Pope and Young

For this weeks blog post I am defining Pope and Young. Pope and Young is the club where you can enter your deer for scoring. Pope and Young scoring is only for bow and arrow. Scoring a buck is taking a tape measure and measuring all tine lengths, the circumference around the antlers, measuring the inside width from beam to beam, taking the outside spread (widest tine to tine), and measuring the tine difference of the tines. When this is done, whatever the final score is has to be over 125 inches. If your buck scores over this and you send it in to Pope and Young your buck is in the record books.

My 2010 buck

This past weekend was a great weekend for hunting; I saw ten bucks total in two days. Saturday night I knew it was going to be a great night since I rattled and grunted in a big eight pointer right away. Towards the end of the night i rattled in a small six pointer and an absolute mega buck! I drew back my bow but never got a shot at the monster buck with never ending points. I knew the next day was gonna be good, and Sunday i got into my stand at about three o' clock and the deer were already moving. I rattled in a small half rack buck right away and then fifteen minutes later the buck I shot came out. My buck went by me back and forth and finally on the fourth pass I shot him right where I needed too! It was truly a great weekend for hunting and I sure hope my dad can get the monster buck I saw saturday night.

2010 Buck

Rut is coming

The rut is upcoming and deer hunting should be picking up pretty quick. The mercury on the thermometer is dropping, the leaves are falling off the trees, and the bucks will start chasing does. When Halloween comes around the rut should be pretty close to peak. The weekend of the 22nd I will bring out the buck growl call and my rattling horns. The pre rut should be in swing by then and bucks will be getting aggressive and looking for does in heat. Good luck to all you bowhunters and may the rut be in your favor!