Ouch...

[jerseybowhunter]

This one hit me right in the chest, long story short, I came back from Maryland after not seeing any sign and my area getting hit hard with ehd, decided I was going to hunt this stand in zone 26 hard this week since it's been on fire this year. I sat yesterday morning, saw a spike and a decent rack twice, heard some chasing then it went quiet and the wind picked up. Decided to climb down early to get some things done at the house so I can hunt hard the rest of the week, well I climbed down at around 9:15, I know still pretty early... hung my text camera up, got to the truck and my camera sent me this.... hands down would have been my biggest jersey buck walks by 15 yards away from my stand. If I stayed 20 minutes longer I would have been in the tree. You can see my ladder stand over the does head in the pine tree. Let's just say that hurt... you can bet I won't be climbing down early the rest of this week

[jerseybowhunter]

I'm pretty sure it's this big 10 which is a big deer for my zone, been hunting for 10 years and never even seen one this big here

[Buck154]

LOL. Need to be in the stand as much as possible this time of year. You know theres a hot doe around so get back in today. Good luck

[birdshotnj]

You'll have another chance get back out there

[Silver Belly62]

You will get him 

[Lunatic]

That’s why I go through extreme internal struggle whenever I am thinking of coming down. For the very same reason I don’t like to hunt knowing I have to leave on specific time

Stay with it you may still get him

[not on the rug]

go get em!  

[thefirstndsecond]

Get in the stand.

 

Reminds me of place near my old club.

 

During the rut I would make sure I was in my stand during the afternoon.

 

Good luck

[NorthNJHunter]

Good luck!

[LPJR]

Happens fast and unexpectedly this time of year. Get back after him..

[JHbowhunter]

i need to get back in the stand myself...   Get in the stand!

[JerseyJaysTaxidermy]

I feel your pain.. happened to me 3x this week lol. So today I sat almost all day to see a spike lol. Go figure

 

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[jerseybowhunter]

Sat here yesterday till 11, saw 2 yearlings, back here this morning and had a buck grunting and making scrapes in the dark but couldn't see him 40 yards away, heard some chasing on my other side then a yearling just walked through. I have a good feeling about today if this wind would stop swirling

[jerseybowhunter]

Here's a pic of him from my other camera, it is the big 10 I thought it was and he's a stud for this area

[_X7]

I always tell myself that the deer wouldn't show up if I was there. Convincing myself of that is another story. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Then again, maybe not.