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Showed up to one of my properties this morning to find this ..... scratch this one of the list


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It's 57 degrees out.

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Nothing for me in 8F except cold wind in my face .....

I did have a 3 year old 8pt last night come into the “can” call but hung up around 40 yards before taking off when the wind swirled


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I sat today out. A much needed relax day as I’ve been hunting hard and out of town a lot. Living through everyone else today. Will be back at it tomorrow morning.


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Slow night for me in 8F. One small doe and that was it


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Was down in 7R the last three days. Scrapes and rubs showing up daily. No daytime movement for us. Came home unpacked checked the radar, packed the truck, headed out and now sitting in my stand in 8F for the night. Very little sign here as far as rubs or scrapes.....


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I’m glad I’m not the only one....lol!!!


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CONGRATS - CANT WAIT TO SEE PICS

Walked my entire property in 8F. Found good runs but zero runs and no scrapes.

Activity starting to pick up down in 7R with bucks seen during daylight and some scrapes opening up.

Home in 7A not much going on yet. Everything still nocturnal with not much sign


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Hope you never need it but...
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One tip that is extremely helpful to us trackers is marking the trail. I tell hunters to use tissue paper every 20' or so up high not on the ground. Then you can use this to look back and see (somewhat) the direction the deer is headed. Best of all is it helps us even more, because more than once I have gone on a track and hunters cant show me the hit site, let alone the trail it took. 
 
Good luck and I hope I don't hear from you. [emoji4]
 
Scott

Really windy Sunday am in 8M and no movement. 5pm and a pair of doe came through with a six point trailing closely behind, hot for the larger of the two. They passed eighty yards out but the smaller came my way and gave me a shot, tracking right to left in my blind. Looks like she stopped about five feet too far to the left...
 

Get to my stand about 25 minutes before legal light. Climb up, get strapped in and get all situated. As I sit down my elbow knocks into my bow and down it goes 20 +\- feet. The arrow snaps in half and the string comes off, quiver goes flying etc.

I packed up and got down, picked up all the pieces and head home. I loosen the draw weight, put it In the clamps and get the string back on. Next I have to reinstall the peep as that also came out. Tighten the draw weight back up after giving the limbs a thorough inspection. Take it outside a small adjustment on the peep and it’s hitting dead on.

Back in my stand for the afternoon. I sure as hell hope it goes better than my morning did.

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Mike

My brother in law sent me this video. ‘‘Tis the season

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Nice campers! I’m considering taking ours to camp this year. What do you guys use for heat? RV furnace? How long does your battery last or do you bring a generator? Thanks for any info.


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I run a 25’ trophy. My setup is 3 riggers across the back and then rod holders on each gunnel. I always run the two corner riggers and dispys off each side. The center rigger either goes in or the rod holder can be used for copper down the chute.

My best setup all season was three riggers, 2 dipsys on the starboard side, one dipsy on the port side and a copper off the board on the port side.




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Mike

 

Checking my camera with my son and five very nice bucks these are the three biggest. I had shoulder surgery in June for a torn labrum, rotator cuff and bone shave to open the pocket so no hunting for me only camera watching. Anyone thinking of having shoulder surgery like this it horrible worst pain ever even four months later.

 

 

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Had the same exact thing last year. Absolutely the worst thing I’ve done and I’ve done a lot (ex motocross racer). They clipped My nerve while prepping me for the actually surgery. They told me I’ll be at 60% the first year, 75% by the second and the best I’ll get back is 85% after 3 years. Hang in there. All I can say is do as much PT as possible. I did X Bow last year because i couldn’t pull my bow back. I lowered my draw weight to 52 +/- this year and now am just able to draw it back. Start low and gradually increase it. There is a light at the end of the tunnel believe it or not. Best of luck to you !!!!

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Mike

Had a busted up 6 walk by me at 30 yards and hung out for 2 minutes. 4 on one side and other side was broken up. 45 minutes later doe and two fawns skirted through. I took video of them all. Action has slowed for me now

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Not a single deer on my way to my Wayne county property. Very strange. Normally there’s a ton on my 40 + mile drive. Hopefully they’re just sleeping in today. Time will tell.....


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Thanks everyone. An upgraded cot and it is working out great. Stayed the last two weeks and it’s almost like home


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Mike

Starting to get some good ones on camera.
30 minutes after dark.


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Mike

Buddy from camp was in stand for 30 minutes yesterday and saw a buck up on the ridge. He hit the esterus can and he came in on a dime. Best thing is he had his trail cam running on video and caught the whole thing


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Mike

After looking at some YouTube videos and doing some research I installed a homemade phone/video holder to try this year.

“L” bracket bolted with my stabilizer and epoxy from HomeDepot glued to the back of the belt clip of my cell phone. Just had to notch out where the lens is. It snaps in and out for easy removal. Hopefully will get some cool Videos to share


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Mike

I hunt in a corner between a bedding area and a bean field. Only real way to access stand is walk along edge of bean field and take a 90 and walk along next edge to stand. This morning on my way in a jumped one deer out in the beans (happened before) so I thought “not that bad” then I made the 90 and it looked like the zoo let out. Must have been 12-15 deer all heading different directions needless to say that was it for the morning.


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Got out after the rain last night. Sat till dark zero movement on my end


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Makes you smarter than me i got up here around 615 with no umbrella lol. Got my rain suit on though

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