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I did the same thing last year. Put about $380 into my bow, shot it about a dozen times, then bought the new bow for this year.... :D
Chris

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hey guys I got one for ya to grill.I drilled it with my truck come and get it.I will fire up the grillLOL Just sayin hello to ya.Good luck your gonna need it going against us shoe ins.............

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KCison, you gonna be hunting that 5 acre enclosure again this year?? I'm sure you can find another 180 hiding in there somewhere, good luck......:D
JK!

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Threedays and counting for me.... I can't wait!!!

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12 days... Went to Bass Pro today and got my Tekkan II's, an illuminock to try and some waifers before the shelves are barren next week.

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Yea, I'm pretty happy with it. Except Sunday morning I broke the broadheads out and realized that I was shooting 100 grain field points and my BH's are 125 grain[&:]
Got some new tips and we're all good now though.;)

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13 and a wake up !!!!!!
Going to set two more stands tomorrow for later in the season.
Hopefully I'll see some bucks, nights are getting cooler so maybe they will move a little later in the day.

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One more week for me.... Cant wait to get out there...
Chris

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I was fortunate to be drawn in a lottery to hunt a Park loaded with deer. The park was hunted for the 1st time last year. There are deer extremely overpopulated in the park so we are hunting it to thin the herd. I know last year there was over 10 bucks taken from the park in the 150 to 170 class Bucks. I was lucky enough to be drawn for a certainzone of the park that my boss is very familier with and he has informed me that there are some awesome bucks in the area. Its a take a doe 1st hunt before you can take a Buck.... the place is covered with white oaks and acorns are everwhere!!!! They are also requiring bowhunters to pass a proficency shooting test to be allowed to bowhunt the park. The test requires a bowhunter to of been deemed to have passed the test if they can shoot 4 out of 5 arrows in the spots of a NFAA indoor 5Spot Target.We will be the ones hosting the testing at the Archery Pro Shop I work at. I'll be bowhunting at the park from Oct 29th- November 4th.The park has a river running thru it and is surrounded by corn and bean fields.
I also will be hunting a privately owned tree farm that is bordered by woods and a creek and corn and bean fields. Ill be bowhunting this property all season.
I will also be bowhunting a county park that is a pay to hunt park , its full of great deer and tons of turkeys:DIll also be bowhunting this park all season, its one of my favorite hunting spots.
And I will be bowhunting Brown county where it meets with Pike and Adams County on a Womens Only Bowhunt that a friend of mine whom is an outfitter hosts every year... its a blast... I'll be there from Oct 17th-21st.
I am ready to get out bowhunting, hopefully the weather will start to cool down even more .... I am ready for a frost;)

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I'm still here......was on vacation last week through the weekend in the Outer Banks of NC dodging Hurricane Ophelia.[:-]

By some dumb luck it approached us and swung out to sea......couldn't swim in the ocean the whole time as the surf was WICKED. But the weather overall was beautiful if not a little "Breezy";)

I have 10 more days to go here. Bow's ready to rock. I almsot don't want to shoot at night anymore because nothing changes and I'm wrecking arrows shooting at the 3D targets!:D

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Opening Day here is Oct 1st and the weather is just not coperateing.... its gonna be in the 90's again today[:'(]I guess if this weather keeps up I will be Bowhunting over a water source;)Ive never had to do this before but... ya gotta do what ya gotta do... to get them doe's...Call me a opertunist:D
Matt Glad you are safe at home now!

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8 more days....
I FINALLY got my bow hitting the way I want. Wasted 2 arrows last night so...its one BH from now on. I had to switch arrows from Beman 400's, I went to GT XT 340's with feathers and WOW what a difference... brought my Muzzy 4 blades and 3 blades right back in. Amazing what spine can do. Anyway everything is set except the alarm clock....come on Oct.1 !!!

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Well my season starts Sat. I have to be at work in 4 hours, and havent slept yet as I have been getting everything ready to head south as soon as I get off work. I wont shoot a buck under 8 pts (no limit here in TN, just personal preference) unless its an abnormaly large 6 or 7... Ill have limited access down there, but Ill try to check in from time to time over the weekend.
Chris

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Good Luck!!!! I've got two more weeks.

