***Sat October 1st, Official Live Hunt thread***

Ill be hunting in denton county and will have good cell phone reception. I figure anyone else that had good reception during the slow time could post here on how there hunt is going.

I dont know if I will be able to with all of the deer that Im gonna have around me!!! But I will certainly try!

I thought this might be a fun thread. ^^^^ Happy birthday!

Will be posting status from Lampassas Co.. Good luck to all the hunters.

What the heck, I've got great cell signal at the lease. I'll post up here live from Howard County in the morning.

Happy b-day FoxTrot!

I'll try, live from Northwest Oklahoma on the Kansas border.

Heck ya! I'll post every time I see a b&c squirrel!

Just got up in the stand. Sitting in the corner of a bottom field. Air is crisp 48 degrees. The sky is just starting to change color. Arrow knocked and ready to rock!

Keep is posted. BTW, there aren't any deer in Howard County....according to tje locals.

I here some deer walkin in the woods. Also sounds like the turkeys are rooster about 80 yards away.

i had a four legged creature under feeder when i came in but it was just a coon... beautiful mornin in brownwood...

I'm in hunt county right now. Still waiting for the big buck to show up!

Turks came in. Lots of deer movement suprisingly

Good luck to all!

I just had something crazy happen. I had 2 does under me eating. They look over their shoulder and then run off so I am thinking here he comes! I look over and there is a cougar walking across the field! I have been hunting this land for 4 years now and never even saw sign of a cougar! Kind of scary!

I am definitely taking the long way back to the golf cart to avoid that area

kinda cool i would love to see a lion from my stand but it would make u think during that walk to and from stand in dark...

I've got a doe and fawn at 20. They are grubbing on some Indian corn!

Been a perfect morning. I don't think the deer got that memo. Haven't seen squat

had a deer move thru . feeder hasnt went off yet. think its set for later in year. i believe it goes off at 9:15.. i will be changin that...

A doe feeding off in the distance. She is all alone I am going to take her if she comes close enough.

I've got 6 Doe eating.

New lease and a new spot...Have not seen any deer yet. Seen a big coyote at 10 yards at first light..No good shot on him to take...beautiful day though..now if the crows would leave me alone

Been in the stand since about an hour before light. Had the 11 and 10 point that I posted pics of a week ago skirt the brush to my north and something spooked them. They headed South flaggin. Haven't seen anything since then and that was about an hour ago. O yea, and my feeder didn't kick... Figures.

Had a doe and fawn come in at day break. Had a small 4 point come in about 15 min ago. Lots of squirrels running around today.

She left the other way. Not the opening morning I was expecting. Stupid mountain lion scaring my deer away.

On the bright side, at least I saw some deer this morning and remembered all my stuff. DoubleDrop14 is about 800 yards to my south and hasn't seen anything but dove, plus he forgot his copenhagen in the truck. He's been texting me for the past 45 minutes to come pick him up. I bet he's a maaaAad little man.

Opening morning..... And a lot of coons

thats poor planning

Should have put it on the list!!!

Pop those coons!!!

Quick.... kill it before it gets away

had a ton of squirrels in the tree with me. did the doe bleat call a couple times. 5 minutes later a doe starts blowing an scares the crap out of me.

Well we just had lunch. Gonna drink a few cold cervezas and head back out in the afternoon. Neighbor shot a doe but we couldnt find it. He literally had 3 little bitty hairs on his rage and we are fairly certain he just nicked it. Turns out he shot his bow a couple minutes ago and it was all the sudden shooting 10 inches low! Looking foward to this evening. This is the best deer movement we have seen on opening day in the last 5 years. Probably gonna take a doe tonight if the shot presents it self.

Same for me. Thismorning was slow for us but just from the cabin yesterday evening we saw over 10 deer so I'm thinking (hoping) the night hunt is going to be better.

Yeah sat there for 3 1/2 hrs and seen nothing but one coon. Went walking and seen 5. Went to town to watch football and drink some beer. No other bowhunters with me. I like evening hunting better so we will see. Need some meat and then worry about horns later. But if horns come i wont be complaining.

Saw 6 doe and a coyote. Lots of movement after 9am.

Just got back up in the stand. Turkeys were already here.

Nothing like getting in ur hanging stand from last year and realize the trees grew quite a bit from the last time. Guess i shld have checked over the summer. Too hot to sit in pop up.

Had to work this morning. Got in the stand around 3 had 2 doe come up bout 40 yrds behind me in some thick stuff just caught their heads. This isy first year to bow hunt hope it all works out for me lol. I in Cherokee county in the mixon area.

Couple pics of the deer and Turks from this morning. That corn is at 20 yards. Sorry for crappy cellphone pics.

I'm back in my popup. Dang it's hott. Just got settled in. Feeder should kick in an hour or so. Figured out y it didn't kick this morning...the dude were having keep the feeders full accidently put the pull tab/string in there and when I went to investigate it was all wound around the spinner plate and motor shaft. I was pissed off, called n chewed his butt for a while, but its all good now.

figured out why my feeder didnt fire this mornin. dang battery, got 3 feeders with bucks on camera in last few days and here by myself so i switched feeders. not too hot in tripod in brown county...

In my pop up in east Runnells county. Got quail all around waiting for a snack.

About to fry in a popup in coleman

im maybe 20 miles from coleman and im glad im not in a pop up cuz its really quite nice in shade with the breeze..

DoubleDrop14 set up his GhostBlind in a different location on the ranch for this evening. He's kinda under shade, but he keeps textin me sayin he's bout to die in this heat. Guess he shouldn't have had them beers at lunch. - Howard County

Tell him to turn the blind around he probably has it backwards...

