I saw him upwind of me in a thicket and grunted him in. He lost interest until I gave a tending grunt series and then he came in on a string to get downwind of me. I shot him at 100yards even. I've never seen this before but when I shot him, He jumped straight up in the air and did a backflip!!! Landing on his antlers the fall broke his neck and he didn't move again, except for the 3 or 4 leg twitches.

Hey Guys. Well not much has been hapenning down here. I shot a couple of does last wekk but thats about it. the weather has turned hot again and they have gone back to moving at night. None the less i still have over 2 months of the season to go and the rut will kick off in about 6 weeks. I'll keep ya posted

Well, the last two weeks have had their ups and downs. I spent one day in Wyoming (http://hunting.sendphotos.com/?Y38K0I) with a good friend of mine, and five days in Texas with my six year old daughter (http://hunting.sendphotos.com/?K5NZ60). She ventured out on her first deer hunt with daddy in tow. Using a semi auto .223, Danielle shot two deer (two proud moments for dad for sure)! While in Texas, I passed on several small bucks(holding out for Mister Big). I saw two nice mature bucks, but neither came within bow range. I left Texas, for the forth time, empty handed. I look forward to going back!

I'm off to Nebraska thisweekend...Oklahoma and Arizona after that.

Only a month to go and the rut should be about to start down here in Al, I seeing a lot of doe movment at the moment but still no bucks, it dosent help when the tempeture goes from 65-15 then back to 70 in 4 days

That's a pretty buck Hazcon... I still haven't mailed off that skull and rack to ya yet... Started to one day and the box I chose was too small by about two inches, so I put it back in the freezer. We get shipments into our house all the time (we order a lot on the internet) so I should get a box big enough pretty soon.

Sounds good Greg, do you still have my address?

and thanks

Merry Christmas Team 24

I asked Santa to bring us a win

Merry Christmas to you too Hazcon - happy new year brother.

WWeather still warm here in Al, fingers crossed it cools down between now and tjhe end of the month

How is the rut going down there? Mid Jan right?