5 pines farm 2012 semi live

[Follower]

I have really enjoyed this thread.  I have to admit at times I read it enviously as I would give a lot to be in you shoes Jim!  However - I admire the way you have shared your good fortune with friends and now good fortune comes your way.  Thanks for taking us along!  Great buck Jim!!!

[OBXarcher]

Congrats and thanks for letting us tag along

[Cookus]

Nice buck! Congratulations!

[Lefty]

Congratulations Jim!  I have been following your story all season and want to say thanks for sharing!  It has been a real pleasure reading along!

[BUCK-EYE]

 thanks for taking us along for the ride! congrats    

[Horne Shooter]

Great job, great shot, great writing.  Thanks so much for taking the time to share your adventure.
Keep up the thread, we love to hear about doe hunts too.

[Big Ed]

Great on all accounts, I really appreciate the time you took to log all of your outings. Congratulations on a fine animal, well deserved!!!

[Mike Gerardi]

Glad it happend for ya. Fantastic buck!! A well deserved  congratulations to you Jim.      

[coaster500]

Great work making your place home to deer like that!!!


Now go stick a doe  


 

[jcar315]

Congrats on a real bruiser!!

[GRINCH]

Jim excellant adventure,thanks and congrats.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Location is everything.!!!

I took Anubis out this am and we hiked up to the Andy Ivy stand. Cold morning. Stars were amazing. Anubis likes the warmth of the sun .
   
Other than a white flag high tailing it away from us when we walked down at 9 am we got skunked. We would have done better sitting in the house. Jayne was having coffee at 7 30 am and looking out the kitchen window counted 8 does in the turnips out back!

Then just 30 minutes ago she says "look out the window there is a big buck crossing the driveway!"! Sure enough a bruiser is casually walking down our  drive and drops in to the field by the mail box!!

Location, location location!!

The yurt's fire was a welcome sight too
   

[Hopewell Tom]

Good, you're back at it. Looks cool and crisp there.
Probably doesn't matter those deer in the yard, we give ours a protected area around the house. Not much of a hunt. Nice to know what's around, though.
Same deer in the woods, different story!
Love to see a flue with wood smoke coming out of it.

[coaster500]

[Yellow Dog]

Jim, beautiful buck               Thanks for taking us along.

[shadman]

Jim, thanks for taking us along on your hunts. This thread is my hunt for the year as I broke my ankle 5 weeks ago. I look forward to your posts every day. Great thread!

[maineac]

A huge congrats on a great buck.  Your patience and generosity has come round to reward you with a beautiful deer.  Looking forward to see what happens on the rest of your hunts.

[lt-m-grow]

Congrats on the buck and thanks for taking us along.  It is a big and fun effort!

[elkken]

Congrats of a very fine buck and thank you for all the efforts to share your semi live adventure ....    

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

We had a very pleasant day today with light winds out of the ESE  & temps in the high 40's.  I decided to hunt a spot that has only been hunted once all year. It requires a wind with an East component if you hunt it in the afternoon. This is the crisscross stand and it sits right on the logging road that comes out of the Buddha food plot going east. I was hoping to catch a doe heading west out of the bedding area across the fence on the property next door.  But just as I crested the hill and was entering the south side of the food plot, the group of does Jayne saw in the turnips this morning jumped up. For a second there were heads and tails and ears running in all directions. There were at least 6 deer spooking in three directions! Can't shoot them if you scare them all away. !! Those were the only deer I saw tonight.

Not sure where I will sit in the am . The Orange army gets to start round 2 in the am. Hopefully a good doe will give me a shot.