"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.

[Deadeye]

So happy for your GS. I can't wait for the days when mine are old enough and mature enough to take along.

Down here I see posts from guys that claim their 4 yr old shot their first deer or whatever but to me and their Dad that is just to young. And I don't see how a 4 yr old can hold and aim a rifle good enough to shoot a deer anyway. The only thing I can figure is they are using one of those Caldwell Quad Holders where Dad sights the gun and Jr just pulls the trigger.

Some of them claim they have been taking their son/daughter since they were 18 months old, but they are Dog Hunters and count having the kid strapped in a car seat and bouncing around in the truck as going hunting, not quite what I consider it to be.

 

[OkieKubota]

So happy for your GS. I can't wait for the days when mine are old enough and mature enough to take along.

Down here I see posts from guys that claim their 4 yr old shot their first deer or whatever but to me and their Dad that is just to young. And I don't see how a 4 yr old can hold and aim a rifle good enough to shoot a deer anyway. The only thing I can figure is they are using one of those Caldwell Quad Holders where Dad sights the gun and Jr just pulls the trigger.

Some of them claim they have been taking their son/daughter since they were 18 months old, but they are Dog Hunters and count having the kid strapped in a car seat and bouncing around in the truck as going hunting, not quite what I consider it to be.

I know it all depends upon the child to see if they are mature enough to pull it off. Eli has always been a very laid back easy tempered child that lends itself well to deer hunting. I think 4 is too young no matter what and I feel Eli was at just the right age at 7 when he began. I started him on squirrels at 5 with a little single shot “cricket” 22 rifle. Eli has never used a quad pod rest but has used the shooting rail on our ladder stands and he has used the side of a tree as a rest.

We are actually on our way out again this afternoon as it is the final day of the youth season. We are going to sit a double ladder that has never been sat that I put up a week ago. It’s 78 degrees and a S wind...

 

[OkieKubota]

Well Eli’s hunt didn’t go as hoped. We did end up seeing a doe just before dark but we had a great time anyway and we are going to hunt again during rifle season in November.

I think we have a series of events happening right now that is going to throw our bucks into a big seeking and chasing phase over the next couple of days.

1. We are going into a daylight moon rise phase and the moon will be dark. This is will also save a bunch of deer from getting poached by moonlight...

2. We started a 3 day rain event last night. We have a system parked over NE Oklahoma that is supposed to be nearly 100% chance through Saturday afternoon so deer should really be moving during rain breaks.

3. We are going from shorts weather (73 yesterday) to daytime highs in the 40’s some days next week with nighttime lows down into the teens and even a chance of snow midweek.

Our 9 day muzzleloader season begins Saturday and I expect it to be one for the Oklahoma record books as far as harvest numbers and my wife will be able to hunt next week as well. Pretty excited about how it is all coming together!



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[OkieKubota]

It has been raining continuously since 9 pm Wednesday night and is not supposed to stop until Saturday afternoon. Didn’t think I would ever have to say this in Oklahoma but I wish I could get some of this rain to the folks in states that are behind on rainfall...

 

[OkieKubota]

Muzzleloader season has been going on since Saturday. I was unable to hunt opening day due to major rain in the morning and the wrong wind to sit our blind here on the farm. That evening when the storm broke we had prior engagements. Sunday and Monday I hunted our deer lease and saw a lot of deer but no mature bucks. Saw very little rut activity with some buck grunting the only indicators that it is getting closer. Wind switched so I came home and hunted the farm this morning. I took a conservative approach this morning that got me past the plot but not into what I would call the good stuff of our property. I was about 100 yards from that. I saw deer and none had a clue I was around. Good sit...

I am excited that a deer I knew had to have been poached showed back up...not sure if he was whipped by another buck but his right ear stays in a dropped position in every photo now lol...

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[Triple C]

Okie - Been going like a mad man and trying my best to catch on on threads. Love the pic of the buck above. Any idea how old he is? Down here I'd guess him at least 4.5 and probably 5.5 but I ain't that good at aging them on the hoof. He'd be a shooter for sure here. I did make it out your way last week. We flew in to Pierre Tuesday morning, hunted Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Then flew back to ATL Wednesday afternoon. Slayed a bunch of pheasants and had a blast. If you're ever in Pierre, you've got to make plans to eat a bone-in ribeye at Cattleman's steak house about 5 miles out of town on the Missouri river. We've ate there since 2005 and it is without question, my favorite steak house in the world. Great service and this time of year, loaded with locals and hunters. Glad your wife is going to be back in OK to hunt with you during ML season.

