Made it out this morning to a stand somewhat out of the wind. Little guys are getting the show started. Had a doe come crashing thru a little before 8, few minutes later here comes two 6 pts(one legal) and a small 8 pt. They pushed her around me for about a half hour, had a few opportunities to shoot both legal bucks but passed in hopes of one of their older relatives showing up, which didn't happen. Sat till noon seeing 3 more doe.

DarDys
First time out this archery season.

Haven’t heard a shot all morning.

😝




I was beginning to think it was my hearing. 😲

Stupid deer......

Dad filled his tag Friday evening. No hopefully I get my turn.

🏹

dpms
It was an epic day where I was hunting. Seen 12 bucks. 6 legal ones. Passed up two 8 points. One I probably should have shot. Had a shooter come by me at first light but I needed him to come another 10 yards and he didn't. I messed up at last light. Had another shooter sneak in on me right at the end of legal shooting time. I couldn't get a good read with my rangefinder so I guessed for 30 and shot under him, I think. The arrow was clean. When I retrieved the arrow, it looked closer to 40 from the ground. Great day but no blood drawn.

12 buck in one sit!?!! That is an epic day! Sounds like loads of fun

anzomcik

BeenThereDoneThat.
Nice... congratulations to your dad.

Picture question, do you hold your phone horizontal when taking your pictures? I'm just trying to figure out why your pictures flip when I turn my phone for a better view.

I hold my phone landscape when taking photos. They look fine in my album, but loads upside down on forum. Then I flip them upside in my album thinking it should fix it. Nope still loads on forum upside down. I re-save the photos in their sides and they are at least understandable when I load them sideways.

Thanks for taking the time to answer Anz. Pictures are worth a thousand words and I enjoy seeing the story and the smile on your dad's face tells it all.

Problem being, I turn my phone for a better look and the pic flips back the other way.

I've been slowly driving myself toward more meds, trying to figure why my phone does this.

Thanks again.

CRAPPIE_SLAYER

dpms
It was an epic day where I was hunting. Seen 12 bucks. 6 legal ones. Passed up two 8 points. One I probably should have shot. Had a shooter come by me at first light but I needed him to come another 10 yards and he didn't. I messed up at last light. Had another shooter sneak in on me right at the end of legal shooting time. I couldn't get a good read with my rangefinder so I guessed for 30 and shot under him, I think. The arrow was clean. When I retrieved the arrow, it looked closer to 40 from the ground. Great day but no blood drawn.

12 buck in one sit!?!! That is an epic day! Sounds like loads of fun

Don't blame you for passing up 8's.  You got rutcation coming to get a bigger one.   I haven't seen any bucks on stand yet.  Will hit the bushes every day this week.

CRAPPIE_SLAYER
12 buck in one sit!?!! That is an epic day! Sounds like loads of fun

It was. For guys that don't sit late morning and early afternoon, they are missing out. Saw 5 bucks between 11 and 12:30. 
 
All of the chasing was smaller bucks. The big guys were just cruising so I think it is not quite here yet where I was hunting. The end of this coming week, things will probably slow a tad for some lock down. But Next week, it should pick back up again. 

Good for you Steve, best of luck buddy. I got my 🤞🏼 we'll be seeing some great photos of that beast with you holding his head up. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Way to go Dardys. You and the other half enjoy that tenderloin dinner!

BeenThereDoneThat.
Good for you Steve, best of luck buddy. I got my 🤞🏼 we'll be seeing some great photos of that beast with you holding his head up. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

. Thanks Bud ... crossing my fingers also ...

DarDys
So with meat in the cooler, the pressure is off and I can hunt horns for the rest of the season.

 
Congrats on the doe! I thought about shooting one Saturday but the action was too hot and heavy so I waited. 

Buddy just texted me and said he was having a day like I had this past Saturday. Buck parade with lots of chasing. Today is my last day working before my rutcation, so hopefully this action holds up for the rest of the week

I $crewed up this AM and missed a chip shot at a nice 8 or 10.  20 yds but I had to be on my tip toes to shoot behind me and over some branches.  I think I clipped something on the way to the deer and a clean miss, which is the consolation.  He jumped 10-15 feet after the shot, looked around, and then walked off....I tried grunting him back in but that only stopped him briefly.
 
Morning started off slow.  No deer seen until 8am or so and I look through the woods into the neighbors field and a see a nice sized deer trotting away.  Got the binocs up quickly and could see it was a nice buck, with a rack out past its ears but thats all I could glean from 175 yds away looking through trees.  About 20 min. later, I see some deer working through the pines below me and the ended up being 2 doe and 2 fawns.  20 min. more go by and a small 7 pt. comes in and starts kicking at a rotted stump and eating something.  He spends a good 5 min. there.  He walks by me at 20 yds and I give him the pass.  I'll try to post up the vid.
 
 
https://youtu.be/5REBzLh6U8o (7 point that got the pass)
 
He gets above me and I see he's looking back my way but I don't think he saw me.  Might have heard me closing up the camera.  He walks another 20 yds into the heavy brush and then I see him take off, tail up, up the hill.  WTH?  2 min. go by and here comes a yote.  I was sitting so no real chance for me to get a shot.  It was 30 yds behind me.  He started to skitter off when I grabbed my bow but I stopped him and he came back a few yds with some mouth squeaks.  Then, the 7 pt. starts snorting away up on top of the hill and the yote ambles up that way.
Just about to call it a day and at 855 I see a nice rack working its way to me.  I got brief vid of it then I got ready. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLzP8R53-0I (8 or 10 pt I missed) didn't count pts.
 
It hit the same stump the 7 pt. hit and then followed almost the same trail behind me.  I drew and let down twice on him and finally, I thought i had my shot.....but blew it.  
I guess the other good thing, my trail cam that is 10 yds from my tree stand has 6 or 7 different bucks on it in the last week, with 2 possible shooters.  Downer is, 2 different people on the cam and one definitely saw it and was shining a flashlight @ it.  
 
Best sit so far this year for me.