Holy mackeral, those are some nice bucks, love the pics, the pics aloneare wall hangers.

So Fred and I have something in common.[8D]

I may have lied to you all earlier when I said I would not lower my standards in the late season. It was 0 when I got out of the stand again yesterday and I think I would have shot the first 8pt that come along! Spooked deer going into the stand and seen nothing except Ice forming on my mustache! Man this has been a cold Dec.

Therma care heat wraps,greatest late season hunting aid ever.

Thanks Jim, I willgive them a shot. I picked up some Hot Hands at the store today to put in my boots and mitts. I have noticed over the last few years this getting older crap has some drawbacks!

Well Silver, next time you see a decent buck you will appreciate him all the more. When I go thru dry spells, and we all do, the first spike I see I get all rev'd up. Getting older is another term for getting wiser, in some cases lol.

I had 3 buckscome5 yards frommy stand tonight. I was not not paying attention (this is where the old age thing comes in play I think) and they popped out 10 yards in front of my from some pines and were trotting at a good clip single file. By the time I got my bow in my hand, checked to even see what kind of bucks they were and how many were coming they were by me and I had no shot. One was a real nice buck I would have loved to have taken.

Jim, I have to check into those heat wraps, never heard of them. Your package was shipped also FYI

I started with the wraps after back surgery they are great. If you are tent hunting high country they are great in a sleeping bag also. I even keep one in my pack for emergency's [IE] a night stuck in the woods.

Diesel , thanks

Well Dad and I went out Saturday AM with the Smoke-poles. I live in OHIO but had never before Gun hunted Ohio (usually go to PA with the guns) I see why, holy cow, wall to wall hunters!!!

Early Morning I saw 3 deer no shooting opportunities. I had 1 nice doe at 15 yards behind a blow down, all I could see was her face! She exited straightaway from me, offerring no shot! So now it's 11:00am I head over to where I put Dad. He hadn't seen a thing. You know how it is when you put someone on a stand, you'd rather they get action than you. He liked the area and definetly saw the potential and the Trails, Rubs etc. So as we stand there talking (we had to be out soon, as we had obligations in the early evening) We are just talking about how to get out and should we work a hicky or just walk out! When I see a Doe running our way. I say "DEER"! My gun is shouldered, as she crests the little bluff. Dad pulls up also. She is quartering towards us,hard. I have some saplings to contend with. Dadwhispers "take the shot". Kabloom!!!!!.. smoke fills the air! It clears in time to see her runnng acrossed the hill. Dad does not shoot. He says you hit her good..he didn't shoot cuz he thought she was going down. We talked about the shot and it turns outhe had a better angle and a clearer shot. I didn't know that, at the time, and given the chance I would have let her come down more broadside. But he assured me the hit was good. We walked over to the spot UH-Oh lots of white hair mixed with the brown, I'm afraid I was too low. We start tracking, Blood! lots of it. Should we give some time??? Man with all these hunters..we better stay on her. We cross the creek. Blood is flowing hard, Dad was gonna try and circle ahead I call him down. She can't be far now with this blood. We cross the creek go up a slight rise where I expect she'll be. She apparently laid down big blood pool. But our haste may have jumped her. We take a couple more steps and BOOM a shot just ahead of us. Another guy finished her off..We tracked right to where he shot her. No biggie we congradulated him andtold him our story. He said he could see she was hit and didn't want a wounded deer running around. We agreed, shook his hand, congradulated him again and left! Sigh A tad low indeed. It would have done the job. But a better shot would have made the whole ordeal a little better. A fun day..and the spot I put Dad was indeed a good one!

Sounds like a good experience with Pops either way GR8. Would have been niceif the father and son tag team could have recovered the Doe but some of the fun is seeing the deer, attempting the shot, the anticipation of walking up to the where the deer was and seeing if you can find blood, and the tracking, ahh the tracking. The tracking isthe second most exciting part to me beside knowing the deer you have decided to take, offers you a shot, is finding the blood trail and the anticipation of following the trail in hopes of seeing that familiar white belly, or brown back, ar antlers sticking up. Sounds like good times.

To make a short story long every year I buy a gravity wagon full of corn from a local farmer about 5000 lbs. And at the end of our rifle season I start feeding the deer behind my barn,there is a mercury light on the pole bringing power to the barn and I can watch them from my house.
Well after months of scouting pics and two early seasons with no sightings or pics of anything worthy I didn't have much hope to see any good bucks after the seasons ended either.
But of course you guessed it last night I was helping my neighbor from the "neighbor cam pics" when my wife text's me about a giant buck behind the barn.Yea right a giant I'm thinking "sure'. So I get home and no giant deer,no any deer. Well about two thirty I get up to wizz and put some wood on the fire but first I check for the "giant " deer & yep hes there and a giant as far as this area goes,main frame 10 point very clean maybe 22-23 inches wide.
Where the hell he came from I don't have a clue but he was chasing a couple of doe fawns all over.
I will try for pics and with any luck some sheds.