Pulled cards this morning. One daylight doe all week. One big buck at night on the field camera. Five different bucks, three shooters, on the treehouse camera, all at night. Found two new scrapes on trails leading to the treehouse.

They have taken over the mock scrapes I made. Also the have laid additional scrapes every 15-30 yards in all directions from them.

Somewhat swollen necks, but not full rut looking at all.

And as goofy as it sounds, while there are some big shooters on camera, they aren’t the bruisers that typically show up +/- 5 days of Halloween.

By the time I tried calling to him she was in the corn outta sight ,hopefully they come back it was a crazy unexpected evening so dang close! I may have lost the battle but I feel like I won the war, altho I didn't kill him it still felt like a success imo, I'm fired up to call off work now lol

Thuderpole,he must be a giant. He son buck scored officially at 138 7/8 inches. Time for me to book,Ohio giant whitetail await me. Go Steelers 7-3 

Well boss man didn't say to much about me taking time off, the last 4 days look perfect cold front moving in Wednesday possibly snow they will be moving rain tomorrow so I'm going in to hang a stand for big Jim honestly I have doubts I'll see him again but I sure hope!

Well, my daughter's archery season hit a snag on Friday.
I had Friday off and planned on setting up an 18' double ladder stand on a new property close to home I got permission to hunt on.  @ noon, walking in to scout to see where I am going to put it, I see a really nice 7 or 8 pt staring at me about 80 yds out on the trail.  He finally scampers off and when I get to where he was, I could smell his "ruttiness."  Picked out a tree about 80 yds away in a good area of converging trails that lead up to an oak flat.  2 more trips back and forth to the truck with the stand components (walking over 400 yds) and I soon come to realize after multiple attempts, I am not going to get an 18' double ladder up in the tree by myself.  So now, I have a 12' double ladder stand set.  It will have to do.
 
Plan was to have my daughter get a quick no-scent shower when she hopped off the bus @ 3:20pm and head to the stand.  @ 2pm, on my way back home after setting the stand, I get a call from the wife that I need to head to the school to pick up my daughter.  She got injured in gym class.  So, rush home to change and run up and grab her and her thumb is busted (visibly displaced).  Headed to MedExpress for the xrays/splint and my wife met me there and she stayed and I went home to get my boy off the bus.  It was his turn up now and we did hit the stand but didn't see anything that first evening.  At least we have until the Sat. after Thanksgiving and after some time, my daughter should be healed up enough to get back out there, maybe from the ground.
Ortho didnt think any ligament damage so, as long as she doesn't fall on it, no surgery.  Got a removable cast put on @ 730am this morning.  
 
My son did have fun on the walk out in the almost darkness.  He leaned up against a dead, head high, hollowed out stump and a bird must have been settled in for the night in it and took off, brushing his face/neck with its wing.  He got a kick out of that.  Saw some deer along the road on the way home so we weren't totally skunked.

Hope the girl's ok,and good luck with the youngsters. My deer hunting was put pretty much put hold when my son was young,I had to make sure he got his buck before I even started,I don't regret it because he is one H-'ll of a bow hunter now. On another note Ohio was no good on Sunday,but I probably could have shot 10 limits of woodies  and mallards. Flooded oak woods with acorns floating everywhere. Monday morning even worse daylight till 1:00 pm. One lonely doe at 8:00 am. Not much rutting activity in my neck of the woods. I'm about ready to make a drastic move to a residential wood plot. Not much woods but a lot of deer.

Well, just before 5 the 8 I had stroll up the driveway played along and came up the path offering me a shot. Soon as I let it fly I watched him duck, and my arrow hit much higher than I wanted. Spun around and dropped for a second, then took off with the bolt stuck up to the fletchings in him. Let it go for an hour and a half, then decided to see what blood sign I could find. Followed the path I knew he headed in for about 75yds with no signs of blood. I'm sick. Gonna run to town and get some propane and let it lay for a while, then start searching the creek bottom. Hope I find some sign before the rain starts tonight

Spent 2 hrs searching the area I shot and direction this buck headed for any sign of blood with no result. Absolutely disgusted. Will be back out tomorrow morning searching high and low for him in the rain, but as I keep replaying the whole scenario in my head I really think that there is a high possibility I hit him above the spine. When I hit him he dropped to the ground, then jumped up and took off like a bat out of hell right past me and toward the creek bottom with the arrow stuck in him 3-4" from the top of his back. Not gonna sleep well tonight,

A friend of a friend called me to-nite for the # of a woman that will bring her tracking dogs out to try to recover a  big buck that he hit to-nite. I hope that they found it before this rain started again. I am sure that there will be little sleep for a few guys to-nite.   sam

Three all days sits and zero deer seen. No bucks. No does. No deer. Frustrated as heck. I have hunted my best stand and my second best stand and am drawing blanks. 
 
Took the morning off to wait for this windy front and rain to move through, vote, mentally regroup, then headed out this afternoon to get back at it. 
 
 

I also took the morning off. I saw one lone doe on 6 hour sit yesterday.

Hope you're buddy ended up better than me Mr. Crappie. Spent the entire morning searching high and low with my mom. Checked everywhere, blowdowns, every thick little nasty place I thought he might lay down if he was gonna die, grid searched the entire woods. Came up blank. Again no blood last night, and a pretty good rain last night probably washed any away that was there. Was at least hoping I'd find my bolt snapped off, but nothing. Pretty discouraged. My only hope is that judging from him dropping like a rock at first, and then getting up and tearing off is that i hit him over top of the spine, hitting some of the bone that sticks up and the backstrap. I shoot a 20" bolt, and when he ran back past me only 5-6" of it was covered up with the fletchings sticking out one side, and the rest of it sticking out the other. After I go to work for a few hours ill probably come back and make another search in vain. My best hope is that it was just a meat shot, he got the bolt out, and over the next few weeks maybe I get a pic of him.

dpms
Three all days sits and zero deer seen. No bucks. No does. No deer. Frustrated as heck. I have hunted my best stand and my second best stand and am drawing blanks. 
 
Took the morning off to wait for this windy front and rain to move through, vote, mentally regroup, then headed out this afternoon to get back at it. 
 
 

Wow, thought I was the only one not seeing deer.  Saw one deer last night.   Didn't go out in the rain this morning.  Will go out later this afternoon.   No son of bucks chasing in my neck of the woods yet.  Hopefully today.

Corn still standing on about 20 of the 30 acres we normally hunt 
 
Saw a doe and two skippers exit the corn a couple hundred yards away and feed in the neighbor's cut corn about an hour before it got dark.  Also saw a buck slip out of a different row of corn right as light was fading and head off to another neighbor's property.  
 
I guess I need to get my son a stand set up in our back yard at night with a spotlight.  Over the last couple of days, a buck has torn up some of our young maples pretty well.