Any archery luck for opening day???

[shedkid]

 :archery_smiley:post up them 2012 aechery kills

[WA hunter14]

opening day and not one dead deer!??!

[runamuk]

opening day and not one dead deer!??!

[Huntbear]

 

[wayner]

Its pretty warm out during the day on this side of the state, plus I prefer to wait until the late season. Good luck to those who do go out 

[madmack76]

saw a really nice 3-point today standing in middle of the road in middle of the day, hope he makes it to my season,there out there someone has to have got something.

[buglin4bulls]

I shot at a nice tall 3x3 but he jumped my string at 65 yards. Saw tons of other legal shooters but couldn't close the distance.

[Elk whack master]

Alot of people wont be back untill tuesday. They are still in da woods, even if they got one today!

[carpsniperg2]

Nope spent half of tonight running of dip Sh%&'s trying to hunt private ground and lob arrows from the roads and highway

[blacktailcody]

We saw 16 deer today I missed one and we lost a gut shot doe after 300yds and several hours over all a great day.

[AKBowman]

We saw 16 deer today I missed one and we lost a gut shot doe after 300yds and several hours over all a great day.

Not sure I would qualify that as a great day

[jnevs23]

Jumped a decent 4 pt.  spent most the day moving cams and  setting up.  2 cams in an area for a month and a half Produced one buck...and a crappy pic at that.  At least it looks like a shooter I guess

[sebek556]

the big boy I am after is still in velvet, and I cant afford that taxi bill on him right now... so he is safe until he's hard horned

[buck man]

the big boy I am after is still in velvet, and I cant afford that taxi bill on him right now... so he is safe until he's hard horned

They are all hard horned now. He just hasn't rubbed.

[jnevs23]

"We saw 16 deer today I missed one and we lost a gut shot doe after 300yds and several hours over all a great day"

So whats a bad day?

[Angus]

Only saw 1 deer all day but he was a dandy, wouldn't have hesitated to put my multi-season tag on him. Will be back after him tomorrow afternoon.

[sled]

We saw 16 deer today I missed one and we lost a gut shot doe after 300yds and several hours over all a great day.

Not sure I would qualify that as a great day

[whitetailslyr]

So I had a wedding to be at by 4:30... this means I have to get a deer by 12:15 or I would'nt have time to gut it and get it in the locker in time to make it. It was a slow morning other than a porcupine trying to climb the tree with me and three coyote sightings... none of which I could get a shot. One was at 4 yards the other two 75+. 12:15 rolls around and still no bucks. I call it a day and put my quiver back on the bow, lower the bow back to the ground. Next I take my harness off. Start to depart when I notice the split eyeguard 3 was walking my way.. oh snap. You know how hard it is to pull the bow back up to your stand while holding your breath and only working while the deer blinks?? Long story short, somehow I pulled it off and put a perfect arrow in the deer at 32 yards!

[jnevs23]

Thata boy

[sled]

 

[sebek556]

 

[rotty33]

my cousin shot a 3x4 by 7am this morning. Not a huge buck, but his first!!

[TeacherMan]

Nice looking buck! Looks like it was a nice day also. He'd make a beautiful velvet mount.

[pips4bucks]

Sweet whitetail!  Nicely done!

Got a text pic from a buddy who's friend tagged a dandy 5x5 whitey.  I'd post it but it's not mine to share.

[CoryTDF]

I saw a guy in a white pickup driving around the wheat field and then getting out on his cell phone walking into the bedding area and then back to his truck. He then drove around the field a little more before drving over to me and asking " Do you have permission to be here?" said yes and told him the land owners name to which he shot me a puzzled look and said he had gotten permission from a sombody else. So not only did he mess up my hunt but he didnt eve have "REAL" permission to be there. A steady month of having 3 to 4 bucks a night come into my stand and it all went to hell in a matter of minutes by some dumb ass . we will see what tonight brings.

On another note my brother had a coyote at 4 yards infront of his ground blind and he had his girlfriend shoot it. She spine shot it and it went out to 40 yards and was flipping and floping. My brother then shot it again. About 20 minutes goes by and he hears deer comming behind him and just as he starts to see them the coyote comes back to life and starts freaking out. The deer run off to the left but not before showing my brother that the 160+ inch 5x5 that he has been watching was with 3 other good shooters. The would have been at 20 yards. Note to self DO NOT shoot coyotes while deer hunting.

2012 so far has been sh!t.

[huntnnw]

Passed on 17 bucks yesterday .. I was seconds away from nailing the one I wanted until the little bucks started running around he got nervous and went the other way

[BOWHUNTER45]

Awesome Whitetailslayer ...season over  and for CoryTDF That suz when that happen especially when your all pumped up to get to your spot knowing what was there 

[idahohuntr]

I saw a guy in a white pickup driving around the wheat field and then getting out on his cell phone walking into the bedding area and then back to his truck. He then drove around the field a little more before drving over to me and asking " Do you have permission to be here?" said yes and told him the land owners name to which he shot me a puzzled look and said he had gotten permission from a sombody else. So not only did he mess up my hunt but he didnt eve have "REAL" permission to be there. A steady month of having 3 to 4 bucks a night come into my stand and it all went to hell in a matter of minutes by some dumb ass . we will see what tonight brings.

