Droptine 9

Tommy got permission to hunt this small property over the summer and we looked at it and didn't think to much of it. We were told that there was already 3 other guys hunting the property but the landowner said they just gun hunted it. We glassed the place once and then set up one of our Moultrie trail cameras. When we were leaving after setting up the camera we saw this buck for the first time across the street getting ready to cross the road. To say we were a little excited would be an understatement but we were still a little skeptical that we would ever see that deer while hunting. After the first card pull we were shocked. After a month we had hundreds of pictures of this buck and we had nailed down his pattern. We have never encountered a buck that had this strict of a pattern and lived in such a small home range. This buck stayed pretty much in a 50 acre area and did just about the same thing everyday. We had a encounters with him each of the 4 times we hunted him but he came in before camera light the first time and the second time a bar up the street had a band playing and the band started as he was staged up 10 yards behind us and he trotted off. The next time in we couldn't get to the stand because deer were already right under the stand. I snuck into 30 yards af the stand but Droptine 9hung up on the neighbors property and never came across. Then about 2 weeks ago, he started showing up on camera about an hour before sunrise and and hour after sunset. We then had the camera we were getting all the pics on stolen. While looking into it we found out that the other guys hunting this property did bowhunt and they bowhunted a good bit. We also found out that the neighboring property had a lot of tresspassing issues.The guys that were already on this property had been hunting it for years and they had seen this buck several times. We didn't want to step on their toes since they had been on this property for years but they were more than welcoming and told us to hunt where and when we wanted and they would work with us, unheard of now a days, most would shun us and try to keep us out.
The next time in the conditions were perfect. It had been in the high 70s low 80s then a front blew in with rain and temps in the 60s. The rain stopped about an hour before dark and the deer started moving. we had 2 litlle bucks come in and while I was caught sitting down I was able to get my bow and I could hear deer behind us but Tommy wasn't saying anything so I didn't think much of it. He then tapped on the tree and I looked down to see Droptine 9 at the base of the tree. Well 30 seconds later I had my oppurtunity, he crossed the creek and turned to the left giving me a 10 yard shot. I just arrowed my best buck to date and Tommy got it all on film and it's some of the best footage I have seen. A short 80 yard track job and we had him. I'd like to thank Tommy for getting us on this property and letting me hunt hunt him. Once we saw this deer and patterned him, Tommy said after the year I had last year that he wanted me to kill this one, THANKS MAN!

Droptine 9 makes it on season 3

Piled drived Droptine 9 tonight! Great footage. We will get some good pictures up here tomorrow.

We had high hopes for this evening

Last Saturday Stapes and I were trying to get on this buck and we were on him but he was on us before camera light.After another card pull Friday that was full of daylight pics of the droptine 9, we were more than pumped up to get in our stand tonight. This buck has given us hundreds of pics and alot of daylight pics. The last pull has shown that he isn't coming thru in the morning during shooting light anymore we decided to get on him in the evening. Just about every night he's coming thru around 7:00-7:30. Today proved no different. He showed himself about 300 yards away on the neighboring property around 5:30. He pretty much came straight to us. He jumped the fence and was 10 yards behind us by 6:15. Every deer that comes down thru here always hangs up on the other side of a little creek just staging up and checking the area out before crossing and coming out into the field. Well he was calm as could be even with the property owners dog barking his head off and I figured it was just a matter of a few minutes until I was given a good shot on our side of the creek so I was going to be patient and just wait until he crossed the creek. MISTAKE! Should've shot him behind us. There's a bar a 1/4 mile up the road and they fired up a live band that was LOUD. As soon as he heard that he trotted off and headed back to the neighbors. Unbeliveable! Well that's twice we have been in this stand and twice we had him at 10 yards! This deer is going to make it on Chasing Whitetails Season 3 hopefully on the next time in.

What a night

The day started off a little wet. But with all of the rain I was able to get out of work early and pull some card out of our Moultrie cameras. Like usual the big drop tine buck that Don has been trying to get on was in his normal routine. With high hopes for Saturday we just couldnt sit at home, so Don and I headed out. There has been a ton of deer on one of our properties and we new we had to be in there. So we came up with a game plan, we had noticed that the deer had really been using this back corner of a cut corn field. With no stand in place we headed in with Dons Double Bull Blind in hand. As soon as we peaked over the knoll in the field there was five deer already in the field. Bumbing the deer was our only option. Once we got the blind set up, camera mounted on the tripod, arrow nocked, Don and I looked at each other and said this is never going to work. Little did we know it was going to work perfectly. Around 645 a doe peaked out of the bushes and started to enter the field. She walked right into my shooting lane around 35 yards and I heard Don say I am on her. I settled the bin and squeezed the trigger on my release. The arrow hit its mark. Watching the Nockturnal Nock all the way we could tell that she was not going to go far with that kind of shot. We decided to stay to see what else came out. Around 15 min later we had two fawns and a nice 2 1/2 yr old stud was right out infront of us. Then just before dark we had 4 more deer come out into the cut corn field. After dark we recovered my doe. She had only went about 80 yards from were she was shot. We had a total of around 7-8 deer walk with in 35 yards of our blind and not a single one of them noticed the blind. This is the first time that we have been able to hunt out of a blind that we had just poped up and get away with it. All in all it was a great night. We got some great footage for our season 3 dvd and now we getting ready for tomorrow.

Looking like Season 3 might be huge.

Got a few more pics of some GOOD bucks. I wish all of our card pulls had a few like these. Season 3 is looking real good right now, all we have to do is hunt smart.

Ky Opener

Well we didn't get in the Tree for the Ky opener this past weekend because it was 100 degrees. But I have staffer Corey Staples (Stapes) flying in this Thursday (Sept 8th) to run the cam for me,the temps have dropped dramatically and I think we should see some good deer movement,been getting some shooters on the Moultrie cams. Will keep you posted.

some nice ones on the Moultries

Getting some nice ones on trail cam. Here are 2 that I have an eye on. The rest of the guys are getting some nice ones to.