Who is going to be in the stand this weekend with a cold front coming in due to the storm I will be in it starting today threw Monday good luck guys
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Who is going to be in the stand this weekend with a cold front coming in due to the storm I will be in it starting today threw Monday good luck guys
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I am going to try and be in it Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings and Monday morning and evening.
If everything goes right I will be in the stand again Saturday morning...
I will be out but it better be cooler sweated my ass off today
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Hahaha! Lol. The cooler temps are already moving in. About 7 hours and I should be set up waiting on the sun to come up and a nice fat doe to roll through!
I have seen a total of 0 deer today so far pretty windy out
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Hopefully your luck got a lil better 00buck. I was set up waiting on the sun at 6:13 this morning. I had, pretty sure, one walk basically right under the stand way before light. Then from about 8:45-10:15 I saw 4 different bucks, 2 small ones and 2 decent ones but still to small to shoot for me. Was able to capture some good video footage of 3 of them tho. The first one was a small 6 who rubbed a tree to death for literally 10 minutes 20 yards in front of the stand. Plus I was able to locate a couple nice scrapes on the way out of the woods. Overall I was very pleased with the morning, but still wanted a nice doe for the freezer! Lol. Anyone else hit the woods today?
Well that's sucks. Maybe the morning will bring better luck.
Anyone out?
Saturday morning was a bust, didn't see any at all. Next time out might be Monday evening.
Sure this hot weather didn't help any! Lol. I won't be able to get back out until at least next weekend, which prolly won't be bad cuz of the weather. But gotta try to get my truck back together before the cold hits. Should be able to this week or next weekend.
weather is just so up and down any more, its crazy
was 28 in the AM here on Friday, and almost 80 here today>
went from thinking we were off to a GOOD Normal fall, to , now its like summer time again?
I wish weather was more like it was 20 yrs ago
when summer was summer, Fall was Fall and winter was winter
could count on temps for all seasons to be close
mow it can be 80 in dec and 40 in july here?
CRAZY! and it suchs at the same time!
Yeah I agree mrbb. Especially the last handful of years, I know that the weather has played a huge part in screwing with the rut. IMO hot and cold temps bouncing back and forth, threw a lot of bucks cruising at night instead of during daylight hours, not all of course but my trail cams here agree with me. 84° here today and tomorrow and then 61° Saturday, wtf? Guess the one good thing is you can always plan on hunting one of the cold fronts that push in and drop temps 10-15° from one day to the next. Hopefully I'll be able to take advantage of it this weekend.
I will probably be in the stand this morning and Wednesday morning regardless of weather. Then I probably wont get back out til Saturday evening. I might try and get a hunt in Thursday evening if I can manage to squeeze it in there.
Tuesday I saw nothing. Wednesday morning I saw one nice doe I considered taking but she busted me so that went by the way side real fast. She didn't blow at me or anything she just didn't like what she saw so she turned and trotted off. I didn't go Thursday evening but I think I'm going out Friday evening instead of the football game, then also Saturday evening.
I'll be in the stand early in the morning. I'm gonna have to call the boss, cuz this cold front that moved in is making me feel "cough cough"...sick...lol. My buddy went out tonight and saw a handful of deer, said he was able to put a shot on a big 6 pointer but wanted to play it safe and let him lay overnight due to how he was acting after the shot. He's going back in the morning yo try to find him. Should be a good morning to be in the woods tomorrow, and hopefully this wind dies down by then.
I saw several Friday evening but nothing I wanted. Hopefully Saturday evening works out better. I'm going after Big Brow Double Drop Saturday. Gonna be right by his bedroom.
Saturday evening was a bust. There were coyotes going crazy for about the last hour of the hunt a couple hundred yards away. I couldn't see what was going on though. First nice cool evening hunt of the season and it was ruined by yotes.
Well good luck motf. I got to the woods plenty early this morning, lasted down a lil scent and went to climb in the treestand that has been there for a good 15 years... wait, where's the stand, I know its right here I've only sat in it a million times, where did it go??? Yeah that was how my morning started! Come to find out that someone had driven an ATV into my uncles woods cut his treestand canopy and ladder stand down and hauled it off! Well these dumb m-f-ers weren't smart enough to think that their ATV would leave tracks in the freshly plowed bean field. We were able to track them into the stand and back out, out along the edge of the field for about 400 yards and back into his neighbors woods. Got about 30 years in the woods and lost tracks. These worthless pos sum b*tches really piss me off! No one had permission to be in my uncles or his one neighbors woods, they know exactly where they were going and what they were getting. Like I said this stand has been there since I was a teenager and was a great stand to hunt. Prolly some heroin heads that needed their next fix...or maybe meth heads!
