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Report your Archery kill -2005

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SnakeRiver Rookie

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Sandburr-

This is my 2nd year bowhunting. Had to take it up last year because the year before that I got skunked during rifle season. Wasn't going to let that happen again. Sure nough last year while rifle hunting with the boy, we saw not a single deer.

I haven't done Muzzleloading yet. I am sure I will get into it some day. What I really want to do is some more archery hunting. I'm really into it. Most beautiful time of year, no bugs. Nice to be in the stand, observing nature, occassionally killing it, and not freezing your butt off.

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Thanks!!

After 24 years of bowhunting it feels wierd to have a big one before the rut!!! I'll still hunt with my dad but it will have to be one HUGE buck for me to shoot again this year. I think I'll also stay in bed on those real cold mornings.

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Went out last night, 30 October, and this guy came out straight down wind of me at about 5:00pm. He was coming straight towards my stand heading to an area where i had very little cover between me and him, so i came to full draw a lil early, and ended up being stuck at full draw when he stopped at 9 yds to lick the rain off some corn stalks. After a few minutes of being at full draw he was standing in the same place, and my arms were burning! He finally moved into my lane, and i shot him at 6 yds! Came right to a scent wick i had hanging. He trotted off like i had missed, although he mule kicked after i released the arrow and i could see my lumenok glowing while sticking out of the dirt.I grunted at him, and he circled back towards me and bedded 30 yds to my west. It was getting dark when he got up and bedded in another lane, and i stuck him again just to make sure he didnt make his way into the corn, and that was it. Probably didnt need the 2nd arrow, but i didnt want to take the chance of him getting into the standing corn field and losing blood in the wet stalks.

Not the biggest buck in the area, but he'll do.

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fireman Enthusiast

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There sure are some nice deer showing up in this forum. Unfortunatly none yet by me. Congrats to all the hunters.

Went out on Sat night and had a chance at a nice 4x4, clean miss right over the top of his back. Sun night walking out to my stand, I hear something running down the trail. I look up and see a huge 4x4 running with his nose to the ground. At 15 yrds he turns off the trail and goes crashing through the woods. If only I would have been to my stand sooner. On Sat morning, I hunted my ground blind on my uncles farm. He has been seeing a nice buck there too. I didnt see the buck, but seen several does/fawns. My uncle was out working in the field, so I talked to him for a bit and he said Friday evening that big buck was standing right by my ground blind. Yet another if only I had been there. Thats the way my season has been going so far. Hopefully my luck will change soon.

Good luck to everyone this weekend.

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Studer Community Regular

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WOW Swampbuck!! Now that is the kind of deer people venture out for at Camp Ripley and you go two days late and go back home and stick that big pig.....nice work. Congratulations. Are you using your stand next weekend??? hahaha Congrats again on a gorgeous Whitetailed Buck, he has got great character. Go get another one!!

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Nice bucks boys, the only big deer I've see so far have been dead or in pictures, nothing big in the woods. I know of three nice bucks that were shot at and one taken this weekend, all three were rattled in. I went out last night and just at dusk a big deer with horns was way out in a picked corn field. I couldn't see how big rack the was but judging by the size of the deer, I would assume a nice 8. He went over a little noll and I started to rattle, the buck came back at a trot and came half way between me and where I first saw him, probably 150 yards. He came from a point of higher elevation and new something was up when he heard fighting and didn't see any deer. He trotted off, long story short, the bucks are being very responsive to rattling. I haven't had any luck using scents or other types of calls. I plan on getting out almost every night this week, so hopefully, I can stick one before shotgun season starts down here.

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Nice bucks guys! Like someone else said I haven't seen any big bucks in the woods all season, plenty of does, fawns, & little guys. Saw one big deer about a month ago that I'm sure was a shooter buck, but too dark to tell. Leaving in half an hour to make a try for him, hope he shows up. Good luck all.

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Went out tonight and man what a difference a day made.. same stand as last night when I saw one solitary doe. Tonight it was like someone flipped the switch. First off I had a group of turkeys walk behind me, about 5 minutes later I heard what I thought was still the turkeys, turned around and here comes a doe darting and dodging her way to me with two small 8 pointers chasing, fun to watch, too small to shoot. A few minutes later another doe comes from the same area with a small spiker chasing hard, she was trying her best to evade capture, they ran a loop around my tree, I had a hard time not giggling at his antics. 10 minutes later heard some grunting behind me again, there is a decent 6 following a doe down the logging road, well now it's become apparant that I should watch this direction as it seems everything is happening back there, about 10 minutes after that, hear some more grunting, two does with a nice 8 following, they worked the area behind me for about 15 minutes, one of the does walks right under my stand as the buck is following about 60 yards behind, good deal except for now the doe is standing directly downwind of me and the buck is coming, two problems, she is going to wind me eventually even with the care I use in scent control, or she will see me draw back. Well, when the buck was about 10 yards out he walked behind a large tree, I drew back as slowly with as little movement as possible as to not spook the doe, I figured even if I did I would probably have a couple seconds before the buck figured out what was going on, well she never moved and he kept coming, I hate this shot but it was all I had, 5 yards out facing my tree, stuck him between the shoulders, he didn't go far.. I was debating if he was a shooter or not, but as I watched him close the distance I thought about the cavalry of orange invading my spot in Saturday and the possibilty of not having another opportunity this year, and the fact of a baby at home and a very understanding wife that is becoming less and less understanding. Not the biggest around but I'm happy with him.

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