young hunters To me and my hunting group the most important thing is seeing young hunters learning the ropes and learning the traditions so that they can be carried on long after we are gone. So many people sent in pictures of their kids or grandkids with their first deer or in the woods with them.
My daughter is too young to legally youth hunt but I did take her to the woods. I put up a ground blind on the edge of a field and didn’t plan on seeing anything and we didn’t. The time we spent together was only about two hours and she loved it. Have you heard the song "Just Fishin'" by TRACE ADKINS? Change the lyrics around and turn it into a song about taking your two year old daughter hunting and that’s what it was like for me. She was so interested in every noise she heard and everything she saw we wouldn’t go five minutes without her asking “Daddy what’s that?” we had a blast and I plan on taking her with me every year weather we see a deer or not no matter how much noise she makes as she gets older she will learn what it’s all about. If you’re wearing camouflage and we see you in the woods she will ask “You hunt deer?” then she will tell you “I hunt deer!” and you will see how excited she is about it. Here are some of the pictures I have received from people of young kids in the woods and with their first deer. I hope you enjoy seeing the young people and the pictures make you smile because every time I see them I smile. Attachacam review After using my Attachacam for my two week hunting trip I can honestly say I love it there are so many ways to adjust it to fit the needs of what you want it to see and the angle it shoots the video at you couldn’t ask for a better product to film your hunts and I recommend it to anyone that wants to capture the amazing things that happen on your hunts.
At first I was a little worried about the balance and weight distribution when I got it. After using it I didn’t have a problem with it and it worked perfect no adjusting or anything to keep weight distributed. With the variety of options in color that the Attachacam comes in I didn’t have a problem with the way it looked. If you didn’t know that it was an extra piece you would think both my rifle and bow came with them mounted to it. I have a camouflage Attachacam mounted to my camouflage crossbow and a black Attachacam mounted to my rifle scope. It was so simple to mount the Attachacam to both my rifle and bow that I even took it off and showed some hunters that stopped by how to mount it to their bows. In just a few seconds I had it off mine and on there’s. Then all you have left is deciding how you want the camera mounted then attach your camera and you’re done. The entire Attachacam weight is most likely going to be less than your camera. When you’re not using the Attachacam it folds up smaller than my wallet for easy storage. You have so many options that it makes the Attachacam the perfect camera mount. The way it’s designed you can mount it to almost anything at one point I mounted the Attachacam to the four wheeler handlebars and it worked great for taping my ride down the trails. After using the Attachacam every day for two weeks I have fallen in love with the product it worked better than I expected and was very easy to adjust even when sitting in a treestand with deer walking within 20 yards. Now all I need to do is get a better camera and I will be set. You can’t get a better camera mount for self-filming your hunts or trail rides there is nothing out there that is as durable, reliable, and easy to use as the Attachacam. If you show up in my camp I’m going to be recommending you to get one the memory’s you will capture on film will be forever. You won’t find me in the woods without my Attachacam in the hopes of getting that shot of a lifetime on film. |
food hangover Well thanksgiving has come and gone with food hangover in full and only a little over a month left to deer hunt (antlerless, alternative, and bow season) what are we going to do now? For me I will still be hunting and trying to fill my freezer for others after thanksgiving they put away there camouflage and pack away their gear until next season. For the hunters that pack up and call the season done there are many things to start doing now to make sure you’re ready for next season. Let’s look at a few things you should do right now to save you work next season.
