those are some hosses right there. hopefully they made it through. good luck

man if those two bucks made it through they will be absolute monsters!! i sure hope they did and you can get one of them

9 days to go so looking forward to season !!!!!! The muzzys are flying strait, so im ready to stick a deer.Have seen a few six pointers visiting the apple trees.One is about 3 times the size of the rest so he is my target. gl to the rest of the team...

Yeah, only a few days until I'm out there.

9 days for me too! cant wait!!!

i wont be heading out this weekend due to harvest of our corn. i will be hopefully going out sometime next week and next weekend. i won't be able to hunt in the evenings very long now. i got switched to night sift milking so i have to quit hunting around 4 or so

Got all the goodies descented and then hung outdoors for 2 days to give them that fresh air smell, got the deer scouted and patterened, the bows sighted in and I Am Ready...... and that full harvest moon has really got me in the mood to do some hunting!

To All Our Team Members
Now once you have that deer down and tagged :barmy:
Dont Forget To Get Photo's With Your Whole Deer, You and The Bow In The Photo's Everyone.
Be Safe and have a Great Hunting Season

good luck to you lady forge! put us on the board in a good way!!

Go get em. I just scored on a doe the other night. Buck opens up on the 2nd!

Shane

we dropped to the second page again! thats not supposed to happen

how did opening weekend go for you lady forge? Less than a week until i am out there, cant wait!!

i seen a big 12 pointer saturday afternoon. i was driving tractor with a grain buggy and he come scooting out of the corn in front of combine. he had real tall tines and was pretty wide. im hoping he'll be around next weekend when i can start hunting for the first time this year

Opening day here in Illinois isnt until October 1st... Im with you, Cant Wait:woot:

I was out scouting on Sat. in Northern IL, I was very surprised see at least 10 scrapes hit very hard. They were all field edge scrapes.
Them boys are already thinking about it. I'll be out in a few weeks. Looking good!


bb

Good luck to all of you in the coming weeks. I am looking forward to Friday as it is our opener. it has been a long dry hot summer here so the cool weather this week is welcomed.

Glad to see everyone is getting ready for season. Looking forward About a a month and a half to my midwest trip. Can't wait. Good luck all.

seems like everyone will be getting out there at basically the same time. good luck to all this weekend, hopefully we can get at least one on the board!

Yes, it does look like everyone is getting in at the same time. I would be in the woods now here in Florida but in order for me to huint some public land, I have to drive for almost 2 hours each way and then brave the heat, swamps and biting bugs. I love to hunt but Central Florida leaves something to be desired in September. I will get out in October though, just waiting for the first cold (cool) front to move in.

32 hours til the season opens here!!!!!!

Good luck to everyone who is going in the morning should be a perfect. A Cool 43 degrees with a slight north wind!!

gl team on opening weekend by most of us .have a big six set in my sights lets go buckaneers

well i hope everyone had a great day(s) of hunting. this morning was a great opening morning, didnt shoot anything but saw 25 deer, 5 of which were bucks. nothing big but great to get out there, see a bunch of deer, and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Well I got my required Doe at the Park so I am now
BUCK HUNTING BABY:barmy:
I got some great video footage from my treestand opening day.. I had a shooter 12 point buck come into 9 yards from my treestand and just hung there in his staging area for roughly 20 minutes... he was then joined by a 8 point buck... they put on a real show for my video camera:biggrin:
To bad he didnt come in till
after I had gotten my required Doe:rant:
Checkout the entrance hole the Grim Reaper 2 inch cut Broadhead did on this Doe:s4:

wow thats a crazy big hole. congrats on the doe, hopefully another big buck will come in for you now!!

i went out this morning in the rain but didnt see any deer, too bad

I made it out opening morning but didn't see a deer. Was out last night and had 11 does come in just out of bow range. Knowing where the does are will be huge in the next few weeks. Just have to be patient now.

