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Now that thing has some spread to it!! Wow!!

Congrats on an awesome buck!! And I agree, stick one with your bow to make up for my lack of being able to hunt!!

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I came close guys, I was doing a stalk during lunch last Friday at a friend's grandad's old farm. This is a 30 acre farm that's going to pines and has about 80 acres of timbered land on the north side and housing and a golf course on the other sides. It'smore isolated than it sounds. Anyway, no ones been hunting it (with permission) for years and I was in the area and decide to spend my lunch doing something better than stuffing my face. I suited up and started sneaking around keeping the wind in my face to the best of my ability. Lots of sign and I skirted around a field that was mostly young pines and dropped down to a creek bottom. There was a distinct deer path and some big rubs. I moved just off the creek bottom because that was mostly hardwood saplings and bathed in light and entered the darker hardwood/pines 40 yards away paralleling the creek. I was looking at trees trying to decide where I'd set a stand for this weekend and 10 yards ahead I saw the dark form of the backside of a deer raise from his bed. He was on the other side of a pine blowdown and his front half was obscured by a latice-work of limbs and trunk. I froze. I could see his main beams as he moved his head and they were wide and thick,holding close to 5" or better diameter throughout the whole length of the beams. I couldn't make out tines but I was concentrating on finding an opening to thread an arrow through. I knew it was hopeless. I would have to move 20' to my right to get on the same side of the log as he was in order to clearly shoot at his vitals. The wind was in my favor and I don't think he knew what disturbed him. I saw him look around and turn his head away from me and I had a fleeting hope he may turn around offering a broadside shot at his vitals. After about 30 sec. he remembered he had an important appointment somewhere else and he was late! I tried to bleat him to a stop and draw but he kept going through the thick stuff. It was close and a blast! Maybe I'll get a rematch this weekend.

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No rematch. I did see a cowhorn spike and a nice sized 4 pointer but no shooters. Was busted in theAM by a deer I never saw even though the wind was in my favor and I wasn't moving. Guess I didn't blend well with my surroundings. I remembered why I hate climber stands though. Noisiest hunt I've had in a long time.

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I know there is a little over a month left of season, but I am putting my chances of getting any deer at all very low. I have hunted hard for the last month, almost 2 1/2 weeks off on vacation and hunting almost everyday of it. To say I am getting burned out is an understatement. I can count on both hands the number of deer in shooting distance and I don't even need any fingers to count the number of shooter bucks in range. The last 2 seasons have been very hard for some reason. The deer in my area have deffinatly changed there patterns in the last few years for some reason and I just can't figure out why. They are hardly even using my patch of woods in the daylight hours at all. Even during the early season.

I am now going to take a 2 week vacation from hunting maybe even 3 and try to regroup my energy for hunting. I am thinking of not going out until after ML season. Next weekend I have some minor surgery scheduled, but since it is slug season it doesn't really matter anyway. I have to go in and get the big V to avoid any more unplanned mishaps with the misses.

Hope I didn't let you guys down too much. But I do look forward to the late season if it gets down right cold. The deer usually group up and they travel to the same feeding area right at dark. Maybe I can make a opportunity arise then.

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Don't get down on yourself yet IL BOW MAN, I have the same problem where old productive stands and properties have completly dried up.

A lot of my stands now are on trails coming off the neighbors and into our fields. Where I have killed all 3 of my deer this year.

Good luck to you

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My season is pretty much done for the year now.A doe and buck with my bow and 2 more does with the shotgun.

I still have 2 more bow tags, but I am only going to be out there buck hunting late season, which should be interesting. Good Luck to the rest of you.

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Anyone still hunting? I may do an AM hunt this weekend if it isn't raining. If it rains I'm taking out the smokepole. Late season is tough.

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Im still hunting hard i had 5 buck's under me last week at the same time but they were just not Big enough.Next year is looking good im not going to give up till the season ends or there horns fall OFF!I have been seeing some nice ones sticking there heads out of a thick bedding area.I dont like hunting right in there bedroom but this late in the season i thought why not.So i set up on them yesterday hope to get a shot over x-mas break.

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I'm still hunting as hard as my work schedule will allow me, although I can't enter another buck. I had a 140 inch 9 pointer at 40 yards a week ago, but there was a small limb in between me and him.

Best part about it was I spotted the buck at over 100 yards and was able to stalk within the 40 yards to it. Almost worked but couldn't quite finish it off.

My dad was able to sit back and look at him through binoculars the whole time and he said he was about 22 inches wide with some nice mass, and about 10 inch G2's...the rest of the tines were fairly short.

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I am still hunting when I get the time. Only a couple times a weekend now though.

Hey guys, I know I didn't speak for the entire team, but check out my posts on the threads talking about MIA team members. If you feel I am out of line, please let me know.