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Hold your position,never give up your post,stick and stay and make um pay....I know these all very well but failed to heed them. I sat my stand I specifically hung 2 days before the season opened this Saturday with one buck in mind the big drop tine buck.I sat in that stand from 5:45am till a bit after 1 PM . I saw 1 doe and a fawn at 10 am not much shooting going on around the area. I made the fatal decision of thinking the grass would be greener on another property that also held some big bucks and rumor of the piebald I've been after the past season still being alive and running the pines I hunt was a sirens song to go try. Things went south at that property shortly before 4 pm when some one unloaded very close to me in the pines had a slug crackle through trees and branches falling. I left disgusted after I was sure I wouldn't catch a stray round .

Anyway I hunted back at the original property till noon Sunday and retrieved my camera cards.It was a good morning with 11 doe and 3 buck seen but not who I was looking for. When I got home I checked the cards and wanted to slit my wrists....


Here you have me in stand and the dink walking by in the morning

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Here you have my empty stand and the object of my obsession 15 yds away!

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Droptine passed another of my cameras on the way to the stand

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You have him surrounded.

It’s just a matter of when, not if.


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When I decided to use a camera for fun, it didn't take me long to figure out that I didn't want it on during hunting season.

It doesn't matter what is there when you aren't. Though a pic of you looking at the dink while the droptine slinked behind your stand would be hella cool


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Dude !! You need to be out their every chance you get!!! Drill that frigging Buck! Do a 10 or 11am to dark hunt on him possibly
He might have hunters morning times in the woods patterned in his deer mind . Kill him!!!

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Nice buck. Best get him before some one else does

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Wow missed by that much.Frustrating also fun,hang in there.

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That happens a lot, but it's always frustrating.


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Well Dan..to play the devils advocate here....isnt it a bad idea to sit the same stand a number ofttimes in a row? Seems like your presence would kind of pollute the area and gradually move the deer out...I don't know, never having hunted them that way...


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Not if you hunt it on the right wind


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That's why they call it hunting, and not killing. I predict we'll see another photo of that buck before it's over.



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Notice he came through at 4:20? That's the code for getting high. The buck must have figured that's a safe time since the hunters are back at the truck firing up.

Joking aside, I hope you get him. That is a hell of a nice buck!

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That is a funny observation.

I got a funny story from this year.
Opening day of rifle a group of three whoppers walked along my south fence line on the neighbors side. I did not shoot , since I did not have permission. Same as the last three years. Since I moved there. Took 6 days to get the one I wanted, where I wanted.

I invited another neighbor over for dinner last week. He told me when the plots were surveyed I actually own about 10 yards of the southern neighbors field other side of the fence.

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Looks like you had Murphy for a hunting guide. You'll get him and it'll be even sweeter.


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Still alive I think I saw him this morning but no shot it was a shooter for sure
He was on 3 different cameras last night between midnight and 3:40 am dogging doe

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Originally Posted by dvdegeorge
Not if you hunt it on the right wind



That's it. I unfortunately go days without hunt just because the wind isn't right for my property. A south/southwest wind fuggs me terribly bad. It's best to not go on those days.


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you will get him.

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Don't think that anyone mentioned it, but no matter if we play the wind right and do everything we can not to do anything wrong; sometimes those old wise bucks just know when a hunter is in his stand. I don't use cameras, just for some of these reasons. Hunting can be frustrating enough without the burden of knowing that big boy walks by 15 minutes after you got down to eat a ham sandwich.

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Not to be trite,

BUT

That is why we go hunting much of the time.

That old right place right time conundrum.


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Originally Posted by Steelhead
Originally Posted by dvdegeorge
Not if you hunt it on the right wind



That's it. I unfortunately go days without hunt just because the wind isn't right for my property. A south/southwest wind fuggs me terribly bad. It's best to not go on those days.

Sure hope you guys listened to Steelhead's advice here. If they smell you, chances are they won't come in.


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I actually don't see why its such a big deal if someone else shoots a good deer to so many.

I"m happy for whomever gets a good one. And a good one to them, not just inches....


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