GR8 VIII's Official Team Thread
 

Here we go I'll get this thing started. I'm ready to hit the woods. This year I'll be hunting in Ohio and Indiana. Right now I'm living in Ohio for college but i'll be making some trips home whenever I can. Season in ohio starts september 27th and Indiana october 1st.

Team 8

8. Centauri
125. kellyguinn
63. Brent B
19. phish500
62. Mottz
72. fshafly2
51. Robow45
55. garett12
20. StealthHtr22
39. Arjuna

I'm here.... I'll be hunting primarily public land in Western Oklahoma. The season gets started here Oct 1 and goes thru Jan 15 so plenty of time to hopefully get something down.. Good Luck Team.

We need to see about getting the contest threads up at the top and by thierself like it normally is to avoid alot of confusion.

Mottz here. I will be hunting some private ground here in South Central Nebraska. Sept 15th can not get here soon enough. I have a couple good bucks that I am very hopeful on seeing in the field.

Hey kelly, good to see ya again!

Arjuna here! I will be hunting in AL and some in Florida. Season starts Oct 15 in AL and runs to the end of February for FL. Good luck guys, I will try to post some pics from the trail cameras I put out yesterday.

Centauri here. Looks like i'll be hunting private farmland here in western WI.

Well it looks like we've got a pretty strong team so far. Here is a big ten pointer i'm gonna be lookin for this fall. Dad found his sheds this spring and we've also got a trail cam video of him. I think he was right around 130" last year.

Here's another one I got pics of last fall.

Heres a few that I'm going to be watching for.







Theres a couple pics of the same deer but I like the pics.

My 2 bucks from todays check.

Looks like they still have the velvet stickin. What time do they normally shed there in your neck of the woods.

Should be losing the velvet anytime now. Someone on another forum I'm on has 1 that doesn't have any. I know I wanna see these guys without it.

Checking in. I'll be hunting private, public and the local Navy Base here in So MD. The Navy Base may open ahead of the 15 Sept opener for the rest of MD. Nice bucks there Mottz!

-fsh

I'll be putting my trail cam out on my hunting land Tuesday so maybe I can have some good pics for all of you. Should have done it sooner...

Phish500 Checking in! NC opener is less than 2 weeks out!!

Robow where in southern ohio will you be heading. I got a couple small spots here in allen county near lima, ohio.

Looks like this team is getting ready to go. Only waiting on 2 guys. Thats not bad. Hope they show up soon. Have a few things to say here. 1st, Brent since you started this thread I'm going to vote you as Captain. You've been doing great so far and I'd like to see you continue!

2nd, I think everyone should start throwing some names out there. Only one I can think of so far is The Great Eights. Since we are team 8. Give me time though, I'm usually pretty crafty when it comes to names.

3rd, and I'm sure kelly will back me on this is no matter whats going on through the season, lets keep the team chatter goin. Even if its about nothing. Getting to know a little bit about each other is what this is all about. During the spring turkey contest I was with kelly and we were constantly talking and our thread blew everyone away with replies. It made it alot of fun keeping our name at the top.

And 4th, everyone have a SAFE year!! And have fun out there and don't be afraid to share your hunting successes and even your disappointing hunts.

Great post, Mottz.

I put my cameras out on Friday. I wore my snakeboots and shorts...forgot to use bug spray...now I have about two dozen bright red chigger welts. Oh, well...that's bowhunting!

If we are only waiting on 2 guys then right now, we are the Eight Great Eights or 8GR88's.

South of Dayton. It's our first time hunting Ohio. We've got a few big boys on our t-cams. Can't wait to get down there!

G8-VIII's or G8-8's would work, but still time to work on names.

I've been busy planting food plots on my farm and on the local Navy Base, so my scouting has been minimal save checking out trail cams. Irene dumped 4+" of needed rain on the plots, no erosion-fortunately, and the plots will be looking good this fall.

I've been getting some pics of nice bucks on the trail cams, but mostly at night. I'll post some pics in the near future. No lack of deer here in So MD - the State limit is 36 deer for the bow-ML-shotgun seasons. I don't gun hunt for deer, but I'll be taking the bow out for all seasons.

-fsh

Nice thats not too far from me. I'm here at lima going to the University of Northwestern Ohio. Right now i'm taking tech classes in there ag and diesel program, but I plan on staying a little longer and getting a degree in agribusiness. So far I've been here a year so i'm still trying to meet people in the area to gain more access to hunting ground. I found a 100 acre woods that they do a lottery draw on that i'm planning on putting my name in for next year. Other than that I found 2 small places to hunt here both are surrounded by corn. At home in Indiana I live on a Purdue University crop research farm with about 100 acres of woods to choose from.

I'll be putting my trail cam out on the farmland I'm hunting today. Always seen lots of deer in the fields so I think I got a pretty good chance.

x's 2.....especially about the being safe and having fun!!

If it wasn't for the chat and comradery during the turkey contest there is no way I would have pushed myself as hard as I did to get that silly little bird..lol But man it was alot of fun :)

fshafly2, is that your wirehaired dachshund? I had one, but i had to give him to a friend due to some marital struggles we were having about him and the kids, shoes, and his excitable tinkling problem. He was a great dog and I had fun training him. He found a gutshot deer for a friend last year. We'll see how he does this year. Tell me about yours...if the profile pic is your dog....

Arjuna
Yes, Ruby is my wirehair dachshund, my "second" love. I know about the excited p'ng, and fortunately Ruby grew out of it - she'll be turning 3yrs this Dec. She came from a long line of deer trackers, and easily passed her UBT-1 test (United Blood Trackers) last summer. Ruby recovered 14/28 deer last fall, but a few of those were "confidence builders". She can be a great tracker at times - one trail was 1.2 miles and a few others were near 1000yds. The only grief last year was she would sometimes want to follow a non-wounded deer in the group instead of the wounded deer, go figure (a training issue). She's shown more maturity in her training tracks this summer, so I have my hopes.

-fsh

Here's a buck she recovered last year after the original search had been abandoned:

I sent pm's to both of the fellas that havent checked in yet hopefully they show up soon.

I need to get me a dog like that. I don't think my english walker hound is that smart lol.

Guess I better move my camera!.......I think?
 

http://youtu.be/yJgqDccoQp4

There's my boy barking at an empty live trap.

I think I'd put up a few more in that orchard.:wink:

Is that going to be your new screen saver Robow?:biggrin: Looks like an active spot for a cam!!

15 days now til opening day. 17 til I'm in the stand. Getting just a little excited here!!

Checked out the trail cam I put last night, all I got was the same 2 yearling does, and I can't even shoot does. I'll be checking back on Friday.

Good idea!

We had high hopes for that spot but we got more pics of the owner’s dog than we did deer.

Nice doe, robow! She'll probably attract some bucks, lol.

-fsh

What moon phase is that?...it's not really full or new, is it?

Well just to get to know everyone a little better, I thought I'd throw up a pic of myself with my last years rifle buck. Anyone else wanna share who we are all talking to?

Oh, and I thought I'd show you what the wife bought me for my birthday last month. What can I say, I'm obsessed!! Had to get my kids' names on there!

My buck from last year.

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z.../lCA9O3VTQ.jpg


My big 2 from high school.

Looks like this team has potential! -fsh

Here is the buck I shot in last year's contest, aged at 6 1/2 yrs by cementum annuli:



And some past HNI contest bucks: