10/25 Check In

[Zone50BugNerd 766]

Out in z50.  Nice cool morning, slight breeze, feels right..  

[Monster Marine 197]

Just got settled in the blind nice cool morning all the doe were near the club house.....

my laziness almost got me this morning 

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

[NorthJerseyMike 261]

Good luck today!  My son and I are in the blind.  We have nice bucks on camera and he’s the hunter.  Please pray to Orion that he connects today! He’s put his time in and we need youth hunters to stay interested... 

[Sharpdogs 615]

Out in a tree with my son, zone 8.

[deadonshot2 2,463]

6 minutes ago, NorthJerseyMike said:

Good luck today!  My son and I are in the blind.  We have nice bucks on camera and he’s the hunter.  Please pray to Orion that he connects today! He’s put his time in and we need youth hunters to stay interested... 

Good luck to your son. Dont make it so much about the kill as it is about the experience. I started hinting in 1973 when there was only one doe day with shotgun. It took me 5 years to connect on a doe.  I did not start bow hunting until 1978. So make it about the ecperience. Killing a deer for the freezer is the icing on the cake. Good luck again.  

[mightyhunter 1,144]

Good luck all

[JHbowhunter 15,150]

In ground blind. Had big lone doe 30 yds N of me at first light. Supposed to be N wind.  Snorted like I never seen.  Figured hunt was blown - but later was grunting in a small basket rack and he hit that same scent line and did a 180 and bolted - taking a larger rack I did not see with him.  Sure enough milkweed floater confirmed that the flow was moving S to N.  Of course now that hunt is completely busted - the wind is blowing out of N which is what I set up for 

[NorthJerseyMike 261]

52 minutes ago, deadonshot2 said:

Good luck to your son. Dont make it so much about the kill as it is about the experience. I started hinting in 1973 when there was only one doe day with shotgun. It took me 5 years to connect on a doe.  I did not start bow hunting until 1978. So make it about the ecperience. Killing a deer for the freezer is the icing on the cake. Good luck again.  

I know,  but it’s his third year of hunting hard and he hasn’t had a shot...

[hammer4reel 8,834]

Bucks are cruising .

Had 5 come through already . Biggest was about 120" eight.. 

 

Come on gran pa

 

[Costam07 93]

Slow in zone 41 nothing moving

[Farmshine 2,204]

One big doe ran up and down powerline at first light. Dead since then. Strangely quiet so far.


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[Devil Horns 1,328]

Spike and a Y fed through about 30 mins ago. Made a few rubs as they made their way. 

[Sharpdogs 615]

Two small does cruised by.  Pretty quiet.

[Zone50BugNerd 766]

Z50 was dead as a door nail once again.  I think it feels more like a lull this year to me because I didn’t hunt September at all.  I’ve kept a journal on this property since 2012 and looking at it now, historically, this property is always dead the last two weeks of October.  Good news though, my notes tell me the best two weeks are coming up, those being the first two weeks of November.  5 years out of 8 I have records on having taken deer (2 bucks and 3 does) on Veteran’s day.  

[JHbowhunter 15,150]

After the wind went N like it was supposed to, had two fawns and a spike come in.  Saw a 4pt chasing does all around.   Then 9 hen turkeys and later 6 jakes and longbeards. 

Edited October 25, 2020 by JHbowhunter