This weather is great and getting deer active. 8:22 this morning from my son's stand.
I believe it's a different deer than the others because I see no brow tines

In a tree before light .
Its about to get real.

15 hrs on opening weekend of xbow and inning results were zero hits, zero runs and 1 error.
Man, this has sans of last year. Few cold snaps then warm weather.
55 degrees dosen't make game animals wander much.
Oh well, the funs just begun and there will be a hundred more hrs to stare at trees.

After 10 days in woods with a crossbow, it took the rifle to get things done.

Good deal!

Nice Buck -congrats- sometimes its good to put in the time---

Rg, so far this season I just finished 135 hours in the woods hunting. Not counting scouting and setups.
I'm not done yet as I have another 6 days to go. Last year we put in over 200 hrs. Yeah we definitely put in our time, lol.
The biggest game changer was about 10 years ago using trail cameras. Now we use wifi cameras.
The trail cameras actually give you deer to hunt for instead of whatever just walks by.

This 9pt wasn't one of the 2 I was after but I sure wasn't going to pass him up. After I shot him I had the bigger 8pt I was after in my crosshairs but it was a day to late to tag another buck so it's up to my son to try and bag him.
The other is a solid 10pt that's only been seen once.
There's a very good bunch of upncommers roaming around.
These deer won't get shot by us or anyone else this year. Nobody hunts our property and I didn't hear a gunshot all weekend from anywhere.

When a good one happens in Rich all plans go by by for  a different one

Congrats on the nice buck!

Fun stuff is when the grandson comes and we push this deer to my friend for his first ever buck. 2 more days left.