Blood Brothers Outdoors Season Reports: September 2006

Subscribe to our Season Reports

Subscribe to our mailing list and we will notify you of any hunts or leases that we obtain.

Blood Brothers Outdoors Season Reports

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Weekend Ahead Show/Hide This Report

Just a quick update for the week. Michigan's opener is approaching, but this weekend will find me in Buffalo County again. I'm looking to shoot one more doe so I can earn my buck tag for gun season and not have to shoot a doe first opening morning of gun season. Infalt is meeting me at Lee's place Friday night. Hopefully I can whack a doe right away and film Dan the rest of the weekend as he tries to relocate the shooter that walked past Rat Slayer, Jamey, opening weekend.

# posted by Jarrod @ 7:42 AM

Friday, September 22, 2006

Early Season Buck Bonanza Show/Hide This Report

I recently got permission to hunt a farm close to home and tonight I went in there cold to check it out. I haven't been able to scout this property before since I just got permission to hunt it a week ago, so I went in not expecting to see much. I chose a spot between a cornfield bordered by a marsh and an alfalfa field that had a 20 yard wide treeline seperating them. I chose a set up on the downwind side of the treeline and began climbing the tree. When I was up about three Lone Wolf sticks high my backpack got caught on some limbs so I rotated back and forth to free it. It worked, but in the process I unzipped the major compartment and the contents went flying. My video camera began its freefall but luckily it was wrapped in a t-shirt that caught on a branch and it wound up dangling 3 feet off the ground with no harm done. Looks like it may be a good night, I thought knowing that I just dodged a $1200 bullet. Imedeately after settling in 5 adult gobblers walked out into the alfalfa, followed by a doe and two fawns. Since my home area is a CWD zone the arrows will fly at anything other than a fawn or a yearling buck, so I was hoping the doe would come closer. She never did and soon she took the young-uns out of sight. 10 minutes later two scrub bucks and a 120 class 8 pointer entered the field on the far side about 150 yards away but they too soon had their fill of the greens and left me. Shortly after that a 6 pointer sprinted out of the woods on the far side of the field and continued his sprint until he dove back in to the woods 100 yards later. 30 seconds after that a coyote followed the 6 pointers trail and dove into the woods after him. It was about 6 PM by this time and it took about 15 minutes for the action to pick up again. A forkhorn finally got things going on my side of the alfalfa field by entering from the treeline 15 yards from me. 5 minutes later a slob 9 pointer with a 22 inch spread appeared from my treeline about 35 yards out. As he entered the field he turned straight away from me and fed slowly away, never offering a shot. While I videod him two more bucks appeared in the opposite corner of the field and walked directly at me. One of these bucks was the 150 class I had seen while glassing the area a week before. So now there is 4 bucks in the field and three are shooters with two of them being true slobs. The two slobs approached each other posturing and I thought they were gonna do a little sparring but they only tickled their antlers together before going about the business of eating supper. The group of bucks did slowly feed my direction for a while but then they changed course and left the field 20 minutes later, never getting closer than 70 yards from my stand. No shots fired but I sure am fired up.

# posted by Jarrod @ 7:42 AM

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Early Season Success Show/Hide This Report

What started out with a rain soaked opening morning, ended in one of the most perfect evenings a bowhunter can have on stand.

Warm temps, rain, and wind plagued us opening day, but the Blood Brothers still managed to whack two small does as Dan and I earned our buck tags. Actually, I think Dan may have pre-qualified already for his but he just whacked one cuz he loves to eat em!

Sunday morning was a rainout as well, so we scouted the early afternoon for our evening sits. I chose a secluded, natural waterhole, about 3 foot by 3 foot was all and a couple hundred yards into the woods near a known buck bedding area.

About 30 minutes before dark, a nice buck worked his way to the waterhole. With no binocs, he got to within about 40 yards before I could see enough to determine he was worth ending my season on in just my 2nd evening hunt of the year, and really my first buck hunt of the year.

At a mere 10 yards and facing me, the nice buck drank for a couple minutes. I was confident that no matter the direction he left from, I would soon have my shot once he drank his fill. I was right. As he stepped to his right, I drew as he entered the small break in the foliage below me. He paused and I settled in. Just as he began to take his next step, I touched off the pin when it was tight against the shoulder of the very slightly quartering towards me buck.

The arrow found my mark and the buck started a death run that would take him only 70 yards before crashing. My early season Wisconsin buck weighed 250 live weight and dressed 193 pounds. He has an inside spread of 19 3/8". He sports a lot of character, with stickers, mass, bladed tines, double forked brows, and lots of tree shavings from the poplar victims he'd been working over.

My shot took him through the heart and he only made it about 70 yards.

All in all, a great start to the 2006 bow season. I'm even more motivated to get that high back once more and fill my tag in Illinois come October! Stay tuned for more highlights to come...

# posted by Jarrod @ 7:43 AM