congrats on the kill lady!! thats one heck of a hole you put through her. hopefully now you can do the same thing to mature buck. i went out this weekend and didn't see much. seen a half rack saturday and a few does then sunday just hunted the morning and seen 2 does

Yesterday morning I headed to the park on the herd reduction Bowhunt ...I took the climber and climbed one of my favorite trees... its a great spot I have proabably killed 10 deer out of it over the last few years
First I see a yote come trotting through after it had ran by Christine at 15 yards ( she was just a few hundred yards away in another tree and they dont allow us to kill yotes in the park ) and then not any thing else for about an hour except a lone doe out of range... then in the thicket I see movement, first thing I thought was , DAMIT here comes a pack of yotes, but it wasnt yotes it was 2 does with their young ones. Once they cleared the thicket I saw I had a nice hole to shoot through on the trail they were traveling on. The first doe entered the hole and I bleated to stop her and settled the 20 yard pin on her and let it rip.... shot looked perfect... grabed another arrow nocked it and the 2nd deer entered the hole and I mouth bleated to stop it and settled the pin again and let it rip... shot looked like a good double lung... grabbed another arrow and nocked it and the 3rd doe entered the hole and I rembered I only had one tag left and I needed to save it for a buck.. so the 3rd Doe got a free pass
Well the 1st Doe was a perfect heart shot and went about 40 yards and dropped dead... the 2nd deer was her button and it was a double lung that cut half of a rib on the entrance and completely broke in half the exit rib and it dropped not 6 feet from its mother.
Now I prefer not to shoot button bucks but unfortunatly I didnt see its buttons
Here are few pics.

congratulations once again lady! your really slayin them so far!!

Thanks
I took my older video camera and hocked it up to my tV and then took photos with my camera of the video footage of the 12 pointer I videoed the other day from my treestand.
Its not the best quality but you can see the buck.

and a few other photos of him.. and notice how thick his neck is already in that last photo.... ?

...... I know where that video was taken.. ;)

Congrats one the harvest LF and HC get out there and get that 12lver before LF does! team #3 needs points on the board

congrats to those who scored already ive had good and bad luck was out hunting saw deer good news... clutch went out in car bad news so.,... no way to get anywhere for a few days till its fixed so the deer i saw get a pass from me for a little bit.

Dammmmmit:bash:
Well... I know where your " Stupid Stand Is At ":p

I had Cabbage and squash for dinner so what ever spot I hunt tommorrow will now be known as the " Windy Stand ":eek:

Kendall hunted the 'Stupid Stand' today. He scared the poop out of a hiker but that's it. :D

The stand where I hunted the other night will now be know as the 'poison ivy stand'. Note the top part of my climber in the photo. It was like that most of the way up... and it was even more annoying trying to come down.


...note to self.. hunt upwind of Deb. LOL!

As Louie always says " Just practicing my grunt tube ":jaw:

Nothing to report. And now you know the rest of the story.

congrats lady on slaying some deer. i have yet to see and decent buck. it was about 85 degrees here and sunny so we were picking corn like crazy today. i wanted to go out but the family business comes first

Hey team I have been working crazy hours at work and have not been on much. I have managed to get out 3 times and have smoked 2 does already, both heart shots. Buck activity has been so slow. Apparently it has been like this all over around here, at least those are the reports I am getting. Will be out wed/thurs. this week. I will post pics of the does shortly.


Shane

Congrats on the Doe's !!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Ya its been hot hot here and Im not seeing much buck activity also,,, just the usual rubs etc that you would see at this time of year... but no real strong movement, Stayed home today since it is supposed to be 91 degrees ...cant wait for this dagum heat wave to break:s6:

Sorry if I have not posted for a while. I'll be out in the deer woods in a couple weeks. It's been way to hot for me. I plan on doing all my doe wacking with my pistol during the gun season, so I will only concentrate on horns when I get out. They have already starting to harvest the corn in northern IL. Last year it was mid Nov.
Corgrats to everyone who has connected on some early season loins.

bb