To start off with sit down and write about this season things such as the weather and what you saw. Make sure to write notes on the little things from this season that made it different from others. Now comes the part in your notes that are the key. Try and remember the circumstances of where you saw deer and what worked and didn’t in your stand set up. The reason this is so important is because next season you may have the same conditions and you will be in better position to handle them. Every year you should learn from your hunts and add to your knowledge of hunting and the area you hunt. So you don’t have to try the same thing and hope for a different outcome. Next clean all your gear and make sure when you’re putting away your gear make sure to note what problems you have and what needs to be fixed. You want to do this so next year when you get your gear out and start getting ready for deer season next year you haven’t forgotten what broke or didn’t work. A year is a long time to remember you broke this or that by making notes about what needs to be fixed you will know what you need to do throughout the year to fix everything. Send us your story from this season successful or not and we will post it on here. Let us know what you will be doing between now and next season to prepare throughout the year. Foe the hunters that will be hunting until there season is completely over or they have no tags left good luck and make sure to send us your pictures. Hillbilly Huntin community With the end of Missouri rifle season coming to a close today and early bow season in the books let’s take a look at the successes from around the Hillbilly Huntin community. With tags still in my wallet from rifle season and bow season I will still be hunting for some time whether it is bow season, antlerless, or alternative method I will still be trying to fill my remaining tags. Continue to send in your pictures so we can add them to the site and don’t forget to check out the Hillbilly Huntin Facebook page hunters have been sharing their pictures with us on Facebook so make sure to head over and check out Facebook to.
Sorry for the delay Sorry for the delay on updating the site after my trip I was right back to work and the furnace went out at my house. When the temperature is 18 degrees outside and 30 degrees inside it gets hard to do much. I have pictures from the Missouri youth hunt of several up and coming hunters tagging there first deer along with pictures from the Hillbilly Huntin community that have been sent in to post. I’m sure I will add the pictures I took and hopefully whatever video I can recover from my trip. Make sure to check back often in the coming days as I will be adding lots of new material.
Here are some of the pictures that i have had sent to me so far and they will be seperated and put into gallaries soon with more pictures to come.
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Hunting Trip
Well my two week hunting trip ended with only one doe in the freezer and a missed shot at a big eight point. On top of missing a shot with my bow I managed to break my camera and the video I did get can't be recovered because the SD card is stuck inside. I saw a lot of big bucks and every time they were out of range or I couldn’t get a shot off. My last weekend to hunt was opening weekend of rifle season and oh man was that a disappointing weekend for my hunt. Let’s go into detail on my two week hunt.
The doe I ended up shooting walked up a draw with two yearlings. I was hunting in a ground blind and the end of a little hog back overlooking a shelf that ran the length of the ridge with a draw between me and another hog back. Behind and all around me were beds rubs scrapes and deer droppings so we knew the deer were using this area often and set up a ground blind.
The yearlings walked up the draw and right past my blind one ended up bedding down five feet from me the doe on the other hand went up the other side of the draw and my only shot was quartering away at 58 yards. I took the shot and heard what sounded like a homerun hit off of a wooden bat. She ran 20 yards downhill fell and rolled another 20 yards. My arrow was dripping with blood and the broadhead is still useable. The Mid Atlantic X-System broadhead did a number on her and flew like a field tip I couldn’t ask for anything more.
The big eight I missed came in right at the end of shooting hours and I watched him for about 10 minutes before I was able to take a shot. The shot I had was between two trees and I took it what I didn’t know is that there was a dead tree leaning against the others and with the bad lighting conditions I couldn’t see it in my scope. I hit the limb and the buck ran off I was very disappointed but it was a clean miss.
I got down from my tree stand gathered my decoy and scents and walked back to the base of the tree to put everything away and I heard walking I looked in the direction of the noise and all I could see was antlers it was a monster I couldn’t count all the points but I could tell that he was bigger than an eight and standing 20 yards away I couldn’t get a shot because of all the brush that if I was in my tree stand wouldn’t have been in the way I was able to watch him walk away but never got a shot.
