I may be wrong,but we may be close to leading this thing when he updates the scores. Nice work guys!!

All thanks to you guys. I’m down to the last week of season and haven’t slung an arrow yet. I’ve seen plenty of deer I just haven’t been able to close the deal, hopefully I can get one here in the last week.

I’ve got a piece of land near the house that hardly ever has any decent deer. Terrible neighbors. Well this year I’ve had a solid 8 pretty regular at night. Also had a decent 10 show up one night only. My cell cams died about two weeks ago and I haven’t had time to get out there and swap them. Knowing the rut was on, johnal3 and I slipped out there this morning for a quick hunt. I put him in the area that the 8 had been showing and sure enough he followed some does out of a bottom near John, but never offered a good shot. I had him change the batteries before leaving and sure enough at 11:15 he showed up by himself. My wife has never killed a deer so I talked her into going this afternoon, knowing that he was likely to screw up. We sat on the ground in some gobbler loungers because she doesn’t care for tree stands. With the wet leaves it was tough on a newbie. Rattled in a small buck and managed to have him pass at 15yds undetected. Saw a few does and rattled one more time at 4;45. About 10 minutes go by and I hear something. He’s trotting straight at us at 40yds. Directly to her right. I slipped my gun up on him as I whispered to her. He noticed us at 8-10yds and came to a halt. It was getting fairly dark and we had a heck of a stare down. We could hear deer to our left and eventually a doe walked by within 10yds. The buck watched her for 20-30 seconds and I figured he was going to turn and follow. Wrong, he turned right back to us and kept staring. Eventually he wheeled and ran to about 30 yds. I got him in the scope, but couldn’t bring myself to shoot him. He slowly walked off, so maybe I can get her back on him.

Heck yeah man. That sounds like a dang good hunt,especially having your wife with you and sitting on the ground!! Good luck catching back up to him or the 10!!

Sounds like awesome hunt. Nothing like having a close encounter on the ground to the adrenaline going, thats a nice buck too.

Just killed a pretty nice 10 point.

Here is a picture of him.

Real nice deer!! Congrats man!!

Congrats man! I see a doe last Friday but haven’t seen nothing since.

Back in the saddle this afternoon hopefully something shows up

Congrats moody!

Congrats moody!

I drew on a good buck Friday afternoon but he didn’t get inside of 40 yards. I sat all day yesterday and didn’t see a single deer.

Keep at them big country, and whack us a doe if you get the chance. The last weeks of January will be my doe killing time.

Will do, I’ve only got a few more days here in NC

Uncle Huck is bout to get serious. Texas was not what I hoped it would be this year.

Starting my Alabama tour next week. Hoping for an upgrade to my early season 8.

Rattled in 2 bucks this morning in the same climber I shot the bow buck out of. One of them is a buck I've been watching since August
Hes got 5 on one side and just a brow and short main beam on the other. It's either an injury or he broke it early in velvet and it never grew. Maybe should've shot him cause I know hes old enough,but I didnt wanna buck out with him. Did get some sweet footage of him and the other buck that came in looking for a fight this morning. They sure can pinpoint where they hear the rattling from. The 1st buck circled my tree twice looking for it. Was a pretty cool encounter

Heres some pics/vids of the bucks





2nd buck





1st buck:


2nd buck:

Congrats to all the killers. Team scores have been updated in the Team Standings thread.

Super cool man!

I tried to upgrade this past week, but shot another 8 point. Bigger deer, but would not increase our score.