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Man thatsa nice buck W.T.F. That would be a good one for the team. Saturday can't get here fast enough!!!! Hey MY7 the only girls you should be thinking about during hunting season are thegirls the Bucks will be sniffing soon! Your only 17 and there will plenty of girls that come and go. Just be smart and take it slow, when the one comes along you will know. I wish my son had the passion that you have towards hunting. The best advice I can give you about Bowhunting is the same as with the Girls!!!! TAKE IT SLOW,and when you think you are going slow your NOT!!! GO SLOWER!!!!! Slow is good in the deer woods;)Be safe!!!!

Hatchet Dr Phil Jack

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Haha i hope your right is all i can say. Last night i went for a walk in the woods (COMPLETELY RANDOM) and i was walking and my cell phone rang, i answered it it was my friend Chris i was like hey lets do something, i was standing at the bottom of this little hill anyhow, i wasnt really talking loud or anything, but i was like yeah come over, i'll be at my house by the time you get there bye, hung up, i decided i wanted to check my foodplot out real bad, and i walked up the hill, i wasnt paying any ANY attention, anyhow, i get to the top of the ridge, I hear that blowing noise, and leaves crunching i look up theres about 4 deer running away, and 1 MONSTER Buck standing there at 25 yards like ....... Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... anyhow he never ran, and i was standing there trying to get a good look at his horns, but i couldnt cause it was that time of darkness where i couldnt see great, and i could see to walk around, and i squatted down, stood up squatted down stood up it diddnt help any he was staning on the horizon anyhow he had about 6-7 inches on each side of his ears... im GUESSING a 12 point, he was huge from what i could see. I dont have a treestand hung anywhere but it only takes me about 10 mins from the time i get home to get there and be ready to climb a tree with my portable, im gona hunt there EVERYDAY after school:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D im pretty stoked, anyhow i was standing there staring him down, and my cell phone rings:([X(][&o][:'(][&:][>:][:o] to say the least i was a little bit dissapointed, it was my BEST friend chris, he just got jumped i was like i'll be right there, i just turned and ran back down the path i came in on and oddly enough, the buck ran the same way as i did, anyhow i got to my house and got myself together, waited chris came and we went and i put the beat down on 2 of the kids friends who jumped into the fight and he took the one that did the jumping, so it turned out being a very evenful day. Ohh and i got 3 more girls numbers today. :D

Im rambling now

Good luck and Just post if you got anything to say about that :)

Ryan.

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HAHAHAHA thats wicked you sound just like me a few years ago, i used to be a big scrapper but ive decided to just shoot more animals instead :D. Are you allowed to hunt where you seen this big buck or is he in city or town limits?

I went out today to my regular spot for elk and moose, see the odd whitey buck and when i do its usually a monster but they are like ghosts in there. But anyways, i was driving in to my spot this morning and as im driving along i see a cow elk standing right on the side of the road so i pull up beside her and i grab for my camera, cause i cant hunt on the land but just i turn back around to look at the cow i catch something out of the corner of my eye on the other side of the road. It was a massive 5x5 bull elk standing not 10yds from my truck, i go to take a picture but he hops the fence and kinda trots in across the road right in front of me then all of a sudden i was in a stampede of elk, elk in front and behind the truck, must have been about 60 elk, i almost crapped my pants right there. So now they are all on the other side of the road lookin at me so i go to take a pic and it didnt work look at the screen "Change batteries" NOOOO picture of a life time and my camera dies. So they took off across the field and just as i start going again look behind and its the friendly Conservation Officer coming, i figured he had been watching that herd just waitin for some dumb hunters to try and take one.

So i get to my hunting grounds and as im pullin in i look in the field of alfalfa and at the other end there was a herd of 30 elk, so i pull the truck down a lil hill and behind some trees and quickly gear up. Im geared up and im walking up this lil, i hear a lil grunt, i look up and HOLY CRAP a Bull moose standing 30yds from me staring me down, of course my bull tag i have isnt good in the certain area i was hunting. So i decided to see if he was in rut. I put my bow above my head and started swaying back and forth and he started too, as soon as he did it i yelled at him cause i didnt want to get him too wound up and charge me so he ran off but the silly bugger ran right towards the herd of elk and spooked them[&:] So i go back down to the truck and finishing driving in to where i usually park. I get out and look up in this field about and about 500yds away there is four whiteys all doe standing in the field feeding. So i grab my bow and start moving towards them, the wind is right i got lots of cover i got to within 80yds but they were on the other side of the field so there was no way of me gettin to them so i just decided to pass on them and not spook them. So i end up to where i wanted to go finally which is where i had shot my cow elk last year but by this time the wind was blowing soo hard, but im up ontop of this ridge and i notice something bedded down in the field where the deer were. I couldnt make out what exactally it was but i decided to head there and check it out. Turns out it was the 4 whiteys, but they were about 80yds in and i couldnt move any closer once again so i started calling them so i messed around with them for about and hour but they only came to within about 60yds and then they ran away.

So it was an eventfull day, lots of game, no bucks unfortunately, but its always good to see lots of game.

Field deer were in


The trees to right is where i always see that big double drop tine buck every year

Place i love to sit and watch over all day see lots of game there

They were gettin close

A scene im sure all of us are way to familiar with:(

A calf and behind it is its mother and it has a wounded right leg and i noticed it hoping around earlier in the day but it decided to bed down, told the rancher about it and he went out to get it right away.

