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Post by mr4pt on Sept 28, 2011 14:40:54 GMT -5
Ok ladies, I'm outta here Friday morning. Be back Tuesday night.
Have the grease hot and knives sharp, daddy's putting brown on the ground.
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Post by NitroHunter on Sept 28, 2011 14:46:52 GMT -5
Good luck to ya....I think outlaw killed the last deer in this county!
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Post by Outlaw18 on Sept 28, 2011 16:06:30 GMT -5
Good luck to ya.....
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Post by gulfcoasthunter on Oct 1, 2011 8:59:42 GMT -5
Go get em
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Post by mr4pt on Oct 5, 2011 9:33:57 GMT -5
I'm back
I had to cut my trip short but gave em hell while I could.
Day 1: Nothing, saw a very nice 8 pt in the top field while I was driving 4 wheeler to my stand. 4 hours in stand that morning, 4 hours on stand that evening and never saw a deer. Nobody else had any luck, very little movement.
Day 2: Perhaps the single best day I've ever had on a bowstand. As soon as I got settled in and daylight broke a lone doe came feeding thru. I put a good shot on it at 28 yds, heard it pile up 70 yds across the spring. Around 9:00 a pretty 10 pt came down the same way the doe did and stood almost in the same spot as the doe was standing when I shot it. Again, 28 yds and I let the air out of it. It ran down the hill and out of sight, I never heard it crash which concerned me. I was going to give it 30 minutes then go get the doe and go back to camp and then come back after lunch to find the buck. Just as I was about to get down a small bobcat came thru stalking squirrels. I watched it until it was out of sight when I heard a noise behind me. The is a huge ravine behind me which the deer NEVER come from so I wasn't too excited. When I turned around to look I couldn't believe what I saw. Two bears were feeding down the hill towards me. I was sitting in the only white oak tree that was dropping acorns for acres. They made a bee-line to the tree, got 10 yds from me, and laid down to eat acorns. They were both about the same size, one was pitch black and the other was light brown, the black one was just a little bigger. I figured the black one was a boar and the brown a sow so I decided to shoot the black one. He got up and fed to 8 yds and then busted me on the draw. He raised up on his back legs just a little and slammed his front feet back on the ground and huffed but then turned and gave me a perfect shot. I let him have it and he walked out of sight, towards where the doe was piled up. I never heard the "death moan" so I didn't know what to do. The brown bear was still laying down eating so I had to wave my hat at it and yell to try to run it off. That didn't work so I starting throwing stuff at it like my strap I use to hang my quiver on. That worked. It ran back up the hill about 60 yds and watched me climb down out of my stand. She was still standing there when I walked back to my 4 wheeler. When I got back to camp around 11:00 I told the guys I had shot a bear. They were excited to go bloodtrail a bear, especially when I told them I didn't think I hit him good and he may still be alive. We gave it 2 hours and we to get my bear (I didn't tell them about the doe and 10 pt). We trailed the bear about 80 yds and Daniel said "Here he is in the spring" then he came hauling ass out of there saying "HE'S STILL ALIVE!!" He was still alive but just barely, I had hit him low, only catching one lung. I eased around to get a better angle and let him have another one, this time a solid hit. He ran up out of the spring and ran out of site but this time we heard the death moan. We decided to just sit there and give him 30 minutes or so so I suggested while we were there to try to find my doe...which was a huge surprise to the rest of them. She was only about 40 yds up the hill from where the bear was. The bear had run down the hill...towards where the 10 pt had ran. We drug the doe to the 4 wheelers and went to get the bear. We found him with no problems. While we were admiring him I noticed the blood trail from the 10 and told them while we were here we might as well go find my buck...which was another surprise. The buck was only about 90 yds further down the hill, leaving us a very easy blood trail to follow. We looked like a meat train coming out of the woods. It was a good morning....
Paul killed a very nice 8 pt that afternoon. We bloodtrailed it that night but had no problems finding it.
Day 3: Same stand. I had a very nice 8 pt come down the hill but never got closer than 70 yds. Nothing that afternoon.
All in all it was a very slow hunt, except for Sunday morning nothing was moving at all. Weather was perfect. I had to leave early, they all stayed one more day but haven't heard if they did any good.
I'll get some pics up soon
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Post by mr4pt on Oct 5, 2011 9:44:53 GMT -5
Please excuse pics, I only had crappy cell phone pics. Only after we got them hung up did I think to take more with the digital Bear 10 Meat Tree The Killer Krew I have pics of Pauls 8 but I haven't loaded them yet. Will get them up soon
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Post by Outlaw18 on Oct 5, 2011 18:45:40 GMT -5
Congrats man..
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Post by deerslayer11 on Oct 5, 2011 22:42:05 GMT -5
Thats what Im talkin about. I thought you were messing with me when you first texted me...
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Post by gulfcoasthunter on Oct 8, 2011 10:23:54 GMT -5
Congrats. And I thought my season started good but nothing like yours.
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Post by NitroHunter on Oct 9, 2011 14:12:43 GMT -5
Congrats on a awesome day!
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Post by mr4pt on Dec 4, 2011 10:58:33 GMT -5
Well, it looks like I shot my load all in one day. I have hunted HARD since Oct 2 (day of death) and have seen 3 deer from my stand....a messed up 3 pt, a forked horn twice, and a spike. Yesterday I had that forkie under my stand for 15 minutes and had dogs run a doe by me while I was walking out. I had the doe dead to rights but she was little...I mean, large swamp rabbit size little.
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