Bow hunting for deer

[Kingcreek]

I haven’t hunted yet even though the season opened here Oct 1.
Im starting tomorrow. I have one tree stand up and ready and yesterday I put up sawhorses and planks in the barn so I can be imposition to shoot out thru a window. Deer and visiting my apple trees almost every morning and evening. 2 bucks this am and 2 big fat fawnless does most mornings.
Gonna start in the barn tomorrow. 25 yards to the farthest apple trees.

[Lennyjoe]

Sounds like a good deal. 

Here in SW Ohio I’m stuck with public land hunting.  I’ve talked to a few farmers over the past 5 years and haven’t gotten any permission to hunt private lands.  So, the bow and gear are still collecting dust in the garage.  I may go tomorrow afternoon and walk a public land area to do some scouting/still hunting to see if anyone is in that area I’m interested in.

[cordex]

This is the first year I am living full time on land I don’t even need a tag to hunt on.
And I haven’t made it out even once so far.

[Kingcreek]

Walked across the drive this morning 5 minutes before legal shooting time and spooked one big deer 10 yards from my barn window. Didn’t see anything else with 2 hours on stand.
Had to modify my stand because the sawhorses were settling and my plank was getting wobbly. And I really need to sit down off and on because of my low back (busted up in 2008 with compression fractures and arthritis and degenerative disc disease) So I scrounged an old barn door and reset my sawhorses so I have room for a stool or chair on a platform almost 3’ up and in better position to monitor activity over the apple trees.
Tonight I think I’ll hunt the timber and if I don’t shoot one I’ll be back in the barn tomorrow morning.

[JTHunter]

Good luck Kingcreek.  Shoot straight !   

[Kingcreek]

Saw nothing in the timber last night. Barn this am. Much more comfortable but the big full moon isn’t helping my chances. I gotta say walking across the yard to hunt has its positives.

[Kingcreek]

Yes!
Had very little time this am before a meeting and a haircut.
Was on the machan in the barn by 6:30 (legal shooting time 6:47)
7:00 saw 2 deer come out of the neighbors place and run through no shot.
7:10 a buck walked down the road past my driveway. I used a grunt tube and blew a doe bleat and turned him around. He doubled back and came in for a 19 yard shot.
I arrowed double lung and he dropped within 60 yards.
Now I have to finish quartering and get him on ice.
Butchering Saturday and sausage making Sunday.

[griz]

Good job!  Congratulations.

[Lennyjoe]

Steaks on the grill!

[Kingcreek]

Gonna do my stuffed and bacon wrapped and smoked backstrap on Sunday.
I’ll spend most of tomorrow cutting and probably make my breakfast sausage Sunday. Summer sausage next week.

[charby]

Congratulations!