So far this season the weather has been quite a battle. Man I'll bet I have got SEA-SICK 5 times swaying in the tree LOL Other than the weather it's about the same as any other year. Seeing good amount of deer and meat in the freezer!!! The wind direction is the PROBLEM can't seam to get anywhere near the BUCK stand. Making it a little frustrating,But soon the bucks will be looking for some tail and all will be good LOL Dave

Had a true Ohio giant pass by my stand 3 times tonight with his nose up a does cooter, never presented a shot even though he was within 15 yards. either moving to fast or something in the way, Ill be camped out in this stand all weekend if the wind is right, one of the few times I wish I still shot a compound as I did have 1 clear shot at 35 yards, but not with a stickbow

Go Get em in the AM, you made the right move, (not that you need my approval). Good luck, and tell your boy congrats when you find him from me.

Toughest thing goin- to back out- good choice - hope ya find him in the AM.

The smile tells it all .. congrats to the little fella !!!!!

Nice, congrats.

Awesome guys.  Congrats to you, both. 

Congrats little griff.
 
Friday and Saturday I had two amazingly annoying days.  Always have a few per season so hopefully I got them out of the way.  Had a red dodge ram come by a dark and shoot from the truck (or out the window) about 100 yards down from me.  Muzzleloader.  I know them and their time is coming.   This morning was nice, wind perfect but no deer.   Set the stand at a bad slant, so up and down twice.     Took a nice walk and found some decent sign.  Baby sitter was 45 minutes from our agreed time so I got to the tree at 5:00.   Forgot my safety rope.  Went for a drive in my buddy's truck.   Pulled over at dark to take a pi$$ and got the e brake stuck.  Walked a half mile to meet him and came back.  Got it free and came home.  Better days to come perhaps.

Congrats ! Nice job guys.

Congrats little Griff...

Sat. AM was my only time out and sat until 10:20am w/o a deer sighting even though the AM was perfect. Thought it was going to be a good day when I crossed the creek and caught that distinctive "buck" smell. Oh well. Lots of fresh tracks in the mud so they were using the several crossings, just at night. Only heard two far off shots b/w first light and 11am when I finally left the woods after a little walk. Not many guys/kids out enjoying the last day of the early antlerless or they were having as bad of luck as me.

Weatherman was wrong again...and the front hasn't come through yet. Would have been a perfect AM again to be in the stand today. Went to bed last night with 80% chance of AM rain/thunderstorms and the radar looking like it was going to happen.

missed the nicest buck of my life saturday.  hit a limb.  life sucks/

Found a scrape line with BIG scrapes yesterday. Big scrapes mean big bucks, right. Only if you consider a 8" four point big. Set up over them this morning and had him back and forth around me for over an hour. He was searching but wasn't finding. Going to hunt the same place tonight just to be sure he wasn't the advance scout.

9 year old and an x-gun tonight, he had a doe, fawn, and 6pt trailing them on sat evening. They needed to take 4 more steps to be in his wide open lane. Then at 6:40 some guy starts climbing down from a stand 200 yds across the field and they all spooked. I'm glad he learned it ain't always easy, but I felt bad for him.

I don't know about only, but I do believe that in general rubs on larger diameter trees are typically made by larger racked bucks.  I would say height of the rubs is one of the best indicators to rub size, as it is pretty obvious that a big guy has been there when his rub is a foot higher than most other rubs in the area.  I also check for other trees behind the main rub which he may have incidentally rubbed while rubbing the main one, the greater the separation between the main and incidental rubs, the greater the rack size.


I may as well mention this here as I just received some really disappointing news.  Seismic crews are have been working in my area.  I just found out that they have been all through most of the property on a daily basis for a week or so now.  I guess that would explain the lack of recent sightings for me.  I don't know all of the details of the testing yet, but this bums me out to no end.  If work is going to continue for the duration of the season, I may be hanging the bow up for the year for the most part.  Really disappointed right now  

Thanks for the offer and trust me that thought has crossed my mind.  I am less than an hour from the OH border. 

I am not literally giving up, that is just how I feel at this point.  I have a few other properties left to hunt and will likely be giving them a shot for the remainder of the season.  I am trying to find out more about this seismic testing and figure out how long they will be screwing us for....