Going after whitetail again this year. Not using a commercial blind, just a good back cover and perhaps a little cover in front too. I would like to see some pics of ground harvested whitetails
Here is one I slipped up on last fall.
(http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp343/nyazel/IMG_0317_zps5c282e5e.jpg) (http://s426.photobucket.com/user/nyazel/media/IMG_0317_zps5c282e5e.jpg.html)
Antlerless season doe, my first with traditional bow
(http://i.imgur.com/y5OjZX7.jpg)
Sorry to be off topic, but where did you get that flannel meathead?!
I always have a hard time finding that camel color, and I find it too be the best "camo".
(http://i.imgur.com/u4Wu33q.jpg)
2013...7 yards on the ground. Didn't think I could draw until he turned and looked away and behind him at a 2nd buck he traveled with all summer.
(http://i.imgur.com/crJSolD.jpg)
2012 shot at 10 yards in a goldenrod field.
2011 was my first traditional harvest, it was the smallest legal spike ever, shot a 15 yards on the ground.
One from less than ten yards, wearing my ghillie
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/BiteMyButtski/DSCN0394.jpg) (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/BiteMyButtski/media/DSCN0394.jpg.html)
ChuckC
blood trail on that guy (175 VPA)
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/BiteMyButtski/DSCN0391.jpg) (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/BiteMyButtski/media/DSCN0391.jpg.html)
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/BiteMyButtski/DSCN0390.jpg) (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/BiteMyButtski/media/DSCN0390.jpg.html)
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/BiteMyButtski/DSCN0389.jpg) (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/BiteMyButtski/media/DSCN0389.jpg.html)
ChuckC
Nice buck ChuckC... Blind man could follow that trail....
Hey stingray
That is a woolrich wool shirt.
Made a rub facing me at 6 yds. I was hunkered down low. He turned to look at some does. . . I rose up on my knees fully drawn. Zap.
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m252/danrudman/best2007NDdeer.jpg) (http://s106.photobucket.com/user/danrudman/media/best2007NDdeer.jpg.html)
I shot this guy at 10 yards while still hunting a creek bottom behind the house. He was my first trad buck on the ground. (http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o629/wetfeathers1/129269780394206080_zps23127f79.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/wetfeathers1/media/129269780394206080_zps23127f79.jpg.html)
two years later I shot this buck at 20 yards still hunting in the same area. Some spots are just AWESOME!
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o629/wetfeathers1/IMG_4224_zps9ce11c65.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/wetfeathers1/media/IMG_4224_zps9ce11c65.jpg.html)
Very nice, keep them coming guys
:campfire:
I love hunting the ground. I'm sure you guys have probably seen most of my pics but I'm going nuts waiting for Oct.1 so here ya go.
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee391/rjwalton8/P1010348.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/rjwalton8/media/P1010348.jpg.html)
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee391/rjwalton8/20121229_105704.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/rjwalton8/media/20121229_105704.jpg.html)
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee391/rjwalton8/P1000157.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/rjwalton8/media/P1000157.jpg.html)
Just a few.
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f196/jjeffer/10-2.jpg) (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/jjeffer/media/10-2.jpg.html)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f196/jjeffer/94buck-1.jpg) (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/jjeffer/media/94buck-1.jpg.html)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f196/jjeffer/Doe09.jpg) (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/jjeffer/media/Doe09.jpg.html)
Ten yard shot never knew I was there.
(http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/jet26photos/100_1365.jpg)
(http://tradgang.com/tg/images7/mizzu2012herodoe1.jpg)
(http://tradgang.com/tg/images7/freakbuckpostfield3.jpg)
(http://tradgang.com/tg/images5/terry_deer.jpg)
(http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab246/yornoc/AA9.jpg) (http://s868.photobucket.com/user/yornoc/media/AA9.jpg.html)
(http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab246/yornoc/szdh.jpg) (http://s868.photobucket.com/user/yornoc/media/szdh.jpg.html)
My only ground harvested whitetail.....
