I am leaving in a little while today for my Bowhunting trip to Brown County Illinois so since I cant find the cord to load the cell phone photo's on the computer I will when I get back from my trip pull the card from inside the cell phone ( a friend told methat the photo labcan do the pic'sfrom my cell phone card ) so then I'llgo to the photo lab and have them do the photo's on a CD so I can load them on my computer and post them here and submit them in the offical thread and then I guess like Bob said the team captains can vote on weather to accept my entry or not.
Here is a pic of the largest buck so far to come off the property in Brown County Illinois that I am going to hunt this week... he scored 219.

talk to you all next week.

Congrats on your buck Deb! Good luck in Brown County.

Congrats Lady Forge, good that you found him. Is he a wall mounter? I can't wait till next week. I'm going up north for a 4 day bow hunt. There's quite a few people saying there starting to see more bucks now. My buddy seen a dandy 10ptr standing in the road the other morning. Hopefully we'll catch the rut next week. The temps are finally coming down.

Congratulations Lady Forge! Way to stay persistent and find your deer. I can't wait to see the picks.

I have been hunting as much as possible. I have over 30 hours in the stands so far, but the last week has really slowed down. I will be starting vacation this Friday, and hopefully things will get better like they should. This gives the farmers some time to get some more crops out as well. Good luck team!

Well went out Fri. night. Not one deer came thru. But one very good thing. My youngest son just completed his hunter's safety course & took him out on the bow hunt. I was quite proud to of him all decked out in his camo. He's 13 & has only been out once w/me. He's pretty stoked for the gun hunt next month. We'll be working on him getting a bow for next yr's season. The other good news, is that I found fresh rubs on a spot that a big boy was working on last yr. The odd thing is that is on the edge of a wood line facing an alfalfa field. So now I'll concentrate my efforts on a blind in that area. Hopefully I can catch him there. What time do you think he's workn' it, the morning or evening. I suspect it's enroute to his bedding area. How's everyone else faired over the weekend?

Hey Team I am back home.
I had a great time Bowhunting in Brown County
I spent Wednesday morning in the stand along the ridge just above a food plot. Sitting in the dark waiting for daylight I listened to 3 different buck fights down in the food plot.
The first critter to join me was a Coon whom decided to get up in the tree with me ( Coon's werent in season )[:@]
Ishot 2 Does the first morning.... shot them both standing in almost the same exact spot, shot them litterly less than 1 minute apartI will post a pic later.
That evening Sean myguide asked if he could video me on the rest of my hunts we headed outand we sat a spot where we saw a 160 class buck cross the road going to a cut corn field , once we had the stuff all settled in the stands and the camera set up the only thing to come close enough was a possum ( which werent in season ) told Sean we could of had some Awesome Possum Kill Footage[8D]We did watch a buck we were calling in come our way only to stop at the telephone pole to make a rub, so we call and rattle again and he starts our way again to cross the road and of course just then a truck pulls up on the road between us and the buck and he hits the brakes to look at the buck and then our buck run's off... of course[:@]
The second morning I had to pee before I got in the stand so I made a mock scrap 8 yards from my stand and pee'd in it.
Of course the first deer in front of me again is a button buck sniffing my scrape followed by his mom and another fawn, then in comes in another spike and I watch him make a rub and then he goes to my mock scrape and pee'd in it ( that was so cool to watch, so I have mom at all kinds of shots broadside but I dont have another doe tag so I had to let her walk, a little later another doe and 2 year old doe pass by broadside but alas no doe tag again[:'(]
That evening we headed out with the video camera and of course when we parked at our parking spot it started raining so videing the hunt was out of the question so Sean just sat in the stand next to me to watch. At 4:42pm a nice buck ( he was a mainframe 10 pointer with I think was a split G2 making him an 11 pointer , he comes by broadside quartering away slightly from behind me so Sean taps me on the shoulder to alert me to his precense I turn to see him , I had to stand and turn around in the stand and draw my bow with me facing the tree with my bow right next to the tree, I guessed he was 25 yards drew and shot, clean miss the arrow went right under him, my yardage estimation was way wrong Yep I choked [:'(]I now get to join the I Missed Club.
I was just thankful it was a clean miss and I didnt wound him.
And thankful it wasnt all on camera
The hunt on Friday Morning was sitting in the rain with not much deer movement and pretty uneventful on the deer's part , I then moved to another stand to hunt from 9:30am to 11:30am in a light rain and not much movement, follwed by and afternoon and evening hunt of us sitting in the pouring rain for hours with only onedoe moving.... all in all it was a great time

Well LadyForgecertainly sounds like you had a good time. To bad on the miss but thats hunt'in, right?

I was out last night and had several bucks in front of me just nothing bigger than a 115" 8 pointer. Good looking deer and would have been a chip shot at 7 yardsbut I want to hold out for a 125" or better. The young bucks are sure hot to trot right now. lol
It is a blast to see thembothering them does. I have taken some time off in the next week to sit longer hours. Hopefully it pays off.

I still would like a to see a pic of the one you got a couple of weeks ago. Care to share?

Tribal
I will post the pic's of my buckthis week just as soon as I get time to take the cell phone in to the lab and have them pull the photos from my cell phone card.
I will also get it scored this week.... as soon as I can get ahold of a friend of mine whom is an offical scorer for P&Y to ask him how you score a tine growing out of the side of the skull of a Whitetail Buck????

Hey Antler Eater look what was killed in our neck of the woods Sunday. Contact me for details if ya want.