Guys, here's the video out my bathroom window this morning. He walked within 15 yards of my treestand I hunt there this year. I'm not sure why he's coming to my sand mound although I did plant it 2 years ago, perhaps something is actually growing there now.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v499/Poorguy/Videos/?action=view&current=Big3x5RobBuck.flv

Nice Video Rob! Cool looking buck!

That's a great looking buck, Rob. Is he coming in around the same time each morning? How much land do you own there?

Mauser- Hope there's no conflict, but keep us posted.

Rob- Nice buck! Does he walk by your 3-D range to get to your sand mound? Just curious how he reacts to your deer targets.

Ryan- Sounds like you definitely haveyour seasonplanned out, just need to get it done by the 16th Im sure it will work out

thanx guys...i'll let ya'll know...dont worry my eyes, its like public land...first come first serve...if my alarm goes off and i get up with it, i'll be the first one there unless he sleeps there...last year i was on stand at like 4am...do the same this year...actually works great because everytime im there THAT early, i hear deer walking around in the dark....

just too many hunters and not enough land in my neck of the woods...and BIG bucks draw crowds and word spreads like wildfire....i havent seen him...maybe this weekend while im coonhunting at home i'll see him...

im not worried about the other guy....hes gunna ask "didnt you see the tree stand" and im gunna say NOPE! wasnt there in MARCH when i trimmed my trails and shooting lanes and built the brushpiles cleaning up the area!! spot aughta look GREAT...i found deer like brushpiles opposed to limbs and junk laying all over the woods so i piled all the big branches and stuff in a couple brush piles...seems to calm them and gives me more opprotunites to draw...

lets just hope he hunts elsewhere opening morning and the biggun gives me a shot and i let the air outta him!


Rob, thats a nice one!! wide and decint mass...will he break your magic 100" mark that you been trying to break?? (pretty sure you said before you havent taken a buck over 100" ) i stink at scoring...i know he got beam legnth, decint mass and spread workin for him! hes about as "rob buck" as one can get with both sides...im confident you'll be posting pics with you behind him!

Nice buck Rob, hope you get him. Mauser, a couple parcels of my hunting lands are almost like public as well now, wasn't so a few years ago.

My hunting bow and setup:

'05 Bowtech Patriot(love it so I can't retire it)
Muzzy dropaway rest
Predator sight
Easton A/C Superslim 400's
Broadheads: Rocky Mtn. Turbo, Muzzy MX-3, G5 Montec. Haven't determined which head will be my "buckbuster" yet. I've had excellent success with the RM Turbos the three seasons I've used them so its hard to change.

Haven't seen many here yet, the great Northern doves won't come down south for a while. I'll be hunting some nearby public land for doves, I don't think it will be crowded. When they start harvesting the crops we used to go up river and hunt on a large sandbar in mid-river that divides Illinois and Indiana, but I doubt we do that this year.

i hear ya coug....its no fun...but, i guess thats the name of the game in PA. gotta scout and hunt SMARTER than the average hunter....


looking at ariel photos of that farm that gave me permission to groundhog hunt yesterday has my mouth WATERING!!! looks like a good bit of fields behind the barn upto the treeline...about 10acres or so of woods...then another field, which is L O N G but only 1 crop wide so its not very wide at all runs perpindicular to the road..its as long as ALL the other fields to get to the treeline...but not wide...to the west of that is a BIG chunk of woods...but theres a treeline between the 10acres and BIG chunk made by that long, thin field...talk about a VERY potential funnel!! looking at the layout id say the farmer owns both pieces of fields and probably atleast the small section of woods, if not the large chunk as well. even if he doesnt own the small chunk, that treeline strip that ajoins the 2 looks GOOD from the ariel...

SURELY going to be back there!!! got me excited!

was going to do more door knocking today but its kinda crappy out...not raining at the time, but not nice out....if i could get onto 1 or 2 or 3 farms here at school id be SET for school hunting spots...between them and the SGLs...im not greedy...i only need a couple spots and can rotate them and keep them fresh...

Mauser, how many more years do you have left out there? I'm wishing now that I would have went there (although they didn't ultimately have my degree, so it wouldn't have worked out anyways). I would have loved having access to all that public land during the week when I was in school.

this is my last year at SRU matt.

lotttttttts of public land opps here...moraine, mconnells mills, countless SGLs within 30mins of here....

i like my gamelands up north, though its a bit of a drive...i like the hills...the big woods...i cant stand the land down around school....flat, swamp, just boring...did alot of walking on sgl 95 in butler co and moraine...toooo many hunters. figure most of the areas around here are like that...my gamelands up north is empty..10k acres to myself practically lol...

i got into a good school "in the city" for engineering...past it up coz i couldnt hunt or fish lol...came here in the pre-engineering deal 2 or 3 yr here and 2 or 3 at PSU...but only lasted a semester...

if im not hunting, im fishing or scouting or...maybe in class or doing work...

i RARELY miss a class...maybe a class or 2 a semester tops...and usually because im deathly sick...i do good and hunt and fish in my "down time" i just gotta make sure i focus and get my work and studying done this year...