Bambi Whacking 2021-2022

engineerbrian · Nov 28, 2021

My youngest son scored his second deer this morning. He was cold, tired and hungry but said he was sticking it out. Good decision.

wilcam47 · Nov 28, 2021

Archeryrob said:
My daughter caught this guy trying to sneak out of the bedding area an hour before sunset. 6.5 Grendel and he didn't go ten yards and the heart was ripped in two just about.

Nice! Congrats!

Archeryrob · Nov 28, 2021

Out hunting this morning at a bedding area. Nothing around. Then two does show and chill, 20 minutes later 2 more does come in and start browsing. All are with in 25 yards. Then a hot doe comes in a drags an eight behind her. to my right and behind me. He is grunting and squats and pisses down his tarsals right next to me. BUT I can't turn or stand with all these does around. The hot doe starts to move, he starts to move. I shoulder the gun, I'm going to kill him when they come around the front of me. She rips off into the thick and so does he. Damn!!

He was standing right there. I guess I need to work on my left handed twisting around the tree shot now

AlBeight · Nov 28, 2021

GSuders said:
My dad sat all day seen 8 does in different groups in the morning. Than had 2 hunters drive thru the neighbors cut corn field and walk the field edge looking to put up stands at 1pm on the 1st day? He didn't see anymore deer after that. I sat most of the day on my farm. Ended up seeing 8 does, 2 bucks, 3 turkeys, 3 foxes, 2 woodpeckers fighting and a groundhog. This guy came out of the standing corn at 4:10 that ended my day.

Nice buck, looks like it wasn’t just your day that ended at 4:10 pm. Congrats.

outrider58 · Nov 28, 2021

This deer was shot last night on the farm I've been hunting. I'm new there so I can only hunt marginal areas. I have seen deer like this out there though. I'm hitting in tomorrow morning...

bigjohn · Nov 28, 2021

Got my first sika
6pt

teratos · Nov 28, 2021

outrider58 said:
This deer was shot last night on the farm I've been hunting. I'm new there so I can only hunt marginal areas. I have seen deer like this out there though. I'm hitting in tomorrow morning...

Damn. That’s a big boy.

AlBeight · Nov 28, 2021

outrider58 said:
This deer was shot last night on the farm I've been hunting. I'm new there so I can only hunt marginal areas. I have seen deer like this out there though. I'm hitting in tomorrow morning...

Damn, good luck tomorrow. Hope you tag one with war clubs like that on its head. Holy crap, that’s impressive.

outrider58 · Nov 28, 2021

bigjohn said:
Got my first sika
6pt

That's a trophy in my book. Congratulations!

outrider58 · Nov 28, 2021

AlBeight said:
Damn, good luck tomorrow. Hope you tag one with war clubs like that on its head. Holy crap, that’s impressive.

Thanks. I damn sure could use it!

wilcam47 · Nov 28, 2021

outrider58 said:
Thanks. I damn sure could use it!

Good luck, but i know you always get something good.

engineerbrian · Nov 28, 2021

bigjohn said:
Got my first sika
6pt

Congrats. Good eatin’ right there.

gtodave · Nov 28, 2021

outrider58 said:
This deer was shot last night on the farm I've been hunting. I'm new there so I can only hunt marginal areas. I have seen deer like this out there though. I'm hitting in tomorrow morning...

Hammer. MoCo?

mauser58 · Nov 28, 2021

engineerbrian said:
My youngest son scored his second deer this morning. He was cold, tired and hungry but said he was sticking it out. Good decision.

Nicely done. Tell your son congratulations on his successful hunt

mauser58 · Nov 28, 2021

bigjohn said:
Got my first sika
6pt

Nice Sika deer you got John. I like the sika more than the white tail meat. Looks like you drug him through the marsh a bit

outrider58 · Nov 28, 2021

gtodave said:
Hammer. MoCo?

HoCo. I'da been out there today, but alas, no hunting in HoCo on Sundays.

outrider58 · Nov 28, 2021

wilcam47 said:
Good luck, but i know you always get something good.

Thanks Will. I think I had that deer at 30 yds last year at first light. It was bow season and I was doing crop damage with a shotgun. It would have been a chip-shot with a bow.

lazarus · Nov 28, 2021

GSuders said:
My dad sat all day seen 8 does in different groups in the morning. Than had 2 hunters drive thru the neighbors cut corn field and walk the field edge looking to put up stands at 1pm on the 1st day? He didn't see anymore deer after that. I sat most of the day on my farm. Ended up seeing 8 does, 2 bucks, 3 turkeys, 3 foxes, 2 woodpeckers fighting and a groundhog. This guy came out of the standing corn at 4:10 that ended my day.

Nice one! I guess in fairness to them, maybe they just haven’t had time?

My only excuse is I’ve been busy plus still figuring stuff out. I figure if I have a shot on the 9 I’ve been seeing, it’ll be late season. But I am going to keep trying to get out in a stand a couple mornings and a couple evenings a week before/after work for the next few weeks. Maybe a day or two of all day sits.

But I’ve been thinning out saplings in my back woods, finally put in a ladder stand. Just got an automatic feeder hung. And need to adjust it higher (walked it today and it’s sitting at 6’ for the bottom. I’d like it 8’ up. Got a rope hoist to replace the pulley I was using to make it way easier with 35lbs of corn in it and I need to bust out the ladder to also move the strap up the tree.

Anyway, I am finally getting serious about targeting bigger bucks that are moving through my backwoods by the creek travel corridor that runs through my neighborhood rather than hunting the does and an occasional small buck that come by my side yard.

But I feel like I would have figured a farm out quick and tried to do stuff in the off season. But, again, for me I made the decision after early ML. So here I am, tromping around my woods messing stuff up. At least it is a rural residential area. So the deer are pretty used to people.

I’ll take down my ladder stand at the end of the season. But in the off season I need to cut down and trim back a few more saplings, rake clear the forest floor and get clover in and a few crab apples and persimmons. Then get the ladder stand back up in early to mid August and see how my woods garden is doing for the deer. Put the feeder back up if it isn’t doing so good the same time I put in the stand.

lazarus · Nov 28, 2021

bigjohn said:
Got my first sika
6pt

Nice! Wooly deer

lazarus · Nov 28, 2021

Archeryrob said:
Out hunting this morning at a bedding area. Nothing around. Then two does show and chill, 20 minutes later 2 more does come in and start browsing. All are with in 25 yards. Then a hot doe comes in a drags an eight behind her. to my right and behind me. He is grunting and squats and pisses down his tarsals right next to me. BUT I can't turn or stand with all these does around. The hot doe starts to move, he starts to move. I shoulder the gun, I'm going to kill him when they come around the front of me. She rips off into the thick and so does he. Damn!!

He was standing right there. I guess I need to work on my left handed twisting around the tree shot now

I hope he comes back in for you soon. I realized where I have my stand positioned a lot of my shots are going to mean twisting to shoot to my right or shooting south paw. Fortunately my crossbow isn’t too bad south paw with the rifle rail on my stand. I’d feel pretty confident taking the shot the wrong way.

No good option to reposition my stand so that I am shooting mostly straight out or left and a lot of my shots are going to be 20yds or under.

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