Silverlax
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You did the right thing. The mercy kills I take pretty hard too.
nice! I like doubles!Friday double.Went in to friend's property in Monkton blind. Some nice fat doe meat and didnt mess things up at my place for the rut. Deer number 2 actually posed for the shot while sniffing the arrow sticking out of the ground that terminated deer #1. Gotta love low pressure small suburban tracts.
Is it an older buck? It looks like it has nubs on its head but no antlers?I was lucky enough to get a second yesterday. I have been practicing my stalk/sneak technique and this is the second one I’ve been able to walk up on in the woods less than 30yds. I’ve been heading in the morning after a rain storm and it is very easy to move around quietly. Those Rage Broadheads still impress me with how damaging they are.
This antlerless buck had a few large growths on his legs. No serious infection or effect on the meat though.
Nice buck! Big body.congrats!Good archery buck seems like the frequency of movement is increasing around the doe units
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Sorry for thread drift but - any fellow archers know if cheltenham wma has a spot to shoot at target on stand, or just drop an 18-1? Was going to head out that way but nees to set my longer pins before going out on the 3d course.
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Today I started deer hunting. I could've started hunting a month and a half ago. It had been too warm and the mosquitos were too bad so I didn't want to hunt until they died off (and then there's the snakes).
The annual deer rut is supposed to be starting any day now and I wanted to try "rattling" a buck in. You take a pair of deer antlers and hit them against each other to simulate 2 bucks fighting for dominance. If the rut has started then any buck within hearing distance will come to investigate thinking that a doe in heat is with the bucks.
I was rattling for about an hour then I saw a white tail out of the corner of my eye. It was 2 does and one was looking straight at me at the bottom of a ravine. She was positioned perfectly broadside like one of those targets they sell. She was about 100 yards away. An easy shot. I looked at her with my binocs then through my rifle scope.
Should I or shouldn't I?
My deer season was only an hour old and I was really interested in rattling a buck in so I passed.
I went back up the saddle I was on and rattled towards the other side of the saddle. I noticed a guy in camo and hunting orange up higher on the saddle. I was going to move to another location so I started going up to talk to him. I tripped on a dead branch and almost fell flat on my face. LOL!
The guy was from Penn. and was 76 years old so I told him I was moving to another spot and let him be.
Didn't see any more deer but the rut should start and things are looking good so I'll be hunting the next 3 days.
I just finished hunting in Jug Bay in Anne Arundel County. I shot a good sized doe and her fawn. I probably would have let the fawn go but I had recently culled the mom and this is a management hunt and they want as many deer gone as possible.
The doe sprinted behind a clump of trees after I shot her and stopped. No more running, no more visibility; I assume she bled out. But when I got out of the tree hours later - no doe. There was a huge amount of blood on the ground but somehow she managed to escape. Even the park rangers were amazed when they came to help me find her and saw the amount of blood.
So here’s the problem: Normally I hunt for a family friend who’s wife is allergic to beef, chicken, and pork. She can eat fish and venison. With the doe it would have made sense to process both together. Alas with only the scrawny little fawn (field dressed at 22 pounds) it just doesn’t make economic sense to pay to get it processed. I can’t process myself at home so I’m sorta stuck.
I hate to waste the deer. Anyone want it? I’m on my way home now; if anyone lives in or near central Anne Arundel County and wants it let me know and I’ll drive it to you. First one to respond gets the deer.
Buck doing a little weed eating in my back yard.
Our back yard oak tree went crazy this year. Have collected about a hundred pounds of acorns. Dropped about 60 pounds off yesterday, with a friend who says he can do a special magic trick that will turn them into venison.