Another area I was hunting I had seen a big eight already and sat up a ground blind and my decoy the wind was blowing about 20 miles per hour and it was getting pretty late. My dad calls to see if I had seen anything and we got to talking about the next days plan and I looked to my left 30 yards away on the trail I was figuring the big eight would walk and there he was standing broadside looking at my ground blind. I put my phone down and softly said big buck big buck. I lifted my bow and before I could get my sights on him he walked behind a brush pile not walking the way I was expecting when he got to the field. I got off the phone and out of my ground blind slowly walking around the brush pile hoping to get a shot at him walking across the field. I looked all around the field and didn’t see him I figured he busted me and ran I turned to my left to see if there was a trail on that side of the brush and I see a white flicker from inside the brush pile. The buck didn’t walk around the brush he walked inside it to bed down. We got in a staring contest and I had no shot through the brush. He decided he didn’t like what he was seeing and high tailed it out of there and I had not shot.
The next big buck I saw was in the evening again and that morning I had watched a young buck chase a doe down a small ridge across the bottom and vanish. The rub line I was watching was definitely from a mature buck so I knew it wasn’t him. I stayed at that stand all day I was sitting half way between the top of the ridge and the bottom of the draw on a rub line with a few scrapes around me. I heard crashing coming down the top of the ridge and I saw a doe about 50 yards behind her came a big bodied buck supporting a massive rack I used every call I had and he never strayed for her trail but just slowed down and I got a good look at him. He was a monster ten with heavy mass just a truly beautiful buck. With a rifle I would have had the shot and taken it but with a bow a 100 yard shot is out of the picture so I was just able to watch him follow the doe out of sight. About 100 yards behind him following the same trail was a young small basket rack six that did the same thing the ten did. About 10 minutes after they were out of sight the doe came running back up the ridge in range and the small six was right behind her. I grunted and he stopped I had the shot and didn’t take it hoping the big ten would show up and didn’t.
I sat out on a ridge that lead to the big field watching a ledge waiting for a deer to walk it up to the field and it never happened but there was a small draw about 100 yards away that was super steep and I had some does walk up it and into the field. I changed my approach and moved to the draw the next day and I should have kept with my original spot. A big heavy eight maybe ten walked up the draw got to the flat and walked down yet again another very nice buck that I could have shot with a rifle. Ye walked within eight yards of the spot I was sitting the day before.
Opening day of rifle season I was disappointing for me but exciting at the same time my little brother came in from North Carolina and hadn’t gotten to hunt in about five years so I put in the spot where I saw the monster ten. He saw the big buck but thought it was too early to shoot and didn’t take the shot and ended up shooting a very young doe. Cheeto hunted the ridge that I saw the big heavy eight or ten and shot a decent eight after missing a good six. I went to my ground blind in the bottom that I hadn’t been hunting waiting for rifle season and I had four people within 50 yards of my ground blind so after sunrise and realizing how many hunters were around me I moved to my tree stand and found a young boy in it that had just shot a doe. It was his first deer and he didn’t know what to do with it or how to get back to the road. I helped him through gutting it gave him my drag rope and helped him back to the trail and told him how to get back to the road. My opening day was disappointing for my hunt but my group had a good day in all.
Sunday with the wind blowing 40 mph and the temperature in the 70’s there wasn’t much deer movement but still lots of hunters all around mostly driving trails my opening weekend was a bust and I will be trying to get one through the week if I find a place nearby to hunt.
The doe I ended up shooting walked up a draw with two yearlings. I was hunting in a ground blind and the end of a little hog back overlooking a shelf that ran the length of the ridge with a draw between me and another hog back. Behind and all around me were beds rubs scrapes and deer droppings so we knew the deer were using this area often and set up a ground blind.
The yearlings walked up the draw and right past my blind one ended up bedding down five feet from me the doe on the other hand went up the other side of the draw and my only shot was quartering away at 58 yards. I took the shot and heard what sounded like a homerun hit off of a wooden bat. She ran 20 yards downhill fell and rolled another 20 yards. My arrow was dripping with blood and the broadhead is still useable. The Mid Atlantic X-System broadhead did a number on her and flew like a field tip I couldn’t ask for anything more.
The big eight I missed came in right at the end of shooting hours and I watched him for about 10 minutes before I was able to take a shot. The shot I had was between two trees and I took it what I didn’t know is that there was a dead tree leaning against the others and with the bad lighting conditions I couldn’t see it in my scope. I hit the limb and the buck ran off I was very disappointed but it was a clean miss.
