Fastest Hunt Ever?
 

Nov 6,1992 drove 3 hrs to my cabin and get into my stand at 12 noon. Shot a 6pt at 12:15. Nov. 7, 2001 walking to my stand noticed a 5pt walking up the ridge towards me. Shot him at 8 ft 4 minutes after legal shooting hrs started

Well not a deer but a bear. But very similar to Jim"s episode. I got up and left our cabin prior to daylight. Walked up the mtn to my favorite spot which took me about an hour an 45 mins (stright uphill). I got to the fallen tree that I normally sit at and as soon as I sat down here comes a nice fat black bear. ONe well placed shot and I was attaching my tag to it. Total time actually on stand - about 20 seconds.

Three feet off the ground in my climber. I was walking a creek bank in and actually had my climber attached to the tree then lost my footing and fell down the bank of the drainage that went into the creek. Didn't hurt myself at all but made a decent amount of noise. I got into my climber and three feet up I see a wake in the creek and stop and see a quick flash of an ear and pull my bow up. Pulled an arrow out as fast as I could and the buck showed his face about 30 seconds later. A nice basket rack 8 point. Let an arrow fly at 15 yards and found him 40 yards away. I guess I hadn't started hunting yet. After that hunt I would never beat myself up if I approached a stand and made a little noise. In the rut, a buck might think its another deer invading his territory!

fasetti - funny you should mention that. It reminds me of a time many years ago when I was making all kind of racket trying to get my climber onto a tree and then climbing up. I must have sounded like 2 buck fighting or somthing because as I was going up the tree I heard something coming toward me hard and fast. I was about 10' up as a deer came within about 10or so yards from me. I eased my bow up as we stared each other down in the dim pre dawn light for about 15 mins. Just about the time it was light enough so that I could make out he was a decent buck, he decided he had enough of me and trotted off and left me scratching my head.

Bronko, it was one of the crazier hunting events I ever had. I just had started using a climber that year and it wasn't the best of quality. I think what saved me is that the creek had a lot of ducks in it and I think there was a group landing or making noise behind him because he turned and looked back for a few seconds to check it out. I was able to pull back my bow at that point. I've had a lot of hunts go bad before because of stupid little things I did wrong, this is one where I got lucky and everything that could have gone right did. Still a great memory.

It also shows that as long as you don't make any unnatural loud noises no hunt it ever ruined. If I rustle a few leaves or cracks a few branches at my set up I don't worry anymore. Some of the squirrels I hear in the woods are ridiculously loud so deer have to be used to that noise.

Very first deer I took . I went to a stand in I have in my yard maybe 200 feet back .
When I got over the ridge where my stand was there was a deer 10 yards . So I nocked an arrow stepped over to a spot I could shoot . She looked up and spotted me. She just stood there so I quickly pulled back and let her go. She ran maybe 20 yards stopped ,wobbled then fell over.
Whole hunt was maybe 2 -3 minutes

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in West Virginia about 7 years ago I drove the ATV to the edge of our field. Walked to my ladder stand and climbed up...as I was pulling my bow up to me I heard something and looked up. A six point and a doe were coming straight for me. I quickly pulled my bow up, nocked an arrow and as the 6 pt walked by I stopped him. Perfect lung shot and watched him go down. I was in the stand maybe 2 minutes...crazy!

You guys must have better karma than I do lol. My fastest was December 3rd, 2012. It was a windy morning and I was later than I would like to be getting to the stand. I got in the stand and knocked an arrow exactly 2 minutes after legal shooting light, right at sunrise I let out a series of tending grunts and 4 minutes later I hear a deer coming like a freight train. at 27 yards I smoked my first pope and young whitetail 132 1/8". Total time on stand was 39 minutes.

My fastest hunt ever came last year on opening day. Got into the stand about 1 hour before daylight and could hear and see numerous deer moving around me. About dawn I could see that they were all very nice bucks. At 755 I drew back and arrowed a 160 class 12 point and watched him run and fall. I nocked another arrow and had a 130 class 8point come in right behind him same trail at 801. My season was over. Very surreal I had scouted and worked so hard scouting all summer and it paid off but my buck tags were filled. Only does the rest of the year! You can see the picture on my main page www.hunting-property-advisors.com

Would hitting a buck with a pickup on the way to camp on openig morning count? Lol! :deer:

I have had some narrow misses doing that! One was one of our target bucks running across a field towards one of our stands! I saw him up CLOSE and would have been super mad if I hit him with the SUV rather than an arrow. I know it will eventually happen when I hit one heading out to hunt just hope its not anytime soon!

Two years ago I cimbed into my stand, pulled my bow up, and a 7 point stepped out. I shot him and he piled up about twenty yards away. I had missed a call while climbing into the stand, and looked at the time right after the buck had piled up and it was one minute. So that hunt was less than a minute! Probably won't beat that ever
-Jake

Opening morning for gun season two years ago walked to a stand on my buddies property where he shot a nice 10 pointer that morning. Got up set my pack down put a cap on my ML heard a noise to my left. Two does walked by and I took aim at the biggest one and droped her. About 10 minutes and I had meat in the freezer. Fastest hunt for me so far.

