Not much happening now. Busted a deer in bed in an old pasture on the way in. Saw first scrape of the year. May have heard turkeys flying down. Squirrels are napping. Just checked hunt predictor and it says 1100 is a prime feeding time. Speaking of which, our lunch sandwich is at Cedar branch farms where Joe so kindly put us up. I'd like to stay on stand all day but that might be torture for a 13 yo.
We set up the stand near water and for a West wind. Rained last night and winds been out of NE. Jacobs learning the nature of hunting.

Your sandwich is in the fridge waited all weekend for someone to eat it........LOL. Glad to have you guys there gfor Friday night.

You hunt Splinters Rdige Antiwheeze

Two 6's and an 8 by. Waiting for a fawn. Buddy wants some tinder ribs.

Got to wait till Sat. 'cause of work..... funny how that always gets in the way ....

wind started howling about ten so I packed up n headed home, 'bout ran over two does crossing the road from one cornfield to another on the south end of my property.

sounds like your hunt predictor was right antiwheeze

saw two does and bumped some turkeys on my way out!!! Buddy killed a 120" 8 point first thing this am:) on public:)

Some pics from my morning hunt...

Nice pics. I'm guessing those are not from a cell phone cam?

No, lol, Canon DSLR

A few of those will be a nice deer next season....

Nice pictures! h.h.

Very nice pics and subjects too.

My nephew got first crack at the SR stand we put up for my buddy with handicapped access.
Didn't phase my nephew getting back to it but it was tough for his uncle.

Nice pics very cool but if that 8 was in front of me he may have been shot just not with a camera

Great pics arlow....thanks for sharing:)

Wow! Now I'm even more pumped for tomorrow from seeing these pictures.

Some turkey action this morning, a few does, too...

Pretty neat pictures looks like a good place to hunt you got there

Great pics.

Keep the pics coming:)^^^^^

A few from last night...

Video of that 8 pointer in the earlier pics...
https://youtu.be/Cmy6tQLeeWs

Not 'live from the stand'........but a pic of me heading in. Just so nice to head into the woods these days..... was kinda' taken back to see myself enter one of my spots on cam....

"Snapshot of what inspires me to breath"

And yes.........I tore my Tricep Tendon off my elbow in late July....so I'm toting my Dad's crossbow when he's not using it since I have not recovered from my Mid August Surgery. We'll see how this goes. Early Archery has always seen me with a bow in hand since the 1980's...... this just feels wrong. LOL!!

arlowe13...great video, pretty much disproves every theory I had about big deer not moving when its windy out.

Awesome video. Which way was the wind blowing for you to have them right under the stand. Did you use any high tech scent elimination product ( Ozonics . )

Wind was blowing for left to right in the video. My scent control is not high-tech, just a system I have used and been successful.

-Shower in the morning with non-scent soap.
-Keep EVERYTHING I take into the woods in plastic tubs until I am walking to my stand.
-Spray down inside of arms, legs and feet after getting dressed, before walking to stand.
-Spray down while in the stand every hour or so, especially hat and facemask, if you're wearing one.
-I do use an ozone generator at the end of the day to de-odorize boots, pants and jackets if I sweated a lot.
-Wash everything I would wear that weekend in scent free soap including jeans/pants/underwear/socks I would drive to our property while wearing.

All of this is great precaution, but having the right wind for your stand's setup is KING, as you cannot eliminate all scent. Don't hunt a stand if it's not the right wind.

Ozonics, HAHA! I love watching Whitetails Inc but every time I see that box in the tree, I laugh. I pretty much use the same system as arlowe13 and hunt out of 15-18ft stands. There is no reason to go 25-30ft up. Wind is key and pressure. I am a firm believer in not pressuring your spots / rotating.

I have the same set up but most of my stands are set at whatever the cover is around the stand. I use huge zip lock bags and saturate my cloths with wild life research autumn blend. I am a firm believer in baking soda and distilled water, as well as wild life research products.

Ozone works to deodorize items like clothes, basements, cars, etc. I have a real ozone machine putting out 7000 mg/hour and it works to deordorize about anything. You DO NOT want to be sucking this toxic gas into your lungs though. It is for ozone bombing in uninhabited areas.

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now the Ozonics unit, that is a joke....I cringe when I see one in a blind with a kid sucking that toxic gas into their lungs...

I've shot probably 50+ deer in my lifetime. In the early years I did all the washing and spraying down of clothes and finally it just got to be to much hassle and money. About 10 years ago I quit all that together and still shot as many deer as I did in the early years(including a 140" 10 pt a couple years ago while I was smoking!) I'm not saying it probably doesn't help some but it's just not worth the trouble to me. I'm a HUGE believer in being at the right spot at the right time and having a good deer population in your hunting area. You could be invisible and smell like an acorn but if there's only 2 deer per square mile where you hunt you're probably not gonna see any. I still see lots of deer I could shoot and don't too, just don't buy into all that anymore. I'm not saying people shouldn't hunt however they want, just not my thing.

I ALWAYS use the soaps, shampoo's, sprays, scentless bags, dress away from the truck, hang clothes outside when possible, etc and after killing over 120 deer to this point, some of those some big un's too, I feel I am doing something right.... I still play the wind, every little bit you can do to control scent dispersion helps...deer dont read books, so you never know where they may come from, and I feel by doing what I do, will reduce my scent stream......notice I said reduce, not eliminate...

What toxic gas? It generates negative ions...which is just air with a negative electric charge that falls to the ground with dust/odor particles attached.

We use them on each machine at iaf to clean smoke from the air that we breathe

What am I missing?

Ozone will melt rubber and destroy elastic waist bands in clothes.....

Might be why I need new underwear.... :rolleyes:

I don't think it hurts, nor costs too much to use a scent free/deodorizer soap on your clothes and yourself, but I agree with the assessment that it mostly depends on where you're hunting. My Dad and uncle see plenty of deer when they are working the farm smelling like sweat, diesel, their lunch, regular scented body soaps, deodorant, clothes detergents, etc. etc., so there's really no reason for us to think those deer aren't acclimated to those daily human scents.

That would NOT be from Ozone gas!!!! :rolleyes: And whatever it is…..it peeled the gel coat off the gunnel of my boat!!! :p

Bit of a slow day with the warmer weather, but still saw some deer.