Hello everyone! Hope all is doing well. Doing pretty good myself. Been a busy offseason this year as my wife and I had our second child in late August, our second son. Have not gotten a chance to hunt and fish too much but it is looking like that will change here soon. Have deer hunted 5 times and seen a good number of deer but just one button headed buck. Took my oldest son, 3.5 years old, on his first hunt a week or so ago and we did get a chance to kill a good sized doe. With the cold fronts pushing through I am hoping for a good few hunts this week possibly. Duck season is under a month as well and I am really looking forward to having a shotgun in my hands.
Been seeing a good many birds around the farm. Saw 9 gobblers flocked up heading to the stand one evening. Saw 5 hens in the field Dirt Road and I had good luck in this past spring. Always fun to see them.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello and see how everyone is doing. Hope all is going great and we are on the down side of the hill to spring. Just a little under 5 months for us SC guys!
My boy and I before we left for the stand:
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Us with our deer:
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Congratulations on the new youngin and your boys first hunt! I have been doin pretty good since spring. I have put in a good amount of time in a deer stand. I managed to harvest 2 deer last week. Ive seen some hens a couple of times while deer hunting but other than that haven't seen many birds around my property. I've got my first Buice trumpet on order I'm real excited about! I hope everyone's having a good fall!
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Glad to here from everyone so far, doing well here in VA. Bowhunting, seeing lots of deer and got my miss out of the way two weeks ago. Looking forward to carrying a gun instead of a bow, haven't had alot of time to scout but we have a fairly decent acorn crop around here. Our fall turkey season opens Saturday for two weeks so hope to get out a time or two but really concentrating on putting deer in the freezer, don't want to have to buy a 1/4 cow from a local farmer like I did last year. it's tasty just not the same satisfaction when I cook it. I'll do my best to keep in touch and am counting down spring! BTW Donald we need to see pics of the new baby.
Howdy. All well here, been fishing a little and have had some good days and some not so good ones. When the weather is good we have been doing very well. Hadnt started deer hunting yet and to be honest, if my kids didn't want to go I'd probably all but give it up. Already planning out Spring 2018. Good to see y'all are doing ok.
Congrats on the new baby! That's awesome!
I've personally had a bit of a challenge for a bit.
I was diagnosed with a brain tumor during turkey season. Also had Lyme and babesi.
Tumor was 4.6cm and over 10 hrs surgery.
I was in a wheel chair, right side of my face didn't work, dominant eye sewed shut.
Balance has been an issue. God is good though he has given me the strength to take it.
Last week I'd also taken two deer, one a buck. Seen 26 bucks so far this year but being limited hadn't closed the deal til than.
Not a giant deer but I'll take him
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Here is my youngest boy:
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Got number two tonight:
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Great pics!
Awesome!
Hey Everyone! Been a busy fall around here. Both boys playing ball have kept me busy and on the run. I've been able to find some time to deer hunt. I don't have anything real big on camera yet but hopefully one is around or will show up soon. Some good news is that I was able to pick up another piece of property for hunting. I'll be able to turkey hunt this coming spring. This farm is another gold mine for turkey hunting and luckily it joins some other property that I hunt. The good Lord has been very good to me with providing land that is blessed with turkeys. Congrats on the new baby also! Hope everyone has a happy, healthy and safe holiday season with their families. I hope we're all able to give the others fits in the spring contest. I really believe we'll win it one of these days. To many killers on our team.
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Quote from: Bowguy on October 28, 2017, 04:13:47 PM
Congrats on the new baby! That's awesome!
I've personally had a bit of a challenge for a bit.
I was diagnosed with a brain tumor during turkey season. Also had Lyme and babesi.
Tumor was 4.6cm and over 10 hrs surgery.
I was in a wheel chair, right side of my face didn't work, dominant eye sewed shut.
Balance has been an issue. God is good though he has given me the strength to take it.
Last week I'd also taken two deer, one a buck. Seen 26 bucks so far this year but being limited hadn't closed the deal til than.
Not a giant deer but I'll take him
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Nice buck! Hope you're able to fully heal from the tumor. I hate to hear of anyone dealing with this stuff. I hope you and your family have a good holiday season.
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Thanks turkeykiller, I appreciate it. You have a great holiday too!
Hope everyone is well!! Congrats on the new addition to the family Donald! And congrats everyone else on there deer. Shot the biggest buck of my life yesterday. Recovered him this morning. Buck we had pics of during summer and a hot doe brought him by me at 25 yds. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171111/82ed5667b9a2108feff818771d2a554b.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171111/99273c705f1cf925f9b7a5fe97dc7903.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171111/408c85c0a66ddbd431cce68ea320e432.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171111/01c61f03c2807505247fb20a9bb389d6.jpg)
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Congrats Bill, great buck!!
