Second traditional season success
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Second traditional season success
It’s been a bit since I’ve posted due to the after season catch up around the house with life, kids, work, etc. this past fall was my second season hunting with trad gear. Last season I managed to kill a nice buck and a public land doe on the ground, but last season was full of ups and down. I went into the season ready to rock shooting everyday! I ended up having a lot of good encounters and possibly one of my best seasons
First kill of the year was a public land mountain doe in PA. Scouted the first two days up at camp and located the few dropping oaks, saw a decent buck scouting, setup and had this nice mountain nanny come to 8 yards, Lung liver hit and watched her fall, gave her a bit and she was still breathing but couldn’t get up so I finished her
Continued to hunt in my home state of Ohio on some small permission spots , lost a doe I hit low in October… but kept grinding, on the first day of rut cation I had a big ol doe come in to 8-9 yards and no buck around I shot, hit looked perfect but little blood, backed out and found her in the morning in her bed 100 yards away
Back to buck hunting, I bounced around and had encounters with 4 good bucks in 4 days chasing and cruising but no shots, two days before the rut cation was over had this guy cruising a creek bottom, grunted this dandy 10 pointer in to 17 yards or so, he was on alert looking and I took the shot, he turned towards me as I released and sent the arrow down the neck to his heart, not how I wanted the shot to go but he fell over in 40 yards, I was in disbelief….. as a compound hunter for 18 years I always though traditional gear was impossible, but you put the work in and know deer, it can be done
First kill of the year was a public land mountain doe in PA. Scouted the first two days up at camp and located the few dropping oaks, saw a decent buck scouting, setup and had this nice mountain nanny come to 8 yards, Lung liver hit and watched her fall, gave her a bit and she was still breathing but couldn’t get up so I finished her
Continued to hunt in my home state of Ohio on some small permission spots , lost a doe I hit low in October… but kept grinding, on the first day of rut cation I had a big ol doe come in to 8-9 yards and no buck around I shot, hit looked perfect but little blood, backed out and found her in the morning in her bed 100 yards away
Back to buck hunting, I bounced around and had encounters with 4 good bucks in 4 days chasing and cruising but no shots, two days before the rut cation was over had this guy cruising a creek bottom, grunted this dandy 10 pointer in to 17 yards or so, he was on alert looking and I took the shot, he turned towards me as I released and sent the arrow down the neck to his heart, not how I wanted the shot to go but he fell over in 40 yards, I was in disbelief….. as a compound hunter for 18 years I always though traditional gear was impossible, but you put the work in and know deer, it can be done
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Very nice. Congrats on a great season. Tough to beat hunting with trad gear.
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Congrats on a great season!!!!
Great pics
Great pics
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Well done young man! Trad bows are fun....and they are efficient weapons in the whitetail woods. Way to go!
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Very nice! Good work!
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Congrats on a great year
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What an amazing season!! Congrats!
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Hats off to you bigredneck. Congrats on some fine animals and hunting.
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Look like you had a good season! Will not be long an it will be that time again.
I'm reason they call it hunting and not shooting.
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That is awesome! Some full freezers that's for sure.
That buck is sweet!
That buck is sweet!
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Way to get after it! Congrats on an awesome season
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Thanks fellas, it’ll be here before we know it again
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As someone who recently switched myself I wanna say congratulations! Heck of a season
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bigredneck61088 wrote:It’s been a bit since I’ve posted due to the after season catch up around the house with life, kids, work, etc. this past fall was my second season hunting with trad gear. Last season I managed to kill a nice buck and a public land doe on the ground, but last season was full of ups and down. I went into the season ready to rock shooting everyday! I ended up having a lot of good encounters and possibly one of my best seasons
First kill of the year was a public land mountain doe in PA. Scouted the first two days up at camp and located the few dropping oaks, saw a decent buck scouting, setup and had this nice mountain nanny come to 8 yards, Lung liver hit and watched her fall, gave her a bit and she was still breathing but couldn’t get up so I finished her
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Continued to hunt in my home state of Ohio on some small permission spots , lost a doe I hit low in October… but kept grinding, on the first day of rut cation I had a big ol doe come in to 8-9 yards and no buck around I shot, hit looked perfect but little blood, backed out and found her in the morning in her bed 100 yards away
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Back to buck hunting, I bounced around and had encounters with 4 good bucks in 4 days chasing and cruising but no shots, two days before the rut cation was over had this guy cruising a creek bottom, grunted this dandy 10 pointer in to 17 yards or so, he was on alert looking and I took the shot, he turned towards me as I released and sent the arrow down the neck to his heart, not how I wanted the shot to go but he fell over in 40 yards, I was in disbelief….. as a compound hunter for 18 years I always though traditional gear was impossible, but you put the work in and know deer, it can be done
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Congratulations, this will be my first year where I spend a good amount of time trad hunting, seems like a very rewarding experience.
Nothing beats some tree therapy. Deer sightings or not
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