Huntingson, you are acting like a high school girl on a first date. LOL Just kidding. We demand pics of all kills within 24hrs of said kill or you will assume the position. Seriously though, what gives dude? Come on with the pics already.

LT

well my saturday wasn't as I hoped. It turns out that my stand selection was also the location that they decided to bed that night. Well I went in and they went out. I didn't see a thing except this.

Ron that looks fresh enough, enter it!

Always too bad when you find that.

Not that great a weekend for me either... I saw a bunch of does a basket 6 and a couple of 4's.

I'm heading back out wed evening and all day friday...

Chris

OK, I am finally around a computer again. The reason it took so long is because my dad had one jump the string (I know it sounds like BS but seriously) and gut shot it and we spent every minute of the last 2 days looking for it because it was a monster. No luck however and we are both exhausted and pissed off. I scored my buck and have pics that I will send to Justin for him to do his thingbecause I am an idiot. He scores exactly 150". I will tell the story after my stupid meeting.

Sorry to hear about your dad, I've been away for the weekend..where is your BUCK??? I am searching right now.. LOL congrats

That does suck about your dads deer. You guys must have had a great weekend as far as movement and sightings anyway. Hopefully you will find him sooner or later for some closure. Can not wait to see the pics Jim. Congrats. This is awesome.

I just went thru the scores and that will put usin second place of team one. We will still be about 172" behind. However we have only scored on 3 so far and I think they have 5 or 6 already. Lets get this done boys. I am taking off Thursday and Friday and these will be the last two days I will have to hunt before the rifle season. I am hoping to get it done then. If not I will still be out hunting but it is much harder to even spot deer after the rifle season.

Here you go guys. Jims very large buck. I love the G3 on the left side. I will now try to get us some points to win this thing and get Jim a new bowtech bow for next year.

Alright, I finally have a minute.

I took Thursday and Friday off work and hunted both days. I saw 8 different bucks on Thursday and Friday mornings. Thursday evening I saw 7 does, and I took Friday night off to let the wife go out and she missed a doe. It was her first shot at a deer ever and she simply got too excited and forgot to look through her peep sight. She missed completely though so in all reality no harm done.

Saturday morning I woke up to another North wind, which I was rather perturbed with because we have had nothing but North winds and we only have a few stands that are good for those conditions. I decided to go to the "corner stand" that is located in the SE corner of the wood lot on my grandparents' farm with an open picked corn field to the south and east (hence the corner name. We are not very original). Going into the stand I spooked a deer that sounded as though it was right at the stand. DANG! Once I climbed into the stand I had another couple of deer walk under my tree but it was too dark to make them out. At first light a doe and her fawn came by. 5-10 minutes later another doe came running through as though being chased. I got my bow and got ready, but it ended up being another doe. Then from the west came a 1.5 year old 8-point. Then more does. Then deer were out in the field to thesouth.Finally, this old boy appeared in the field to the south just before 8 o'clock.The deer had been coming by so regularly that my hand was throbbingfrom the cold holding my bow the whole time as I was too afraid to hang it back up. He came north into the woods but was east of me and well out of my shooting lanes.Luckily, he turned west and headed right for me. That is when I noticed the crooked G3 on his left antler and knew exactly who he was. This was the first deer that we have ever targeted and herehe was coming right at me! His head disappeared behind an oak and Istruggled to draw my bow because of all the layers I had on to stay warm. I settled on my anchor points, but as he came out on the other side of the oak he was facing me and he looked right up at me! I thought I was busted, but he quicklyput his nose back on the ground and gaveme a slightly quartering-to shot at 12 yards. Iput the pin behind his shoulder and watched my arrowdisappear exactly where I wanted. He took off back to the field and then just stood there. I expected him to fall over, but he just kept standing there. He then walked off to the west without a wiggle. I was emotionally flattened as I thought I misjudged how badly he was angled. Long story short I made a good shot and he only went about 100 yards.

It was still a rather bitter-sweet day though since we couldn't find my dad's buck. It was looking at him when he shot at it at 30 yards perfectly broadside. Only about 3" behind the shoulder were visible due to a tree that was blocking the rest. The arrow was on the correct side of the tree, but by the time it got there that dang deer had moved far enough for the arrow to gut shoot him. Terrible luck but I guess it teaches the lesson that you just can't shoot at one that is looking at you. We searched everywhere and literally wore ourselves out trying to find that thing. We gave him 7 hours and he had travelled well over 800 yards. It was the toughest tracking job I have ever been on. We tried everything. We even tried teh dogs and they couldn't even find him. Just a bad thing really.