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(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee111/sccross03/DSCF0019-1-1.jpg) (http://s228.photobucket.com/user/sccross03/media/DSCF0019-1-1.jpg.html) URL=http://s228.photobucket.com/user/sccross03/media/DSCF0023.jpg.html] (http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee111/sccross03/DSCF0023.jpg)[/URL]
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And here is one of the deer I am targeting this fall, not big enough last year, he is around 160 inch this year. I had him inside of 15 yards 6 times last year. This picture was from the last day I hunted last year
Great thread you guys are changing my way of thinking!!
You mean it isn't impossible to kill a nice deer from the ground, or at less than 50 yards ?
:biglaugh:
ChuckC
Sometimes I wish I lived in whitetail country!
Outstanding guys!!!
My first, my biggest, and my smallest :-)
(http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr180/two4hooking/100_1939_zps0e09df4e.jpg) (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/two4hooking/media/100_1939_zps0e09df4e.jpg.html)
(http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr180/two4hooking/deer10001.jpg) (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/two4hooking/media/deer10001.jpg.html)
(http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr180/two4hooking/carry_zps566bdd55.jpg) (http://s481.photobucket.com/user/two4hooking/media/carry_zps566bdd55.jpg.html)
I was sitting under a root ball of a big fallen tree and shot this one at 12 yards as he drifted by on a little hill by a small stream just in front of me and I was using my Little 56" Hoots recurve!
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu55/KEITH63/101_7400.jpg)
The Tall Tines made meat at 10 yards from a makeshift blind.
(http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu178/ryanderlago/P1030008_zps111b2351.jpg) (http://s645.photobucket.com/user/ryanderlago/media/P1030008_zps111b2351.jpg.html)
You guys rock I have yet to get one off the ground with a trad bow yet. This is as good a year as any!
Looking at all these pictures has me replaying all my close calls. My hunting buddy (Rob W.) and I usually hunt public land. I've had a lot of close calls, but he's closed the deal a few times. I'm having a feeling that this is my year?
(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/doegirl96/jennifer/ds008_zps2ab1f172.jpg) (http://s1205.photobucket.com/user/doegirl96/media/jennifer/ds008_zps2ab1f172.jpg.html)
The last one was some time ago. Took him just as soon as he won a brawl with another buck. Shot over the Doe's back and took him quartering too. 400 yards tracking job through the junk. I have never taken a shot like that since. I just got caught up in the moment.
Perry I would think that video taping for me would be just as rewarding. :goldtooth:
Sure thing Rob, I'm a little rusty. Show me how this season and I'll be ready next year :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Well, wind shifted about 30 minutes before end of day and that shift might have cost a buck from on the ground. Couldn't see it well enough at about 45 yards and coming, but lots of white tops to it. Instead of coming straight, he cut across behind and hit the scent stream. Dang it all.
Try try again
ChuckC
My avatar....or:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/Huntschool/Picture005.jpg)
This blind produced two deer for me a couple years ago:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v450/Fletcher610/Hunts%202011/P1080370.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Fletcher610/media/Hunts%202011/P1080370.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v450/Fletcher610/Hunts%202011/PB040367.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Fletcher610/media/Hunts%202011/PB040367.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v450/Fletcher610/Hunts%202011/doe4.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Fletcher610/media/Hunts%202011/doe4.jpg.html)
Ttt, I almost got it pulled of last year, was a rush. Gonna try again this year.
Could have done it Tuesday but had the wheel bow, but elected to pass since I was 2 miles from my truck
will have my new maddog longbow soon can't wait
My second trad kill and my only one from the ground. Was in a blind with my son Nathan. I missed the first doe at 25 yards... much to Nate's disappointment... which he expressed with an "aw Dad!" Luckily a second doe followed and while it wasn't the best placed arrow she didn't last long with a severed windpipe!
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h344/timsalters/2009RecurveDoe_zpsaef04121.jpg) (http://s1105.photobucket.com/user/timsalters/media/2009RecurveDoe_zpsaef04121.jpg.html)
Nice to take any animal with your boy there... that brings back young memories for me...
Good luck this year Tim, loved that buck you shot last fall!
Ill Play
Shot this one at 6 feet
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This one was about 12 Feet.
