Hunting 2022

Got a nice 10-pointer Friday with my bow in the Finger Lakes. 32 yard shot. RMK 25-5 waxed pouch sheath for the WIN for field dressing the buck.

Happy Hunting!

Tom Flynn

Outstanding, my man!
Stay Sharp, Capt. Chris

Congratulations, Tom!

Very nice “Bow” Buck!!!

Very nice,
Walker

Wow!! Great looking buck!! Congratulations!

Pap

EXCELLENT!!!!!

Great buck, Tom! Don’t you just love bow season? The (potentially) beautiful fall weather, leaves, fall wild flowers and white tails rutting always gets my blood running!

Way to Kick things off this fall!!!!

Thanks to all. Duke you are right about the Fall and bow season, special time of year.

Tom Flynn

Tom,
Super nice harvest. 175 Lbs????

What bow rig do you use???

Wayne

Does anybody know what this pawed out spot under this low hanging limb could be?

I discovered it late yesterday afternoon while making the rounds.

If you were a little farther north, possibly a Bison Wallow.
Do you have cattle or other animals that might do that?

Tracks. Hair left behind?

Larry

looks like dirt to me....

:-)Rocky

Yes. Hair and tracks.

Plus some of the green twigs broken off the overhead limb.

Another hint: This happens every year about this time and always in nearly the same place.

Game cameras !?!

Deer?

Larry

Pic didn't do it justice-dressed out just under 200#. 32 yards double lung shot ran 40 yards.

Hoyt Carbon Extreme with 125 grain Montec fixed blade on Easton carbon arrows.

Tom Flynn

It’s hard to tell from this far away Coach, BUT I’m going to describe what y’all hunters already are bound to be thinking. Looks to me like a buck scrape, especially as they frequently like ‘em under a branch like you’re describing. Which they then love to practice being ticked off and fighting that branch, frequently breaking off twigs when they do, leaving their scent on it when doing so. And then somewhere in close proximity should be rubs on the saplings around it and along the trail as they come and go. As the rut gets “ruttier”, the old boy will keep it cleaned out of leaves and sticks, check it every day (seems to me usually in pitch black night) and always take a leak in the scrape, as will his girlfriend(s) so he can sniff it to know she’s “ready”. Whenever I’ve been hunting with and educating my children, friends’ kids and other hunters about these sorts of things, I’ve always encouraged them to kneel and sniff the scrape to confirm what the liquid on a leaf is, just for the experience…..and fun. Many times I’ve added a few drops of fresh, “100%doe-in-heat” scent to increase the old boy’s interest.
Along the trail and within a clear bow, handgun or whatever shot is a great place to make a blind or tree stand.
Anyway, too much info, BUT on a beautiful fall day like today it helps me out just to put this “short version” down. Especially when I’m looking again at Tom’s recent 10 pointer. Great bow shot Tom…..all the way through and exit?
Beautiful!

Alex, I’ll take duke for the win. With a little bit of Larry’s answer just for insurance.
Did I hit?
Walker

Duke, Larry, & Walker are the winners!

It is a Buck Scrape and he visits it every day (or night) this time of the year.

Over my lifetime, beginning when I was about 14, I've killed 6 bucks at this exact place.

I haven't killed one there in years simply because my Bride likes to look at them more than she likes to dress and cook them. She considers them OUR deer. She would rather drive her golf cart around the place and take pictures of them.

We own an interest in a 800 acre tract about 20 miles East of us and she doesn't mind hunting them there.

YEEHAW!!!
What’s the prize?!!? Are you picking the Randall or do we get to pick our own?
Kinda’ like you, I’ve had to pass on the biggest Bucks I’ve ever seen ‘cause Maggie doesn’t want me hunting off my deck. I’ve left my driveway about 0400 God only knows how many times over last 35+ years with 25-40 bedded down in my yard, including 6+ bucks to drive 90 mins. to my family farm. She says it just “makes her too sad to have me kill her deer.” So not a big deal for a long time now AND there really is a huge difference in shooting and hunting.

Here are 2 from last year that she would absolutely not let me shoot.

I begged but no cigars!

I even told her that I had seen them eating her muscadines!

Coach,
That is really nice!!!

Wayne

Texas deer!!
I've got one from there....
they just do not grow that big here in Georgia...

:-)Rocky

As a rule here,deer seldom top 200 lbs. However,a few years ago a bowhunter harvested a 305 lb white tailed buck at a state forest just 6 miles from me.

Try hauling that out of the woods!!! Uphill both ways!!!

Wayne

It rained hard all night Friday night.

Yesterday, there were fresh pawings, tracks, and green twigs all around it.

Full moon is November 8. The rut will be in full go by then.

I was hunting elk above timberline in Colorado years ago and met up with two other hunters that were headed back down.
They reported they had seen a great little herd in a small valley over the next ridge.
The older one commented
You better take your salt and pepper, because that is the only way you are going to pack one out of there.
I really understood that phrasing and have used it numerous times since

David
And a fork. Lol.

Pap

I like that! Certainly makes sense.
Walker