Here's a story for you.........

[slayer1]

Originally posted by slayer1:
[QB] There was one other thing I forgot to mention, Did I nmention it alreay?  :confused:   I started and stopped this story so many times. From the first Monday that I put out corn until Wednesday(two days later), 17 buck rubs were made on trees around the corn pile. This is what had me all screwed up in the head....  

[slayer1]

I got deer to clean.... More in the morning...

[kawika b]

oooohhhhhhhhhhhh,,,dat's so not nice        ing for the rest of the story!!!

[ishiwannabe]

Wrong on so many levels......LOL. Congrats!

[mmgrode]

.....oh man!!!  I'm gonna get an ulcer;)  Congrats on getting something! Now out with it!!  

[slayer1]

Ok, here we go again. Going to finish it this time. I wish it had a better ending... Over the next 2 hours (after the first nine deer came in) I watched 6 more deer come in all with the same result. The last 6 were all bucks. (This explains all the rubs).

[slayer1]

Each time a deer came in they got bigger and bigger. The last one was at least an 120" 8 point. The good thing is that none of them blew out they just turned around and walked out. I dont think I spooked them enough to do any harm.

[Shawn Leonard]

Why could you not of just switched trees, one that was downwind of where they were coming from? Shawn

[slayer1]

The reason I wanted to post this story is because I wanted folks to learn from the mistakes I made. I will list them in order of what I think is important:

1. NEVER NEVER NEVER hunt on a bad wind. This will always get you busted, especially by a mature doe or buck. (This is the number one rule for bow-hunting, I cant believe I was that stupid!)

2. Always pick a tree that will give you cover and that will put you high enough to take you out of the line of site from the ground. In my opinion there is a fine line here. You don't want to get so high that it gives you a bad shot angle but at the same time you want to get high enough that you are not easily spotted from the ground.

3. Don't let the sign get the best of you. In this particular case, I was so excited about all the rubs that I saw that I completely lost my head. I should have thought this through more thoroughly. I should have had a better plan going into this hunt. (See number one and two above)

I probably made more than 3 mistakes but these are the major ones......

I went back in on Saturday and hung a lock on stand in a proper tree at the proper elevation I also set it up so I could only hunt it on a north or west wind. I made sure that I had a entry and exit so as not to disturb the bedding area. I guarantee that I will have a chapter 2 to this story, hopefully it will end with a picture of me with a 120" 8 point    ......

[robslifts]

so you are cleaning a deer but I have not heard anything about ones coming up to the bait or anything!!!

[slayer1]

Shawn, the thought went through my mind many times. Everytime I started to get down, another deer was coming out. It was almost constant action. I was happy to see them all but I just screwed everything up from the beginning. Since I had a few days to think about it, I am kind of glad it happend. I learned a lot in the course of about 3 hours.  

[adkmountainken]

try hunting ridges in the Adirondacks where the wind changes  A LOT! impossible to never hunt with a bad wind. did you kill one???????

[slayer1]

Rob, I will post the hunt from Thursday night in another thread.It had a much better ending.     I started this story earlier in the week and just didnt get a chance to finish it before my next hunt.