[SRA-5C+]

Rain.... That is not going to make a Saturday sit happen this afternoon. Sunday Morning I will get in, forecast is that will be it for Sunday. Supposed to rain for a few days here.

 

[@Dusk]

Tried a different spot. Acouple tree rats but 5:30 had apparently a buck chasing acouple doe or doe and fawn. Running back and forth numerous times about 100yds. Never came closer and vanished.

 

[pchunter1231]

Big goose egg tonight other than tree rats. Walking back to the truck ran into a young skunk. Me and him did the salsa for like 5 minutes then he wandered off. Only a few feet from me and he wanted to spray me in the worst way lol. He would come at me then turn to fire and I kept doing circles around him.

 

[roundnose]

I saw one doe tonight

 

[treemouse]

Get better man…pulling for you.

Thanks. Sure like to know what this is. Near a month now. Can't hardly pull straight back, too weak.

 

[dipNrip]

Overall slow today. One this morning and 4 this afternoon.

 

[Muppet]

2 years ago in the spring I scouted a spot i just loved. It is in big ag country is about an 800 yard walk and a 100 yard sneak to get to it. With the wind being perfect I made the trek...stalked like a ninja to the tree and started up. 20 yards from me ended up being a cell cam with a solar panal on some new homemade scrapes...bummer...but not a stand anywhere in there so I just sat it.

I saw 3 doe..one of which was a very very on point mama...and 6 raccoon amongst the usual squirrels. First sit of the year i was really in tune with what I was doing. No cell service and I was focused. Sometimes you just gotta roll with it.

 

[Bigbrownie]

Deer didn’t seem to move today. I had a spike walk past the blind at 8 yards this morning, saw two doe tonite, 50+ yards.

The SPYPOINTs weren’t showing much today either.

 

[uplander]

14yo son had four does w/in 20yards but didn’t get a shot off. I had a small doe in range and saw a small 8pt at about 80y. Older son only saw 3 does in the distance. Nice that we all saw deer and no skinning tonight.

 

[Octoberjohn]

Slow evening sit on private ground. Had 4 doe all walk right under me. The deer were much less active this evening compared to the evening before.

 

[Fairchild #17]

Morgan and I saw several smaller bucks harassing does tonight. With 30 minutes to go until quitting time a giant 8pt came into the soybean field and simply walked up to each doe and smelled them. He fed in front of us never getting closer than 59 yards. As he was leaving I grunted and he never broke stride straight out across an open field. At last light he appeared on the far end of the field and I watched him make a scrape before exiting back into the woods.
They just act different. Morgan couldn't quit talking about how big he was on the way home. Super heavy body and probably a 130" rack.
Pouring down rain here now.

 

[dpms]

Ended up having several more does feed through but far out of range. The big buck and 9 does for me tonight.

 

[TBrom]

Well, the afternoon didn't turn out as planned. I went full Steelhead mode and made a play for Mrs. White. It was a five-stick hang and hunt. Before I was situated entirely (3:30 pm), I had a button buck under me munching acorns for fifteen minutes. At 6:00, a grey fox came past with a pear in its mouth, and then at 6:15 I saw her coming. No. Not Mrs. White, but now I had a dilemma. An adult doe, completely emaciated and occasionally coughing. After a 30-second battle in my head, I knew I had to kill her and end her misery. She looked really bad.

When she fed to within 15 yards, I put an arrow through her. Completely expecting her to fall over at the arrow impact, I watched her run away like she wasn't even hit. The 🤬 thing ended up going 200 yards. You can't tell from the picture how emaciated she is, but she was skin and bone. I didn't even gut her to drag her out. Her other side's back leg was wounded much worse, but I wasn't messing with her anymore for pictures. It was completely bare around the elbow. She showed no sign of any leg injury and walked fine. Just skinny and coughing.

Upon further investigation, someone had shot her in the back end with a shotgun.

