It would be nice to have a wife that could be blamed everything on. Miss her for six years now.

We have different antler point regions in Pennsylvania and the bucks know them.

Thanks for the laughs, good thread.   And yes, enjoy the hunt.

Sodden...that brought back NOT so fond memories of a day back in 68 when my cousin was home on leave...his beer and pickled eggs mixed with my dads normal was way more than my young nose could handle...they even named those stinkin things the fizz the fuzz the fuzz was the rip roar AND the bung hole tare...they all smelled like   

Learned that I guess I'm getting old. Carrying a tree stand very far hurts my back. Just bought a Molle ll pack to use the straps and waist belt from on my stand. Also learned that my LW assault stand is very uncomfortable, funny I've been using it for around 18 to 20 years and never noticed it being uncomfortable.

An 8 point buck can stand facing you at ten yards and not even blink way longer than you even think they could. 

I can enjoy hunting whitetail from the ground even after 50 years enjoying the view from trees.

Also, I had so much fun with the one cell game camera checking pictures on days I couldn't or just didn't hunt.

I learned several valuable lessons this year.

1) If you pick a target buck in a small woodlot he can disappear for the entire season.

2) If you hunt does in said woodlot after buck season he will feed in your shooting lane

3) If you put other people in your stands they have better odds of killing a deer than you.

and several more that I should have learned a long time ago, so I will not share.

oz

One eye bucks dont duck arrows very well!

Shawn~

Enjoy the woods to the last minute of the last day.

A coyote can't handle a tree shark to the ribs

I learned that if I arrow a deer and it runs down hill and dies on the road below camp, its likely that my low life neighbor and his grandson with gather it up and haul it to their camp.

Luckily my tracking skills were good enough that I tracked that dead deer to their camp and recovered it...

He had a lot of excuses...I learned what kind of neighbor I really have!

Lesson 1:  When building natural blinds make them as thick as you can and use material that doesn't thin out within a month or so.

Lesson 2: Don't let work dominate your life and mind so much that it prevents you from getting out in the woods.

Zeebob, I'm sorry that you had to learn about bad neighbors the hard way. I'm glad you took your deer back.

Sam, I caught them just as they were hurrying to leave their camp.  He said he didn't want any hard feelings over that, and I told him he could have had the courtesy to really check to see if I was at camp...

I used to let them hunt our place when we weren't hunting, those days are over.  The worst part is he is setting a horrible example for his 11 yr old grandson.  The grandson was supposed to check to see if we were at camp..he lied to his grandfather and gramps is ok with that.  They had already quartered the deer and had it in a cooler...and they never tagged it.
The whole incident just makes me sick...  I had told the kid I was there bow hunting the day before...  He's an 11yr old slob hunter...