NC Whitetails 2016

[Phillip Fields]

Forgot to mention, I was hunting our property in Randolph County, NC.

[NANUK]

Nice Buck!  Congrats!!!

[Kopper1013]

Nice buck and Phillip on the doe

[Drewster]

That's a great start to the season Ethan....congrats indeed!

[Homey88]

Ethan congrats! That is a awesome deer!

[Cory Mattson]

Great buck Ethan - congratulations!!
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[huskyarcher]

These acorns are rough this year. Just ask Jim Dussias who is up here hunting with me for 4 days, really making things difficult. I hate them!

[adkarcher]

That is a great buck.  I spent the weekend on the baseball field with the boys, but have really lost interest in bowhunting down here in the south until the weather cools.  Hopefully not much longer....

[hensone]

I appreciate it fellas! One of my best days in the stand by far! The film is a little embarrassing because of the hyperventilating! But hey, that's what it's all about!

[Longbowwally]

Acorns are good - you just have to find the tree the deer like best…But what do I know, I've only been bowhunting about 40 years…lol

[J-dog]

Went sat evening, daughters first hunt. We were in a blind but nothing to see, squirrels is all.

[Longbowwally]

Went in a little early this afternoon - got in the woods about 3:30…Spooked one deer while climbing - it ran off snorting - and another one about a half hour later about 25 yards behind my tree - could have been the same doe I spooked while climbing coming back to 'find' me - not sure though.

Grunted a few times about 6:30 due to pure boredom and had 2 does come looking for the source of the grunting…One was a long nosed smart old girl - she was determined to find the source of the grunting and circled downwind and smelled me - spooking and snorting over and over…..lol…..Not sure what was going on but my scent trail must have been hanging low cause I don't usually have deer smell me like that….

I think I'm going to try a few morning hunts…These hot afternoons are not much fun for hunting…...

[BRITTMAN]

Originally posted by Roy from Pa:
I couldn't imagine hunting deer down south in that heat. Bet you guys gotta high tail them home to get them cooled down quick..

Very nice Buck great job!

[jwhitetail]

Wow!  Really nice buck - great work out there!

[huskyarcher]

How's everyone doing so far? Our crew has had a great season so far, I'm excited to see what else happens. This heat is miserable however, and I'll be glad to see it go. What about you guys?

[Rough Run]

I haven't been out a single time yet.  With commitments first, it will probably 2 more weeks before I can make my first trip.

[RC]

The Wife and I went to Charlotte to see the PBR/Bull riding last weekend. I loafed a bit during the day and road through PeeDee Gamelands. Beautiful place. Saw a deer at the info box. Any of you fella hunt there?RC

[deerhunter_w]

We need to bring this tread back to the top. Hows everyone's season going? I managed to tag a couple of does with my longbow. Has anyone seen any rut activity yet?

Jeff

[Jeff D. Holchin]

RC, wish I had known you were so close, I would have bought you lunch or something.  Haven't seen you in a few years.  That deer you saw doesn't know how lucky it was to survive its encounter with you!

About three weeks ago I was seeing lots of activity, but it had dwindled to almost nothing here in NC.  So I'm packing my truck and headed to whitetail heaven.....

[J. Cook]

RC - I tried hunting PeeDee 3 seasons ago.  I used aerial imaging and a few scouting days to get a feel for the area I planned to hunt.  On 3 consecutive sits I notice that I had climbed a tree that had been climbed multiple times before - all 3 different locations, and all significantly scarred by climbers in the past.  That was it for me - that's more pressure than I care to hunt around.