I can't wait either, I have put in more leg work this year than any other season ever. I have plenty of private ground to hunt, and have confidence in my shooting, a carryover from last year 5 shots 5 kills, and one of those believe it or not....2 does with one shot, I am still trying to figure that one out, I didn't want 2, but it happened. Made me go buy another tag damit.

I didn't get a buck with my bow last year only with a gun, but this is the year, I can feel it. I have better places to hunt, less people to contend with and isolated.

I just talked to my brother who lives in New Mexico, he shot a 5 point Mule Deer 3 days ago, which is hard to do with a bow out there.

Where is the rest of our team, seems like only a few select people get on here and "talk". Anyways, we arein it to win it, right? Fling'em straight boys!

Hi team mates , I have 21 more days. I hope we get a good killing frost before then, mosquitoes are terrible. I can't wait. I wanted to hang my trail camera but I don't want to disturb my area just yet. I know there's a few big boys in there and I hope to surprise one of them early

Last year was the first year I have gotten skunked in ten years ...... but I agree with most of you guys .... it feels like this could be the year I put one in the books ... there is a P&Y I have been chasing for a few years .... I talked to the farmer on Monday, and he is still being seen by the spot I expected him to be ....... new stand location for me ... and noone else hunts there ........

Hey Guys...sorry I haven't been in for a while but I've been down to business getting ready for Bow Season..only 8 more days for me here in Missouri.

I went out a few weeks ago and hanged my climbing stand on the back side of our Ridge Field where they did some logging early in the summer and did a little planting since we've been getting the much needed rain we've done without all summer.I also set up my trail camera a few weeks ago and went out late this evening to swap out the SD card to see what I have on it?I decided to enter the field from the very back side by walking down an old dump road and cut back in at the back of the field and walk the edge where we mowed a path...got a full view of a 500-600 yard open Ridge Field and walked slowly down the mowed path to look over the CRP field and when I got to where the turnip patch began and the soybean field was about 200 yards past that field I saw brown movement behind the black berry patches.....1 large deer,then 3 more walk out to join the first deer.YeeHawww.....they were still about 200-250 yards away so I couldn't see if there were any Bucks in the groupsinceI didn't carry any binoculars with me andI only had my 22 LR with a red dot scope in case I saw aCoyote!They finally moved down the field and I made my way on the back side down to where my trail camera was set up and changed out the SD card...hopefully I have some deer pictures on it!

I'm thinking if things don't work out after a week or so of hunting by the logging road or the ladder stand in the back field I could put up my blind in the black berry patches next to the soybean fields and have me a close encounter there? Hmmmm?

GTO keep us all updated on whats on that memory card!!!

Well I stopped in at the Photo Center and checked out what pictures I had on the SD card.Had 1 Doe on it and 3 more pictures of another Deer several feet away at night so I had several photo's printed up and a CD burned so I can enlarge it on the computer,hopefully it is a Buck?Last year I had several Doe and Fawn pictures on my camera but no Buck pic's at all...was kinda discouraged until we did some brush hogging in July and I had 4 nice Bucks walk out onto the Ridge Field Food Plots in front of my ladder stand while I was sitting in it watching for Coyotes.

I'm seriously thinking about taking my Moultrie Camera back to Cabela's in St. Louis and get the newer Infared Model they have out now....I had several pictures on my camera SD card todaythat missed something walking by in several different pictures and I'm getting tired of it not working very well! [:@]

Good luck GTO. Share your pics when you can. Hope you all are doing great. Chris

Went driving by my new spot Sat.early evening, saw 2 bucks in the 140'ish range. Anyday now theyshould stop running together.

Later today I am setting 2 stands, clearing some shooting lanes, and moving my camera. It's supposed to be 70 with alot less humidity than it has been, so it should be a fun day....as long as I can avoid the poision ivy and oak[:'(]

Solo thats great I wish I could jump in the truck ride up on the mountain and see a couple 140'' bucks! Im jealous!!!!!!

Anyone have any good close-up Deer Skull pictures especially the upper jaw area showing the teeth?


I went out this morning to check on my food plots and was walking the fields when I found some type of large skull laying along one of our mowed pathes.Looked a lot like a deer skullwith molars in the back but it had 2 upper teeth (1 on each side) that were pretruding outward about 1 inch and were pointed like canine teeth?It looked like it had been dead for several months and was picked clean and it had a small bone and a vertabrea bone close to it,thats all I could find and it looked like it had been dragged down to the open bottom field and left there by a Coyote,I couldn't find any other bones with it so I will probably go back there and pick up the skull and take some pictures and look up in the woods for more bones.