Like a kid waiting for xmas.. cant wait to climb the tree Saturday morning.. Ive got a few decent bucks on camera and a bear in a funnel area near the Nottoway River on the land I hunt... Im having joint issues in both hands that really hurt when I shoot my #68 Kentuckian Flatbow so I ordered a Galaxy Ember longbow thats #45. It came in today just in case I cant shoot the Kentuckian all season. I just wanted to wish everyone luck and have a safe and successful hunting season. God Bless.... :jumper:
Good luck, i am going to sweat it out as well. Hope to shoot the first doe to come along. By the way i live 1 mile from the Nottoway river near the Greeneville- Sussex line.
Will be hunting some public land near galax this opener. Hoping for a doe
Good luck!
Bisch
Best of luck to you all!
Go get em fellas , best of luck....
,,Sam,,
Me and the Thermacell will be in the stand bordering the beanfield, at least in the a.m...might even bring the bow along.
Best of luck, but Saturday is October 6, my 75th birthday. Oh good night, am I really THAT old? :help:
Good luck Floyd. I'm building your string this evening. I'll try to add a little luck to it. :archer:
Thanks Allen...Need all the help I can Get!!! lo
Happy irthday David!!! :thumbsup:
Good luck to you also Allen!!! Hope you kill a big one!!
Mec Linemen........ hope you connect.....I hunt right on the Sussex and Greensville line closet to Dinwiddie County right at the Iluka Mine... Im bout 1 mile from the single bridge on the Nottoway...
ha that bridge is one mile from my house! went by iluka this evening
Good luck fellas
Nothing moving on the ole homestead. Flock shot mosquitoes instead. Bagged the limit...with one arrow.
I did everything by the book this morning. I showered, then put on high dollar scent proof clothing. I covered myself in doe pee, then hiked far into the wilderness to get away from the crowds (I was at least 5 minutes from my back door). I was on the inside corner of a field edge, high on a ridge, in a creek bottom. I was 20 yards from an active scrape with a rope wick above it. I was high enough in the tree to be out of the line of sight, and above the scent stream, of my unsuspecting quarry. I was also low enough to allow a perfect angle into the vitals of my target.
All this, only to miss two 8 pointers :banghead:
It was a great morning!!!!
we had a slight N NE wind this morning, the NE is no good for this location. At 7: 15 a beautiful 9 pt. is walking straight to me, quartering into the wind. Im standing up fingers on the string, he hits my scent stream and slams on the breaks. He never blew, but i know he smelled me. saw 2 does later in the morning. Its good to be back at it!
Got situated yesterday in the dark only to have a real light colored coyote take a dump at 15 yds. Flashed the light on it and it blazed out of there. A orange box turtle kept me company for the morning-was like watching a tank roll over the sticks and debris-sloooooow motion. Then at 9 am a black bear decided it was time to head back up hill but at 50 yards-first year with a tag and he kept his distance of course. Great morning but too warm for the evening.Still great to be out.
May you enjoy the best of success.
Hunted this morning by the Nottoway River and at five minutes to seven I look down river and see a deer feeding on acorns about seventy five yards away..I am hunting a funnel and my stand is at the narrowest point. I watch the deer feed its way to the mouth of the funnel, I can see then that its a spike buck with bout four inch spikes. It commits and walks right to my stand stopping about four yards at a holly tree with a scrape at the base. It rares up on its hind legs rubbing his face and eyes all in the over hanging limb looking straight at me but never see's me. It drops back down on all fours and then pisses in the scrape and then turns and continues past me at four yards still and walks on out of site...... I guess I could have taken him but I have several nice bucks on trail camera walking the same path anywhere from "16 inch to "20 inches, I figure I would hold off for a bit.....I climb down at 10am and head to the truck.... A great morning in deed..
Had a good hunt on a wma on Monday evening. I called a turkey into about 15 yards but was caught trying to draw, then at last light had a horse of a doe come into range but she never walked into a shooting lane. There is a cold front coming this weekend so good luck everyone!