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End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby Stanley » Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:10 am

As the deer season winds down what were your goals? Ultimately, did you set out to kill a big buck? Was your goal merely to have fun? Maybe taking someone hunting and putting them on a buck? A 170 inch buck on the wall? Hunting Beast style and killing one? Lets hear what you set out to do and what you actually did.


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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby rudy78 » Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:24 am

At the beginning of the year, I set out to kill a big buck(140 or better) in IL on video. I knew my chances would be pretty high this year because I hunted the farm last year and learned a lot so I tweaked some stands. My field was also corn this year and I planted some food plots. This was my first year of running trail cams in the summer & stuff, I hoped that I would get a few good bucks on there and be able to kill one of them. I've never had any history with a buck before I have killed him, so this year I was hoping to get some pictures & stuff before I was able to kill him. I didn't think it would go down the way it did and that I would kill the biggest buck I got on trail cam and not just that I had him on trail cam before I killed him, but that I had 3 encounters with him before i killed him.

I also wanted to see my partner, his daughter & a guy I took down there from church to shoot deer with a gun . The only one of those that worked out was my partners daughter killing a doe in the youth season. The other 2 had chances on good bucks, so I guess i don't feel so bad, but I sure was hoping they would have killed.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby BigHunt » Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:29 am

[BBvideo 425,350][/BBvideo]well my goals wernt high as im a young hunter so just getting a crack a big buck was hard enough but i did have a few on my list .....i set a goal to take at least two does and two bucks......well i got my two does but only one good buck wich is more then what i saked for......i did hunt beast style this year got on some good bucks but no luck until gun hunting ......i wanted to hunt marsh this year but had a shortage of bed findings and my abilty to find spots on a map but now that im getting going on it I CANT WAIT UNTIL NEXT SEASON TO HUNT MARSH 8-)

i still plain on finding some sheds this year into next hopefully ........im not to good at that either



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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby tim » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:10 am

number 1 was stay healthy and for the most part i have been. did get a tick bite though that required er visit. since my land was being logged all i hoped for was pics of the 14pt. on my land all my cams started acting up but still managed to get about 9 pics of him now im waiting for one last pic in late season to continue this story next season :pray: . i wanted pics of the buck i shot in kenosha but that didnt happen for me, however after i shot him, the person that found him let me have pics of him which he had gotten this year. so i got the pics and the buck. i tagged out in vernon despite my land being logged. i managed to get 2 does in gun season on my land so i have meat in the freezer. so this entire season was an accomplishment for me, i cant always say that so im enjoying it. i had my dad hunting with me during gun season like usual and never take that for granted. i wish my son was into it but its just not for him right now and im ok with that too.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby tim » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:12 am

how bout you stanley? i know you had a great season with 2 nice bucks.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby Schultzy » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:43 am

Great Idea of a thread Stanley!! 8-)

I set out to kill one of these 2 bucks. The buck In the top picture Is no younger then 5.5 years old I believe. He actually lost some weight from what he weighed last year. Last year he was all of 220lbs dressed, he was huge. This year I believe he's In that 190lb range. He only put on about 8 Inches this year. Last year his sheds measured out at 107 Inches Including a 15 Inch spread. I figure this year he's lucky to hit 115 Inches. He did put on a ton of mass though. That's about all he did. I had him at 15 yards this year and he dropped right after I released my arrow. He didn't drop because of bow noise but rather because he would never sit still hardly long enough. I drew my recurve back 4 different times on him as he'd never stay In one spot. Always spinning an turning keeping a close eye on his ladies. There was 3 doe's around me and one went to move so he too was going to move. When he went to move he ducked down a tad and I hit him right on top of the spine. You can see where I hit him In the picture. This picture was 5 days after I hit him. I saw him 3 times the next 2 weeks but haven't saw him for over 3 weeks now. I'm thinking someone shot him with a Muzzle Loader or maybe he's chasing doe's somewhere else In another woods. Who knows. The taller tined buck I saw 7 times this year. He's a confirmed 4.5 year old going off of trail cam pics I have of him the last 3 years. I had him directly under my tree October 28th but couldn't move In my tree as I had 4 doe's around looking for me In the tree. That was a heart breaker as I did everything right to kill this buck.

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My Intention's/hopes were that this buck pictured below would show his face this year. He never did and honestly I didn't expect him to as I knew he wasn't from around here. Last year he showed up during the rut and that was It. He's gotta be a dandy this year!

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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby tim » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:13 am

hey bighunt im not to good at shed hunting either but you keep at it long enough and youll find some
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby BigHunt » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:25 am

tim wrote:hey bighunt im not to good at shed hunting either but you keep at it long enough and youll find some


thanks man ...... 8-)
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby RaisedByWolves » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:57 am

I set out to kill either a 3.5 on private land or a 2.5 on public land with my bow. I ended up killing a 2.5 on private land. Although I had a fantastic season, I'm going to stay truer to my goal next year
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby headgear » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:05 am

My goal is to kill a 120's+ inch buck on public land and take down an extra doe for table fair. The doe has been taken care of, still working on the buck. I saw some nice bucks this year that were short of my goal. Several other encounters had potential but I was never able to positivly id a shooter buck. As usually hunted hard and had lots of fun. Still going to give it my all over the weekend.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby Zap » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:06 am

Learned alot and had fun.

Plan to repeat the same thing next season.
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Unread postby Spysar » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:09 am

I came away from this season feeling totally satisfied and refreshed. Now I can concentrate on work again. (for a little while) I had a blast.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby Uncle Lou » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:15 am

Stanley you are bringing some great topics.

I wanted to accomplish putting 4-5 deer in the freezer and have some fun. Had a ton of fun, but only filled 2 tags so far, but I am not done. I missed 3 so I had my opportunities.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby JV NC » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:31 am

I set out to do the same things I set out to do, last year.

1. Don't go hunting, until the temps cool off. We opened on 9/10. I hunted the 1st time on 10/14 (I think).

2. Hunt with any weapon I want to....when I want to.

3. ONLY hunt when I really WANT to go (not when I think I 'should' go).

4. No internally-applied pressure.

I hunted with the recurve; compound; ML and rifle. I took 5 with the compound....including the biggest buck I've ever taken. I'm hunting with the ML (if I don't hunt off the ground with the bow), tomorrow.

I had as much fun this year as last year......and they both trump any season before them.

Mission accomplished.
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Re: End of the season what do you hope to have accomplished?

Unread postby Dewey » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:20 am

My goal for the season was to limit myself to a buck scoring 130" or better but in the back of my mind I really wanted to kill a Booner I have been trying to figure out since this time last year. In hindsight I may have focused too much of my season on this particular buck. I had a 135"-140" at 15 yards and let down because I didn't like the shot angle but really in the back of my mind I wanted the larger buck anyway. Ended up not seeing him on stand so far but there is still a few weeks to go. :wink:

Seems like the number of larger bucks are way down in my area so I may have to consider lowering my standards slightly next year. Zap said it best if I had fun and learned alot I consider it a succesful season wether I killed a buck or not.

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