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This sums things up lately

Yup, windy and wet here as well, might try a spot later before the worst is set to pass through on Saturday.

The weather has been a mess here too, 40 mph gusts today...tomorrow isn't much better.

Things got jiggy this morning on property I killed my archery deer last season.
Chasing and I saw so many small buck I couldn't count but no shooters and none on camera from that property all season
Hunting the Turk this afternoon

It's on! Saw a little doe then a buck cut across field then just before dark 2 doe entered field and a buck chased them around it was just too dark to tell if it was the Turk

I saw a drop tine 9 point yesterday hot on a doe, not much mass but he was getting busy.

Well the big fella had other plans tonight but the sit was well worth it even though it was blowing SW at a pretty good clip !!

It's that time of the season we all wait for pre rut and bucks running hither and thither ....it's a love hate time for me when the chasing starts as bucks are like pinballs darting around and with a bow you need some luck in the equation to score now....

Hers to some luck!

My son and I are on a youth rifle hunt.
I can’t hunt but he can.
Sitting under some trees where 3 huge funnels intersect, hope he gets one today.

I gave it a whirl this morning,rained like a SOB. See a couple flats and a yote,but overall sucked.

Pouring rain this morning had 3 doe fly past my stand 10 minutes later a small 6 pt at 5 yds on their trail
Saw a micro spike and I was out at 10 am to dry out

No rain here yet but had a small buck chase a doe past me this AM, and also a small spike came in! got a Dandy Buck where im getting ready to hunt this evening! Happy Hunting Boys!

Way to windy to go up a tree this afternoon so I just drove around and glassed couple of my spots....6 does at one spot not being bothered....another big field 20 min west... many does, 4 8 pts (one borderline shooter) and a 6 pt. The bigger buck was locking horns and starting to chase.

Matthew got a shot at a small 6pt.
He apparently didn’t see the branch about 3/4 of the way to it.
He grazed the buck and all we found was a little bit of white hair.
That’s the first time Matthew ever pulled the trigger on a deer and we are not bringing it home.
I told him he hunts long enough and it will happen to anybody.

Had a good sit yesterday afternoon 5 doe and 4 buck... spike 6 pt 8 pt and a big shooter 10 pt I’ve never seen befor
Only deer I could have killed was the spike the rest were too far
In my stand perfect morning 30 degrees and calm saw 1 doe skirting the field already

Tom, you tell Matthew he is now an official member of a club all bowhunters are members of . The good news is white hair, no blood on ground or arrow, graze shot, buck will live another day. The one that really sticks with me is Montana elk hunt back in the nineties.. 5x5 brow tine bull, 30yds correct shot placement, we searched for that bull two full days, nothing. I considered it a kill and my hunt was over.....Still haunts me !!

Beautiful morning,
just no deer,seen another coyote,different one from yesterday,

Maybe their schedule is off cause of the time change.lol

Crazy morning young bucks chasing doe all over the woods
Saw the big 10 pt around 11 am chase doe across field I was on the ground and saw deer chasing next ridge I ran up to field and got behind a tree and nocked an arrow after a minute or two he chased the doe right out infront of me but at 80 yds there was a small buck following them.
Came home for a quick bite and to take care of my pooch heading back in to the woods shortly

5 buck 8 doe this afternoon no shooters

Hunted my longbow in the piney thickets on the ground today, had a doe broadsided at 6 or 7 yards, I let her go, thought a buck may be trailing her, no dice this time, sat there with a stupid grin on my face for at least an hour later, guess that means I was enjoying myself, cool as hell experience that i'll never forget.