On a positive note I did see quite a few deer this morning tho! Had a handful of them move in on me before daylight, one walked 6-7 yards from the stand. After 8 o'clock I didn't see a single deer.
seen a LOT of dead bucks on the hi ways here last week or so, a crazy amount to be honest! haven't been out so don't know if there is any early chasing going on or what
but we have also had some CRAZY wild storms, major flooding and record breaking HIGH temps
then 2 days of madness rains and high winds
I think this next week is supposed to be way better, a drop in temps at night and less wind
should only get better from here on out for you guys, hang in there!!
Sorry to hear about your bad luck there Zach. I am going out Monday and Tuesday evenings. Then My last night of work is Wednesday night and I will be off for the next 16 days. So I will be hitting it hard those 2 weeks. Hoping for great weather and even better hunting!!!!!
Didn't see anything yesterday Good luck motf
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Monday evening I saw one doe. I didn't get out Tuesday evening but I did get some stuff done at one stand site I've been putting off and did a couple other chores before my big vacation starts. I will definitely be hitting it Thursday evening and Friday morning.
I'm really pumped up about Thursday's evening hunt. I have heard a lot about buck activity is really starting to heat up and the spot I'm headed to is where I always see most of the big boys every fall. Just have that feeling. Hoping to get a shot at Big Brow Double Drop!!!!!
Good luck hope it works out for you a little windy this morning stay safe
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Good luck out there tonight motf! Hopefully everything comes together for you. I still can't get over how big that guy is lol.
I am headed out this afternoon and then hunting the next four days in Muskingum County, Ohio. I saw my big wide Hartford Insurance Deer in the flesh in daylight on Tuesday evening for the first time. He was about 120 yds away on a cut cornfield with a mature doe. Hoping to get a crack at him now that things are picking up. I am going to try and slip in the area with my climber in the early afternoon without getting too close to where I think he is bedding. Things are definitely starting to pick up in SE Ohio...
Best of luck to you as well mneal. I prolly won't hit the stand until Nov 3rd, as with many of us I have to try and make the wife happy so that when my vacation days roll around I'm able to be in the stand. Lol!
Saturday morning about 8:30 out of nowhere I look to my right and there appeared to be a giant 10. When he cleared a tree his right side was like 3 or 4 spikes sticking up but I took a crack at him when he gave me the opportunity. Only problem was I was shooting to the right, my bad side. He was going away from me and I had to take the shot. Went right under him. I didn't go out this evening cause I wanted to confirm it was me and not the bow and it was me. Although I did make a couple minor tweaks. This is the first I've ever saw this buck, very unique deer. Next time out will be Monday morning.
Out last night... sat through some rain early and then conditions were perfect as the wind died and woods were quiet. Had eight does walk by me... in two different groups about 20 minutes apart. No bucks following them and they did not seem to be pushed at all.
Got a mini vacation coning up this week, off Thursday-Monday and I plan on hitting it hard this week. Temps are supposed to drop the end of the week, should be nice. Gonna try to start Thursday morning with the decoy and smashing the antlers together! I'm so pumped!
Been in the stand since Monday morning. My crew is seeing younger bucks cruising... bumping does a bit. Cameras are showing the big deer on their feet looking...mostly after dark. Should be getting better every day from here on through next week. Tonight should be the last of the real hot weather. Rain coming through tomorrow... should get interesting real soon.
So looking at the forecast last night there's a 67% chance of rain between 8-10 am this morning, so hey I'll opt for an evening hunt. Well while we were running errands this morning not hardly a drop of rain. As I'm getting ready to walk to the stand about 2:30, I hear the neighbor yelling for his beagles. I step in the woods and there he is with his 3 dogs and 2 hawks he hunts with. "Is that your stand there?" he says, yeah I reply. "Ok I'm gonna get out of here then." And wouldn't you know it he walks his dogs straight in front of my stand and through the woods in front of it, in the opposite direction of his house, follows the finger of the woods out into the field and 30 minutes later walks across the open bean field...yep...right by the stand again! 20 minutes after he walks across the field, there goes his 2 other beagles. On top of that, 10 minutes in the stand I got dumped on, and on, and on some more. Finally had enough of getting rained on and being that a bunch of dogs prolly ruined my hunt, I tapped out and headed for the house. Needless to say, not seeing anything. Gonna try the decoy and antlers in the morning. Hopefully with better results...
So this week I've only seen 2 shooters. I've seen several 1 1/2 year olds, but haven't seen any does. With the cooler weather kicking in hopefully it gets better. Haven't seen my big boy on the hoof yet. Hoping to real soon. I'm in a stand near his area now.
Sat. Morning for sure