Bow season starts Saturday.

Hindsight

Hindsight

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My favorite time of the year is coming up this Saturday. This is the time when I get to spend hours in nature, pitting my skills, against an animal that spends its entire life avoiding danger. I love to gun hunt but the thought of getting a deer close enough for a shot with a bow is just exciting. Even as I type this my heart is racing in anticipation. So to all of the hunters out there, I wish you good luck and safe hunting.
 
Whoo Hoo! I really really need to get back into the bow. A lefty like me has so few choices, but these days its getting better.

Gun's give you lots of food, but sometimes a person need to get closer to nature and meld with it. :)
 
I agree. I am a management hunter. I have spent hours watching young deer mill around in front of me. Once in a while I will take a younger deer if it is getting late in the season but I would prefer to take out the weak. I had a young doe walk ten feet in front of me two years ago and stop to eat. It was amazing having her that close with no clue that I was there. The other nice thing is that I get to see some young bucks grow into very nice mature deer with amazing antlers. Problem is that by the time they get to be trophy deer, you have no chance of getting close.
 
Send your deer my way! My plot and my neighbor's aren't even 40 acres, woods and a pond with tracks running through but so far no consistent pattern of travel. My trail-cam has picked them up at various times of day but not every day. I've set-up a stand along the route but haven't had a sighting in the 4 mornings and one evening I've been out there. Last year I got 3 sightings but two were too thick in the woods to shoot at and on the third sighting, my arrow managed to find the only stick between me and my quarry, lodged with a thwack and sent the buck dodging into the undergrowth :grumpy: I am hoping for a blessing this year, but may need to wait until a little later in the season for more action from the deer...
 
chiral.grolim said:
Send your deer my way! My plot and my neighbor's aren't even 40 acres, woods and a pond with tracks running through but so far no consistent pattern of travel. My trail-cam has picked them up at various times of day but not every day. I've set-up a stand along the route but haven't had a sighting in the 4 mornings and one evening I've been out there. Last year I got 3 sightings but two were too thick in the woods to shoot at and on the third sighting, my arrow managed to find the only stick between me and my quarry, lodged with a thwack and sent the buck dodging into the undergrowth :grumpy: I am hoping for a blessing this year, but may need to wait until a little later in the season for more action from the deer...
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From everything that I have seen and read, deer seem to be on a three day cycle. I tend to see the same bucks about every three days. Now they may be a half mile from where I saw them last but they are in the same area at least. Some deer have a home range of about ten miles. This will change during hunting season and the rut. If you are picking them up on the trail cam then I would say that you are in the right spot. It may be an issue with cover around your stand or scent. I have had older deer blow at me from 3 or 4 hundred yards away. They are very perceptive of changes in their environment. Just remember, you are playing on their home turf. The more you can do to hide yourself the better. Best of luck this year.
 
I love bowhunting, only type I do! What do you use? I use a Bear Archery Super Kodiak, 55# pull. I shoot Gold Tip Traditionals 5575, with 300gr. VPA Terminators up front. I've got several pigs and deer on her. I usually go hunting for deer up north, but kill my hogs here in Florida, as I don't need a permit and can do it 24/7/365.
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That is one beautiful longbow!!!
 
That is a good looking bow. No luck this morning. Trying to see through the fog was a bit challenging.
 
Excuse the new knife. I usually carry my gen 1 howling rat but I had to get and try a Randall!! So far it's pretty nice but the Gen 1 howling rat can't be beat for all things in the bush.
 
Any updates? Saw a small buck this morning and missed a yote. It came back around and I almost got a second shot but it busted me.
 
Went out of state and scored two does. The old vex was perfect!! The deer are no where to be found here at home right now... at least for me
 
Congrats fargo. The corn is slowly coming off around my house. This should get the deer moving out in the open a little.
 
Yup, the corn is coming down, just this week there are 5 new carcasses visible along my commute, and I spooked an 8-pointer in my orchard as I came home late a couple of nights ago... They are on the move! :cool:

Now, if I can just get a little time off of work to get out again :grumpy: Good hunting, all!
 
fargo: congrats!

Good luck to everyone.


I drew a Cow Elk tag this year and just pulled this off with about 5 minutes of shooting light on the last day I was out, this cow and two others were with a big 7x7 bull.

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If I had a Bull tag I could've shot one of about 7 I got real close to... one of these days! My bow is a Hoyt Vectrix (Frankenstein=pieced together) draw is at 75lbs and the broadhead was a Swhacker (100gr.). This was my first time using and liking a mechanical broadhead, I missed a huge Mule Deer last year when one opened up after launching... it was horrible, I had really bad experience with a Grim Reaper mechanical on Javelina the year before that. This mechanical worked great though I couldnt' believe the entrance hole the it made.

Deer opens back up on Dec. 19th here.


Eli
 
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