Modern gun season starts Saturday

[Fjold]

Wifezilla took this photo from our front porch at 3:30 this afternoon.

[big honkin jeep]

Thats a good un. Rifle season started here in Georgia in October. Ramping up to the big rut here in the next couple of weeks. Another rut later in the year at the end of the season depending on which part of the state and where the brood stock came from when the population was supplemented to bring back the whitetail deer. I have been amazed at the comeback as there wasnt a huntable population to speak of in most of the state during my youth. Now they roam Metro Atlanta eating landscapes at will.
Good luck to you.

[Robinhood]

Nice one Frank.

[Fjold]

I had two bucks following a hot doe this morning about 7 AM this big guy that I got a photo of Thursday and a smaller buck.



The doe flashed across a clearing 60 yards away and 5 seconds behind her the big ten point was nose to the ground trotting after her. 10 seconds after that, a smaller 8 point was following.


The doe crosses another clearing 40 yards away in about 2 seconds so I ready with the Ruger No.1 RSI (7x57) and as the buck showed in the opening I drove a 160 grain Accubond high and behind his right shoulder. I was sitting in a 6 foot tall mini tower blind so I was 15 feet higher than the deer, who were downhill.


The doe cut straight across the meadow that I'm sitting over and then the 8 point comes out spraying blood like a fountain. The 10 point must have given up the chase in the brush and let the 8 point pass him by before they hit the opening that I shot through.


Stevie Wonder could have followed the blood trail and the buck made about 40 -50 yards before he died.






I had a heck of a time loading it in the truck because it weighed more than I did.

[pdog06]

Nice shootin Frank! Great buck

[Fjold]

My daughter was in a box blind (in the top right corner of this photo,) when this buck walked by at 8:15 this morning and didn't see him until it was too late to shoot. The clock in the photo is not adjusted back from Daylight Savings time.

[Fjold]

I think that this is buck sign. Right on the property line of my woods and the neighbor's pasture.

[pdog06]

Wow that dude had an itch to scratch or was pissed off and took it out on the tree.
The tree behind it looks like a good spot for a tree stand….lol

[Fjold]

That tree is on my neighbor's property but there's a another great tree about 20 feet behind where I took that photo. I put a trail cam about 15 feet away to see what shows up.

[pdog06]

What shows up should be you…..lol

Be sure to fill us in on what ya find out.. and especially if you get him.

[Fjold]

This guy showed up, you can just see the rub tree in the background over his tail. Wifezilla and one of my daughters are set up in a box blind that overlooks this trail where it enters the woods about 30 yards from this spot. Neither of them will climb into a treestand.