Recent content by SE_Hunter

Anyone doing a all day sit with the cold? Forecast looks better for tomorrow...going to give it go.

What helps me is to stop shooting at circle targets. Once I get my bow sighted in I just focus on a 3-D target and hitting a kill shot. I used to put those small orange dots on the circle targets and it just about drove me crazy. Once I get a good grouping, I just focus on life size targets...

I would definitely back out. Lesson learned the hard way. But there are exceptions. Other things to consider.... How many coyotes are in your area? How big is the property you hunt..Would he wonder off to another property? Have you found any blood, hair, guts at all? Color of blood? What is...

After ready some of your posts it got me to thinking. I know there a ton of does on my property but this time of year I tend to only see bucks and the does seem to disappear. I hunt doe bedding areas when the seeking and chase phase begins I rarely see does. Only Bucks. Then in late...

BearArchery-- Glad to hear to spotted him. I shot a buck last weekend as well. And you gave me some good advice to think about. I felt bad all week..but with the research I did and the input on forum members I think he may have made it. As we did all that we could to try and find/recover...

huntyak -- Went back and checked my arrow again, there was some white and brown hair on it. Must have been a brisket hit which caused the blood loss. Man, I can't believe how much blood he lost. The way he kicked, bolted and had pools of blood I was sure he would be down for the count...

Thanks for the ideas. When I shot the deer it did a little kick and took off running. Found pools of blood and thought it would be an easy track. I could see where it stopped and the blood was pooled. We didn't go further ahead than the 200 yards, just did a circle search. When I found that...

Last night I shot a nice buck at about 5:00. It was a complete pass through. I picked up my arrow and saw some blood but it looked clean. The hair on it was brown. I waited for an hour and started tracking it. Went about thirty yards and saw it was bleeding bright red blood. The blood left marks...

I hear you on the willows. They are so thick it is impossible to walk through them. I was talking to another hunter and he mentioned that river bottoms were great places to hunt the first day of gun season. All of the deer tend to run to the thickest cover around. I hunt both gun, bow and I...

I also am curious on how to hunt these. I see have seen deer enter them but the cover is so thick its hard to move without bumping deer. I usually set up on a ridge that runs west to east. The ridge is a north facing slope so when there is a south wind I have seen bucks scent checking the ridge...