Bowhntr6pt
Active member
No doubt about it... the rut is in full swing down here in central FL where I live. Yesterday I saw five different bucks all pestering doe. A really nice one, biggest I've even seen, with [beeep] vines hanging from his antlers ran past me within 50 yards... I yelled, whistled, grunted, NOTHING got him to stop running after the doe who was running from him. Didn't want to risk wounding so no shoot. Figured I see him again this am. No suck luck, I did however bag this older buck.
I rarely ever hunt from the ground but yesterday and today I made a make-shift sniper hide using a folding chair and my Tri-Pod from Night Goggles. The tri-pod made the 165 yard shot doable. I used my Leupold range finder to get distances over the field I was watching... closest woodline was 60 yards, longest possible shot was 289 yards. I knew deer were in this area but I have not had the time to erect a stand so I just hunted from the ground. I just cleared out an area under a clump of sweet-gum trees that had a ring of palmetto bushes around it. Worked great.
I rarely ever hunt from the ground but yesterday and today I made a make-shift sniper hide using a folding chair and my Tri-Pod from Night Goggles. The tri-pod made the 165 yard shot doable. I used my Leupold range finder to get distances over the field I was watching... closest woodline was 60 yards, longest possible shot was 289 yards. I knew deer were in this area but I have not had the time to erect a stand so I just hunted from the ground. I just cleared out an area under a clump of sweet-gum trees that had a ring of palmetto bushes around it. Worked great.