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Same deer
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I have posted this picture so many times people are probably tired of it.
8 point, my biggest buck to date, out of a natural material ground blind placed in a funnel in a tight, steep sided hollow.
7 yard shot with an osage selfbow I made, chundo arrow with Zwicky delta head, 100 yard recovery.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/hunting%20stuff/bigbucksideview.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ekrewson/media/hunting%20stuff/bigbucksideview.jpg.html)
Eric, I love that picture. Keep posting it! :goldtooth:
QuoteOriginally posted by Sockrsblur:
Nice to take any animal with your boy there... that brings back young memories for me...
Good luck this year Tim, loved that buck you shot last fall!
Thanks bud!
New Year's Eve, 2012. 7 yds . might be small....sure was tasty!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/bgeckle/Untitled_zps9c3a6372.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/bgeckle/media/Untitled_zps9c3a6372.jpg.html)
Gtear thread and great kills , bucks and does
Last year's...
(http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/peastes/IMG_0083_zpsab6a2ed0.jpg) (http://s886.photobucket.com/user/peastes/media/IMG_0083_zpsab6a2ed0.jpg.html)
A couple of years ago.. (http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/peastes/P1020841.jpg) (http://s886.photobucket.com/user/peastes/media/P1020841.jpg.html)
I have about quit climbing trees. It is so much more satisfying to chase them on their own turf.
Just killed a nice fat doe this evening, from the ground, natural hide, 6 paces.
Double lung pass thru, she ran about 80 yards and was down in less than 10 seconds, Heard her go down.
Pics later, I am tired.
I learned on the drag out. . I am getting old.
CHuckC
QuoteOriginally posted by ChuckC:
Just killed a nice fat doe this evening, from the ground, natural hide, 6 paces.
Double lung pass thru, she ran about 80 yards and was down in less than 10 seconds, Heard her go down.
Pics later, I am tired.
I learned on the drag out. . I am getting old.
CHuckC
:campfire:
Need pictures Chuck! :bigsmyl:
Pat did you break thAt 8pt streak you were on? Was it 3 years in a row of 8pts?
Having some issues getting the picture downloaded. The one on the camera turned out blurry. The one on the cell phone turned out nice, but I have no idea how to download from that.
I have hunted this area a bunch over the years. A public land spot, much of the property is seasonal marsh. I like the marsh, mainly cause nobody else seems to.
This spot is a meadow of probably ten acres, surrounded by wetter areas. The meadow is filled with nettles maybe 5-6 feet tall. The deer seem to love it.
At one corner, there is a funnel, where they tend to come out, cross over a dam ( drainage ditch runs the length of this and more property) and into the uplands, full of acorns and hickory trees.
I got in the stand early, about 4 oclock. The stand was essentially a nest in the tall grass, next to a small almost dead tree on my left. In front of me, maybe 6 feet or so, is a small tree that blew down several years ago, no leaves, but it tends to hold the grass that grows thru it upright. Front wall of my blind !
It is very thick, and trails change a bit each year, but this year, the main trail runs from north to south about 6 paces in front (west) of me, another trail, running thru a wet alley of sorts runs about ten yards behind me.
A few days ago, I had a buck walking this same trail, but cut across to the alley about 40 yards away, and the squirrely wind gave me away.
Last night, the wind held OK and at 25 minutes before the end of the day, here comes this doe and a large fawn. Doe in the lead.
I started to draw (Hill style bow I built, with heavy duty velcro rug) and she actually heard the rubbing of the wood arrow on the rug and stopped, earls like radars. Maybe 7 paces away.
She took a few more steps, stopped broadside and looked around. Going thru my mind. . . dang it, you're TOO close. Then she turned her head to look over the field and away from me.
I made the shot, high double lung and a pass thru of the arrow. She turned and ran about 80 yards, into the thick stuff, where I heard her fall and thrash a moment, That was it, no more than 6-7 seconds and she was done.
Trail was pretty easy, drag was not, coming out of the marsh in the dark.
