Michigan deer season

[Vesty]

Headed out this afternoon and will be hunting Thursday and Friday. Finally a cool down. That can only help.I'll soon find out.

[Pine]

All I'm seeing is a doe with two doe fawns and one button buck that is wandering around buy his self .
No scraps and no antlers on the camera either .

[Vesty]

Hunted 4PM until dark last night. Two does passed out of range at 5:45. Pulled trailcam card and there are definitely bucks in the area but moving just after dark. Come November!

[Cheezer]

Has anyone hunted the Chelsea state game area? Not far from my house and I'm wondering how pressured it is during archery season.

[Burly]

Still getting majority of pics way late after dark. It's a love/hate relationship with these cameras for me. I love seeing what's out there when I am not around. But , I don't go out as much as I use to because the deer are not moving in daylight. I am getting lazy I guess.

[Matty]

I'm headed to Michigan for my first time ever this coming weekend. Gonna spend a week. I'm very much looking forward to it. I wish you all well.

[wooddamon1]

Which part of Michigan, Matty? Will you be hunting?

[Overspined]

I've been seeing does consistently near Ionia. Last weekend 7 bucks in a group Alll sparring. They will be moving more in a couple days.

[Chain2]

Pretty dead here. If nothing happens tonight. I'm relocating. I can't seem to find them.

[Vesty]

Yesterday at 8:30 a nice 6pt. showed up on a game trail near my stand that is next to the creek that runs through my property. I was standing and ready. He had to clear a couple trees for my shot. When he did, I let the arrow fly. To my dismay, at the shot he ducked and swirled so fast it shocked me. I saw my arrow enter his neck. Away he went with the arrow still visible. My only hope was that it caught an artery. I got down. No blood anywhere. After searching three hours I found only two small drops of blood. I went well over a mile. My hope is it was a non fatal wound. Strangely, I never found my arrow.

[Trenton G.]

The bucks are finally starting to move up here. Had three bucks come through the other night and stand broadside at 12 yards. All were spikes. I would have thought it was the same deer over and over again if all three of them weren't there at the same time. Also got pictures of a basket rack 8 that was there at 7:45 pm. He just needs to come an hour earlier and I'll be in business.
Good luck to all you guys!

[Jon Stewart]

Knapping buddy called and told me about his 11 point that he shot two days ago.

It went like this.

 I was in my stand around 1100am having one more cigarette and a cup of coffee and decided to text my hunting buddy to tell him I am getting down from my stand when a 6 point came running by. I put my cigarette out, phone away and set my cup of coffee on the stand. The 6 point stopped and looked back. I grabbed my bow as the 11 point was trotting in, chasing the 6 point so I shot the 11 point with a 19 1/2"  inside spread.

The end.

So I figured I have doing this hunting thing all wrong except I don't want to start smoking an don't know how to text.  True story by the way

[mparks]

Two different bucks on trail cams chasing does.  Both in the wee hours.  I had high hopes with the cold front last night but came up empty.

[T Folts]

Had a 8 point in range Saturday morning. I didn't shoot it. I was hoping for one of the bigger ones I have on camera show up. (Hope I don't regret it.) lol. Had a spike and 5 point come by the started a little soaring match. brush my feather up against my coat and they high tailed it out of there.

[wooddamon1]

Jon, that's funny.

Spooked a doe at 10 yards walking into a set-up, that was it for the entire weekend. Tried 4 different areas, no luck. This coming weekend should be decent, usually my best dates.

[Chain2]

6 yesterday morning. Nothing I wanted to shoot. They were close though. Real close.

[Jon Stewart]

Damon, I shook my head as he told me the story but no-one deserves a monster buck anymore than he does. Fought cancer over the past year and last year he fell out of his ladder stand, broke his shoulder, cracked ribs,  blood coming out of his nose and ears and his hunting buddy thought he was dead when he walked up on him.

This has to be the absolute worst year for seeing deer I have ever experienced.  Our deer are still showing up from 900pm to 500am.

[Vesty]

Good news. In regard to my last post. My son hunted yesterday P.M. from his stand near mine. Around 6:30 he saw a nice 6pt. heading his way. It had a noticeable limp. He described it in detail and I'm sure it is the buck I hit two days ago. What I thought was a neck shot was likely a shoulder hit right at the neck juncture. The buck did not give him a shot but it lives and I'm grateful for that.

[wooddamon1]

Wow, Jon, I'd say he definitely deserved a nice one!

Vesty, that sounds almost exactly like a hit I made a few years ago except I had muscle blood for quite a ways before losing anything to go on. No arrow, blood stopped in a clearing and searching for 2 days never panned out. Only deer I've lost, I'm still bummed but hopefully he lived.

[abbatoys]

Had a nice 6 chasing a doe thru my backyard about 9 am this morning. I should just sit on my porch roof...