great job dliz!!!:rock: that's awesome. I plan to hunt hard the next 3 days as long as I don't get any sicker!, Ive hunted before with pneumonia, so it takes a lot to keep me out of the woods. It's looking like it will be a good weekend for hunting

Holy giant buck batman!!! Congrats he's a monster!! Wow.

Ryan.

Hey dliz, you did hang me a stand right ;)

Ryan

Yo Ryan,

I just pulled your stand today. I'm finished :)!!!!!

Damn. That's brutal... I'd die for any single one of my old hockey teammates... Where's the brotherhood on this team. Dang...

Ryan ( ;) )

Yo guys,

Here's my story. Had vacation on Friday, on Thursday night went spotting to check out a couple of fields to see any buck activity. Saw maybe 10 doe total in the several fields I spotted. No buck harassing any doe in any of the fields. I’m thinking at this time last year I saw a couple of buck chasing doe hard. This may seem stupid but sometimes by doing this you can kind of gauge the chase and seek stage. Following spotting, I’m kind of thinking I’m not going to have a good day tomorrow again. I’ve hunted pretty hard so far and have not seen a good buck in any of my stands yet. Re-washed all my Scentlok hunting clothes on Wednesday night to get ready for the next two weeks. (Don’t know if scentlok really works but every little bit helps)

Got in my tree stand at 6 am, the wind looks good. I’ve only hunted this spot one time previously this year. I know this is a good spot and try not to over hunt it until the rut starts. It’s overcast and it doesn’t get light enough to shot until about 720 am. At 8 am I pull out my grunt call and give 2 doe bleats followed by a couple of grunts. I figured this was a go strategy because if the rut is close a buck just might say hey I need to check this out. About five minutes pass, and I see movement out the ridge. I can see horns on the deer but it doesn’t look really big. The buck starts to move towards me along the ridge. He keeps looking in my direction trying to figure were the sound came from. He drops below me about 30 yards away and then walks right under my tree. He is about 13” wide and he has 5 points on one side and 4 on the other. When I first saw him I knew I was going to let him pass but as he got closer I was surprised by how any points be had. His tines were only about 3” tall and his brow tine were about an inch or two. I could have jumped on his back. I was so quiet when he got to y boot tracks he stopped and started sniffing the ground like a vacuum. It was pretty cool. I was surprised that he didn’t get startled. After about five minutes be was out the ridge and up the mountain. I waited for about ½ hour and tried the same calling sequence. After a couple of minutes I noticed movement below me down the ridge about 100 yards away. At this point I could see he was a good buck but didn’t really know how good. I grunted him three times and noticed his head look up the mountain. He started moving up the ridge straight in my direction. I stood up, grabbed my bow and tried to stay calm. He was moving straight at me and as he came closer I new he was a great buck. When he was 30 yards away he was angled straight at me. He turn below me and started to walk to my right. At 20 yards he moved behind two trees and I drew. At this point I’m in my tree 20’ up and he is down the ridge maybe 20 yards. I was virtually shooting straight down on him. He was slightly quarter towards me but I felt as soon as he clears the tree I’m going to take this shot. I was worried about the wind direction and if he went any further the tree I was in was going to give me problems. This meant, I would have to wait until he was behind me and at that point I thought he might pick me up because of the wind direction. When he cleared the tree and stopped I let the arrow fly. I heard a crack and watch him go right down. The arrow went straight down through his spine and was sticking out about a foot. He pulled himself down the mountain about 60 yards and stopped. I thought I might have taken out the artery that runs along the spine, so I waited and called my buddy. After 20 minutes he still had his head up so I decided to get out of the tree and stick another arrow in him. I circled below him so he could not move down hill and stuck him with another arrow. What a great hunt. It took me about 1 hour of dragging to get him out of the woods. It was well worth the sweat. Sorry for the length of it but I could probably still go on with more details. By the way, I going to submit a gross score of 144 4/8. What a great day!!!!!!!!

Dave

Congrats Dliz, that is a really impressive buck!

Congrats Dave, i cant see your pics but im sure its a great buck.
Well guys ive redeemed myself some this morning. Arrowed a decent buck this morning, decent to me anyways. I got to the tree at 615 and went up about 15' to 20' in my climber and waited for shooting light. Just as the sun was coming up i see a spike walking about 80 yards away on the edge of a feild, and he makes a scrape, pretty cool to watch. Then a little later 5 does come running through where the spike came through, they kept looking behind them but i never saw anything. Then at 815 i look behind me and there he is, munchin on acorns 45 yards away. I grab my bow and wait for him to get closer. He starts walking toward me then turns and walks strait behind me, so i have to move around to the other side of the tree. So i see a tree that he is walking toward and i range the tree so this time im for sure on the distance, it right at 30 yards. So he walks behind the tree and i draw, he steps out and i settle my pin and let the arrow fly. Turns out i drilled him but when i shot i thought i saw the arrow went high, i thought "oh no i just screwed up again". But he went about 40 yards from where i shot him, starting wobbling and fell over. I was pumped to say the least. He's not the biggest deer in the woods and he's not as big as the deer i hit wed(i was in the same stand btw) but im dang happy with him. Ill try to get a score on him either tonight or tomorrow. Here's the pics. I cant get the pics to load from my aunts camera for what ever reason so all i have are the pics on my phone.
Its the youth season this weekend so thats why im wearing orange.

Im not missing a tooth, it just looks like it in the pic lol.

And one from the meat house

Wayne,

Thats one great buck. He also looks heavy. Congrats again and great story. Wayne, I thought about you when I recovered my deer because another inch or higher and I would have missed my deer. Believe it or not we might be in first place in the contest with the last two deer. Wayne, put this picture in so you could view it.

Dave

Ya, i can see it now, hell of a buck man, congrats! I got my buck scored, he comes in right at 90", a lot more than what i was thinking. Hopefully with these two bucks we'll be one of the top scoring teams now.