got out friday out here in central pa and only saw 4 does. sat in a new spot hoping to have a lot of action but it wasnt all too good. i really wanna get back to eastern pa again which i will be doing saturday so hopefully i can get on one of the big bucks im after. good luck everyone

Great job Lady A. Hopefully the nice buck will walk your way soon. Things have been slow here. Been in the 90's so very little movement. With the cold front coming through later this week I hope more deer will be on their feet during hunting hours.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am off to Illinois tomorrow for a four day hunt. The weather looks to be pretty good with a front moving in so I am hoping for a mature buck to be up on it's feet during prime time. Good luck to everyone this weekend.

good luck to you densfbs!! hopefully you have a great trip and bring back a nice set of horns with you! good luck to everyone else as well, hopefully we can get on the board here soon

Good luck to you in Illinois. I will be up there in a few weeks. Heading to Arkansas next week to hunt my family farm. Did not think I was going to be able to make it this fall but now it looks like I am. I like it when a plan starts to come together. Wish it was a little cooler there this next week and I totally forgot about muzzleloader season in full effect but I am going to make the best out of it. Don't get to go back as often as I would like.

Well... I am up to 6 deer so far :)
Since I am very tired here is the condensed verson.

I got out yesterday morning on the Park Property Herd Reduction Bowhunt... so Does are a goal including doe fawns... our target # of deer they want removed from the park is 75 deer.
Earlyier a small 6 pointer come under me and then this doe fawn came in with her brother do she was the target.
I then returned to the park this morning and had this doe with twins come in so I shot the Doe and then her doe fawn then relized I was now out of tags so I got out of the tree at 8:12 am ... since I didnt want a shooter buck coming in on me and then not be able to shoot him since I was out of tags.
Believe me there is no bragging on my shot placement on the last 2 deer, while yes they didnt go far before dieing but I didnt hit either one where I was aiming, cant explain why?????.... On the doe the hole looks good ... but....it is the exit hole in the pic.
Had to come home and buy new tags so no eveing hunt for me... it was a bit warm though anyway.
Gonna get out in the morning to buck hunt.
Good Luck Everyone

congrats once again lady! your really puttin the hammer down on them. i was out this morning for a few hours back in eastern pa, passed up a young 8 pointer and a small 4 point. just waiting for the big boys to come along

Hello all, it seems that nobody has posted in a couple of days. Hope everyones season is going well. Have not accomplished too much myself as of yet but going to Arkansas this week for a few days and then the midwest in a couiple of weeks. Now its prime time.

dang lady!! your knocking them over like crazy this year. i have yet to see a mature buck on stand. been seeing alot of does and some smaller bucks

This morning HNI Christine and I headed over to the park to bowhunt on the herd reduction.
Christine headed to one part of the park while I headed to another part of the park.
We were both hoping to connect on a good buck... but neither of of completed the task.
Instead we both at roughly the same between 7:15am and 7:20am took these deer.:s3:
So I am now at 7 deer and gonna have to lay off the deer for a while ... unless its a good buck.. then I'm letting one fly!
Christine took a real nice doe right through the top of the heart
and my deer was supposed to be a doe but somehow it became a button....:bash:

damn lady look at you killin again! i am getting jealous, i really need to get some meat in the freezer

Well... Deer #8 Down:kiss:
This morning I headed into a spot that I hadnt hunted yet this season since I was waiting for a paticular wind to hunt this spot and it paid off in a Doe but alas no buck showed up... go figure I was buck hunting and the only thing that showed up was 2 Doe's and 3 Fawns... Guess the buck didnt get the memo:sad:

well guys should of had us on the board with a good buck tonight but hit him bad and didnt find him. it was a big 8 pointer i havent seen before, came out at last light and i got a shot off at him in the cut corn field at about 35 yards. he was just feeding and i think he must of took a step when i shot because i hit back in the hind leg. had good blood and followed it for around 600 yards until it stopped. looked around a lot more and didnt find anything else. good thing is with the hit how it looked i think he should make it through no problem, just sucks that i didnt get him but it happens

Sorry to hear about your buck.... hopefully youll get out there and get another crack at him:s4:

dang lady!! do you got a big enough freezer for all them deer?? i just haven't been seeing the deer this year. hopefully they show up shortly

Nope.... I donate alot of deer.

