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I wish everyone well regardless of their weapon of choice as I am one who does not judge a person based on their weapon of choice. I would encourage everyone who has a kill this weekend to post here regardless of their weapon.

I am so sick of the same small group of crybaby-sky is falling, belly achers turning every thread into an anti hunting thread. If you don't like the way someone wants to hunt, then don't hunt that way!!! Quit your bitching!!!

We should all be happy that we are able to enjoy the outdoors no matter what weapon you choose to use.

Best of luck to everyone this season, even the crybabies....

Hoe about a balding 56yo with a hangnail and a hemorrhoid flareup? :)

And to the moderators of this site, I’d highly recommend cracking down on this problem! It’s gotten out of hand.

Stop the bickering and grow up. Let's use this for whet it is meant to be . BOWHUNTING.

From the Bowsites rule " 6. Topics must be related to the forum. No off-topic posting allowed.

This means that while in the whitetail forum, only topics directly related to bowhunting whitetail deer will be allowed. For example, a question on tuning your bow posted in the bear forum is not allowed. See the forum guidelines below."

If you want to post gun success then go to a gun website. And yes, I hunt with a gun sometimes.

Now. let's go out and enjoy archery season.

Who does that? I assume the same kind of turd that was a director of a hunting org and was busted for shooting a spike over an illegal corn pile and then tried to blame the whole thing on his elderly father. Talk about a pathetic turd. ;-)

Based that you're here again you don't understand bowsite. How many times were you kicked off of this site? You were asked not to come back and yet here you are again and it seems for the only reason as to start arguments. Shouldn't you be out in the woods baiting for your "dad"?

I will not willingly use a crossbow again because I felt handicaped by it compared to a compound bow. Carrying it was a royal PITA, holding it while on stand was another PITA, trying to shoot at an ackward angle was harder than if I was using a compound. Scopes suck at 20yds let alone at 5yds where I shot this doe.

If all you do is hunt out of a box blind I can see where a crossbow might be nice but for hunting out of a treestand like most of us do they suck compared to a compound. All in all this is all much to do about nothing!

I had this buck on camera two years ago, but never saw him last year. I had him on camera once in velvet this year. I was actually going after a different buck on Saturday night.

Here is a little bit of the story behind my bow buck. Prior to going into this weekend, my game plan was to go after a 9 point that I had passed last year gun hunting. He was a narrow 9 point with good height and good mass (~135 inch). I had him on camera numerous times with a group of other bucks. This included a 10 pt (~135 inch), an 8 pt (~130 inch), and a few other small bucks.

This weekend was unique to most seasons, in that the soy beans were still green due to the late planting because of the wet spring. I had seen several different bucks in a bachelor group all summer. I knew this weekend would be an opportunity to go after the bachelor group because of the green soy beans and early September archery opener.

Saturday's S-SW wind was perfect for my stand set up. My stand was on a north-south fencerow with a 1/4 acre food plot to my west, and a large 10 acre soybean field to my east. At 6:15 pm. I had a small buck come into the large soybean field. He was still in velvet. I watched him through the binoculars and noticed he kept looking back. About 5 minutes later, I heard commotion, and before I knew it, I had 3 bucks in the soybean field eating. One was the 135" 8 pt I had on camera, one was a ~100 inch 8 point 15 yards away, and the other a small buck that was in the process of shedding his velvet. At this point, the 8 point was 100 yards to my south, and I had convinced myself that I was going to try and harvest him if given the opportunity.

As the deer fed down the soybean field, I thought I was going to get an opportunity at the 8 point. No way was I NOT going to get an opportunity; bow in hand, wind at my face, deer feeding down the soybean rows right in the direction of my stand. At that moment the wind must have swirled, because the 8 pt closest to me started checking the wind; my heart sank. He checked the wind for 20 seconds and then trotted past my stand. Just as I was expecting the field to clear, my buck came from no where and was walking down the soybean rows parallel to my stand. In the few seconds I was able to look at him, I saw the split G2 and heavy mass. I pulled back, and centered the pin. I released the arrow and I saw the arrow with the Nocturnal hit his chest. He bounded away and crested over the hill. I felt confident with the hit and summoned some help. We went to the last place I saw him, and we found him just off the field edge.

As we field dressed him and dragged him to the truck, the 9 point I was originally targeting fed on the far side of the field without a care in the world.

Saturday night I saw 8 different bucks between the stand sit and retrieval. This goes to show how effective the early season can be.

The deer weighed 198#, grossed 155" and netted 146". He had great mass throughout his rack. All mass measurements were between 4" and 5". Overall a great but short 2014 bow season. Attached is a better picture of the buck.

Very Nice - Great Job!!!

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