Team 8
 

Good luck to everybody

Checking in and ready to go.

Dave

Checking in. And to all hunters please wear safety harness. Hanging stands today and my life long friend fell 20ft from tree. By the grace of god he is ok, little sore

Peak (Tony) from Wisconsin checking in.

I'm here, ready to go in mid-mo

Checking in. Been to the deer lease all weekend checking cameras and filling feeders. Nothing to mind blowing showing up but will try to post a few pictures this week.

-john

The pic I used for my avatar is a buck I've been getting on camera this year

Here are a few I will be after in a couple of weeks.

Checking in.. will be hunting MA, CT, & NY this season... looking forward to another fun and exciting season. I'll put some points on the board... but not with studs like posted above around here... CT kics of Sept 16.
Good luck guys!

Checking in and ready to go. I'll have to post the pics of one that I'm after, but have another larger buck that passed thru while I was hanging a new set last month. My season is just 11 days away!

Nothing to exciting but here are a couple that I will probably target. Both are mature. Last year the one with the split brows only had one split brow. Early in velvet I could tell that his brows were much better this year and his mass was up. I was hoping that the rest of his rack might blow up to but was pretty disappointed. The rest of his rack looks about like it did last year. The eight point will probably out score him but I have never shot one with split tines so if they both make an appearance I have a decision to make. I have plenty of day light pictures also. And ignore the dates on the pictures. I forgot to set it last time I changes the batteries out. Also the rest of the deer posted look great so I hope we have a great year. The contest is fun win or lose but I promise that it is more fun when you win....LOL.

-john

Checking in. I broke my leg this past Tuesday and had surgery to repair it on Friday. I should be good to go for the VA opener on 10/5. I also plan to bow hunt the last week of October in PA (just outside of Pittsburgh).

Gotta get the usual team stuff done for the contest... anyone want the honor of team captain and any ideas for team name?

I don't have enough free time to be captain and after several years of doing this I am completely out of names....LOL. I don't care if our name is "Team 8"....

-john

Team 8 works for me! haha

Here's a couple pics of one that may not get a free pass this year.

Where are you located? I'll be spending most of my tree time just outside of Fulton, MO.

I will be hunting oklahoma. What does the captain do? Wife said what about heart stoppers for name.

A few team name suggestions:
Invisible death
Dirt Nap
Nock Tight Brothers
Team Nockdown
Top Pin Terrors

boy... all great names.. nock tight brothers is cool

Charlie... captain is in charge of keeping track of what our team has killed and keeping in touch with Moderator of scorekeeping to make sure everything is submitted and accurate..

nock tight brothers is my fav also.

whatever name you guys decide on is good with me. My season opens Tomm. morning so I making sure I got everything ready.


Dave

Sounds good to me.

Still need a captain. I would but this is my first year to do this. Anyone want to be captain

I'm about 30 minutes east of Jeff. City on the south side of the river. On the eastern edge of Osage County.

Any name will work for me and any body with the time has my backing for captain.

Good with that name too.

Whatever name ya'll like is good with me. Doesn't matter to me who the captain is as long as it is not me...LOL. Good luck to everyone. My season does not start until 9/28.

-john

Nock tight brothers it is. I will see if I can get a friend of mine to come up with an avatar.

sounds good guys... any takes on captain?
Season starts 16th here... Good luck SouthernMD!!!!!

Saw 3 doe in the morning, no shot. Saw 1 fawn in the afternoon hunt but let it walk. Heading out soon for this evenings hunt.

Dave

good luck dave! 262 206 8507 for a pic from the stand or your kill tonight.

Did not see a darn thing tonight, wind was swirling like crazy. No hunting on Sunday so I may head down to finally pull my camera cards today.

Dave

Going into work for half day, will be hunting this afternoon. Good luck to all hunting and be safe.

Dave

Good luck... let the air out of one...

Good Luck Dave. Only a few more days until our season starts on Sunday.

This is my first year so who ever wants to be team captain is fine with me. Don't have any pictures of deer yet the bear finally moved out about two weeks ago so hopefully they start coming in soon

what is an average deer for most of you guys in your local hunting areas?
I hunt locally and the avg deer is actually only a 1.5 year old buck.. sometimes a 2.5 year old. Hunting pressure is crazy around here... and there are big chunks of land w/ very little agriculture. As bad as it sounds, any deer with the bow is good around here in MA or NY.
I do go out to Western NY every year and hunt with a guy who intensely manages a couple thousand acres. He wants nothing but 3.5 year olds shot that generally go P&Y or better. I have hunted there 6 years and shot 3 very nice bucks, a cull buck, and took a 2.5 year old by accident one year. It happened so fast.
CT has alot of deer, but I rarely see big ones..

I can count on seeing a few 2.5 yr olds that are hard to pass on every year, sometimes I just can't :) And almost every year I get at least a brief encounter with a 120+ deer, it's just depends on if everything goes right. I know there are at least 4-5 150+ deer around our property, but they usually only become visible during daylight when the rut starts.

On our lease we try to take bucks at 4 1/2+. While the place is low fence/free range we seem to keep a lot of our deer so I often have pictures of bucks over multiple years. Based on this my buck last year was 5 1/2 and the year before that was at least 6 1/2. This year I have 4 or 5 bucks coming to my setups that are mature enough to kill.

-john

that is awesome... the large bucks i have shot in NY at that spot have all aged 4.5 year old up to 6.5