Always a joy to catch up on your thread!
3C

 

[OkieKubota]

Okie - Been going like a mad man and trying my best to catch on on threads. Love the pic of the buck above. Any idea how old he is? Down here I'd guess him at least 4.5 and probably 5.5 but I ain't that good at aging them on the hoof. He'd be a shooter for sure here. I did make it out your way last week. We flew in to Pierre Tuesday morning, hunted Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Then flew back to ATL Wednesday afternoon. Slayed a bunch of pheasants and had a blast. If you're ever in Pierre, you've got to make plans to eat a bone-in ribeye at Cattleman's steak house about 5 miles out of town on the Missouri river. We've ate there since 2005 and it is without question, my favorite steak house in the world. Great service and this time of year, loaded with locals and hunters. Glad your wife is going to be back in OK to hunt with you during ML season.

Always a joy to catch up on your thread!
3C

I bet you guys had a blast up in SD! I will have to try that steakhouse out in the next couple months...
On the big 8 I was looking at some old pics of him and “Ten”... I figured the 8 was 5 back in 2017. This is a trail cam photo of him in 2017

This is him in 2018

This is him now...

This is one of his 2018 sheds...it scores 65 3/8 so he was close to a 150” 8 point last year...

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[OkieKubota]

On a side note I passed the buck I call “Ten” this evening...he came through the white oak grove in a thunderstorm cruising for does...

 

[Triple C]

With the size of the bucks you have on your property and lease, I'm surprised I don't hear more about folks headed to OK for "midwest" hunts. Around here, seems IL, KS and IA get most of the out-of-state action for guys traveling to the midwest to hunt. Hope you get a crack at that toad of a buck.

 

[OkieKubota]

With the size of the bucks you have on your property and lease, I'm surprised I don't hear more about folks headed to OK for "midwest" hunts. Around here, seems IL, KS and IA get most of the out-of-state action for guys traveling to the midwest to hunt. Hope you get a crack at that toad of a buck.

We have nice deer in pockets...our deer lease had 1 deer I really wanted and actually got a wack at earlier this year but he has disappeared from all trail cams and I hope he did not die. Lots of shooting around our lease and it is high pressure there. Here at home seems to be an anomaly for our state...

 

[OkieKubota]

My wife told me last night she wanted to go out this morning so we got ready this morning and I took her to the blind in our south plot and she fired up the buddy heater. I then went on to the north end of our place. I had a big deer pass me in the dark headed south toward our plot and then about 45 minutes later I heard a shot from the south (Christine). I got down and headed that way and she told me a big deer came into the plot harassing some does and she took a shot and the deer ran toward the creek bottom. There was blood everywhere and I found the deer about 60 yards into the woods. I thought at first it was “Ten” but I don’t have any photos of this deer and never saw it before so it is a stranger buck from somewhere else cruising for does...

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[lakngolf]

Congrats, Mrs Okie. Is Christine a better shot than Mr. Okie?
I hope you have lots of freezer space.

 

[Chainsaw]

Good shooting and congratulations Mrs. Okie. You sure do know well how to pick what days to hunt!

 

[OkieKubota]

Congrats, Mrs Okie. Is Christine a better shot than Mr. Okie?
I hope you have lots of freezer space.

My wife has always been very methodical about her shooting whether it be gun or bow and will only take a high percentage shot. She shot this one quartering away slightly and she took out the top of the heart. The 80 grains of powder pushing a 245 grain powerbelt expended all of its energy inside the deer and no exit wound was found. Blood trail was phenomenal...

 

[OkieKubota]

Good shooting and congratulations Mrs. Okie. You sure do know well how to pick what days to hunt!

After telling her I passed on “Ten” the day before and also saw a nice buck chasing a doe in the backyard yesterday she wanted to give it 1 last go. She has a full calendar the rest of this week and this was her last chance... we at first thought she got “Ten” but I was really glad when we found it was a stranger to our property!

 

[Chainsaw]

Is it normal for mature bucks to be in the open this early in the year? Ours hardly ever do. Rut type movement is not expected for another six or seven days here unless maybe it is early for some reason. This Saturday morning looks like a possible winning morning for here so we'll be starting rifle hunting at least mornings then.

 

[OkieKubota]

Is it normal for mature bucks to be in the open this early in the year? Ours hardly ever do. Rut type movement is not expected for another six or seven days here unless maybe it is early for some reason. This Saturday morning looks like a possible winning morning for here so we'll be starting rifle hunting at least mornings then.

Not normal at all but she said this one came in checking the does in the plot. I asked her if he ate anything and she said he just went straight for the does. He was a stranger buck so I don’t know where he came from or what is “normal” for him. Another nice buck was in our backyard “rock plot” corralling a doe yesterday evening about 3:45 pm. My wife and I have killed some of our largest bucks this week every year chasing does...our experience is the does will start becoming more scarce soon because they will be hiding from the cruising bucks and if you happen to see a doe that doesn’t have that tell tale back and rump hair all in disarray from a buck being on her then get ready!!!

 

[weekender21]

Incredible how many mature bucks you have! Congrats to Mrs. Okie!

 

[dogghr]

That one is a keeper Okie. And I’m speaking of that Ms Okie the sharpshooter. Congrats to both of you.


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[OkieKubota]

Where was I? Oh, that’s right...not out there yet

Oldest and youngest on the place...

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