I am leaving for a bowhunting trip to Western Illinois tomorrow... hopefully I can tag a good buck... see ya'll in a few days:cool2:

well from what i have been hearing there is a lot of chasing activity going on in eastern pa so i am skipping some classes and heading home tomorrow night to hunt thursday, friday, and saturday so hopefully i will get a good one on the ground. good luck everyone

went out shining last night and seen a monster buck on our farm. he was probably pushing 20+ inches wide and looked like a 10 or 12 pointer. hopefully he stays around until friday so i can whack him

well guys today was an amazing day of hunting, saw at least 12 bucks and at least 5 were shooters. all either bedded with a doe or chasing a doe. Could of shot a few smaller ones and a nice 8 but he is young so i gave him the pass. hopefully tomorrow i will get a shot at one of the bigger ones!

I am finally heading into the deer woods this weekend.
Good luck to all.

bb

I have word that a certain team member here has a nice buck on the ground! :D

I be peaking at your stuff!

well then im guessing lady forge got a buck!! hopefully its a big one, cant wait to hear about it

I'm Back....... and...... Yep its a Buck, I Got Some Bone For Our Team
I gotta tell the story first though.
I was bowhunting in Brown County Illinois.... and for the 1st two days the wind was howling so the bottoms was where I hunted.
The first morning jim smacked a Doe on his way to pick me up and damaged his new truck enough to need a new quarter panel and head light and damaged the passenger door, ... then....I miss placed my glasses so I hunted blind since I cant tell a spike from a doe at 20 yards without my glasses .... so to say the least we were off to a rough start
Thursday morning I shot a buck I figured was in the 140's and quess he was a 10 point ( I didnt study his rack to well since I didnt want to get focused on antlers I just saw him and knew he was a shooter with good mass and real long tines and width was just past his ears )and he was trying to get up on the bench on the ridge above me and I new I wouldnt have any cover to draw my bow back so he was 19 yards behind me quartering to me hard, and I drew, I had been at full draw for what seemed like forever and couldnt let down since he was almost eyelevel with me and looking my way and just standing there forever I placed my 20 yard pin on him and shot but I must have blinked cause I didnt see the arrow hit him. Well he took off and was holding his back leg off the ground and wouldnt put weight on it, the arrow did pass threw him . So 3.5 hours later we went back and got the arrow, and it had meat and fat on the front but good blood soaking on the back, we trailed him to a bed and then 20 yards away he jumped up and took off, so the 3 off us followed with me having a arrow nocked we got 10 yards from him in brush up over my head, he hadnt gone 50 yards and bedded again was 10 yards away and you couldnt see him laying there, then the guys said they thought he was better than 140's they thought 150's, then he didnt go another 50 yards and bedded again and again we wernt 10 yards from him and he took off again but this time we lost the blood... so no recoverery so in hind sight we all would have waited till the next morning to look for him but hindsight is 20 20. Then Jim and Jeremy said they will go back in a few days and see if they can find him cause they belive he was fatally wounded since he was bedding so close together and he was all hunched up.

Every sit in the stand I watched lots of bucks chasing Doe's around, and watched bucks make rubs, scrapes and work licking branches... so it was on fire in Brown County Illinois.