ChuckC
This doe in 2008.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/reddogge/Archery/IMG_0589.jpg)
She was probably the biggest doe I've ever killed.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/reddogge/Archery/IMG_0600.jpg)
Here is your doe Chuck. Congrats!
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee391/rjwalton8/imagejpeg_9.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/rjwalton8/media/imagejpeg_9.jpg.html)
Congrats ChuckC on a fine looking doe! :thumbsup:
http://rs386.pbsrc.com/albums/oo306/bhaukom/BrucesBuckc.jpg~320x480
2013 19yds out of my Huntmore. Not sure if this is going to work experimenting with the phone.
Great job Chuck!
Bob.
here is a couple
(http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff383/bte1958/307c1f4f-d857-46ef-a496-51816f40136d_zps9745ca5e.jpg) (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/bte1958/media/307c1f4f-d857-46ef-a496-51816f40136d_zps9745ca5e.jpg.html)
(http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff383/bte1958/dee1892e-f265-44c6-a160-4bd72c267967_zps35fd6c2d.jpg) (http://s1233.photobucket.com/user/bte1958/media/dee1892e-f265-44c6-a160-4bd72c267967_zps35fd6c2d.jpg.html)
Here's my biggest buck to date. In 2012.
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b22/Stalker58/image-2_zps55a70f32.jpg) (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/Stalker58/media/image-2_zps55a70f32.jpg.html)
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b22/Stalker58/bf65b1bc-09af-46d2-ac2d-e0c6af5e7d8c_zps34ed4965.jpg) (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/Stalker58/media/bf65b1bc-09af-46d2-ac2d-e0c6af5e7d8c_zps34ed4965.jpg.html)
Nice job. .
I guess this post, like the original Pope and Young club, shows that it can be done, it isn't a fluke.
So the challenge to you is. . . try it, learn it. . do it !
Have a great hunt
ChuckC
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/zipperbows/P1010279.jpg) (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/zipperbows/media/P1010279.jpg.html)
Shot this one while still hunting.To be honest it was more the rut that got him into trouble than my stalking ability.
Ooooo Bill! What year? Very very nice!!!
QuoteOriginally posted by Sockrsblur:
Ooooo Bill! What year? Very very nice!!!
2009 The story is here on tradgang. I'll see if I can dig it up.
Sorry but I can not seem to figure out how to go back that far. I don't remember the title of the thread.
Congrats Chuck!
I remember that one Bill. That was a cool story.
That's a nice looking bow you built yourself there Bill nice buck also.
Ok, here are a couple of mine ...
(http://i.imgur.com/AEB99LQ.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/mt0Dom9.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/3tyyQSN.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ijWoGey.jpg)
The rut was a primary cause for the demise of this deer as well.
Bob.
QuoteOriginally posted by Eric Krewson:
I have posted this picture so many times people are probably tired of it.
8 point, my biggest buck to date, out of a natural material ground blind placed in a funnel in a tight, steep sided hollow.
7 yard shot with an osage selfbow I made, chundo arrow with Zwicky delta head, 100 yard recovery.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/hunting%20stuff/bigbucksideview.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ekrewson/media/hunting%20stuff/bigbucksideview.jpg.html)
Great photo! I sold my stands over 7 years ago, hunted on the ground 90% of the time anyway.
I've got my son's climber I am planning to use but this thread may change my mind. LOL
Eric, I see I'm not the only ground hunter from the deep south...dont see many ground hunters down here.
Its been a few years...but feel like Eric earlier.... I am almost too tired to post this anymore
But my greatest memory, my most treasured deer... Was this lil yearling on the ground, using a Torges tree seat... on public land at 5yds at the most... a perfect shot... It jumped to within 3 yds of me after impact... then it went and smelled, then licked the arrow sticking in the dirt.. then turned and walked off.. I had arrow no 2 on the string and Momma froze behind a tree while I was at half draw when it fell... 15 yds later!!! So my almost double... Just needed her to take one more step...
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/sgtslasher/0920082108.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/sgtslasher/media/0920082108.jpg.html)
No blind.. no Ghillie... Mossy oak spring turkey camo on the ground with just standing behind a oak... and the Good Lord shining on me that day!!!!