Hog VT bear

This is a pic of a bear my brother saw while bow hunting VT on Oct 3rd. It wouldn't come any closer than 45 yds and never presented a shot. He figures 350-400lbs. That rock behind it is close to 6 ft long and 2 1/2 ft high! He also saw another bear that night that was about 150 lbs, but no shot. A cow and rutting bull moose came in also. No deer though.

First Blood of 2010

My 17 year old son Ryan headed to NH on Saturday Oct. 2 and climbed into the stand about 1:15 PM. The stand sits back about 75 yards from an area that was clear cut about 2 years ago. The stand is located in a hemlock and there are a number of oaks around the tree. The acorns are limited in NH this year but this area still has some. About 6:35 PM a button appeared and shortly after a doe walked into the opening and stopped. She was broadside and reached for an acorn as the 100 grain thunderhead pierced her lungs and stuck in the ground. She ran about 200 yards and dropped dead in the clear cut. It was only the 16th deer checked at Trader Johns and the season opened Sept. 15. The doe weighed an even 100 lbs empty. I still have not seen a deer and I have at least 40 hours in tree stands.

Almost here!

Only a couple weeks left! I got out today and set up one new stand, and checked all my cameras. I have a total of four buck pictures, but one is such a blurry pic that its hard to tell what the buck is. I have another blurry pic that I posted below, and although its not clear, you can see the buck is pretty decent. The most active camera was a camera on a big oak ridge. The camera had 33 pics in 10 days. 4 of the pics were bucks. Three were the spike below and one was of the decent 8 pointer below. I do have one stand near the camera, but I think I am going to get another close by, so that I can hunt it early and maybe get a crack at one of the does I have pics of. 

Going to be a great year....

This weather the last couple days has been great. I only wish the season was here and I was sitting in a stand.Last night I spent a couple of hours with BK dialing in my bow. Today I went out and checked my trail cameras. I got several pics of both bucks and does. The best is a 8 pt buck with a very wide rack. I sure hope I get a crack at him!

More Movement

I went out and checked 3 of my cameras today. There were a lot of pictures over the past 8 days I had a total of 77 pictures. The cold weather has the deer on there feet and I got a lot of my pictures under licking branches and places where scrapes usually are. I got a couple more pictures of what I think is the same nine point I posted in velvet. The only thing is...I am not so sure he is a nine point. I think he may be a big 7 point. I have one pic of him facing the camera and I don't see brow tines, there is some glare so I guess they could be there, but if they are....they aren't very big. Either way he is a good buck and I don't eat the horns anyway!!

Another good buck

I got out today and was able to check a couple cameras, and get a couple more out. I didn't get a lot of pictures, but I did get one good 9 pointer feeding in the oaks. I had a bunch of doe pics, but only the one buck. I shifted the cameras all into the oaks. There are a lot of nuts dropping and good sign in those areas. I did find one fresh rub but i didn't spend a lot of time poking around, I just got in and out. I have four cameras out now, and should start getting more pics as the weather gets cool and October approaches.

2010 Bucks

My cameras have been out since the first part of July. I got one decent buck on July 5 but haven't had any buck activity until about the last two weeks. Plenty of does and fawns a bear with two cubs and a bobcat carrying a squirrel. These pictures are all from MA. I haven't been to NH yet.

get the bows ready, season is coming!!!

This past week we had a full moon on the 24th. I would definitely say, the bucks were on the move that night. I had another buck too on that night, but I didn't post it. Now that we are just about done with August I think we will see a spike in buck activity, more and more movement.

Excited for 2010

I hope everyone reading this post is as excited about the 2010 season as I am. I was fortunate enough to get a doe permit, Three years ago I would have told you that's all there was in my area but lately I have seen more bucks than does.

I got out the trail cam a few weeks ago and set up in an area that was logged a couple of years ago. I was only able to leave it out for about a week before I had to know if there had been any deer in the area. I hopped on my quad mid day. As I got to the are were the camera was I caught the silhouette of a nice 6pt buck. Luckily I had a digital camera with me to view my trail cam pics. I shut the quad down and took a few pics. It was pretty cool. A check of my trail cam showed me more pics of the 6pt I saw and another possibly another buck. I moved the trail cam to another area hoping to see some of the racks I saw last year.

Preseason Update

Showtime again!! It's time to get the camera's back out again and see what we can find for horns. I have had mine out for about 2 weeks or so and got my first buck pic a few days ago. It looks like a decent 8 point. I have had quite a few doe pics. Here are a couple of the pics. Let me know if anyone needs help remembering how to use the blog or needs any of their sign on info.