Like several others already posted .... about no time, if you don't count getting into the area. Has happened a few times to me in 50 years or so ... just about like this one in winter of 2004. I say 10 seconds. Slipped into the edge of a food plot where I had planned to sit the remainder of the day .... just in case something might be in the field early. Nada but saw a big 9 pt. bedded up in along the opposite side from me, facing the woods. One shot right at the joining of the back of his neck/shoulders ... never stood up. Done and back at camp in 30 minutes or so.

I hunted where they're over run with deer. So that isn't a big deal. One of my favorite times was sitting inside my friends dalapidated shed. I had a doe walk 5' from the opening and I drilled her. Then another stepped into her spot and stopped. I reloaded and drilled it. Then another stepped in the spot and I reloaded and drilled it. Then on more did it so I drilled it. I ran out of deer at the same time I ran out of arrows. Lol. All from 5' away. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

This year that spot should be good again. The state finished the highway they we putting in so the deer should be back to their normal pattern.

Doe season 2007..slept in, parked my truck at 8am, walked maybe ten yards into the woods and there were 3 doe feeding broadside with in 30 yards. Knocked an arrow, pulled back and i let it fly.. took maybe 30 seconds.

October 1st 2007. Climbed into my stand at 3:30 pm and saw a buck headed my way. Pulled my bow up, took the quiver off, nocked an arrow and the buck walked in front of me. I shot and he ran about 30 yards and fell over. Total time of 4 minutes.

On the first day of the season Oct 1 in 2010 in Indiana. I got in the stand at 5:30 am, at the very first light I shot an 11 point buck at and was like YES!!!! Then realized my buck season was over for the year......... LOL....

My fastest hunt was my very first deer ever. I didn't even make it to the stand. I was about 50 yards from my stand. I was walking along my path and I look over to see a doe staring at me 30 yards away broadside. The first year I ever started archery I just used my fingers, well before season started I began using a release.. Well it just so happens I forgot my release at home so I used my fingers that hunt, missed the first shot on the doe. But got a second shot off and right through the heart it went.

The fastest hunt while being in the stand was maybe 5-10 minutes. Just got up the tree, bag settled in and bow pulled up when I looked to the east and saw a buck walking my way. I dont know if I wasn't mentally prepared yet or what but I made a shoulder shot and couldn't find him. 2 weeks later I get this picture..

A few years ago I was hunting on public ground and got home at noon and drove by a food plot of mine and noticed a good buck heading across the bottom. I was hungry so I went home and ate lunch and the. Called my dad to see if he would drop me off at my uncles ground at he other end of the bottom. When he finally showed up to get me nearly an hour later I was a little discouraged but went anyway. It's a dead end road that ends At the top of a steep hill at a cemetery. He dropped me off half way up and I crosses the fence into the pasture and was making my way around to the river when I noticed that buck walking right at me. I hunkered behind a briar bush and shot him at 5 yards. He went about 10 yards and went down. I could still hear my dad driving back Down the hill. Pretty quick hunt that ended with. 220lb 140" 8 pt. not too bad

My fastest hunt was about 5 years ago at Fort Knox military base... after the 4:30 am check-in and waiting at the MP post for a while, we were released into our area (Unit 9 for me)... I had used Google Earth for some satellite scouting and knew that the place I wanted to set up was a small woodlot between three tank roads (bearing 91 degrees East for 950 yards from my truck's parking area)...walked in by flashlight carrying my treestand...and pulling a Tink's 69 drag-line

Arrived in the area, selected a nice Red Oak tree snuggled against a big Pine to put my climber on...hung the Tink's drag line in a tree 20 yards away...and climbed 25 feet up the tree...pulled my shotgun up and loaded it...took a drink of water from my canteen and looked at my watch (7:00 am)...legal shooting time was 7:02 (our area guide was very insistent about this since the MP post is on the area)...looked down and a nice 8 point was under my stand moving to the Tink's drag-line...

Crosshair on the buck's shoulder...look at watch...back at the buck...back to the watch...back to the buck, his nose snorting the Tink's dragline...etc...7:02 and 3 seconds, BOOM...

IL shotgun season 15 years ago. I had just walked into the timber maybe 30 or 40 yards and decided this was as good a place as any to sit for awhile and maybe eat my lunch before I actually went in to my stand deeper in the woods. No sooner had I sat down next to a stump a doe walked right over the hill across from me. I dropped her then finished my granola bar and soda. was in the woods maybe 10 minutes.

Another Time I was walking across a grass field to my stand and standing on the edge of the woods was a group of does. I picked the biggest one and dropped her. wasn't even to the woods yet. total time out of the truck....1 minute.

Hunting Public Land in Alabama- Parked the truck opened the door grabbed my rifle and put it on the tool box, as I was reaching inside for the rest of my gear I heard loud crashing behind me- I grabbed the Magazine as fast I could- slammed it into the mag well and racked a round into my .270 There he stood 10 yards from the truck Big Broke up 7 point- would have been at least a 8 if he wasn't broken to pieces- still scored 120 (Great for Alabama)