Any WV bowhunters...
10-22-2006, 11:15 AM
#54
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: WV
Posts: 4,485
RE: Any WV bowhunters...
Nice one Mite.
Stay safe over there dhnut1973.
No hunting for me this weekend (10/21-22) Had to help the old man finish an addition on his garage--good time though. Hopefully be out tomorrow evening. Continued good luck all
Stay safe over there dhnut1973.
No hunting for me this weekend (10/21-22) Had to help the old man finish an addition on his garage--good time though. Hopefully be out tomorrow evening. Continued good luck all
10-23-2006, 12:55 PM
#56
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Fayette County, WV
Posts: 129
RE: Any WV bowhunters...
This is my son Jerod with his very first ever buck with a bow. This is a nice 5 point buck. He dressed out at 120 lbs!
Father and son score their first ever bucks with in one week of each other!
10-23-2006, 04:17 PM
#57
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Almost Heaven,WV
Posts: 4,087
RE: Any WV bowhunters...
Congrats to all my fellow WV hunters that have filled their tags. I'm still looking but I have a feeling it won't be long. The rut is about to hit and I have next week off to hunt.
10-23-2006, 06:44 PM
#58
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pulaskiville
Posts: 3,533
RE: Any WV bowhunters...
Congrats to those that have scored.
I've seen more deer in my 2 days on stand this year than any other 2 days I can remember in Braxton county. No big bucks...but 4 or 5 small ones. The first morning I saw 30+ deer from my stand, all within 100yds.
I stuck a fat doe about 4pm...and I hit her good. I've been bowhunting over 20 years, and have killed a large dump truck load of deer with a bow. Until last Saturday, I had only lost one.
I waited about 1/2 hour...climbed down and found the arrow. It was dripping with good blood, I thought. I looked in the direction that the deer went...not a drop. I went to the last place I marked her at about 100yds...not a drop. I walked from there back to the arrow...not a drop. I even followed her "hit down" marks through the leaves for about 150yds...not a drop. I looked until dark, got a good light and looked some more. Probably 4 hours total. NOT A DROP OF BLOOD.
In hindsight, I think I was too far back and the blood was liver blood and guts plugged the hole. (She was angled a bit) That's the only thing I can think of.
I was sick about losing the deer, but pumped about all the deer I was seeing. While tracking her, a spike walked to about 25yds from me. LOL
I'll be back at it Fri and Sat the next 2 weekends. Come on cold weather!
I've seen more deer in my 2 days on stand this year than any other 2 days I can remember in Braxton county. No big bucks...but 4 or 5 small ones. The first morning I saw 30+ deer from my stand, all within 100yds.
I stuck a fat doe about 4pm...and I hit her good. I've been bowhunting over 20 years, and have killed a large dump truck load of deer with a bow. Until last Saturday, I had only lost one.
I waited about 1/2 hour...climbed down and found the arrow. It was dripping with good blood, I thought. I looked in the direction that the deer went...not a drop. I went to the last place I marked her at about 100yds...not a drop. I walked from there back to the arrow...not a drop. I even followed her "hit down" marks through the leaves for about 150yds...not a drop. I looked until dark, got a good light and looked some more. Probably 4 hours total. NOT A DROP OF BLOOD.
In hindsight, I think I was too far back and the blood was liver blood and guts plugged the hole. (She was angled a bit) That's the only thing I can think of.
I was sick about losing the deer, but pumped about all the deer I was seeing. While tracking her, a spike walked to about 25yds from me. LOL
I'll be back at it Fri and Sat the next 2 weekends. Come on cold weather!
10-25-2006, 05:59 AM
#59
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: The top of The Wild and Wonderful West Virginia
Posts: 2,625
RE: Any WV bowhunters...
I got permission to hunt the property up the street from my house last night. It's only about five acres, but it is all a wooded hill and valley right in the middle of the city. This is my first year doing the urban hunt. Hopefully I can get a shot at one of the big boys that roams my neighborhood at night. I scouted it last night and it is very thick in there. I am going to try and hang a stand friday night without causing too much of a ruckus. There is very good buck sign down in there.
