I hope you find him and if you do a big congrats to you dad.
I hope you have a good vacation IL_BOW.Now come on lets get another for the team(believe me im trying)
GOOD LUCK TO YA AND THE REST OF THE TEAM

(Doing my best deer gathering dance)

Good luck guys. IBM hope you have a great start to your vacation. Let's post one this weekend.

Kelly

kcison, You have the most beautiful lookin buck killed in this contest so far IMO! They should give you some major award![&:]

Congrats on a hellava buck!

Theres no brown nosein' in bowhunting!!![8D]

And uhhhh........ he won that award last year

Hey guys, sorry I havn't been on in awhile, I have been busy with hunting and work! Tommorow is the last day of archery season here in PA and I am pulling out all the stops tommorow! I have decided that any legal buck is comming home as I will be hunting a new spot on a over-populated farm. The farmer gave me permission to hunt, but he knows that I usually pass up smaller bucks and he wanted me to promise him that I would just shoot any legal buck I saw as they are killing his crops! I agreed to help him out! There are some big bucks on this property, but with tommorow being my last day, I am looking to fill the tag. I really don't want to go out in rifle season (it gets a little scary when the orange army comes out) and late season is just down right un-comfortable!

I just got back from Wal-Mart where I was browseing the hunting section. I found a Ameristep Brickhouse TSC ground blind in the New Mossy Oak Break-Up pattern! It was on sale down to $99.00 which didn't seem bad, but while I was standing there, a guy came up and knocked the price down to $62.00 and I couldn't pass it up. I thought that Cabelas sold the blind for around $119.99. When I got home I checked the price and Cableas sells the exact same blind that I bought for $62.00 for $179.99! That is a savings of $117.99. I got the blind for almost 1/3 the price that Cabelas sells it!

So, I will be setting this up tommorow morning in a grown up pasture surrounded by thick crab apple trees! There are scrapes all through the pasture and rubs on practically every tree surrounding it!

I also purchased a Renzo feeding doe decoy! I will be putting a scent wick on it covered in Still Steamin Doe Estrus Urine. I have the H.S. Tru-Talker, Primos Can, and the H.S. Rattle Bag ready to go.

Wish me luck guys, but if nothing pans out tommorow, I have all of rifle season to hunt with my bow, along with late archery season!

One day Buckey you too can be like KCISON. Let the people speak.

IBM, you got a buck down yet?

And has anyone heard from Rack?

Well guys i'll be in my stand tomorrow morn at 5:00,sit for about 1 hour and 15 min in -8c weather to wait for the big guy.Perfect temp to hunt in.The bucks are starting to make alot of scrapes around.Going to try some more rattling and grunting,hopefully it works.The frost was so thick this morn it looked liked it snowed--lol--it was cold,but no wind----------I love this time of yearI also bought a bottle of HOT SCRAPE from wildlife research,my deaLER SWEARS BY IT SO WHAT THE HECK,MAYBE EVEN PUT A DRAG RAG ON AND A SCENT WICK AND GIVE IT A GO AS WELL.Sorry for the cap lock on ,I hit it accidently and im to tired to re-write it-lol.I will hopefully get a shot at the same size deer i got last year

Well guys I went out friday morning to public ground and as I was hooking on my climber
I could hear hear a buck grunting and working over his scrape about 35 yards down. I could hear him walking around even after I got into position but it was 45min before shooting light. After the sun came up I never saw or heard anything else. That afternoon I went to a friends property and got in the stand about 2:45pm after an hour had passed I loooked through the woods about 80yards away I could see a big white tail slowly walking through the woods. The wind was blowing about 15-18mphaway from it so I didn't think that it would hear any of my calls, so I pulled out my rattle bag and hit it hard three times, it stopped and turned sideways trying to figure out where i was. As it turned all I could see was the left main beam I could see three BIG points. He stands there for a minute and I hit the bag three more time and then tried to grunt, when I did he started into a run like he was going to take care of business but he cut across the woods away from me and into a cut bean field 200yards away. I did get a little better look at his rack I believe he is a big eight point I left my bino's in the truck like an idiot. I never did see him again.
I'm going back this afternoon and changing stand locations to catch him cutting the corner of the woods. I know from talking with people out here that there are at least 3 big bucks using this travel route.

Good luck with him hammer,hope ya get a crack at him
Well i'm just getting in from my morning hunt and nodda,zilch,didn't see anything.I did hear 2 bucks fighting down by the lake im sure but they wouldent respond to me.I also heard wolves howling behind me this morning at first light for about 15 min.I was waiting for one of them to scare a deer my way.I also had 2 chickadees land on me-lol--one on my leg and the other on top of my head,sat there for about 10 seconds then flew off,had to check face mask to make sure it didn't crap on me-----lol.It was also so cold out my hands and feet were frozen,but all in all it was a beautiful morning.

Well guys,

Yesterday was a disaster! I got set-up in the morning at around 5:30a.m. and sat there until it got light enough to shoot at about 6:40 a.m. It looked like the absolute perfect day! The temp was in the low to mid 20's when I left and there was a slight wind from the northwest! I sat there with great anticipation as to what would be moving. Well, at 7:00 a.m. I heard some loud talking on the other side of the woods and I didn't think anything of it. After about 5 minutes I heard a pack of beagels just let out. Two rabbit hunters with 9 beagels were working the brush on the other side of the woods. This got me excited as it is a major bedding area for deer and I was set-up right at a major escape route! Well, then my luck turned for the worse as the hunters set the dogs out through a cut powerline in the middle of the woods right towards me! They were working the brush no more than 100 yards from me! I sat for awhile and saw a bunch of deer bust out of the woods and head through the golden rod field and up over the hill! I knew that one was a buck and a nice one at that, but I couldn't tell much about him!

That afternoon I went and set-up my blind in a clearing that is surrounded by x-mas trees! The clearing was planted in wheat and usually gets a good bit of deer moving through it! Well, I got my blind set up at about 2:25 p.m and at about 4:00 p.m. (when deer activity starts), I had a guy on a dirt bike come down the old logging road about 80 yards to my left! I sat there till dark and didn't see a thing!

Well, I went spotting last night where I saw the deer run in the morning and I saw the group! There were 8 does and a buck. The buck was a BIG 8 point. He had probablly a 20-21" outside spread, his brow tines were probablly 6", his G-2's were probablly in the 10" range and his G-3's were probablly in the 7" range. Great mass and HUGE main beams! He was running all the does back into that patch of woods!

I guess that the only positive thing is that I know another big buck has moved into my honey hole (where my best-friend shot his buck). I actually think that the buck I saw last night was related to the buck my bestfriend shot! He had the same style anters, but the buck I saw last night was a good bit bigger! Rifle season starts Nov.29th and I will be set-up in there with my bow in hand! I will be sitting in the stand where I shot my doe this year (which is the same stand my best-friend got his buck from this year). It is probablly the best spot to be! It is on a old 4-wheeler trail running through the woods that is surrounded on 3 sides by bedding area! To the east, the woods lead out into a golden rod field. That trail is a major travel area for deer, especially when the woods surrounding this area get pressure!