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Good luck! I will give you a tip on filming. Get the camera on early and in place where you are going to shoot because if you don't and are rushing to get set up you won't pick a spot. It happenned to me more than once.
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Samuel Adams Posts: 968 | From: Long Island, NY | Registered: Mar 2005
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I drove 700 miles - from 2:00pm and got to where I needed by 2 am greeted by 24 degrees and high SE winds. brrrr
it was a great morning and a bad morning.
great in that I saw 7 different bucks, one nice 8 that I could have killed (video below) and a 10 I'd love to have had a better look at
but climbing into the tree this morning, I rammed a stick into my eye - yes, as silly as that sounds. I didn't know how bad it was, just that it was bleeding and I still had 100% of my vision. when I got back to the truck I looked and yeah, it didn't look good. I got to a optometrist by 1 pm (lucky only 30 miles away and he had a good deer story too ) and basically I scraped the top layers of my eyeball all the way back to the corner of the eye. I didn't puncture the eye, I only scraped the white - so very very luck there. But with a dilated eye that's throbbing no hunting this afternoon. Probably not in the morning, Doc ruled it out but I haven't yet
lucky man I feel like right now - very close to losing an eye. I was pulling myself up and pulled right into it - unbelievable.
its throbbing a bit, but if I can handle the pain I think an am hunt in the morning I can do
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here is the video of the nice 8 I passed on - he looked BIG under my stand
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Take care of yourself Brad! The lost of an eye not worth the moments of pleasure, so be careful and things will come together in the right time.
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I'm going to get up and go in the morning - if it hurts because of the wind or sun or anything then I'll at least have tried.
12 weeks ago I had the patella tendon ACL surgery, just getting to where I can feel normal and go and do this ..... one obstacle after another but makes for a great story if I can shoot a big buck in the coming days huh ?
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Been there done that with the patela tendon ACL deal. My knee aches just thinking about it. Be careful and good luck. That buck on the vid was a beauty!
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Good luck, can't wait to see how this turns out!!!
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high HIGH winds today, all day. I saw a few dink bucks and deer movement stopped at 7:30 am.
I went to another place we have permission to hunt and jumped a big shooter 10 point and saw other deer. hunt a stand in the same tree I hunted from in 2007 or 2008? great location, but forecast of SW is about the WORST wind to hunt there.
so, back to this one stand I about put my eye out in, and 30 minutes before dark here comes this buck.
very very nice 8 pointer, his main beams wrap around and are maybe 6" from touching, he didn't look like a big bodied buck, very long tines - he came out of willows and rubbed and drank from a creek .... then back into them. I was too worried about shooting him to film him
That's it - just not a lot of deer movement, probably because of the gale force winds. Tomorrow back to the eyeball stand I reckon until i get something other than a SW wind.
Mon/Tue rain, and Tue high of 42 ... I'd just as soon kill my buck tomorrow Posts: 845 | From: Arkansas | Registered: Sep 2005
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Hang in there bud....when it was 100+ degrees we had hardly any wind....now it all comes this fall. You will connect!
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long day, slow day, a few dinks, a few does, can't believe the buck traffic in there on the camtracker Tuesday/Wednesday and I sit it Friday/Saturday/Sunday and only that first day solid 8 that come by
I don't think me being in there disturbs it THAT much - just unlucky?
Tomorrow I go to a new place - its the stand I sit 2 years ago, shot at a 150" at daylight, missed, had a GIANT buck come in at noon and couldn't get a shot then missed a P&Y 8 at dark .... I jumped a nice 10 scouting it and hanging the stand. BUT - its suppose to start raining at noon or 2:00 pm and 40-42 degree's ...... just great, and then turning to snow Tuesday morning and 2-8" or ?? who knows - but will make a very interesting hunt that's for sure
the eye hurts, its redder today but no worse other than that.
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) and basically I scraped the top layers of my eyeball all the way back to the corner of the eye. I didn't puncture the eye, I only scraped the white - so very very luck there. But with a dilated eye that's throbbing no hunting this afternoon. Probably not in the morning, Doc ruled it out but I haven't yet 
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