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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Don Batten on November 26, 2008, 01:49:00 PM
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Luken's is a 10000 acre private track in eastern NC. My dad is a member, but I rarley go down to hunt. On an invite from a long time friend and trad guy, who is also a member, I went down for two days of fellowship and hunting. The rule is 8 pts or better or does. I sat two mornings and tow afternoons. I saw a total of 16 deer(9 bucks from spike to 6pts), one racoon and 2 bear. That was on stand. We saw a bunch more on the roads. Had a blast and shot a 110lb doe the last afternoon. Looked like a liver hit and it was in the mid 30's so I gave her the night and found her the next morning. 80 yard recovery. rick welch recurve, cx100 with 175 razorcaps, Kanati angle quiver.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c222/526don/100_0340.jpg)
The "OAK TREE STAND"
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c222/526don/100_0341.jpg)
The stealth recovery vehicle.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c222/526don/100_0335.jpg)
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Congratulations on a great hunt.
-Hillbilly
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I need to get back there - been Too LONG.
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10K acres? heck yes you need to do it more often :D
Sounds like fun.
Grats on the venison roast :)
-Dave
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Man that looks good Don! Fine job on the doe! I hope Jet will let me ride in that new stealth cart of his!(LOL) Looks like your deadly accuracy combined with the Welch made pay! Good job!
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Yeah John, No way I would have hit hat deer without one of your quivers on my bow. Must be some mojo in them. Every time I take it off and go hunting I see nothing, but the moment I slap that baby on, I have to beat the deer off with a stick. LOL. You'll like the stealth, sure beats dragging em 4 or 5 miles. WE gonna get you down in a couple of weeks. Bear season is in in that county till jan 1st. Seeing a lot on them that need killin. DB
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Don,
Believe it or not, I grew up hunting on Luken's Island. Way before Open Ground Farms came in there. Killed my first deer at the age of 8 at the mouth of Eastman Creek.
Our "clubhouse" was the old Post Office building just down the path from the graveyard...it still had the "mail slots" in it.
I've got a picture of a bear and a deer that I helped my dad kill within 15 minutes of one another...I was 3 yrs old.
Boy, those were the good ol' days. Now it's a place for rich lawyers and such. Glad you got to go, though.
BTW, are the wild cows still there?
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Hey Tom, small world, I shot my first deer at the head of turnigan bay when I was 12. we use to spend a week there every season. I grew up on clubfoot creek. Not a bad place for a youngster to enjoy the outdoors. my 3 boys can hardly believe when I tell them about the ducks that use to come every winter. I'm heading back down today for an afternoon hunt and to see one of the guys that i haven't seen in a few years. Later Don
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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Great goings on, Don, and proud on ya! That doe was bigger than she looked in the pic - that's a nice one.
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Don, it is a small world. My mom's family is from Oriental via Portsmouth Oiland. I also remember the millions of oysters up in those creeks, before Open Grounds drained the land and the sediment killed them all.
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Bernie
I've told Don its about time for us to get together again....what do you think?
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I'm ready anytime, John. Went and sat in the rain about three or four hours this AM (not something I normally do these days/years - LOL). It wasn't supposed to rain until noon. Didn't see a thing, other than a couple tree rats.
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Bernie, keep after em and you'll get one soon. Try to get you and john back for an afternoon soon. I got one stand that Ive seen the same two does on the last 4 times Ive sat in it. I named both of them Bernice. Went back to Lukens and Sat Friday afternoon from 2:30 till dark. 14 deer sighted in stand. All with in 20yds. two or three button bucks, one cowhorn, one 4pts and one really nice 6 pt, and a slew of does. The big one was haveing a time trying to chase out the smaller bucks and run at the does. I was well intertaind all afternoon. DB
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Sounds like whatever they are doing down there is working. I haven't seen that many deer in one sitting since 3 or 4 years ago on Camp Lejeune one evening. (Be real nice to Bernice One and Bernice Two - LOL)
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Looks like its coming together Bernie.....Don's even got deer with name tags for ya.
I'll be standing by with a sharp knife to do yer cleanin for ya.
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I love it - but I still say I'd be delighted just to see one once again - LOL They have four legs, don't they - and, I think I recall, a kind of wide, white tail???
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:thumbsup: