Are you talking where it wraps around your legs?

Yes. The extra that sticks out after it goes through the buckle.

Hey Flst... yeah I trimmedmine up. I am glad to hear your hunting too! right on, we have 3 guys out and about..

I didnt hunt this AM guys... we have NE wind blowing in today... this is very rare and puts most of my wind right in the bedding areas of the bucks I am after. This evening though I have one really good stand for this wind direction over where the stretch buck lives...I will be there forsure.

I hope Jeff scored this morning!

Talk to you guys later .. UFC tonight (Jackson vs Henderson, it should be...orgonna be great)well..I am DVRing it so I can hunt.. Gonna watch BSU and WA today, then hunt...then watch ND and PSU and UFC tonight..when I get home.. Dvring both.. Temps have dropped here 10 degree and I've been waiting all season to hunt this stand which I need a North or NE wind... I watched the big boy (stretch)walk under this stand about 2 weeks ago..I hope he shows tonight..

here is trail cam pic I got of him in early July... and his sheds I found from him...two years ago...I didnt find last years.. I believe the sheds I found are from when he was 3.5...so he is at 5.5 now..

sheds from two springs ago..




ewwwwweee that pix didnt turn out to well.. oh well.. hes pretty much just heavier and a little longer these days.. Hope I see him tonight.

Good luck Troy, when I saw you post midday I figured you may have gotten one.

THat UFC bout is going to be awesome, I am pumped for that showdown.

Hey Ryan, thanks bud.. I got up this morning at 4 30 and looked at that wind and just decided I cant cut any corners on the big 4x5.. so I crawled back into bed... Rarely do I ever get a NE wind and thats why most of my stands are set up for Southern or SW winds...This one stand you know right were its at for the stretch buck.. hes coming over that backside of that CLEARCUT you and I hunted elk up above and moving across it towards my stand.. The one up behindmy house.. anyway.. in this big country he has lots of options andits still a bit ofa long shot but at least the winds right.. I was seeing him at least 1-2 x a week in August up there with two younger bucks.. I've been hunting now so I havent been glassing that.. we'll se what shows up tonight..

Take care bud..


(Havent heard from Jeff ..yet... maybe he scored today, I sure hope so..)

I think Jeff might be too busy primping for his date with his wife tonight to update uson his hunt.

Thats some nice sheds of the buck. Hopefully you will connect on him good luck Shed...

Guys.....I lost my first deer, today.

I saw 9 this morning.....with the last being a lone doe. She was in a peculiar spot....and I pegged her at 30 yds. I felt confident and let it loose. I saw the arrow make contact....and I thought the front-to-back was perfect. She was quartering away slightly. I thought the up/down might be a bit high. I shot her at 9:05. I stayed in my tree until 10:15.....and got down to check the impact spot. No blood. I looked for minute......then figured I had been fooled....and I'd missed. I stepped it off.....29 yds. So....I start to look beyond where she was standing......thinking the arrow may have overshot her and glanced away. Nothing. I was about to back out....and I saw my arrow to my right. I went to pick it up...and it was soaked with dried blood. Now I back out. I called Rob....told him my game plan....then went home to eat something. I got back on the trail at a little after 11:00. It was in the 90's here, today....and I felt like I was in a race against time. When I get back out there....Lisa and I can find NO BLOOD. Nothing. We looked for 2 hours, utilizing EVERY possible trail she could have taken. I watched her intently when she bolted.....and even counted to myself....to time when she might crash. I never heard anything but her running.

Back to my race against time......I let Lisa go get us some drinks.....and we started a grid search. I called some buddies from the shop....and they came over about 2:00. 5 Hours since I shot her....and it's HOT. At 3:00 I told them I thought it was futile.....that the meat was likely lost.....but they stayed with me. At 4:00....I told them to go home. At 4:50.....I found her....more than 200 yds from where she'd been shot.

I found NO blood leading to her resting spot.....and maybe a 1/2 ounce under her. I can't fathom what happened. The entrance wound was where I had thought it was.....the exit where it should be.

I'm open for criticism.....as long as it's corrective. Nobody can feel worse than I do right now. I rationalize it "some".....by knowing that she WILL be consumed by nature.....and that she is out of the herd (my neighbor on the farm over has been killing them via depredation permit for a while).

But it's a hollow feeling. I'll tag her and call her in......but she'll be the first bow kill of mine Im not proud of. I honestly don't know what I could have done differently, though. I'm at a loss. I feel like I let her down.