Friday morning I was sitting a stand in a area down in the bottoms called the HELL HOLE.... For good reason, its a NO Shooting Doe's stand, only shooting bucks stand since its in such a bad area to try and get a deer out of.
The first deet that morning was a classic Rob buck he had a spike on his left side and a good 4 points on his right side , he walked by at 7 - 8 yards and headed up to the cedar thicket above me. Next a 6 point came by chasin a doe at 20 miles an hour into the cedar thicket, then across the creek 65 yards behind me 3 bucks come chasin does up into the cedar thicket they looked like a 130 inch 8 point, a 140ish 8 point and a 160 inch 9 or 10 point couldnt really tell for sure. they chased 2 does behind me to 12 yards and then the does went back into the cedar thicket, then they headed back across the creek with the bucks after them grunting, then they came chasin back to my side of the creek again. A doe comes down behind me to 13 - 15 yards with the big 160ish buck behind her, he was 28 yards from me but he stayed behind a dead cedar with tons of dead braches everywhere and I had no shot at him through all the branches and the doe then went back up into the cedar thicket and he followed her out of sight... damit!!!!
So I headed back to the Hell Hole stand that afternoon hoping he would show again, ( I bumped 2 deer on the way in since the dry leaves on the ground made it sound like you were walking on corn flakes even though I was doing my best attempt to sound like a squirril walking in but neither of the deer sounded like they went to far).
I had not been in the stand 30 seconds when a small buck chased a doe across the creek 65 yards behind me again ( I would of killed to have a stand in that 65 yard spot !!!!! )
So a while goes by and I rattle with the antlers and get no response after an hour rattle again and nothing, so 40 minutes later I tickle the antlers a little and in comes the same Rob buck from the morning hunt with the spike on one side and the 4 points on the other then he seen a doe fawn in the creek and went chasing after her, then a nice 8 point comes off the cedar ridge in front of me and makes a rub but he was being very slow and very weary and dissappeared at the creek, then I tickled the antlers again lightly with one hand while they were hanging on the hook in the tree, and here comes a 9 point from across the creek at the 65 yard spot again, he looks around and I tickle the antlers again with one hand and he turns and heads towards me, he appeared to be a 8 point and not a huge buck but he looked decent and it was the last night of my hunt there in Brown County, he comes in at 19 yards and I watch him making a scrape at 19 yards from me standing broadside so I draw and settle the 20 yard pin on his vital and while he is scraping I shoot him . The shot was about 2 inches higher than I was aiming but it still looked like high double lung and I knew he was dead.
That Buck didnt leave us but maybe 12 small little specks of blood in 400 yards to follow, the arrow didnt blow threw him but I knew my entire arrow ( Arrow is 25.5 inch long )was inside him since when he took off I coulnt see any arrow sticking out of him. so roughly 400 yards latter Jim finds all kinds of blood and a Dead 9 Point Buck of mine... God bless him cause we were just zig zag searching that creek bottom thicket searching for more blood, thought we had lost him.
So it took 4 people and a four wheeler whose 4 wheel drive had gone out and the headlight didnt work a total of FIVE HOURS to get that buck out of there after swamping the four wheeler in the creek and chris and I had to push it out in water up over our rubber boots while the 2 guys tried to pull on the back end... and DAM that water was COLD... so I shot him at 5:30pm and we got him to the truck at 10:30pm. So now you know why its called the HELL HOLE STAND...
He will forever be known to me as my HELL HOLE BUCK
I didnt get home till late yesterday since I was ready to come home at 9:00am but a fellow there shot a NICE 12 point buck and needed help to get it out and I was the only one around that could help him.. so I got home late , I will try and get him scored and entered today.
Hope you all are having great luck !

congrats lady on a beautiful buck!

congrats lady, thats one hell of a buck!!!! your slamming the deer this year! congrats again

