Muzzleloader/Archery?

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Is anyone heading out next week for the muzzleloader/archery opener? With all the kid's practices and games I don't know if I will make it out or not, but good luck to those who do.

I did manage to get a picture of this buck this morning with half his velvet shed. Not quite big enough for me this early in the season, but a nice looking deer.
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I won't be out, but dad's been watching a herd of various sized bucks behind his house, including a pair of real nice ten's he has gotten on trail cam. Of course, now that the velvet is off they don't look near as big, but still nice.

Dropped our son off at daycare this morning, her son's friend had a nice 8 point hanging that they arrowed on Missouri's opener yesterday. Gotta love a daycare where they're playing in the backyard and yelling and pointing for you to look at the deer hanging in the shed. :)
 
oh ill def. be out. prolly not till about mid october, maybe a couple times, i dont seem to get real excited till the mornings are staying pretty cold like the last couple days here have been
 
If I can shake this damn cold, I plan on setting up some stands this weekend, along with my feeder... It's almost time! :cheers:
 
Will go to a friends place with my kentucky long rifle.Hey Wildcat a couple of shots of black label at bedtime might help.:D
 
I hope to get in a little hunting during muzzleloading season. In a normal year the irrigated corn is still in the field and the big boys are very comfortable hanging out there. This year, who knows? I just know the antler mass I am seeing is less than last year.

Don't know what I will shoot this year. My usual is a percussion cap, peep sight, 50 caliber, but my son put two inclines in front of me and asked me to sight them in and give them a try if I want. One is a Thompson Center and the other a CVA. Decisions, decisions.

Here is a corn fed buck from a good number of years ago.

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Youth hunt

Taking the 12 yr old stepson deer hunting today if the weather breaks here in east KS. It's the youth early season and we got a 8 point on film begging to get shot by a kid. Then I will be bow hunting Jefferson county Kansas and the next month in Bison KS. Hope to post you some pic of one hanging later!
 
Bow! I'm headed out in seven hours, give or take...:D I'll post pictures of me eating deer sausage if everything goes as planned.;)
 
NUTHIN'!!! Don't know why that surprises me since I didn't get one last season, but I guess I was hoping this year would be easy...:eek: So much for the idea of tagging out on the first day and spending the rest of the year bird hunting...:rolleyes:
 
It is so quiet at the Ponderosa, like nothing I have ever seen. I am getting nothing on the trail cams. What a strange year. It is so dry. I am losing thousands of trees due to the drought. Usually the early season is tough because the irrigated corn is still in the field, well this year it is long gone. Usually there is lots of new green wheat for the deer to graze, but none planted yet this year due to drought. A crop scout took his ten year old son to a honey hole on the Arkansas River on the east side of Ford County and saw no deer. He told me where the deer are at; the irrigated alfalfa fields and the few soybean fields that have not reached maturity are loaded with deer. Since I have neither and I didn't plant my usual 40 acres of food plots because of lack of moisture, it looks like I will have to wait for rifle season.
 
I saw a nice 10 point this morning, good tine length, good width, one small kicker on the G4, but not much mass, probably mid-130ish". I am excited to start seeing more bucks running around once the leaves fall.

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A swing and a miss

Took the youngest who is 11 out for the youth rifle last sunday. He got to see a doe with 2 fawns and a couple of small bucks. He took a shot a small 8 pt but had a clean miss ( BUCK FEVER). He winded us and was real jumpy. Had a good time but now it is the ole mans's turn. Hope to get out in a week or so after we get finished up planting grass.
 
managed to get out on monday evening. saw 3 smaller bucks. could have put an arrow through all 3 of them had they been ALOT bigger.
 
Muzzleloader hunt 9/27

Went out about 5 this evening for my first outing with the muzzleloader this season. I picked a spot off the beaten path at some public hunting land that I frequent for bird hunting and have had some deer run ins in the past. I saw about 12 does and a nice bachelor group of 4 bucks led by a decent tall 8 pointer. The problem was I was set up about 200 yards from the action and they werent coming any closer. I attempted a low stalk for about 40 yards going from bush to bush trying to get to some cover on the edge of the small patch of milo the deer were using. I finally make it to the edge and squat down behind the small elm shrub. As I'm reaching into my camo man purse for the binos all hell breaks loose!!! Two roosters and a covey of quail are launching from from what seems like under my knees..... I nearly shat myself! I could actually feel the thrust from the wingbeats on my face.... Needless to say the deer spooked and the hunt was over, but what an evening, and what a great memory!
 
nrhpilot said:
Went out about 5 this evening for my first outing with the muzzleloader this season. I picked a spot off the beaten path at some public hunting land that I frequent for bird hunting and have had some deer run ins in the past. I saw about 12 does and a nice bachelor group of 4 bucks led by a decent tall 8 pointer. The problem was I was set up about 200 yards from the action and they werent coming any closer. I attempted a low stalk for about 40 yards going from bush to bush trying to get to some cover on the edge of the small patch of milo the deer were using. I finally make it to the edge and squat down behind the small elm shrub. As I'm reaching into my camo man purse for the binos all hell breaks loose!!! Two roosters and a covey of quail are launching from from what seems like under my knees..... I nearly shat myself! I could actually feel the thrust from the wingbeats on my face.... Needless to say the deer spooked and the hunt was over, but what an evening, and what a great memory!
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That sounds like an awesome experience! great story, good luck on the rest of your bow hunts
 
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