Hope he comes back for an evening snack. He stood about 70 yards from me this morning and stared at the feeder like "ummmm, its not gonna give me corn today?" The he got pissed and left with his runnin buddy, who I believe is the buck behind him in this pic. He'd b a heck of a first bow buck.

been bowhuntin for years and havent killed on that big before. good chance to change that this week tho.. lotta time left..

Sitting here in freestone county frying. Nothing to speak of yet. Just an empty feeder with the occosional squirrel.

Wind is doin some strange things this afternoon

Just had a halfway decent 8 under me. He was about the size of the one I shot last year. Hard for me to pass him up when I have not seen anything else lol.

Fur down??anyone??

sure not many reports of big ol deaduns..

Just had a big cull 6, a cull we call "retard", and a young 10 stroll by just outa range.

My boy just shot the deer the neighbor shot this morning. He said she wasn't looking good. All he had was a quartering to shot. Says he's not a hundred percent confident but he had no choice.

I just missed that 11...

Dead deer

I say that, but I dunno. I have no idea what sound I'm lookin for on a flesh hit. Might not have even been him. He seemed wider and had white horns. He was at least a 10. I freaaakin out man.

This deer got shot by the neighbor this morning. Cane into my bros stand and he took it to put it out of it's misery. She had about a 7 inch gash in her spine. As seen in the pic

No blood, no arrow...coming back in the morning to look. We had 4 ppl looking for the arrow.

I bet that back gash deer would have been fine

Maybe but Maybe not... it was limping and the pic really doesnt do it justice at all. The first shot this morning basically took the top half of its spine off. I thought we did the right thing and the hunter from this morning got some closure. It was def a great opening day.

Cleercreek......was that an axe of a rage blade through that deer?

I would have shot it to

Rage was the shot this morning... two blade just cut the heck out of her. Picture really doesnt do her wound justice. How she didnt drop after the first shot im clueless.

We shoot these cheep carbon express expandable broadheads... 15 bucks for 3 and we havnt lost a deer yet including the one tonight that was quartering to.

Rage sucks

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Torrid-100GR-Broadhead/15166668


I know this sounds crazy but we have been using these for 3 years now out of our high dollar bows.... I will never shoot any other broad head again.

So to clarify, did u use the Torrid blade or rage on this doe??

Sorry let me clarify. We didnt shoot this deer this morning. The neighbor shot it with a 2 blade rage and hit the deer high. We then shot it this evening with the torid and smoked it. (and obvoisly much better shot placement)


The rage did the spine damage.

THe torid is what finished it off this evening

Well I was using NAP RazorBloods and it was a frickin 25 yard shot. I hope I find the arrow in the morning and I hope it was a clean miss. On the other hand, if I hit this beast where the pin was, Imma be hella happy. I have pics of him on camera prior to the shot and he's over 140.

1asnt the 11 we had on camera btw. Thanks god cuz he was only 3.5. We believe it wad a 6x6 on cam last year nic-bamed bam. I just pray I didn't wound this dear.

Glad to see you finished it off cleercreek. You did the right thing.

Hopefully the cool morning as the big ones out and about!

In my stand waiting for the sun to come up. I am going to take a doe today if the shot presents itself. Goodluck to everybody!

I'm cold...... This is a feeling I havnt had in a while. I'm gonna take a spike if the one I saw lastnight comes back in. Turkeys are literally on the roost in the tree next to me. I will be taking cover when they fly down for sure

Listening to the yotes myself... saw a mature 125 8 last night..saving him for the wife

Little 6.

IMO, ya'll did the right thing. Clearly the deer was hurt and in pain, and you are deer hunting.

Cool this morning! Too many birds chirping and pouncing around! Good luck to you guys!

Just had 2 big does come in behind me and wind me

Why does it get colder when the sun rises. Riddle me that

I don't know but sure glad I remembered my jacket...yesterday was rough for about 15 min..

thats texas is october, goes from frying in afternoon blind to dang im glad i brought my jacket in morning..

If you draw back on one, dont aim low!

glad i got all week. i would be dissapointed if i was gonna have to pack up later without seeing a deer..

Very strange opening weekend for me. Couldn't even get a shot on a doe. Alot different than last year.

Jumped 4 doe getting out of the stand. Doh!

Whos hunting this evening?

I'll be on patrol tonight

Anyone making a mid-day hunt?

im here till thursday but i aint hunting miday. its all i can do to stay out for 3 hours twice a day and not see anything. new stand and feeder tonite so new hope.. its the only feeder camera with pics during season..

Just got up in stand. I'm sitting where a friend saw a good mature shooter buck yesterday. Keeping ny fingers crossed

in stand now. little warmer. not as much shade in this stand.

Definitely warmer. I have one bee surrounding my head. Here is what I'm looking at right now.

In the stand in montalba. Jumped 2 deer and 3 herd of hogs coming in tuis morning. Unfortunate late start. No response from rattling attempts thus far, thought I heard a snort wheeze in a thicket to my 6 o clock a while ago but nothing has materialized. Lots of squirrels and birds in the pine needles making noise so it's hard to localize sounds. Looking for one of the bigger 8's or a doe to come in...will settle for a few hogs as well. Took a large sow at 48 yards after a long dramatic open field stalk last night. Complete pass through and dead in 50-60 yards. The bowtech, kill light, and goldtip arrow/ Magnus stinger buzzcut combo prove themselves worthy again...may try to post a pic later if possible. Anyone else out there?

few people on monday morning live thread...

Great Saturday morning for me had a big doe at 16 yds, full draw for the first time, and there was another doe way behind her that caught my movement and a second too soon they scattered. I guess its all part of the learning process. Ended up seeing 30 deer by 11 just driving around...