 

[Byron]

Sat till dark. A few squirrels and a raccoon but no deer seen. Mountain beat me up pretty good. Not sure how much more I'll do this year .....

 

[bradford13]

One sexed up y buck tormenting a doe.

 

[Muppet]

Thats awful tbrom. Good on you shooting her

 

[crousey71]

I'll be the big ugly guy working at the 4-H BBQ chicken pit... if you make it here, stop by and say hi!

I didn't make it, otherwise I would have said hi-Iwas stuck in Abbottstown most of the day.

 

[The Pennsylvanian]

Well i screwed the pooch tonight. First deer were out moving at 1615. Had three doe moved past at 30 yards and could have shot all of them but it felt like a good night for buck movement as the wind was switching right before prime time. Well at 1845 the woods exploded. I had 21 does all around me a decent 9 was half heartedly chasing does around and all of a sudden sprinted across the creek and right past me at 20 yards. It all happened so quick, I was trying to find a spot where I could get a shot, when I heard a print from the creek, and heard a deer walking g in the water. Then he showed, a big mature 12pt dark antlers 2-3" outside his ears, all the deer were getting out of his way as he made his way up the exact same trail that the first buck did. He stops at 27, and I oull the trigger when boom, I thought the xbow blew up. My arrow hit 3 feet short of him, and he jumps and stands there. MY LIMB HIT THE TREE. Im an idiot, I got so jazzed up with everything that was happening I wasnt paying attention. I royally screwed the pouch on this one. Well he never realized what happened, and neither did the other deer whi h kept filtering past. At this point I text my father in law to drive his quad down to bump yhe deer away because none of them realized was there, whi h worked. So I hoping I didn't booger it up to bad.

 

[mfuff]

Well, the afternoon didn't turn out as planned. I went full Steelhead mode and made a play for Mrs. White. It was a five-stick hang and hunt. Before I was situated entirely (3:30 pm), I had a button buck under me munching acorns for fifteen minutes. At 6:00, a grey fox came past with a pear in its mouth, and then at 6:15 I saw her coming. No. Not Mrs. White, but now I had a dilemma. An adult doe, completely emaciated and occasionally coughing. After a 30-second battle in my head, I knew I had to kill her and end her misery. She looked really bad.

When she fed to within 15 yards, I put an arrow through her. Completely expecting her to fall over at the arrow impact, I watched her run away like she wasn't even hit. The 🤬 thing ended up going 200 yards. You can't tell from the picture how emaciated she is, but she was skin and bone. I didn't even gut her to drag her out. Her other side's back leg was wounded much worse, but I wasn't messing with her anymore for pictures. It was completely bare around the elbow. She showed no sign of any leg injury and walked fine. Just skinny and coughing.

Upon further investigation, someone had shot her in the back end with a shotgun.

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Maybe you can get a new tag. If you have a warden come and check it out and see that it might not be fit for consumption he may issue you a replacement tag.
A few years ago I had shot a buck in rifle season. I swore that I heard it cough and sneeze but it didn't dawn on me until later. Anyway I killed it and there was some serious green snot out one nostril. While dressing it out all was normal until I went up through the diaphragm and it absolutely reeked of what smelled like puss looks like. It smelled like sickness. I don't know how else to explain it. I left the heart and lungs in it until I got it down to the barnyard. The lungs were white and stuck to the ribs with like a webbed paste. I called the GC and was told that the Warden would contact me the next morning. He did and came out to inspect it. He stuck his face near the cavity and coiled back with a wince. He used a stick to poke at it and said that whatever sickness that deer has is probably coursing through it's blood system too and he said that even he wouldn't eat that meat. He said that he'd have to take the deer and the rack, but issued me a new tag.
Might be a similar case for you if you wish to ask the PGC about it.

 

[gf44mag]

I bumped some deer going in I got highly distracted by a huge bunch of chicken of the woods. I harvested them and then sat watching for deer. I saw a doe and this years fawn.