2019 Live from the tree

Nice deer Will.I think you are having one of those year’s.I bet you can’t wait for ice.

Happy Thanksgiving! Getting in some exercise this morning. The fresh tracks in the snow are off the charts! Buck #1 survived the firearms thus far according to numerous trail cam pics.
Super calm out right now. In a stand I haven’t hunted yet this year. Wow it’s beautiful out here!!!

Yesterday till noon had some doe/Fawn movement around me. No clean shot opportunities. Saw a doe and decent 3 year old buck on the walk out. Same stand as yesterday. They really moved through some time after I left yesterday. Track city out here!

That looks peaceful Perch.

Back on the edge of the corn field. Trying to make something happen one more time before the smoke pole comes out. I can see a lot from here so if nothing else it’s good scouting for tomorrow.

I’m still grinding. Been a decent day to sit all day. Activity has been very low around me. I was hoping the lurking storm would have them moving all day, but it hasn’t. 1 1/2 hours to go.

My 11 year olds first sit with a gun…

Holy crap, I guess they like rye

What’s in the field on the right, where they don’t give a dang?

Heading up with the muzzy to hunt Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The highs during that stretch are 1*, -5* and -7*. Hopefully they will be hitting my standing corn hard.
DT

We will see how the evening goes.
DT

That looks dynamite DT. How’d it go?

9 does. Slept in this morning. 14 below temps. Lost my motivation when I didn’t have a buck in daylight on camera for the last 2 weeks.
DT

This was a shooter until he broke his side.
DT

4 wheeler wouldn’t start so walked to a different stand. Nothing so far.
DT

The big 8 (I think I posted a pic previously) by my office has been cruising with doe’s between 230-4 pm multiple times this week.

Shot a doe tonight. Was quartering kind of towards me but thought the angle was good. When I shot, she dropped and starting flopping. She then gets up and runs away like nothing happened. Didn’t find blood for 100 yards and not much of it. Walked a heavy deer trail for a couple hundred yards and didn’t find any more blood. Not sure what to think. Besides how I should have waited for a better shot.
DT

Ooof. Good luck.

Shot high.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

Shot high.

That’s what my buddy thought. He said the hole probably plugged with fat and she will survive.
DT

Ended up thinning our small buck herd and be done for the season. We have a bunch of these forks around. Had a decent 8 come out 25 minutes before dark. Then had 3 forks come out about 3 minutes before shooting light. The new muzzy bullets worked awesome.
DT

Done for the season eh? Quitter!

JK, congrats. I’ve been tempted to do the same.

I still have a doe tag….
DT

Nice work DT, he’s way bigger than anything I have shot this year

deertracker wrote:

The new muzzy bullets worked awesome.
DT

No problem finding blood there DT. Those 300’s really pack a punch. How far did the fork go after the hit?

Nice deer for the table.

Nice deer congrats.

He went about 40 yards. The blood looked like that the entire way. Shot was about 115 yards. I’m excited to do some testing this summer with these bullets at farther distances.
DT

Last day of muzzy hunting for me. Looks like they are still hitting the rye hard. 2 bucks and a fawn at the other end. I am not going to be picky tonight.

8 deer out now

DT