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2014 Hunting Megathread
- Thread starter dropride
- Start date
They are chasing now!!
Had 2 does come out 10 mins before last shooting time tonight. Probably only 10 yards and i shot high. Ended up hitting one right near the spine and it ran about 50 yards. Arrow was still stuck in it. Glad i had lighted nocks cause it only left a couple small drops of blood. Shes prob only around 70lbs but will be nice and tender.
45collector
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Good job. I'm going to be sighting the scoped Winchester 1200 in soon. 3 weeks away...
wizdoc2006
NES Member
Great shot , nice deer , congrats!Had 2 does come out 10 mins before last shooting time tonight. Probably only 10 yards and i shot high. Ended up hitting one right near the spine and it ran about 50 yards. Arrow was still stuck in it. Glad i had lighted nocks cause it only left a couple small drops of blood. Shes prob only around 70lbs but will be nice and tender.
kengog
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Awesome!
Around 9am - hear some commotion, then see a deer (a doe I think) booking it through the woods, maybe 100 yds off. Certainly not going to get a shot at that, but maybe there is a buck chasing it I can call in.... nope looks like a coyote chasing it... except, thats an awfully light coat for a coyote... Ah, a yellow lab chasing deer around, awesome. wtf.
dogdoctor
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We are seeing plenty of tracts in and around the swamps, but absolutely no movement all day, as well in RI (just across the border). Well that's not entirely true...there's a red squirrel that driving us batty.
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ive been getting a few does on my trail cam, but they're still outside of shooting time. Either 2-3 am or 7-9 pm. Sat out today from around 5:30 till noon and didnt see a thing. Think I may try 10-sunset next time.
Depends on where the shot is. If it was a gut shot i'd probably wait overnight. Usually i go out within an hour after to start tracking with a hit anywhere else. The doe i shot last sunday i heard crash hard in the leaves but still waited just in case.
The main hunting forum I read has a lot of folks that if there is even a remote chance it was not direct kill shot they will wait. Some overnight, some a good 6 hours.
Unfortunately most them do find the deer but either wolfs or yotes found it first and there is nothing left but the head. Some search for days and never find the animal.
bdb
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I absolutely hate leaving a deer overnight but will if it's needed. A gut shot I would leave but thankfully it's been a long time since I had to make that call. Pretty much anything else I will start the trail in about an hour and then make the call early on based on sign. Sometimes a little less if I heard it go down or was confident it was smoked hard but I still leave it for at least 30. The one exception to that is if they are down within sight, I tend to find myself standing over them within 10 mins, cautiously.
In the last 5 years I left one lie over night. Bad blood due to the arrow still in the deer and couldn't find it in the dark. Went in at first light with a buddy and he found it quickly, like before I even finished telling him where I thought it went, quickly. I walked by it about 5 times within 10 yards but couldn't see it in the blow downs and brush in the dark. It was 34 degrees that night. The meat just wasn't the quite the same. Still good and I ate it all but it was a little off compared to other deer. This is why I hate leaving them. I know a lot of people like to back out and come in the next AM, I have no issue with this. I just hate to do it myself. That said every situation requires judgement.
In the last 5 years I left one lie over night. Bad blood due to the arrow still in the deer and couldn't find it in the dark. Went in at first light with a buddy and he found it quickly, like before I even finished telling him where I thought it went, quickly. I walked by it about 5 times within 10 yards but couldn't see it in the blow downs and brush in the dark. It was 34 degrees that night. The meat just wasn't the quite the same. Still good and I ate it all but it was a little off compared to other deer. This is why I hate leaving them. I know a lot of people like to back out and come in the next AM, I have no issue with this. I just hate to do it myself. That said every situation requires judgement.
I hunted my property in ME last weekend and saw 5-6 deer over Friday and Saturday, all well within shooting range (gun season up there right now) but they were all does! No antlers to be seen. I'm planning to go up again on Saturday, maybe I'll get lucky and have some pictures to put up. I'm set up on a trail between a scrape and a rub, so I know there are some bucks out there. Next year I'm definitely going to be applying for the antlerless deer permit lottery.
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