Glad to hear you are on the mend Mike!
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Great deer Bill and thanks for the congrats!
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Was able to punch my second buck tag on Friday 11/10 evening. Was a fun hunt. Got to see 16 deer, 3 were bucks. Watched a little 4 pt chasing the ladies around the plot for about 20 minutes and was grunting up a storm.
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This coming Saturday our waterfowl first season opens so my attention will turn there for a week. Glad to hear from everyone and hope all is well!
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That's a stud! Heck of a buck..
Man! Y'all are wearing the bucks out. These are some really nice bucks posted. I've been hunting my tail off but only seeing smaller bucks pushing the does the past few days. Maybe tomorrow is the day the big one slips up and shows his face.
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Finished my 2017 SC Deer Season this past Friday evening as I punched my final SC Tag, without purchasing extra ones. Was a fun season. Was not the most ideal time to be hunting with the moon and had a few people tell me I was wasting my time, but I just had that feeling that I needed to be out. Had a couple hours of leave to use before the end of the year and decided Friday was as good as any other time. Got in the stand about 3:30 pm to a beautiful day in a beautiful place.
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Time kept ticking away and official sunset (5:12 pm) had come and light was going away. I was starting to think about calling it pretty soon, we can hunt until 1 hour after official sunset, when I heard some movement behind me to the right. I turned to look and in a few seconds had a doe pop out behind me. She walked into the plot and then followed by another and another until I had 5 in front of me, one decided to eat right at the foot of the stand for a few moments.
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Well that made me happy that I had at least seen some deer in the stand during legal time. I was watching them feed and looking them over. The two that was closest to me, just over that road in the plot started looking to my left a good bit. I noticed the behavior so paid attention and hoped if something was there they would come on out with the fading light. Around 5:45 I see a larger bodied deer walking across the plot toward the does. I get my rifle up and look at it. It is facing away from me and standing in full alert toward the does. I see the antlers and can tell he has a good spread so I decide to shoot. He lurched forward at the shot and I could tell from his reaction it was a good hit. When I got down to look I was surprised I could not find blood. Well in the excitement of things I did not mark his spot as well as I thought and I hit him more to the left in the plot than I thought. I finally walked to the wood line and walked around it and found blood in the dirt. I turned to follow and there he was 3-5 yards from me just in the wood line. It was a fun deer season, probably one that I have had the most fun in a while. I loved my time out in the woods, but now my mind is turning to ducks and more importantly spring.
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Hope everyone is having a great year and things will be getting fired up for the team here soon. I hope everyone comes back. Take care and Merry Christmas!
Very nice, congrats!!
Heck of season!
Looks like everyone has been having some fun this fall. I've deer hunted a lot but have only filled one tag so far, spent a lot of time trying to get my oldest son a deer. Our late season muzzleloader opens back up this Saturday until the first Saturday in January so hope to put at least two more on the ground. Here's a pic of my early season muzzleloader buck-
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Nice deer, way to go!!
Congrats.
Good job on all the nice bucks killed so far. I have yet to fill a tag. We had a snowstorm basically come out of nowhere this past weekend and that threw a wrench in my hunting the last few days. Hope to get one before season closes. The picture is of my two boys playing in the snow. We had close to a foot of snow and some places had well over a foot of snow. We were out of power for two days and some nearby we're out for three days. It's not even winter yet. Quite a crazy a time for us here in West Georgia. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171212/8fa26c6d7b6adf3c78d1cb139204365d.jpg)
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Great buck Jim! Hope you finish out your tags and get your boy one!
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Quote from: Turkeykiller12 on December 11, 2017, 10:28:56 PM
Good job on all the nice bucks killed so far. I have yet to fill a tag. We had a snowstorm basically come out of nowhere this past weekend and that threw a wrench in my hunting the last few days. Hope to get one before season closes. The picture is of my two boys playing in the snow. We had close to a foot of snow and some places had well over a foot of snow. We were out of power for two days and some nearby we're out for three days. It's not even winter yet. Quite a crazy a time for us here in West Georgia. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171212/8fa26c6d7b6adf3c78d1cb139204365d.jpg)
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Looks like those boys are having a blast. We were supposed to get a little but it stayed Northwest OG is. We got a couple flurries but that was it.
Good luck in the woods!
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