My bad, I mispoke. I meant for this years contest.

This years largest buck thus far was entered by Peakrut from Team 9 with an entry of 157 6/8.

I knew what you meant, gotcha...all good!

Though its a smile only a momma & a wife could love, you look like a kid on Christmas morning. 8) j/k lol

Way to go man! You guys are really carrying my ass this year good thing I only weigh like 130 or your backs would be screaming!

Way to go Jesse. Very nice Buck.

Okay, okay, you have our attention. Congratulations on the nice buck there Jesse.

Thats right keep looking at them while Team 10 jumps into 1st!

Wow! That buck Jesse shot was a BEAST! Nice job man!
Come on Team 7!!! No kills over the buck infested weekend?

Buck numbers
 

Left Right
MB 24 4/8 ........22 7/8

G1 4 7/8.......... 4 4/8
G2 10 7/8.........11 4/8
G3 9 7/8...........9 7/8
G4 2 3/8...........4 5/8
total
54 4/8 54 2/8

H1 4 7/8..........4 6/8
H2 4 0/8..........4 3/8
H3 4 1/8..........4 4/8
H4 3 4/8..........4 0/8

total
16 4/8 17 5/8

Abnormal G2 1 7/8 1 0/8

Inside spread 19 7/8

Grand Total: 161 6/8

Please let me know if I screwed anything up, thanks!!

Very nice Jesse!! Congrats on 1 helluva buck!

Thats a world class Whitetail right there, absolute wall-hanger. So what kind of mount you having done on that monster?

Thanks!!! Yeah I just got it done with a partial alert left hand look shoulder mount. Its the opposite mount of the one I got done last year however that was just a 130 class buck. He is going up in the fireplace room opposite of that one... Of course I have to move an antler mount off the wall to make room for that one lol. Those antlers will go in my office now....

Our official team score is now 515 4/8, with 9 kills, 6 does & 3 bucks. We're definitely on a roll, but we need to keep with this momentum through the rut if we plan to win this thing.

Sounds awesome man. That 130 will be dwarfed by a 160.

Ok, Im looking over the scorecard here & was under the impression that Jesses 160 would put us in the lead but Team 1 has made some good progress of late & have 9 kills, 5 bucks & 4 does on the board scoring a total of 611 7/8, putting them in 1st place. We're holding 2nd place still with 515 4/8 on the board, while Team Buck U is bringing up 3rd with a score of 483. Its close so far & with scores being posted pretty regularly now, the swings come hard, so its still anyones game. Keep hunting hard fellas!

Nice Buck man. thats awesome we are in 2nd and still have tons of season left to keep gettin kills.

I went out friday and bought a new bow... Bowtech Destroyer LE SHE IS ONE SEXY BOW TOO..

So i'm headed out in the morning to hunt a good set, Just had a cold front come through and drop temps. 30 degrees. Seen a Monster yesterday i'm guessing he was B&C and seen an 8 pt. mount a doe. So they are hot at my farm right now.
Also checked my trail camera and had a 140" 8 pt. under my stand while i was hunting a different one lol

Keep it up team 7 we got this

Go get em man! Activity should be peak, good luck to ya tomorrow.
Btw, congrats on the new purchase, youre right too, that is one sexy bow. Bowtech knows their ****.

I concur..... And good luck!!!!

Pretty intresting contest thus far & its really starting to heat up. Seems Team 10 is going to pull into 1st, but like I said, the swings come hard. Seems Teams 1, 3, 7 & 10 are going to be fighting this one out. Ill keep yall posted.

nice score jesse, good luck topping that one next season.


I have not even had a chance to get out lately. To say that i am frustrated would be a huge understatement!!! I was planning on taking a day off work this week but it doesnt look like i am going to be able to pull that off, but i do get to hunt all weekend so we will see what happens. Had to go back to my home town last weekend and visit family cause the wife said i had to lol, but i was able to take my bow to my favorite archery shop and make sure everything was tuned in still. Got to shoot some of the new pse bows as well, man was i impressed, pse has definately come a long way. Good luck during the rut guys, i know i am going to need some.

hell of a good buck!!! im about to head to the blind now!!

[quote=sdhunter11;4004594]nice score jesse, good luck topping that one next season.
Yeah, gonna be a tall order there.... I'm gonna be good for a while after that one I think....

Well, Illinois' first firearms season draws to a close this evening & Ill be back to bowhunting our primary property come tomorrow morning. Didn't see a whole lot of mature deer moving during shooting hours the last 3 days, but the gunshots were plenty, so someone was doing well & having fun.

I hope you fellas are still hunting hard. After looking over the scorecard, I see we're losing our lead, but we're also losing it to a quantity of small antlered deer & not so much to big quality bucks. Which makes catching up & even regaining the lead not so difficult. There's alot of season left & we're still seeing alot of rut activity, so get out there and hunt.