Deer #10 Down.
This morning I headed out with my last buck tag to an area where I had taken a nice Doe earlier this season. I got the climber on the tree .. made my accent and then readied myself for sunrise. As I sat there longer and longer I began to doubt my location and wondered if I should have gone to a different spot. But I then resigned myself to hunting this spot and see what happens.
I was still sitting not really thinking about anything just kind of enjoying the woods and taking it all in when I see a buck working his way towards me parralleling the ridge angling up to me.... I see he looks like a shooter to me.... but... I cant stand up ... I am afraid at the angle he is at he will see me move so I readied myself for the shot sitting down.
He steps behind a tree and I come to full draw as he emerges from the other side of the tree I settle my 20 yard pin on his lungs and I swear there must have been someone in the tree above me doing jumping jacks :( Cause that buck stopped dead in his tracks and looked straight up at me... I am at full draw and he is giving me the stair down and hes not liking what he sees... I am still at full draw and starting to falter... I felt my arm start to creep forward and catch it and pull it back and he is still stairing at me and I started to creep again but catch it and pull it back .. he is still staring at me and I am starting to shake bad cause it feels like I have been holding that 60lbs back forever and the pin leaves hes vitals and I catch it and force the pin back on his vitals.
Now he decided he was outta there and takes one step backwards and his body language is telling me he is gonna backup turn and leave and then I'll have no shot so as he turns I have the frontal shot and decide to take it, I was very confident I could make the shot and I took it.
The arrow looked like it was close to where I wanted but hard to tell since he took off so fast with the arrow stuck in him and no exit, I watched him run down the ridge and at roughly 90 to 100 yards I see him stumble and sway then I see him tip over the other way... I can only see little bits of him through all the trees but I hear a crash and thrashing... I hear a very load roar followed by 4 of the loudest grunts I have ever heard and then it fell dead silent.... I didnt hear him running away anymore and I was pretty confident he was down but I couldnt see him... So I stayed in the tree for about maybe a total of 40 minutes and couldnt stand it any more I had to go and see what was where I heard the grunts.
And he was laying right there dead:)
We knew the front part of the broken off arrow was stll in him and low and behold it was still stuck in his heart ... so now that I have tagged out on bucks in Illinois I can go back to Doe hunting after the rut, Video taping hunting for fun, and some scouting for next year.
And lesson learned ... if you act like a dumb senior blonde you can even get your best friend to field dress your deer... Ya... I had to go there Christine :)
He is a 8 pointer with a sticker growing off the back of his left brow tine.

team 9 scores again!

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/bowh...buck-down.html

nice job once again lady! and great job sr77! we are finally getting some points on the board!

congrats to the both of you. those are both some great bucks. congrats again.

Great Job..... Congrats :barmy: :s4:
Way to go and more points for our team

Tonight around 6:00 PM, had 3 does come out of the bedding area, cross the creek and go onto the neighbors' property. Right after them, a buck crossed the fence from the neighbors' and start down the trail towards me. He stopped at 30 yards out while still in the timber and made a scrape. Then he closed the distance to the shooting lane. At 25 feet out he stopped and raised his head to lick a branch. Our eyes locked onto each other and he stomped. I released at about the same time his hoof hit the ground. The arrow entered right behind the shoulder blade on a 40 - 45 degree downward angle. He turned and ran with the arrow still sticking out of him. He disappeared into the woods 50 yards south of me. After 15 minutes of shaking, I got out of the tree and returned home. I spoke with some of my homies and decided to wait until morning to go after him. Praying the Good Lord sees fit to allow me to recover in the AM. Now all I have to do is try and get some sleep (yeah, right).

i went out last wednesday after school and got to the blind around 3:30. i didn't see much besides a couple does and a few fawns. Thursday i went out afterschool again and when i got to the stand i forgot my key to the lock on the stand so i couldn't sit. so i decided just to sit on the ground by the tree. well around 4:30 a big ole 10 pointer come strolling in from on top the hill. he heading down towards me and at about 30 yards he turned and walked right through the thick stuff and never came back out. if i would've been in the stand i could've been above the thicket and gotten a shot at him. thats just my luck to have that happen. friday morning was really slow. i only seen one doe and nothing was moving. so i hung some more stands for late season. hoepfully i'll have better luck this coming weekend

im still around no luck while out hunting yet but have been trying everychance i can

Well AF you have any luck finding that buck?

AF Hunter;
Were you able to recover your deer ?

AF did you find your buck?? i'm heading out this weekend to 300 acres that my cousin and i manage. there are some absolute monster on the property. so hopefully one of them walk under the stand either tomorrow or sunday. wish me luck

hope you knocked a big boy down wis rifle hunter! Archery season ended here yesterday in PA, so im done with the bow for a while until after christmas. hopefully i can get the job done on a nice buck then, had a few opportunities so far but didnt have them work out how i wanted. good luck to everyone!

well i didn't get a shot at a buck. it was a crappy weekend, it rained most the time and it was cold and extremely windy. nothing was moving at all. my cousin did end up shooting a 4 1/2 year old spike buck. each spike was probably 12 inches long. bow season closes here until november 29th due to gun season this weekend and week. i'll be right back out trying to stick a hog