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Be a lover not a fighter!!! Trust me there is always someone bigger and bader!! It takes a bigger man to walk away!! Good luck on that big boy you seen!! Walt

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the only reason i fought this kid is becuse he sucker punched my friend, and his friends just decided they would back him up, after it was all done, Chris had a 2nd bloody nose and i had a fat lip, but all 3 of them were laying on the ground. (what i diddnt mention about chris is chris diddnt really have a chance to fight back and chris isnt the biggest guy around) Anyhow.

TONIGHT i went up to were i seen the monster at, and i got up into my summit Openshot, and got my Thermocell going and sat down for about an hour and a half maybe 2 hours, anyhow, it was getting dark and it was becoming hard to see and i stood up, stretched COUGHED several times, started to pack my stuff up, not a care in the world, i looked up and theres a doe, 30+/- yards feeding....... I NEVER KNEW SHE WAS THERE. Anyhow, i unzipped my bag, relit my thermocell, and sat down to where i could watch her got my binos out of my bag, i <3 stupid deer, And i was sitting there, it was pretty dark now, anyhow she popped her head up, locked it in place, and stared, i was like shes running away damnit i started to look around for what she was looking at and when i looked back she was eating again, and i pulled the binos up zoomed em out and there was a little scrap rack six point walking into my feild of view, i made the mistake of following him, Come on im 17 i practically popped wood when i saw the little scrapper walking around, then i was like wow My monster might show up while i can still see, (we are well beyond reasonable shooting time by now) and for whatever reason i looked behind me then i pulled my binos back up to watch the scrap 6 and OHH MY GOD haha i was like wow he grew a new set of antlers since i looked away, well it turned out being mr Big, and he was standing there behind the little guy, and i never got a CLEAR view of his rack, browtines, etc, it was too dang dark, anyhow, i couldnt decide what to do, its 745 now and DARK, i called my house and got ahold of my dad i spacifically said Dad "im by my food plot the one we built you know it??" "yes" "I need you to walk up so i dont spook these deer getting out of here" "k I'll be up"...... i could hear them walking around but no way could i see them..........820........... Still no dad its a 5 min. walk from my spot to my house, so i call my house, did he come back yet? no.... ok..... 9:00 still no dad...... The weird thing is he says he was whistling and yelling, wich at about 8:10 i believe spooked the deer, but i couldnt tell for sure so i diddnt make a move to get out of there or anything, so at about 9:00 i call and he returned to the house i was like ok im not waiting anymore, i got down out never spooked a deer, but i dont like the darkness so the walk home felt like it took forever, anyhow, if hes got the same points on both sides, and browtines hes atleast an 8 if not more, but in my book he IS a trophy, i dont know how im gonna hunt him though, he was grazing acorns, Imagine that, but hes been scraping everywhere, and i dont really know what i should do, the spot i was in he made a scrape right next to it im talking 5 yards or less, Inexperience is my biggest problem in the deer woods, This spot is right behind my house and i'll prolly only really hunt it durring the hours from when i get home from school till dark, and the weekends i'll be heading down to the bigger woods of Death Valley, where my aluminum ladder stand is, if i had a better computer i could give you guys the pictures of my stands and things to get some feedback, your opinions matter the most to me. Ohh one weird thing was the Bucks were chasing that doe pretty steadily nothing really intense?? i dont think but they were running her in a small circle for the most part, seemed odd to me i dont really know a lot about deer. Anyhow, god im really rambling on and on tonight, I hope my "doe" search goes as planned. I talked to a great looking doe today though. Anyhow, Do you guys have pictures of yourself?? Post em up if you do. sorry this is so long

Ryan.

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Well if i were you i would stick with what you are doin cause you are seeing him and if he has no reason to be spooked from the area then he isnt gunna leave and he should eventually give you a shot, the only thing that you can really do with this fellow is have patience im thinkin. But im also thinkin if he is hangin around the food plot he is eating from it but another thing you could do is maybe find out where he is entering the food plot and set up closer to his main travel route. But i also dont have the most experience when i comes to whiteys, so maybe some of the more experienced guys might have a few better pointers for yah.

Me out elk hunting this year.:D Just for the record i dont wear the glasses while hunting, i just got really bored:D

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*laugh* the Aviators!!!:D;) Anyhow, Im sorrta really dumb cause i made the food plot in their bedding area, well there was a fire and to save money they took a dozer in and stopped the fire that way its about 60 yards long and about 6-7 yards wide, the stuff i planted, diddnt grow that great so im gonna have to just stick it out i guess. Anyhow its prolly not gonna be a good idea to hunt in their bedding area but i'll hunt right outside their bedroom door by golly. Anyhow.

I just hope the 4-wheelers dont spook him out and noone else finds out about him being in there....
Thanks for what help you did give me :)

Ryan.

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Ryan, Find what tree is dropping acorns like rain and look for deer droppings and then set up there!! You will kill him!! Walt

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My7, I think you should stay ouy of that area the rest of the week and let things settle down til saturday when you can hunt him. It won't take long for that big buck to know the hunt is on. The less preasure on him before the hunt the better. You know the area and your spot is set up so let it be. The next time you should go there is the first day of Buck Archery!!!!!!

Hatchet Jack

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I need to get my hands on a junk wooden ladder i'll make a platform to sit on so i dont have to make all that noise of dragging a climber up into the woods there and i'll set it up there if someone steals it well whatever it was only a junk ladder.

Ryan.