Early Season Giant with Recurve

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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby RidgeGhost » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:33 pm

Awesome deer, congrats man. He's got it all 8-)


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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby PK_ » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:34 pm

Stunning deer. Congrats.
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby oldrank » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:42 pm

Awesome buck !!! Way to stick with the recovery.
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby justdirtyfun » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:42 pm

:dance: :dance:

Beautiful buck.

I love how your fletching color are picked for helping the shot placement and arrow recovery. At least that's how I would explain it. Small details matter.
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby MOBIGBUCKS » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:48 pm

justdirtyfun wrote::dance: :dance:

Beautiful buck.

I love how your fletching color are picked for helping the shot placement and arrow recovery. At least that's how I would explain it. Small details matter.


Exactly. Pink is the only color not in the woods at some point of the season. Really helps in low light
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby Tennhunter3 » Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:26 pm

Great buck

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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby Quest1001 » Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:30 pm

Heck yeah, nice work.
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby AfootTrack56 » Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:36 pm

What a toad! Congrats.
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby kdawg_901 » Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:28 pm

Dandy Buck!
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby stash59 » Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:44 am

8-) :handgestures-thumbup:
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby RidgeGhost » Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:55 am

MOBB, would you be willing to draw up a sketch of the bedding layout? Sounds interesting...
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby Whitetailaddict » Wed Sep 23, 2020 5:32 am

Awesome buck and way to stick with the track job.
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby Bud TN » Wed Sep 23, 2020 5:41 am

:clap: :dance: :clap: wow!

that's a wall hanger for sure!
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby MOBIGBUCKS » Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:45 am

RidgeGhost wrote:MOBB, would you be willing to draw up a sketch of the bedding layout? Sounds interesting...


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The brown peninsula is just that. It was artificially created decades ago is my assumption. This photo could be old and does not show the transitions well, but it is full of taller grasses and weeds now. This area is about 10 feet high and creates some good bedding and thermal effect.

Buck bedding and travel is in yellow
Stand position and my travel is in Red
Brown box is the main bedding I was targeting
Green is freshly falling acorns these big bucks were heading to

Why I was here when I was here? I used a combination of observation and sign checking in strategic areas that let me know there were big deer using this bedding area. Simply put the area is money. I actually shot a mount worthy six pointer in here last year on November 10th with my recurve that bounced off the shoulder blade. He was fine and got even bigger this year. My targets were him and the big buck I was lucky enough to get a shot at. I did not expect him to be bedding where he was in this instance.. I knew I was in the game but I also know he used the main bedding to the north a lot too.

I will also say this about the setup. The area where they travel to the left of the peninsula is also a possibility of bedding exit. It's playing with fire at times knowing they can and do go both ways. I relied heavily on my scouting that told me they would be going to acorns not some distant food source. I gambled and it paid off..
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Re: Early Season Giant with Recurve

Unread postby MOBIGBUCKS » Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:47 am

Tennhunter3 wrote:Great buck

Public or private?


Private. This is not a big area and it is the only private I still have left to hunt. This place is good for maybe 5 hunts a season if a guy is smart about it. That's it.

Some years there is good deer in here but others not.


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