Team 7 check in
 

Well, I keep waiting for someone else to start a Team 7 thread, but no one has so I will get it started.

Team members in bold are checked in.

Team 7 - Total =

1. 11. elmoughler - Indiana
2. 30. dman4505 – Iowa
3. 62. FIREEMT1271-North Louisiana/West Texas
4. 54. Peakrut – WI
5. 55. Backwoods13 - ohio
6. 65. npaden - Texas and New Mexico
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If everyone will just make a post introducing themselves I'll update this thread as folks check in.

I'm Nathan, 45 years old. Live in Lubbock, Texas.

I'll be hunting mule deer in New Mexico on a 3rd choice tag that I probably won't be very picky on.

I own 160 acres here in Texas and have a few decent bucks on camera this year, just need to connect with one of the one that makes my hit list this year.

I've already shot the biggest deer of my life this year in Wyoming, but it was an elk so it doesn't count in the contest. I'll be elk hunting again in New Mexico as well.

That's it for me. Nathan

Tony from Wisconsin also known on this site as your friendly bartender.
I will only be hunting here in my home state but I like my odds of getting a deer.

Don from Iowa
I'm taking next week off for the early muzzy season here in Iowa and then doing antlerless late season in December.
Had an antlerless management hunt scheduled for the wildlife refuge north of me next weekend but due to the government shutdown it's been cancelled.

Don

Eric from Indiana here. 27 years old. Last year I had a lot more time to hunt but now have a different job and it will be tougher. Have some nice bucks on cam at my woods plus permission to hunt many others. Hopefully I'll contribute more than a doe this year, but we will see

Management hunt back on now that the government is up and running. Hope to have a doe on the board this weekend.

Don

Well the weekend was a bust
Saw three deer in two days and that was Saturday morning 10 minutes before legal shooting time, and I was in my truck on the way to my blind. For a refuge that's suppose to have an overpopulation of deer I sure didn't see it. Glad to see they were only doing the one hunt this year.
Don't have a problem not shooting one it's just upsetting to not see any at all.

I'm heading out in the morning for a couple days to try to shoot a New Mexico mule deer. The season is for 5 days, but I spent 5 days last week trying and failing to shoot a New Mexico bull elk so I don't think I'm going to be able to take much more time off this week. This isn't a prime unit for mule deer, but who knows, maybe I'll knock a decent one down.

Checking in. I'm a fulltime firefighter/emt. hunt at my home on nearly 1500 private acres, and on 1500 private acres in west central Tx.

Looks like we have all but one checked in.

I struck out on my New Mexico hunt. I didn't have very high expectations going in and it didn't even live up to those low expectations. Didn't see a single buck in 2 days and 20 miles on the boots.

Found a couple old sheds and that's it.

npaden you have been appointed team captain.

Firearms season opens up next sat here. Will be out sat/sun/mon before going back to work

My gun season here in Wisconsin opens up November 23rd and goes for 9 days. Then starting Christmas eve the holiday gun season starts into January so I hope to do some damage.

Got a buck for the team.
7 total points 3 on right 4 on left
Right Main Beam 13 1/2
Left Main Beam 14
Tip to Tip Spread 8
Greatest Spread 12 1/2
Inside Spread 11/12

Right Left

G1 N/A 2 1/4
G2 6 1/2 5
G3 4 4

H1 3 3 1/2
H2 3 3
H3 2 3/4 3
H4 2 2 1/4

Went out opening morning. Got into the stand about 6:30AM. At about 6:50 had two deer come in but no good shots. Couldn't really tell what they were. About 20 mins later they come back out and realize its a buck and a doe. They don't give me a shot and go back into the thick stuff. About 8 I see a tail flickering from a bedded deer. I decide to hit my grunt tube to see what happens since I left my binos in the truck. The buck jumped to his feet real quick looked around they laid back down. Hit the grunt again real quick and this time he jumps to his feet snorting and grunting. I hit the tube one more time and he stops broadside about 120 yards. Decided to take a shot but missed. At this point he is staring into the woods towards the creek blowing and grunting. I decided to hop down out of the stand and stalk him. Got to the edge of the thick briars and he was standing 40 yards broadside. One pull of the trigger from my Rem 870 12ga he went right down. This is my biggest deer to date and first deer I've ever stalked. Couldn't be any happier. He dressed out at 154lbs and the DNR was at the check station and aged him at 2 1/2.

Congrats elmoughler!

We are supposed to have a cold front coming in on Thursday and I think I'm going to try to make it out this Friday and Saturday and knock one down.

#1 on my hit list:


#2 on the hit list:


If I see either of those bucks I'm pulling the trigger. There are several other decent bucks on camera, but I think I'm going to hold out until later in the season if I don't see one of those two for now.

Took a lot of restraint, but I passed on this guy Friday afternoon. Really neat 8 point with dark antlers and white tips and big time curve in at the tips.



Worst thing was that probably about 30 minutes after I passed on him, I heard a gunshot in the direction that he was headed and I'm pretty sure my neighbor shot him.

Sat through a couple cold and windy days, pretty miserable, and not much activity.

Did get a trail camera picture of my #1 buck on the hit list one night while I was out there so at least I know he is still around.

Our firearm season goes into the first of January, it's always a chore this time of year to get time off to go after them though.

Man i've been MIA but another gun season kicked in christmas eve here in Wisconsin and goes until I believe Jan 5th, 2014.
Anybody else have an update?