On another note my brother had a coyote at 4 yards infront of his ground blind and he had his girlfriend shoot it. She spine shot it and it went out to 40 yards and was flipping and floping. My brother then shot it again. About 20 minutes goes by and he hears deer comming behind him and just as he starts to see them the coyote comes back to life and starts freaking out. The deer run off to the left but not before showing my brother that the 160+ inch 5x5 that he has been watching was with 3 other good shooters. The would have been at 20 yards. Note to self DO NOT shoot coyotes while deer hunting.

2012 so far has been sh!t.

That sucks...I was hunting private ground E of WW yesterday and had a similar incident...about 5:45 pm a pickup comes driving through a field slowly, glassing a bit...I stand up at the edge of the field where I was sitting and they drive off...it didn't seem to bother the deer as the same 9 bucks I have been seeing all came out...just about 100 yards out of bow range   I am concerned that doubling the number of multi-season tags has a bunch of idiots running around that usually rifle hunt and have no clue about bowhunting.

[blindpig]

Great heart photo!  Nice looking buck too.   

[Maverick]

nice heart shot!

[Angus]

(  I am concerned that doubling the number of multi-season tags has a bunch of idiots running around that usually rifle hunt and have no clue about bowhunting.

Probably more of a problem on your side of the state, I think the wanna-be's will get discouraged quickly over here when they find alot of roads gated, hard to road hunt with a gate in the way.

[PolarBear]

Hell, I havent even shot my bow in months.  I won't start huning until the end of November.  I hate hunting warm weather.

[boneaddict]

Waiting for the velvet to drop, I hate velvet unless its Black

[PolarBear]

 
That's one of my biggest reasons for waiting until late season, better looking antlers and pretty hides!  They just look better all around during the late season.  Right now they look like dogs with the mange and fungus on their noggins.

[mfswallace]

Since I saw it in a picture on here, I think I'm gonna tape a flashlight to my bow to get this smart old fella 
OK OK not gonna do that but did a biggy give this grandpa deer a reg book with the dates and times of hunting season 
He has been 20-30 yrds from my blind for the last 4 days 30-45min after or before shooting light 
He will slip up though at some point and then 

Got a video but can't get it out of AVI into whatever it needs to be...

[sticknstringman]

i love the heart pic. great shot!

[h2ofowlr]

I had a 4 x 4 mulie with eye guards come walking towards me.  I thought it was going to go to the right, so I got set up at the edge of the sage.  I was on my knees.  I lift my head and all I could see was his rack coming at me, he didn go right like I thought he would.  As soon as he got to the edge of the sage he whipped his head to the left and had me pinned.  Only the head was sticking out at 9 feet.  I was at full draw and we had a stare off for about 2 minutes at full draw.  He took one more step forward and I was going to take a shoulder shot.  I took aim and released and caught a pretty big chunk of sage with the arrow which was not in the sight picture and watched my arrow go about 30' in the air and out of sight.  I checked the bush after the deer bolted and saw where I hit it.  I also followed the tracks to make sure I didn't graze the deer.  Whatched it go up and over the ridge and out of sight.  Talk about bummed.  This was at about 6:20 on Saturday morning.  I also had a smaller 2-point whitetail at about 15 yards, but I decided to hold out as it was only openning morning.

[Martinhunter]

I went out last night a couple hours before dark into a walk in area and in the back of
The 1st cut was a nice tall forky, I stalked him to about 50 yards and then I spooked him. I don't think I would have took him but just warming up for my hunten trip in 2 weeks. He was a big bodied deer with a nice tall rack still in velvet.

[shedcrazy]

great shot and a nice whitey!

[fishingnut71]

 

[bearpaw]

Dustin nailed this whitetail buck early opening morning, he said he saw numerous does and this was the first buck to come by and he decided it would make a good first whitetail. One well placed arrow did the trick.

[MtnMuley]

Looks like he had plenty of firepower if that first arrow didn't connect! Lol 

[Gringo31]

Passed on a decent buck at 55 yards.  He would have went 21-22" wide.  Just couldn't do it this early in the season.....

[AKBowman]

Waiting for the velvet to drop, I hate velvet unless its Black

X2 that's why I bought the modern tag this yr and hunting with my bow (west side) If I'm not going to take advantage of deer hunting in Sept than I might as well hunt the rut with my bow in Oct/Nov.

[disturbed]

Yes My son shot a three point about 7:45 AM opening morning. I will post pix later.