comes in and starts eating some acorns about 50 yards away. Having been out every weekend and some during the week since opening day, and not seeing but 2 deer, I was ready to shoot anything I saw to get some meat and my first bow kill. This doe walks around for half an hour or so, and goes out the way she came in, not presenting a shot the whole time. About 45 minutes later, I hear some blowing behind me from the right hand side, and turn to look. Cant see anything, and figured they were 100+ yards away. All of the sudden a small doe comes running in to where the first one was, followed by a bigger one just walking. I watch these for a while, then watch the larger one walk off and the smaller one lay down about 50 yards away, on the other side of a downed cedar tree. She lays there for an hour or so and I keep an eye on her while scanning the woods. When she gets up, she starts walking toward my stand. She hugs the down cedar tree, then heads for a shooting lane that I judged at 25 yards and turned out to be 26 with my buddy's range finder. She steps out going left to right and I wait for her to move her right leg foward and then squeeze the trigger. My illuminock lights up and dissapears right behind her shoulder. She jumps a bit, and walks about 20 yards and lays down.... I was thinking sweet. not going to have to track. Wrong! After 5 minutes of laying there, she gets up and walks away... I message my friends and tell them whats up and to approach from a direction that wont spook her, and an hour after I shot her, we meet at my tree and go get the arrow. Covered in blood and lots of blood onthe ground. When we get to where she layed down it looked like a galon of blood on the ground. Both buddies said that she wouldnt be far. We start tracking and follow a nice trail for a hundred yards or so then it starts to taper off. The deer went under a downed tree that was 2 ft high, over another fallen tree, and kept us suprised the whole time... Then like a switch, there was no blood It went from a steady drip to a drop every 30-40 feet. After a 700 yard track, we were at a dead end. We started walking about 50 yeards apart in the last direction traveled and nothing. The last drop of blood was less than 100 yards from where I shot her. She had gone in a big horse shoe. After about 4 hours of tracking we decided to call it quits. It tore me up to loose one, and even more so because it was my first with a bow and my sceond ever. My buddies felt the same way, but we had nothing to follow. I know without a shadow of a doubt that I hit here right behind the shoulder left-to-right but I may have been a bit high. She was maybe 6 feet lower than me elevation wise, so I assume that I hit her between the vitals and the spine. Vowed to do better next time.

That evening I went to the Jack Daniels BBQ championship and had some good food with some old friends. Didnt hunt that evening. Sunday morning went to another piece of land and set up in an ok patch at the base of a ridge. Within an hour there, I saw a doe and a yearling comming toward me. As soon as I saw them I stood and got my bow. Watched them come to me and clear the brush but kept quartering toward me. and kept it up until there was no cover between us, about 7 yards. Standing like a statue, she looked at me 3 times and became cautious but not startled. She started to quarter away and looked into the woodsI started to draw back, and she looked back at me right at peak weight. I held it there until my arms were on fire, and pulled back to anchor, only to have he blow and run off with the younger one. Busted! I saw a total of 11 deer that morning, the rest never breaking 50 yards. Asside from loosing the one I shot, this was the best weekend yet... Next weekend is Juvenile hunt here in TN and is closed to anyone older than 16, then ML season starts the next. Good news is that most of where I hunt is private and I can keep on bowhunting with little to no pressure.
Chris

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Well teammates, if you can call me that since I haven't posted in a month or so, I'm heading to Kansas at the end of this week. The guys I'm hunting with have already taken two deer over 180 within the last three weeks, and say the antler growth is phenomenial this year. What can you say, you gotta love Kansas. So, I'll be posting my results on here the last part of next week, cause I'm not coming home empty handed. In the meantime, I apologize for the lack of participation and wish everyone success and safety.

Kelly

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Got this doe last night.
28 yards,double lung she went 40 yards.
sure is gonna eat good. My second doe of the year I got one last sunday during our blackpowder season ands this one is my first bowkill of this season. So it felt good to let my Muzzy eat. I did see a nice 160 class about 70 yards from one of my stands. I'll be hunting again from the 9- 13 . Hopefully I';llget a shot at him.