The Nebraska firearm season also ends today. I got 1 doe out of it last weekend and really screwed up yesterday. I took my 5 yr old son out for a sit in the truck overlooking a wheat field bordered by a treeline. Seen 3 bucks chasing a doe, 1 which was decent. Then about 1 o'clock had 2 different bucks chasing a doe. 1 was probably the biggest buck I've seen down there in person and he was pushing off the nice 4x4. The doe and him bedded down behind a couple evergreens. The waiting began. But not for my son. He was insisting(crying,throwing things atlking loudly) that it was time to go home. After a half hour of telling him to shut up I chose to do a sneak. Got to 30 yards and the doe jumped up. Then he stood up up and whoaaaa daddy!! I raised my gun, looked through the scope only to see a big evergreen blob. I tried pulling off a shot but he bounded away free of any wounds. I was not a happy individual and I think my son figured that out real fast. So I went back out this morning and had a big bodied deer skirting in the treeline. Couldn't see the rack but I'm hopeful it was him. So on the positive, he still is out there for bow. And by the way, all these deer were under my fave stand but the wind was wrong to sit in it.

Take the good with the bad. Atleast ya know he's in there.

I also made the mistake earlier this season of taking my kids on a scouting trip. The trip sounded simple, take my 4 sons, a 12yr old, a 3yr old, a 2yr old & our 6 month old in mommas mini-van out to our spot to sit in the van & glass the deer from 3/4 miles away. It went great, I kept em all quiet & entertained for over an hour with the dvd player for the 2 toddlers & the cd player for my 12yr old. Momma packed plenty of snacks to keep em quiet & we actually had a pretty easy time, until it was time to leave. Because I had left all the electrical accesories running for over an hour, it drained the old, worn out battery to the point it wouldnt start the engine. So I got out the jumper pack, but it wouldnt produce enough juice to get us going. So I called momma but she had already left for work that night. I ended up calling my brother to come rescue us. Unfortunitly he lives just over an hour away & in that 1 hour all my sons except my 12yr old decide it was time to lose their effin minds. Needless to say, they caused me to also lose my mind. I still beleive my 12yr old, though bored & restless, refrained from acting up just out of pure survival instinct & fear of being left out there once help arrived. lol

I sat in the stand all day saturday and never seen a deer. Sat in the stand sunday morning and seen 1 nice buck but he never came close enough. Got anxious mid morning and did some draw hopping with the rattling horns, no luck with that so i went to a stand i had not sat in all season for the afternoon hunt. Seen a goofy little fork horn with his right side antler growing out of the side of his head and coming down by his eye. About 3 o clock i heard grunting coming down the draw and sure as **** here come a buck chasing a doe. He looked to be around a 120class buck and i had been looking for bigger all season but i decided i would take him if he gave me a chance. Just as i made my mind up the wind quit and i was once again left at the mercy of the thermals. The doe came by about 20 yards ahead of the buck, smelled me, tucked tail and headed out with him in toe.

Another ****ty encouter marked up on my dreadfull season.

We've got a long holiday weekend approaching, anyone have plans to be afield? I looked over the calender earlier & Im planning to get at least a few hours on stand every day starting Wednesday on through Sunday.

Well, spent the morning afield with no success towards killing a mature buck. Decided to run by my pops house for awhile this afternoon instead of heading back out & ended up with two trailcams. Neither are great, but both worked after testing & since my pops gave em to me, Id say Ive had a fairly productive afternoon. I realize its the middle of the season & cams should have been out 4 or 5 months ago, but I'm going to set em both up anyways in hopes of patterning a late season trophy.

I'm going to place one of them, the Moultrie, on a woodlot watering hole & the other, a Wild Game Innovations, on one of our mineral sites which is just outside of a big multi flora rose thicket which we believe is one of our giants bedrooms. Both of these areas are between a big ridge top bedding area & Ag fields so traffic is expected whether we get a pattern on our shooter or not.

Though Ive never used trailcams myself, I already know that its going to be addictive & Ill end up with a fleet of cameras before the 2013 season begins. 8)

I have 5 cams and I want more. If you do buy any in the future spend a little more on a camera that has long battery life. If not you buy so many batteries that you could have had the more expensive cams. I have 2 scoutguards that are awesome and the rest are moultries.

The Moultrie he gave me is a low end of its brand & the Wild Game Innovations is a high end of its brand so I basicly have two p.o.s cameras. lol But they both have the option of adding a 12v for longer battery life. The WGI cam has a ton more options than the Moultrie & the Moultrie is about as basic as it comes with nearly no options, but they both work & he was willing to part with them so I took em.

I have an older moultrie that uses the 6 volt lantern batteries and I can only get 2 weeks out of it. Pictures or not. That one is about to get retired.

Made some modifications to our original team post, so check it out. Hope yall enjoy it.

Now that is cool! Not only shows all the kills, you made it easier for me to remember names. I'm terrible at that so I always use screen names so I don't screw up:)

Shot a little 8 this morning. I'll get pic up when I get home.

Way to go Kelly. We can't wait to see the pictures and hear the story.

Way to go man, congratulations! :party0005:

I sat on stand all day today & still no buck down. My morning sit was interesting & I saw plenty of deer but nothing 140+. My evening hunt was on the opposite side of the property & the results were the same. Though I did rattle in the same 110ish 8 on both stands I never did see either of my target bucks. Heading back out in the morning & hunting till noon, its only a matter of time before one of them graces me with their presence.

Wishing all of you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving and to the start of a Joyful and Safe Holiday season!!

:party0005:

Congrats, nice work!