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Title: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Kingcreek on October 07, 2022, 11:04:00 AM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Lennyjoe on October 07, 2022, 09:55:04 PM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: cordex on October 07, 2022, 10:32:18 PM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Kingcreek on October 08, 2022, 01:49:50 PM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: JTHunter on October 09, 2022, 01:04:17 AM
Good luck Kingcreek.  Shoot straight !  [ar15]  ;)
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Kingcreek on October 09, 2022, 07:40:14 AM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Kingcreek on October 20, 2022, 02:00:07 PM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: griz on October 20, 2022, 02:56:08 PM
Good job!  Congratulations.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Lennyjoe on October 20, 2022, 09:10:03 PM
Steaks on the grill!
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: Kingcreek on October 21, 2022, 08:55:05 AM
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.
Title: Re: Bow hunting for deer
Post by: charby on October 21, 2022, 10:07:22 AM
Congratulations!