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Once in a while its fun to review past photos. This reminds me that shooting a trophy is great, but is only a small reason to be in the woods. Here’s a selection of other reasons to be in the outdoors. The pure beauty, the intense quiet, the sound of the creek running through the woods, a Pileated Woodpecker….and a little humor. Enjoy!
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It has been awhile since I’ve added to the blog. Doing a little archery buck catch up here.
The first ten point jumped when the archer drew his bow. Luckily he didn’t go far, and happen to stop in an opening. A 30 yard double lung shot downed this buck shortly after for an easy downhill drag.
The second gnarly fighter buck came crashing through the woods while chasing a doe. Large branches cracked and snapped, leaves rustled, hooves pounded the ground. That gets your attention! Gnarly Boy followed the doe right past the stand. Sometimes things work out.
The last photo is the beauty and magic in the rolling hills, during autumn in Wisconsin.
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At Turtle Creek Outfitters we do everything possible to give you a chance at a Wisconsin trophy buck. However, we all know there a ton of reasons why this may not happen. I won’t even start that list! And you probably know there are plenty of reasons to hunt Wisconsin trophy bucks.
At TCO we have beautiful, and productive stands. Here are a few autumn images reflecting what you might see from your tree.
During this uncertain time of the corona virus, we are following CDC guidelines concerning Covid-19 safety precautions. Let’s help our health care system by masking up, keeping our social distance and ventilating indoor spaces with fresh outside air.
In addition to the previously mentioned safety precautions, we also started pre-hunt Covid testing. The free test results have returned to us in four to twenty four hours, helping the lodge to stay Covid free.
As you all know, there’s way more to the hunt, than the kill.
One of my recent sits during a 7″ snow, included seeing three bucks. In particular, the buck in the photo, bed down for over 2 hours, within 20 yards, using two different beds. When this photo was taken, the 2 1/2 year old 6 point, was moving from the alder brush on the right side of frame, bed #1, to more alder brush just left of frame, bed #2.
I had envisioned this photo 10 minutes earlier, when a small 8 walked in, but in my excited state, reaching for my phone, he busted me. Dang!! But then I was rewarded with this buck, standing still for an hour as not to make any noise while he slept down to the right. When he moved to the second bed, I was ready, with frozen hands and a wet phone. Totally worth it!