OK...FINALLY....I got one!

[MP-In-The-Wind]

After almost dark to dark days in all of deer/shotgun in Mass... It's black powder... Yesterday I finally connected with at 2pt(one side..other was missing) buck! Wahoo! Venison in the freezer!

 

[Drix]

Damn deer hid hard this year

 

[Palladin]

Nice

 

[Marty McFly]

Im stoked for you!!!!

 

[Patrick M]

Better late than never. Nice work

 

[Mass-diver]

Nice job!

 

[45collector]

Sweet!
I don’t even know if I will have time to get out with the smoke pole this year.

 

[MudMuppet]

Damn deer hid hard this year

What zone? I’ve never seen more in zone 10

 

[Drix]

What zone? I’ve never seen more in zone 10

Zone 3

 

[skiro98]

Damn deer hid hard this year

So....they weren’t just hiding from me this year??

 

[MudMuppet]

Gotcha, does are all herded up here been seeing lots of groups of 3,5,8 and one big group of 15 the last few days

 

[McReef]

Congratulations! A good day to be sure!

 

[Drix]

So....they weren’t just hiding from me this year??

Must have spent 80-100 hours in the woods this season. Saw 2 bucks, 5 doe, 50ish turkey, and a bear.

Shit tons of deer on the camera at night, but nothing in daylight.

 

[Roof gunner]

I finally saw deer today !! I bumped up 3-4 at 40 yards from me. They got up and bolted in every direction so fast I didn’t have time to raise my rifle ! Still got the heart pumping tho

 

[Marlin1]

Congrats!

I felt like a dick this year. I get invited to a nice piece that some friends keep stands in, clear lanes etc. for archery. Shotgun season; I walked into the woods, sat down in a stand and within 3 hours was dragging a nice doe out. Missed a nice buck that was with her. At the truck havin a snack at 10am.
My buddy had spent 10 or so days during archery season in the same area with no luck.
I hate people that do that, but I must admit...its kinda fun

 

[Jay77]

Some days you are lucky and other days you are not. I’ve hunted one stand and seen nothing and another day my kid shot a doe with me and I didn’t even have time to put my stuff down.

 

[whacko]

Congrats!

I felt like a dick this year. I get invited to a nice piece that some friends keep stands in, clear lanes etc. for archery. Shotgun season; I walked into the woods, sat down in a stand and within 3 hours was dragging a nice doe out. Missed a nice buck that was with her. At the truck havin a snack at 10am.
My buddy had spent 10 or so days during archery season in the same area with no luck.
I hate people that do that, but I must admit...its kinda fun

Don't feel bad my friend. Its my opinion that deer hunting is about 30% skill and 70% luck especially in mass and southern nh. I hunted NH for deer for the first time this season. I did a small amount of scouting for a couple weeks before muzzle season opened and talked to some local guys about spots and they gave me some advice. Scouting I found two decent trails through a dryish river bed that deer were using alot......it was a low gully and seemed to me it provided some cover as they went through because it was a pretty deep ditch. That's where I missed my opportunity on a doe she came right through that gully but I was not paying attention and she got too close to me before I saw her and didn't get the gun up ahead of time.

I saw deer every time I went out for the first 5 attempts but none were clean shots. Missed an opportunity on a good doe one afternoon that was cold ans rainy when I just wasn't paying attention and she got within 20 yards of me and busted me before I got the gun up. Then the 6th time out I connected with a decent buck that was rutting hard. Never had a season where I saw deer every trip out! Was it my skill.....nope! I think I just got lucky this year to see so many.

My go to attitude is "you can't shoot a deer sitting on the couch" sometines you just have to get out there hope lady luck is on your side.

 

[daniel781]

Nice buck, congrats