Author Topic: My 2014 WI hunting trip in pictures (Read 8518 times)

wooddamon1 · « **Reply #40 on:** February 17, 2015, 04:29:00 AM »

Good looking place there with some nice deer!

Guru · « **Reply #41 on:** February 17, 2015, 05:30:00 AM »

IndianaBowman · « **Reply #42 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:31:00 AM »

Very nice Charlie! Looking forward to the rest of the story.

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #43 on:** February 17, 2015, 05:40:00 PM »

So the next Morning arises and its bitter cold from what we are used to.

Dad and My Brother sleep in, It could be possible they celebrated too hard, or maybe burn out was setting in or s sense of responsibility to clean was in order. Who knows but they stayed in bed, I went out.

Prior to 10:00 Nothing really happens. I see several small distant bucks and coyotes, nothing was interested in my calling.

Today, we are to get a visit from LITTLEBIGMAN. I have spoken with Jim on many occasions and was looking forward to chewing the fat with him. I knew he would be out around noon and I was contemplating getting out since it was slow.

Then something caught my attention.

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #44 on:** February 17, 2015, 05:42:00 PM »

Out in Front of Me is a corn field. Most of the distant coyotes and smaller bucks were traveling back and forth in the CRP cuts between the corn.

Here is my View,

Wannabe1 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 17, 2015, 05:47:00 PM »

Sitting here with my

and enjoying this thread. Thanks again Charlie for sharing.

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #46 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:15:00 PM »

My trance of thought broken by the tremendous crashing happening approximately 100 yards in front of me, I quickly adjusted my attention.

A doe appears and sprints in my Direction.

As she neared the edge of the field by the wood lot she stopped and looked around.

This is where it gets interesting.

drewsbow · « **Reply #47 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:19:00 PM »

nice pics Charlie

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #48 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:33:00 PM »

This doe runs in every direction 10 or 15 yards before she runs back the way she came. Only when she ran back, She ran on the down wind side of the CRP strip that she came toward me on. When she reached 3/4 of the way where she came from, she turned and went back into the corn to the left the way she came.

It happened so Quick and erratic, I never analyzed it until after what happened next....

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #49 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:39:00 PM »

Enter Stage Left Buck. All in his glory Big Beautiful and Majestic. I heard him well before he entered the CRP strip and when he exited the corn he stopped and looked in my direction. He had a Corn stalk in his rack and I knew exactly what was happening. He was looking for the Hot Doe who just was in front of me.

This Buck starts to sprint toward me with his head held high. On a full tilt run toward me he is looking form side to side for his hot Doe.

He gets to where the doe stopped before she started leaving a confusing scent trail for him.

I grunt and he looks. Then runs Back in forth in pacing the fence following her movements. I grunt again and he looks...

This time he reacts and Jumps into the woods with me. He seemed both agitated and desperate at the same time.

He paces in side the woods back and forth and looks hard for his Foe and his Doe. He is at 22 yards and even with the down log in this photo which I am putting back up.

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #50 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:45:00 PM »

After pacing back and forth a few times he had enough and jumps back into the field. I grunt at him again and the hair on his back stands up and he jumps back into the woods with me.

Again he paces for 20 yards give or take this time a bit closer. He is this time on the closer side of the down log but he is moving back and forth. Its well within my wheel house but he is constantly moving.

Eventually he has enough and jumps back into the field. He stands just on the other side of the fence and I could tell he was scent checking.

This time my grunts go ignored and he sprints back down the path the doe took. She must have fooled him because he exits into the corn left toward a known bedding area.

All this took place in a matter of minutes and has etched a memory like the commandments in stone.

This is a picture of him from earlier in the year. he is standing on the left of this picture.

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #51 on:** February 17, 2015, 06:48:00 PM »

The above picture was taken 100 yards from where my stand hung.

If he stood still I could make this shot but he wouldn't stop moving. If I had been more experienced or not shaking like a school boy about to ask his first girl out, maybe I could think better. Perhaps, I could have pulled it off???

Either way that was AWESOME...

More to come.

Bobtulowiecki · « **Reply #52 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:14:00 PM »

Charlie- great story! Having a couple beers reading this and it is getting me through the winter lockdown tonight. Thank you!

glenbo · « **Reply #53 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:28:00 PM »

What a great week Charlie. Thanks for the time and effort putting this up. Nice job.

kennym · « **Reply #54 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:40:00 PM »

When deer like that quit shakin you...........

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #55 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:41:00 PM »

After sitting back down and trying to regain composure after such an experience a Major Crash Came from the corn to my right.

Not 15 minutes has past since the departure of the majestic Buck.

I look up to see another great Buck crash out of the corn and sniff around where the do had been. I immediately grab my bow and the buck decided to jump into the woods headed my way. He didn't follow a trail and crashed through the brush over the fence creating his own trail.

He meandered back and forth about 30 yards out and worked his way closer to me.

Slowly i reposition my feet and ready for the shot that was about to present. He is off to my right and i am right handed. Out of the corner of my eye I watch... He stops broadside at 20 yards and assesses the situation.

Nothing I could do at this point but wait.

He is dangerously close to being down wind of me but as he starts walking again it appears his direction of travel will put him at 5-8 yards in front of me.

I am all set, The shot Mantra is playing in my head.... Pick a spot.. bend at the waist... Pick a spot.... Bend at the waist. I cant believe it.. this is gonna happen...

at 10 yards off to my right he veers to his left and catches a whiff..... stops and looks around...

Like all big bucks I have encountered he just turns and walks away with purpose but doesn't call attention to himself. No grunting I could do will turn him around. I had him at 10 yards. Darn it all.....

If I had been more experienced, I feel like I could have turned when I first saw him. I know I could have made a shot at him on several occasions up to that point but when you are in the moment, It seems as if for me anyways, I am so scared I will mess it up, that I tend to not try and get away with things.

Here is a picture of him..

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #56 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:43:00 PM »

2 Beautiful Bucks within bow range within 15 minutes of each other. Unreal....

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #57 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:45:00 PM »

I sat and regained composure.

After another 30 minutes this guy walked out of the corn and stopped 15 yards from me.

I was ready to shoot but he stopped in the same spot as the previous buck and retreaded in the same direction in a hasty walk.

This is what he looked like as he walked away.

Probably one of the most memorable sits on stand ever for me.

ron w · « **Reply #58 on:** February 17, 2015, 07:59:00 PM »

Just like around here, right Charlie.....

DB HAWTHORNE · « **Reply #59 on:** February 17, 2015, 08:06:00 PM »

Looks like a great trip.


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