2024 Live From The Tree

Way to go B-Man!!! I bet the boys will be stoked.

Congrats BMan! Nice one!

Eating your kids Halloween candy in the stand is one of life’s nice little Dad treats.

Congrats Bman!!

Thanks for the kind words guys, it was a lot of fun.

I love sitting in that spot in early November. Killed a lot of deer there over the years.

No trail cameras, no “target bucks,” just climbing an old maple in an OG Lone Wolf with my now 19 year old Bow-tech.

On top of that it’s my 42nd birthday today and I got a heck of a present

Congrats and Happy Birthday.

you can’t ask for a beater present.

The boy and I are heading in. Hoping to get him on brutus this morning

Happy Birthday!!!

First sit for me in Iowa. SE wind all weekend here, who chi is not ideal. Tomorrow could be a wash out. Good luck guys. Nice deer B-Man!

Heard a few grunts after I was set. Should be a good sit

Youbetcha wrote:

Heard a few grunts after I was set. Should be a good sit

Same for us grunting on 2 sides of us

Had a spike at 14 yards last night, back in the stand this morning. Unfortunately there was a deer right below it when I got to it.

Had a shooter at 20 yards 10 minutes too early. He got downwind but didn’t spook so hopefully he chases something back this way.

It’s a beautiful morning

Bearcat89 wrote:

It’s a beautiful morning

That it is, real quite getting to stand this morning. A little fog up by Randall. Deer movement pre shooting so far.

I just missed a big beautiful doe. I shot straight over her back.
My kids teasing me now

oh boy!

Bearcat89 wrote:

I just missed a big beautiful doe. I shot straight over her back.
My kids teasing me now

figured you were a BBD guy one doe and a small buck so far.

figured you were a BBD guy one doe and a small buck so far.
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You dirty dog lol.
I shot at her at 23 and my damn sight was rolled to 35 from shooting in the yard last night. I never zeroed back to my 20. I new going from fixed pin to a roller sight would one day bite me in the ass.

Bearcat89 wrote:

I just missed a big beautiful doe. I shot straight over her back.
My kids teasing me now

meh…..cant gettem all BC!!!!! but yea that suxs!!!!

Had this one come by about 10 minutes too early this morning

Just the same spike/ fork for me this morning as last night. I changed locations for tonight.

Dating the fat chick two sticks high in a tree skinnier then my calf.

Justin riegel wrote:

Just the same spike/ fork for me this morning as last night. I changed locations for tonight.

Dating the fat chick two sticks high in a tree skinnier then my calf.

Love those trees. Super easy to setup in

Hunting swamp edges I’m in those skinny trees alot as well. Worst part is the 7 ft of slack strap on the stands and sticks.

I just hiked in and kicked up 2 doe. Hopefully they come back. I went home and ate and now am back.

I see my previous post didn’t load. Said enough of the yard work and dad is sleeping, so ran out here at 3. Trying a doe decoy. Had 5 bucks chasing does and each other. Two baby 8s worked up to about 35yrds on the decoy. Everything was between 3-4, nadda since

I checked on my stands for gun season and the ditches are so high that it was nearly inaccessible. Bridges underwater, ditches twice as wide. What a disaster. Later on I found out why too. Muskrats. Chopped down birch trees and a clogged ditch further down which was preventing water movement. I spent an hour clearing debris to get the water moving again so hopefully that helps. I have a feeling those muskrats will have it clogged again in a couple days.

gimruis wrote:

I checked on my stands for gun season and the ditches are so high that it was nearly inaccessible. Bridges underwater, ditches twice as wide. What a disaster. Later on I found out why too. Muskrats. Chopped down birch trees and a clogged ditch further down which was preventing water movement. I spent an hour clearing debris to get the water moving again so hopefully that helps. I have a feeling those muskrats will have it clogged again in a couple days.

Holding that water is a good thing. Those bucks will forget about food shortly and live off water. I love flooded out areas, obviously depending the situation

The problem is we can’t get across the ditches to access certain parts of the property, including one of the stands. I don’t really own or know anyone who has heavy equipment either. It’s just a 4 wheeler and my 2 hands.

I might have to hire a licensed trapper to take out some swamp rats lol

The boy just stuck a small buck. Hit him good. He asked if he was big enough and I told him that’s his call. We don’t eat antlers. And the opportunity was perfect.

Nice