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Well, I hunted Sat morning and evening, and didnt see anything... Mostly due to not being able to get out and scout this summer... Im going to try and go again Sat eve, and Sunday all day.
Chris

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There's a couple biggun's on the scoreboard already. I still have 2 weeks to season. I can't stands it no longer.

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Well, I have been out the past 2 weekends and seen nothing... It is still real hot here, hovering in the 90's on evening hunts, so it doesnt really suprise me. Im going out all weekend starting tomorrow afternoon. Heck, I quit my job that I have had for the past 3 weeks so that I can hunt more. 13 hour days x 6 days a week sucks, so Im going to wait tables again until another Police Department comes along.

Something else that I have been pondering is this.... Even though I havent shot a deer with my bow yet, I am a strong proponent of Deer Management, especially on the private land that I hunt, and dont plan to shoot anything less than a big six or small eight. Now this may put me in a bind if I havent shot a buck by the end of the season. But I cant bring myself to harvest a small buck knowing what they can become if given time to grow. On public land I can be a little less picky as the mindeset enters of if I dont, someone else will, but even then I would find it hard...

What to do....
Chris

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I feel your pain... Weather has been the same here in Oklahoma..HOT!
Had 3 does come in last Sunday night but never offered a shot. Still no bucks, they are moving before sun up though so it is just a waiting game.
We did have a cold front come in today went from 86 to 63 degrees in about an hour. this weekend is gonna be good I think, lows in the lower 40's. I'm headed to Waynoka early Friday morning and hope to see the Big un there..I'll keep ya posted :)

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We had a cold snap here on Friday, but I had to work... It was 46 degrees when I rode the bike to work. I wished I was out hunting all day, and it warmed back up to the 90s for the weekend. So today I went and bought a compact Thermacell, and now I look at the weather and see 50 degree weather for the weekend. I also picked up a Team Realtree EZHanger, which Im sure Ill like more than the holder on the stand.
Chris

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It been pretty hot here in Maryland as well. But hopefully after this rain moves out, the temps will settle a bit. I got a chance to climb a tree on Wed night and I did begin to see a bit more activity (mostly does) but in a few weeks (I can't believe is October) things should get rocking around here. My cousin is a taxidermist and he has only had a few bucks trickle in here and there... But the rut a cumin...

Chris

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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.

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WOW sorry about the GIGANTIC picture...these damn computers...I dont know how to make it smaller. Oh I applogize for the tongue showing..I was by myself trying to take the pictures and my camera timer was quick and I just forgot about it to be honest...oh well

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Well, I'm back from Kansas. Great hunt, but no buck. The weather was hot and I did see and actually have shot opportunities, but on the first day of the hunt I had a 170" nine point under my stand just before shooting light and he didn't hang long enough for me to get off a shot. Needless to say, I hunted hard for five days for him, but never saw him again with the days being in the high 70's and the lows only high 40s. On Wednesday night, the last night of my hunt, I saw him chasing a doe, 200 yards from my stand as I was driving out. He's was a monster. So, sorry to let the team down. I passed on 3-4 deer ranging from 140-160 well within bow range just to have a chance at the brute. But the Kentucky rut is just heating up, so we'll pull thru.

Kelly

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Good News Team..... I got a Big 6 point buck Last Night:DI never thought I would say big and 6 point in the same sentance but he is big.... I will get him scored and pictures developed and put them here as soon as possible.

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Awesome!! We are on the board now... Hopefully I and others will be able to add to it now that the rut is picking up...
Chris

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Here are some preview Pic's.

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I will get the pic with the score posted here for our team as soon as I get the cape from the meat processor and to the taxidermist.
Sorry But with only 6 scoreable points to score he scored 118 1/8th.

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Holy smokes!!! What a Six! Nice Job...

Ok fellas, one of the ladies has set the bar high, lets get up there...
Chris

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Wow!..............Now thats a six pointer!!!

Congrats on a nice buck!!!!

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Wow Very nice buck Lady Forge !!!
I just got back from Kansas tonight, what a long 5 days.
Good news is I got my buck Monday morning, He scores 154 1/4 as a main beam 8 with a kicker on one brow tine.
Man am I happy , my biggest bow buck to date. I'll try and post some pics tomorrow and get him entered.
If anyone can tell me how to post my pics smaller I'd appriciate it.

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email me the pics at S2CPitts@ comcast.net and Ill resize them for you.
CHris