2024 Live From The Tree

congrats to you all!!! some nice deer!!

Nothing to crazy for us. My buddy who lives next to the farm i hunt shot this dandy this morning. No one in the immediate area has seen that buck before.

Wow that is a beast. Congrats to your friend.

Congrats to everyone.

gim wrote:

Wow that is a beast. Congrats to your friend.

Your not kidding there.

Nice!!!!

Had this nine at 18 yrds tonight- no clear shot. He was staring down my doe decoy until a smaller 8 came out. He snort-wheezed and the 8 did a 180 and blew out of there. Big boy I assume chased off the 8 and he was gone.

Pulled cards on my way out. Was little surprised to see a pic of him taking a swim while I was working

that is a cool picture!! and a dandy buck!!

gim wrote:

I filled my bonus antler less tag this afternoon with a corn fed doe. Nothing special, just a good eater.

I had one of the best openers in recent memory. Saw 12 deer including 6 small bucks, 8 wild turkeys, and about two dozen pheasants. Stunning day to sit out there too.

Now I can just wait all week for Mr Big.

That’s a nice for him. Congrats.

Thanks Jimmy

Cool pics, Randy and nice doe Grim. Good stand placement Michael!

Daughter and I both shot does this evening or I’m pretty sure daughter did. Less then 60 yard shot out of a ground blind in tall alfalfa, hard to find blood in that when it was dark. After she shot it shrugged and just walked straight ahead over a slight elevation change in field, enough where we can’t see from the ground. Had 4 of us looking around in the dark for a while. Going to look dome more for it tomorrow when it’s light out. Hope we find it as it would be her first.

I ended up seeing three 8 pointers this evening. All three had a broken tine. Got a video of one making a scrape. Two passed my trail camera. All three had their nose to the ground and headed towards the river.
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Pretty wild/weird story behind this one. I was just about to get down in my climber and make a little drive to my brother and Dad/nephew. And I stand up and see a deer looking at me at 60ish yards thru brush. I get my gun up and see it’s a 6 that I let pass, it starts walking into thicker brush, so I look off of the scope and see a huge gash on its back. Figured someone must have wounded it this morning.

Wait another 15 minutes and then get down. Walked about 20 feet toward where I saw the deer, and it comes running down the trail right at me. It got to about 10-15 yards and in process I got a better look at the gash on its back and decided to end its misery. Wound ended up looking like an archery wound from a week or two ago. I didn’t get a pic of it but it was dried up and you could see its spine. I was about 1/2 mile back off a rutted up old logging trail, which reaffirmed that no good deed goes unpunished as it was a biayatch getting it out of there with no atv.

My Dad is 76, doesn’t get around too well and therefore not too interested in hunting anymore, and my nephew is on his second season, so it was a little extra special to share a great harvest with them. Good luck tomorrow!

Myself and youngest son each got a doe tonight.

Good kills every one, hopefully you and the daughter can find the doe weedis. Crappy night for that with all the rain

BigWerm wrote:

Pretty wild/weird story behind this one. I was just about to get down in my climber and make a little drive to my brother and Dad/nephew. And I stand up and see a deer looking at me at 60ish yards thru brush. I get my gun up and see it’s a 6 that I let pass, it starts walking into thicker brush, so I look off of the scope and see a huge gash on its back. Figured someone must have wounded it this morning.

Wait another 15 minutes and then get down. Walked about 20 feet toward where I saw the deer, and it comes running down the trail right at me. It got to about 10-15 yards and in process I got a better look at the gash on its back and decided to end its misery. Wound ended up looking like an archery wound from a week or two ago. I didn’t get a pic of it but it was dried up and you could see its spine. I was about 1/2 mile back off a rutted up old logging trail, which reaffirmed that no good deed goes unpunished as it was a biayatch getting it out of there with no atv.

My Dad is 76, doesn’t get around too well and therefore not too interested in hunting anymore, and my nephew is on his second season, so it was a little extra special to share a great harvest with them. Good luck tomorrow!

Where did you hit it ? Looks like a steep shot slopes if that’s the in and out on the spine and ribs. Or is the spine thing part of his gash ?

Day 2.
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First deer of the morning is a 6 pointer. Like all the others, nose to the ground on a mission.
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Just saw two more bucks that were circling each other like they were going to fight. Then went out of view. It was right after a rattling sequence.

Going to rattle more today.

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Really quiet this morning with the heavy fog.
Only 3 shots by 8am!

Weedis, hope you find that deer, that’s tough to loose the first one.

Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
Pretty wild/weird story behind this one. I was just about to get down in my climber and make a little drive to my brother and Dad/nephew. And I stand up and see a deer looking at me at 60ish yards thru brush. I get my gun up and see it’s a 6 that I let pass, it starts walking into thicker brush, so I look off of the scope and see a huge gash on its back. Figured someone must have wounded it this morning.

Wait another 15 minutes and then get down. Walked about 20 feet toward where I saw the deer, and it comes running down the trail right at me. It got to about 10-15 yards and in process I got a better look at the gash on its back and decided to end its misery. Wound ended up looking like an archery wound from a week or two ago. I didn’t get a pic of it but it was dried up and you could see its spine. I was about 1/2 mile back off a rutted up old logging trail, which reaffirmed that no good deed goes unpunished as it was a biayatch getting it out of there with no atv.

My Dad is 76, doesn’t get around too well and therefore not too interested in hunting anymore, and my nephew is on his second season, so it was a little extra special to share a great harvest with them. Good luck tomorrow!

Where did you hit it ? Looks like a steep shot slopes if that’s the in and out on the spine and ribs. Or is the spine thing part of his gash ?

That spine area is the gash, it ran thru both sides and probably deflected off the spine and out. I shot it front shoulder quartering too and dumped it immediately. Almost had to step out of the way of it with its momentum.

My brother in laws brother shot this buck by Wadena. Not sure if it was yesterday or today.
He said it dressed out at 234 lbs. That deer had to be pushing 300 lbs on the hoof.

Dream big everyone. Good luck to all and weedis I hope you find the deer.

Michael that’s a tank!

it sure is!!!

Well up here in the big Northwoods it’s awfully quiet. not to mention wet this morning. 5 guys, 1 anterless permit only 1 deer seen without a shot.

I’ll be Here all week, but wondering how thick would broth get with 5 tags?

We never found daughters deer, she is bummed and I’m bummed for her. Tough conditions to find blood but I still think she hit it but who knows where. Replaying it this morning, 40 yard broad side shot, she was using a death grip tripod so steady shot. Is it possible not getting good expansion at that short of distance? 6.5 creedmore using 143 grain precision hunters ELD-X.

Otherwise, seeing lots of nice deer being shot this weekend. Slow in our area this morning, maybe heard 6 shots.

Punched a tag on a doe this am. Felt good to get one with the 12ga again. Had the kid help

Opener was great conditions but a quiet morning in the woods north of Park Rapids. Cameras have been busy but only at night so that followed.

For the afternoon my son chose to stay in the woods with Grandad while I jumped out to a small field cut. Bad call for him, good call for me. Had to make a quick shot on him quartering away into the thicket, but “he didn’t goooo 40!”

I am set up on the pinch point spot with the decoy out in front of me.
Didn’t see a lot of deer movement this morning. Maybe seen a dozen. Did see 3 really big bucks with one being a 5 point on his left side and the right side was busted off just before the brow tine. I wonder what deer did that to him because he is a big deer.
These deer remind me a lot of Kansas deer. They sure like to fight.

Just had four sharptails waddle through my clover plot.
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