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Jeff!

I sure hope the weather changes soon.I was going to go out this morning but we had Thunder and lightning so I just went back to bed.
We went out last night and one of the guy's shot at a small buck right near dark ,he was sure he hit him because of the noise the arrow made ,but didn't see the arrow .we looked for 2 1/2 hrs but found nothing ,no arrow and no blood and no deer .I have a bad feeling that he's not going to find this deer ,because the area is very ,very thiick and now that it's rained ,I sure have my doubt's ,I wasn't able to go with him since the kid's had hockey this morning But he had Tom and another guy to help.He was going to call when he got home ,but as of yet he hasn't called .I'll let you know what the result's are when I speak with him ,but i doubt it's going to be good.

John

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Hi guy's !

Just a short note to tell you's that I was hunting on the rifle hunt this week and we got 5 deer for 5 hunter's.We still have tommorrow to hunt but our tag's are full and I think I'll sleep in tommorrow.We did get some nice buck's and 1 is in the 130 to 140 class .Although we did see a buck I'm sure would be in the 160class ,I'll be bowhunting next week for this buck ,so I'm glad we never got him. We had a great time and the week started out slow with only 1 deer hanging until Wed when we got 2 more and then this morning we filled the rest of our tag's .This was just in time because it started raining hard and it's not supposed to stop till next week.The big buck was in rut' but the other buck's were not .We got 4 buck's and 1 doe .

nubo

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Way to go Nubo I am still not having any luck at all but I will not give up.

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Good job Nubo!
My season has pretty much stunk so far. I've only gotten out a couple times in the last 3 weeks, and haven't had any luck. Today is our last day of 'archery only' season before the muzzleloaders hit the woods tomorrow. I'm heading out this evening, hopefully it will be good. Things are normally pretty hot this time of year here as far as rutting action, but today the wind is blowing 30-40mph[:@]so we'll see.

Anyhow, good luck guys! Hopefully someone can add some inches to our total!

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Guy's !

Now that the rifle season is over I'll be out again next week to try and add some inch's to our scorecard .I"ve got 3 week's until the controled hunt here in Ont and then I'll have till the end of Dec ,so I still have lot's of time to go .As I said the rut is just starting to come on so hopefully I can get the job done . Keep at it guy's and don't give up ,I've alway's found that if you don't give up good thing's will happen ,so good luck to you's.

nubo

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Ok guys I have to get another pic tomm. with my bow in one but here is my entry. I just want you all to know I traveled 1100 miles on a trip to Wisconsin in Nicolet National Forest to try and get a nice one for our team and came up empty, turns out I had a nice one waitin' for me right in my own back yard.

Story:
I was determined to go hunting in the morning, was gonna be the coolest morning yet and prerut has started so I figured ok. Set my alarm, my coffee and was ready. Well, after tossin' and turnin all night I reached over shut the alarm off and said the heck with it im not getting up. Well something woke me up 4 more times and the last time was at 5:30am so I said well maybe I better go after all! So I rushed out and jumped in my wifes ladder stand which I had placed right in the middle of our "Rut Alley" right as first light was upon me. At 6:30 laid out some grunts.. nothin', 7 rattled and grunted...nothin' 7:30 saw 3 deer working parallel from me at 80 yards so I laid out a grunt and one turned and came a comin' straight at me. Being only 12 feet up with the sun in my face I never thought the deer would let me get the bow back so I drew slowly, he turned at 22 yards, I bleated to stop, he didnt so I gave it to him louder he stopped, I dropped the bead on him and let it go. I saw the arrow dissappear behind the shoulder and watched him go but over and ball up 50 yards out. End result, this baby right here!!! I havent scored him yet but he should be pretty good.

What should I do once I have the pic with my bow in it and the score?

Please inform so I make sure it counts for our team.
Later.
Go 11
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Steve you'll need to send a pic and short story to Rob/PA Bowyer and myself ,please be sure to add your bow in the pic this is very important .I"m putting a scrap book together for after the season and will send it to all of the team .And you'll need to rough score him as well ,please add date and time of harvest for my scrap book.

I notice he's got an odd looking brow tine and a small little drop tine as well great job Steve . I guess your glad you got out of bed now,HUH?

John

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Rob Bowyer

Wow! he's absolutely a great looking buck and will definetly put our team in the running with the top team's ,congrat's Steve. We're definetly no underdog's now with this great buck.I will be e-mailing the other team member's to let them all know of your harvest.

Nubo

John

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Man thats awesome way to go and a big congrats

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ok here is another pic of the buck i shot for our team guys

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Heres a pic of my brothers deer that really shows off the strength of his right beam.
It's a heck of a trophy!
Good Job, Bro!!!