Just silly hot today.  My deer cooler is on a truck and should be delivered tomorrow.  If I get a delivery confirmation tonight I will hunt in the morning.  Last year was the first season in over twenty years that I did not have close and easy access to a 36* awesome walk in cooler on our family farm.   I moved forty miles West.  I should have my home processing "center" set up complete and ready tomorrow. I've killed deer in 95+ degree heat only because I was close to that walk in.  Now I will be set up at my new place... 

I'm not crazy about trying to take care of meat in 90 weather so I'm trying to  get things that would interfere done now. This weekend when it cools the deer should crank up !! 

The grey on top of my head and in my beard - along with the aches and pains in my knees, hips and back have long subdued my desire to hunt in any weather extremes (cold or heat). So, while I have been flinging arrows and broad heads into a practice target, this heat has even kept me from even buying my tags. Then this evening I stepped onto my back deck to shoot a few arrows and had two does within three yards of my target butt. I had arrows with sharpened Tigersharks in the quiver and had to laugh because both deer seemed to be totally unconcerned with my presence on the deck. Oh well, I didn't feel like tracking, dragging, gutting,skinning and quartering so much as a limb rat tonight. Maybe I'll need to have my morning coffee on the deck this weekend. Bow-in-hand of course. 

Getting rained out this morning but this cooler weather is gonna be a welcomed change!
Tim B

Doug, maybe them does have seen you shoot before and weren't too worried..

LOL

Roy, they have a lot less to worry about when I'm totin' a longbow than they do if I've got my bow with training wheels. So you're probably correct.

Well, I had a golden opportunity slip thru my fingers yesterday evening. Had a nice mature 8 at 13 yards and didn't get the shot off in time. I'm still kicking myself, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be last night.

Thursday afternoon Sears came through for me so I finished my "processing" at home center with cooler included. Friday I made it home in time with the 70* temps and snuck into a stand.  The supposedly NW wind would blow consistent then switch to the east of all places for a few minutes then back to NW... You guessed it I had two does coming in and of course smelled me at about forty yards.  All part of bowhunting and I was pleased to see deer within a half hour of my first bowhunt of the season.  [attachment=1]

John that's a nice set up! 
Jake if it easy everyone would do it - keep after them. 
I've had a couple uneventful hunts but then last night was exciting.  I have a clover plot and there was this huge clump of trees n bushes right next to it- so a few years ago I cleaned out the middle and called it the monster isle blind.  That's where I was.  About 7 pm here he come.  It was a buck I had a pic of.  He is a mainframe 8 with a small kicker of his left G2. He is probably 115-120" 3 yr old.  I decided to let him walk but he had my heart pumping....
Tim B

Got away for my first few days this year. I put up with a couple days of heat before the cool front came through. I'd brought plenty of short sleeve stuff but not a single long sleeve camo T. That wasn't too bright. From being too hot to shiver time. Sheesh.

I put up a new stand and had a button buck come by my first sit. He got a pass and the rest of my time was uneventful except for one lonely racoon. It's just going to get better.

Quote from: John3 on September 23, 2018, 01:17:14 PM
Thursday afternoon Sears came through for me so I finished my "processing" at home center with cooler included. Friday I made it home in time with the 70* temps and snuck into a stand.  The supposedly NW wind would blow consistent then switch to the east of all places for a few minutes then back to NW... You guessed it I had two does coming in and of course smelled me at about forty yards.  All part of bowhunting and I was pleased to see deer within a half hour of my first bowhunt of the season.  [attachment=1,msg2821243]

NICE SETUP!

i sat in a stand yesterday eve. seen 4 does. but they didnt come my way.

Well, my Mo tag is punched ladies and gents.  Cold front was supposed to be moving in for Friday thru Sunday.  I normally only hunt thru the week so my my fatherly and hubandly duties are full filled (girls in club soccer and volleyball) but..... After a week long trip to Colorado chasing ghost elk, I had to get out to see some animals.
We got up to the farm around 2 on Friday and did a quick run to pull cards.  We actually ran out of time to look at said cards before having to shower and put on the plaid.  My good friend Buddy told me to go to a stand right behind the cabin called "Denny's stand" on the edge of a big bean field.  Now I have wanted to hunt this stand since I have gotten on the lease 4 years ago but the one time I went to sit it, it was stolen.  I put a new hang-on and sticks up and still never sat it.  I guess it was always suspect to me because you can see the cabin from there.  Oh, and the thievery.

I head down at 5:00 and get strapped in.  Beautiful night.  66°, sunny and enough breeze to give you a fighting chance against the mosquitoes.  Almost an hour in, a forkie heads to the beans and then back behind me.  Then another smaller 6 point.  They are back and forth and really close.  Most times within 10yds.  Then does show up in the food plot just to the South of me.  Deer are flat on their feet.  I hear some chewing behind me.  I'm thinking to myself, "this 6pnt needs to go before he busts me". I don't even turn around because he is been all over me.  Finally, for some reason, I turn around and just see "heavy" antlers.  "Oh Sh*#" and grabbed my Schafer hanging on the hook.  Split brow buck (I had no clue what deer it was at the time, too nervous) was within 5yds.  He walked right underneath me.  I had to wait for him to walk a little further out because he was too close.  He got to 10yds and headed to the beans.  I couldn't stop him because I thought he would spooked.  He hesitated and I didn't.

Full metal jacket and VPA head was on it's way.  Clean pass thru, mule kick and off he flew across the bean field (that's 3ft tall and becomes significant later).  They shot was perfect up and down BUT... It was back a bit.  Oh no, here we go.  I thought liver at first and MAYBE one lung because he was quartering away a bit.  The buck headed to an island of trees about 250-300yds away. 

After the buck ran off, deer started moving everywhere.  Smaller 8's, does behind me, east of me... Everywhere.  I sat until they all moved off, texted Buddy and headed down to get out of there.  My arrow was buried 6 inches into the dirt and covered with good blood and splatter on the grass around.  Buddy and I decided to wait till 9:30 to take up the chase.  I learned very important leassons on this buck
1.  I have shot recollection amnesia.  Where I thought he ran was not what he actually did.
2.  Tracking blood in said beanfield is TOUGH
3.  New LED flashlights and healamps suck for tracking.  They wash the color out of everything.

We tracked blood till 12:30 and finally had to give up for the night.  We made almost to the end of the beanfield and lost blood.  We would find blood on the underside of the leaves of the bean plant because they were so tall.  Our eyes were exhausted and had to quit for the night.  The temperature was 48° and he should be ok.  Every deer we have ever let lay overnight on this farm has been gotten to by coyotes before morning.

I didn't sleep a wink that night begging for sunlight.  I just knew we weren't going to find him (I am a glass half empty guy, sadly.  I like to think of myself as a realist).  The light hit the beanfield that morning and off we went.  It's amazing how things look different in the sunlight.  Our marking tape showed the path and honestly, he was only 20yds into a DIFFERENT set of trees than I thought he ran.  (There's my shot amnesia I have).  I was SOOO relieved and happy we found him.  A better buck than I realized AND the coyotes hadn't touched him at all.  I am blessed my wife and girls put up with my hunting antics.  I'll post pictures after this call I'm heading on

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Haven't got out yet but will this weekend. Put in 3 winter wheat food plots 3-4 weeks ago and they are going great for southern MO rocky soil.

Congrats medic...

I will figure this picture thing out from my phone.  I've tried 10 times.  It won't load for some reason

Let's try this

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Very nice medic!!
Congrats Sir!
Tim B

nice one  congratts!

Awesome, congrats..