Official Team Silent Stalkers Thread (46)
09-10-2008, 10:23 AM
#181
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Hughesville, PA
Posts: 2,590
RE: Official Team Silent Stalkers Thread (46)
ORIGINAL: 2Poppa
Sorry to hear about your mishap Steve ... I'm praying fpr a speedy recovery!
Just got back lastnight from several days of huntin'. With this cooler front movin' through I wish I would've stayed one more day.
I've been pursuing a couple of huge bucks the last three years and decided to hike back several miles into the deep woods.
At 6:30 the evening of the first day, I saw three does making there way over a ridge and decided to draw back on the last one. Just as I drew back, the first doe snorted and all three bolted over the top of the ridge with two coyote's in tow.
As a rule of thumb, I normally back-track the opposite way I see deer coming from. In this instance, I did the same thing, and was rewarded. The does had come around a gnarley knuckle that jutted off of a three-way ridge intersection.After rounding this knuckle, I came to the intersection and found another gnarley knuckle (small point) that had cedars and thickets directly opposite the one the does had come from.
The wind was in my favor as I waited for night fall. Then suddenly,(I love those,"Then suddenly's"), I saw something that was unusually dark brown moving along the ground,through the woodsless than fifty yards away, below me on what I thought was a deer trail.
My heart was pounding as I waited to pull the string back. Just as I thought everything was coming together, the huge brown object was actually the huge bucks velvet rack. He raised it up to look down the trail. All I could think was, "it looked like four basketballs on his head.
It was massive, I've never seen a Monster buck like this in velvet ... on TV or in a magazine!Another ten yards and he would walk into a shootin' window I had picked out.
The deal would'nt be sealed this evening. The two coyote's I mentioned previously were on his trail and he wheeled around and escaped from all the predators running down into the hollow ... Man?
Sunday and Monday were uneventful, even though I did place a trail-cam next to a watering hole. Can't wait to see what it picks up!
Sorry to hear about your mishap Steve ... I'm praying fpr a speedy recovery!
Just got back lastnight from several days of huntin'. With this cooler front movin' through I wish I would've stayed one more day.
I've been pursuing a couple of huge bucks the last three years and decided to hike back several miles into the deep woods.
At 6:30 the evening of the first day, I saw three does making there way over a ridge and decided to draw back on the last one. Just as I drew back, the first doe snorted and all three bolted over the top of the ridge with two coyote's in tow.
As a rule of thumb, I normally back-track the opposite way I see deer coming from. In this instance, I did the same thing, and was rewarded. The does had come around a gnarley knuckle that jutted off of a three-way ridge intersection.After rounding this knuckle, I came to the intersection and found another gnarley knuckle (small point) that had cedars and thickets directly opposite the one the does had come from.
The wind was in my favor as I waited for night fall. Then suddenly,(I love those,"Then suddenly's"), I saw something that was unusually dark brown moving along the ground,through the woodsless than fifty yards away, below me on what I thought was a deer trail.
My heart was pounding as I waited to pull the string back. Just as I thought everything was coming together, the huge brown object was actually the huge bucks velvet rack. He raised it up to look down the trail. All I could think was, "it looked like four basketballs on his head.
It was massive, I've never seen a Monster buck like this in velvet ... on TV or in a magazine!Another ten yards and he would walk into a shootin' window I had picked out.
The deal would'nt be sealed this evening. The two coyote's I mentioned previously were on his trail and he wheeled around and escaped from all the predators running down into the hollow ... Man?
Sunday and Monday were uneventful, even though I did place a trail-cam next to a watering hole. Can't wait to see what it picks up!
09-10-2008, 12:29 PM
#183
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location:
Posts: 166
RE: Official Team Silent Stalkers Thread (46)
Wanted to update you guys. I might go MIA for a while (few weeks at the most). Tomorrow I go in for surgery and I won't be around till Sunday evening, but I start the new job next week and I'll be commuting for about ten days before my new place is ready. When I finally get down there it might take me awhile before I have Internet access. Right now I have a non networked laptop at my office, which I will not have that luxury at the new job. First day is October 4th for me. I'll be sure to get an update out here if I don't have Internet at the new place.
09-11-2008, 01:44 PM
#185
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Independence, Kentucky
Posts: 273
RE: Official Team Silent Stalkers Thread (46)
Kreagerm, I guess your hunting season begins this Monday ... do you have those big bucks figured out?
Take some pictures of your huntin' area, if you can, it would be interesting to look at different parts of the country and how they compare.
Anyway ... good luck this Monday!
Take some pictures of your huntin' area, if you can, it would be interesting to look at different parts of the country and how they compare.
Anyway ... good luck this Monday!
09-11-2008, 08:03 PM
#186
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Maryland
Posts: 624
RE: Official Team Silent Stalkers Thread (46)
ORIGINAL: 2Poppa
[align=center]Kreagerm, I guess your hunting season begins this Monday ... do you have those big bucks figured out?
Take some pictures of your huntin' area, if you can, it would be interesting to look at different parts of the country and how they compare.
Anyway ... good luck this Monday![/align]
[align=center]Kreagerm, I guess your hunting season begins this Monday ... do you have those big bucks figured out?
Take some pictures of your huntin' area, if you can, it would be interesting to look at different parts of the country and how they compare.
Anyway ... good luck this Monday![/align]
09-11-2008, 08:31 PM
#187
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: MO
Posts: 132
RE: Official Team Silent Stalkers Thread (46)
I'll be out there Mon-Thursday as well, and maybe longer depending on activity in the area.
I'll try and snap some pics as well. I just got word we have 4 additional standsto put play with. I have a lease with a buddy, that will give us 7 stands locations...3 good ones have been up for a month or so.
Wanted these others up earlier, but just didn't work out that way.
Anyway...good luck to everyone hunting this weekend!
I'll try and snap some pics as well. I just got word we have 4 additional standsto put play with. I have a lease with a buddy, that will give us 7 stands locations...3 good ones have been up for a month or so.
Wanted these others up earlier, but just didn't work out that way.
Anyway...good luck to everyone hunting this weekend!
