Bow season .... let the fun begin

Good luck to all headed out. Took a walk this afternoon and found some dead EHD deer in another one of my spots. I am slowly running out of options this fall to have an area to hunt that has not been devastated by EHD. 

BTDT ... thanks bud hope you get to stick a great whitetail also ... went out today and had to get a 6" stove pipe section for my stove in my hunting shanty ... kinda felt funny getting stove pipe when it was 89 outside people tend to look at ya a like you're a little weird 😜👍. hope to get a shot at the big one in the picture just hope a don't fall out of the tree when I see him .... lol Good luck 👍

Looks like it could be a good year for somebody..... if he don't fall asleep playing "rock-a-bye Mopars swinging in a tree". he hee.

Good luck on the opener buddy. 👍

I have a long shift at work tomorrow so I'm sitting out the opener. Thought about hunting sunday evening but I think I'll take the family out on the boat and see if the wife can stand the pymie stench instead lol

Dave let me know if ya make it to Pewmatuning. lol

BeenThereDoneThat.

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Your getting excited??? Tomorrow is opening day and I just started my new hunting stand and yes, I'll be buying stove pipe too...... well eventually. lol

ok guess getting excited a little bit ... lol...you need to work all night to get that stand finished and up by daybreak 😜👍... hopefully I will not need to use that new stove pipe this year .... we will see .., go get-tem bud ..

I think this is going to be "The Year of The Mopar"

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Sorry couldn't post a deer, there just so darned cute?

BeenThereDoneThat.
How-bout-that Mopars.. How-bout-it Mopars...... you gotta copy out there in them tree tops... C'mon!

I'm sitting in my favorite deer stand, wondering why I'm sitting in a deer stand thinking I should be working, on my new favorite deer stand. how-bout-it?

Also thinking how too not forget my quiver next time.

Stupid arrows!!! 😝

. Just saw this ... so ya did go out this morning 👍... buddy ya do know ya got to stick them with one of those stupid stick thingys ..RIGHT ?😜...I have forgot my cocking rope before that sucks .... lol. Anyhow nothing to report ... fact didn’t see any stupid deer ... squirrels & blue-jays a plenty though. Windy as all get out ... think i’ll Wait until next week to hit it again ...noticed all the pictures of the big buck are at night , none in daylight so thinking maybe I’ll start hunting the night shift with a spotlight 😜👍🍺....good luck to ya all ..

Was suppose to get material for my hunting deck but on my way, I says to myself, self maybe I should plan for a food plot in the vicinity of my humble hunting Adobe.

So this afternoon, shovel in hand, I planted one 5' Cortland and two 6' Honey Crisp apple trees. Mind you, these trees are now located 200 yards from the planned location of the Adobe so, I don't want yinz thinking I'm hunting over bait or anything.

Learned some important info while planning and implementing this project.... I'm tooooo danged old for this....... I need a nap.

Nothing like a new scope to make a guy feel like hunting.

I think most guys using crossbows have the same problem with scopes. Me, I like the idea of a faulty scope. I need allllll the excuses I can get. I use em too.

Nothing but squirrels and chippys for me last night. My buddy had 3 doe sneak in under him at last light. The acorns were raining down all afternoon.

Progress report.......

Coffee in hand I sat in my favorite deer stand, watching the sun rise in the East sky and the steam rising, from the frosted fields. 31 degrees at my location this morning but I never felt the nip of Jack Frost, as I peered through the glass, of the dining room doors. Binoculars sat ready, atop the table, to assist me with seeing the kind of condition, the condition was in.

Not a bunny, squirrel or, whitetail as the sun, climbed higher in the sky. So it was off to the man cave to work on the platform, building it on the fly.

Today was stairway day and plan the entrance way.



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BTDT .... awesome buddy , are we going to have a stove in it ..... you notice I did say WE .....😜👍

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Since this is my first quasi archery season, I wanted to throw out my plan to gather some thoughts.

I will be hunting on our property, which currently contains open fields and a wooded creek bottom. We have a 12X12 platform which is 15 feet in the air that sits along the creek.

Trail cam photos and observations ( from the patio) for the past two years (and so far this year) confirm that there are no decent resident bucks nor decent frequent visitor bucks. Most are non legal or smallish legal.

However, during the week before Halloween extending for the next week, visiting bucks show up with some frequency. Last year, 17 different bucks that would nicely grace my fireplace showed up within 10 days, on either side of Halloween.

Since I have killed plenty of deer with a firearm, I have no interest in harvesting any of the smaller resident bucks. Although I would like to test the crossbow, I really don't want to shoot a doe either -- I still have meat from last year and I want them to serve as rut bait -- although there are plenty of them around.

At this point, my plan is to wait until Halloween week to hunt. I hunt to shoot things, not to just be out there, since I can be out there almost any day due to living there.

If I were to go any earlier than that, I would probably harvest a fawn ( if I could bring myself to do it) in order to complete the crossbow test.

Thoughts?