Team #13 The WIDOWMAKERS
10-23-2012, 07:58 PM
#203
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Downwind, New York
Posts: 578
I spot and stalked all afternoon in a steady rain. Saw 8 deer. 2 of them were bucks.
The first deer I came across was a shooter buck. I was walking along a powerline and came to an old shale quarry that hasn't been used in years. It's overgrown with goldenrod and a few patches of smaller trees. I was on the upper side and walked around the rim and spotted a buck. I couldn't tell if it was standing or bedded. I crawled 10Yds. to get behind a bush so that I could get a better look. Now I was 45-50 yds from him. As soon as I verified that he was a shooter, the wind shifted and he spooked. He never saw me, but it's apparent that he smelled me(I was sweating). I doubled back out of the area to make sure I wouldn't bump him. He was in a spot that I'm pretty sure doesn't get alot of hunting pressure. Do you guys think he'll stay around that area? This was only the second time I've hunted that spot(1st time this year), so I don't really know it that well. I might just have to spend a few evenings overlooking the quarry to figure out his route.
The first deer I came across was a shooter buck. I was walking along a powerline and came to an old shale quarry that hasn't been used in years. It's overgrown with goldenrod and a few patches of smaller trees. I was on the upper side and walked around the rim and spotted a buck. I couldn't tell if it was standing or bedded. I crawled 10Yds. to get behind a bush so that I could get a better look. Now I was 45-50 yds from him. As soon as I verified that he was a shooter, the wind shifted and he spooked. He never saw me, but it's apparent that he smelled me(I was sweating). I doubled back out of the area to make sure I wouldn't bump him. He was in a spot that I'm pretty sure doesn't get alot of hunting pressure. Do you guys think he'll stay around that area? This was only the second time I've hunted that spot(1st time this year), so I don't really know it that well. I might just have to spend a few evenings overlooking the quarry to figure out his route.
10-24-2012, 05:50 AM
#204
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Denham Springs, La.
Posts: 356
Those are some nice bucks! I sure hope you can connect with one of those guys. Thanks for sharing the pics. Anyone else getting any pictures of target bucks?
10-24-2012, 05:53 AM
#205
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Denham Springs, La.
Posts: 356
I spot and stalked all afternoon in a steady rain. Saw 8 deer. 2 of them were bucks.
The first deer I came across was a shooter buck. I was walking along a powerline and came to an old shale quarry that hasn't been used in years. It's overgrown with goldenrod and a few patches of smaller trees. I was on the upper side and walked around the rim and spotted a buck. I couldn't tell if it was standing or bedded. I crawled 10Yds. to get behind a bush so that I could get a better look. Now I was 45-50 yds from him. As soon as I verified that he was a shooter, the wind shifted and he spooked. He never saw me, but it's apparent that he smelled me(I was sweating). I doubled back out of the area to make sure I wouldn't bump him. He was in a spot that I'm pretty sure doesn't get alot of hunting pressure. Do you guys think he'll stay around that area? This was only the second time I've hunted that spot(1st time this year), so I don't really know it that well. I might just have to spend a few evenings overlooking the quarry to figure out his route.
The first deer I came across was a shooter buck. I was walking along a powerline and came to an old shale quarry that hasn't been used in years. It's overgrown with goldenrod and a few patches of smaller trees. I was on the upper side and walked around the rim and spotted a buck. I couldn't tell if it was standing or bedded. I crawled 10Yds. to get behind a bush so that I could get a better look. Now I was 45-50 yds from him. As soon as I verified that he was a shooter, the wind shifted and he spooked. He never saw me, but it's apparent that he smelled me(I was sweating). I doubled back out of the area to make sure I wouldn't bump him. He was in a spot that I'm pretty sure doesn't get alot of hunting pressure. Do you guys think he'll stay around that area? This was only the second time I've hunted that spot(1st time this year), so I don't really know it that well. I might just have to spend a few evenings overlooking the quarry to figure out his route.
Keep us updated!
10-24-2012, 03:41 PM
#206
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Western, NY
Posts: 144
Very Nice Bucks... I hope you get to connect with one of them!!!
10-24-2012, 06:25 PM
#207
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Chippewa county, WI.
Posts: 2,646
10-27-2012, 05:21 PM
#209
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Western, NY
Posts: 144
OK... Did a full day today... I am beat... Gonna head out at 4am... It is 9pm now... Here is my update... While out today I seen 2 doe and one buck... The Buck, well that thing was moving... It was a big one too... I haven't seen that one... Well at least I didn't know what it was until today... Let me start by saying I have been getting frustrated with myself in many ways... Well I decided I was going to go for this deer which I have been assuming was a doe as I never really seen it's head just it's tail... My cousin and I have built a few ground blinds back in March and April for spring turkey... They work great as we only use what we find laying in that area... Three times this month I have gone to a particular blind on the side of a pond that is boardered by older pines and some mix of older and newer hardwood(oak and Maple)... I have kicked >A< (yes singular) Deer up here 4 times already and it just seems to come back... Well while walking the trail to it about 2 hours later than i normally would due to a number of reasons today it was around 7:45am... Yes it was already shooting time... Well I looked at my trail that we had cleared back in spring and we created for the purpose of us being able to get to the spot and I noticed a muddy area about 15 feet ahead of me... Now I understand we are in the woods but the ground is covered in leafs... Oh yeah you know what it is... My heart began to lift at the sight of it... I walked up to it and it is what I thought... BUT... This thing looked VERY FRESH... I stood for about 5 minutes scanning... I was just about to take a step and heard a thud... then another.... All I seen was a rack and a very big body at about 75 yards up the trail just on the other side of the blind... Now I did go to inspect the tracks and played all possibilities in my head and to be honest I don't think he seen me... I do think I made a little bit of noise in my poor start to the day as it seemed to be doomed from about 4am this morning... Now I know this area friggin very well and have not seen any sign here this year and mind you it has been 5 days since the last time I was there... So now that he was gone I figured I would take to the old logging road he jumped from... He made 3 scrapes within 40 yards of my blind and I can tag him at each one... So I figured I would try the other logging road that leads to the other side of the hill which I also walked the otherday and whoa!!!!!!!!!!!! I find 5 more scrapes... ALL FRESH... So I have spent the rest of the day in another part of the property figuring out where he is and I figure there is a lot of fallen timber in the back half of the pines and a creek at the bottom back there so he has plenty of water around him and plenty of Oaks that dropped acorns in there too... I am going to try it in the AM on the outer edge of that area with my climber on the downhill side which is about 150 yards away but has a lot of sign... I have narrowed it down to where he started and where he came onto the trail and where he was headed... It was one big circle... You could see his tracks... I didn't walk his actual trail and didn't need to... It was soo fresh... The dirt was fresh on the leafs and it had and still was raining...