I got down from my tree stand gathered my decoy and scents and walked back to the base of the tree to put everything away and I heard walking I looked in the direction of the noise and all I could see was antlers it was a monster I couldn’t count all the points but I could tell that he was bigger than an eight and standing 20 yards away I couldn’t get a shot because of all the brush that if I was in my tree stand wouldn’t have been in the way I was able to watch him walk away but never got a shot.
Another area I was hunting I had seen a big eight already and sat up a ground blind and my decoy the wind was blowing about 20 miles per hour and it was getting pretty late. My dad calls to see if I had seen anything and we got to talking about the next days plan and I looked to my left 30 yards away on the trail I was figuring the big eight would walk and there he was standing broadside looking at my ground blind. I put my phone down and softly said big buck big buck. I lifted my bow and before I could get my sights on him he walked behind a brush pile not walking the way I was expecting when he got to the field. I got off the phone and out of my ground blind slowly walking around the brush pile hoping to get a shot at him walking across the field. I looked all around the field and didn’t see him I figured he busted me and ran I turned to my left to see if there was a trail on that side of the brush and I see a white flicker from inside the brush pile. The buck didn’t walk around the brush he walked inside it to bed down. We got in a staring contest and I had no shot through the brush. He decided he didn’t like what he was seeing and high tailed it out of there and I had not shot.
The next big buck I saw was in the evening again and that morning I had watched a young buck chase a doe down a small ridge across the bottom and vanish. The rub line I was watching was definitely from a mature buck so I knew it wasn’t him. I stayed at that stand all day I was sitting half way between the top of the ridge and the bottom of the draw on a rub line with a few scrapes around me. I heard crashing coming down the top of the ridge and I saw a doe about 50 yards behind her came a big bodied buck supporting a massive rack I used every call I had and he never strayed for her trail but just slowed down and I got a good look at him. He was a monster ten with heavy mass just a truly beautiful buck. With a rifle I would have had the shot and taken it but with a bow a 100 yard shot is out of the picture so I was just able to watch him follow the doe out of sight. About 100 yards behind him following the same trail was a young small basket rack six that did the same thing the ten did. About 10 minutes after they were out of sight the doe came running back up the ridge in range and the small six was right behind her. I grunted and he stopped I had the shot and didn’t take it hoping the big ten would show up and didn’t.
I sat out on a ridge that lead to the big field watching a ledge waiting for a deer to walk it up to the field and it never happened but there was a small draw about 100 yards away that was super steep and I had some does walk up it and into the field. I changed my approach and moved to the draw the next day and I should have kept with my original spot. A big heavy eight maybe ten walked up the draw got to the flat and walked down yet again another very nice buck that I could have shot with a rifle. Ye walked within eight yards of the spot I was sitting the day before.
Opening day of rifle season I was disappointing for me but exciting at the same time my little brother came in from North Carolina and hadn’t gotten to hunt in about five years so I put in the spot where I saw the monster ten. He saw the big buck but thought it was too early to shoot and didn’t take the shot and ended up shooting a very young doe. Cheeto hunted the ridge that I saw the big heavy eight or ten and shot a decent eight after missing a good six. I went to my ground blind in the bottom that I hadn’t been hunting waiting for rifle season and I had four people within 50 yards of my ground blind so after sunrise and realizing how many hunters were around me I moved to my tree stand and found a young boy in it that had just shot a doe. It was his first deer and he didn’t know what to do with it or how to get back to the road. I helped him through gutting it gave him my drag rope and helped him back to the trail and told him how to get back to the road. My opening day was disappointing for my hunt but my group had a good day in all.
Sunday with the wind blowing 40 mph and the temperature in the 70’s there wasn’t much deer movement but still lots of hunters all around mostly driving trails my opening weekend was a bust and I will be trying to get one through the week if I find a place nearby to hunt.