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Team #12 - Deadly Dozen

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Welcome to the 19th Annual AT Deer Contest!
Below is your team for the 2022-2023 season. These contests are designed for everyone to have fun and not take things too seriously. Let's all have a safe and successful season! Use this thread for discussion purposes, sharing trail cam pictures, etc. amongst your team members. After your team has a majority on a team name, have one member of your team post the team name in the Team Name thread.

Remember the 4 S's = Shoot Straight, Stay Safe
Good luck everyone
Joe

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Ccongrats on the kids guys. I'm shooting a bowtexh revolt. Ive been trying different releases this year and have settled on a stan shootoff thumb release. I hunt all private with 3 family places, some other farms with permission and I'm part of a hunting club with multiple leases so if only I had more time....
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Checking in from Kansas
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Whats everyone shooting set up wise?

I'm running a Mathews Traverse with 80lb Wake limbs.
Axcel Accutouch carbon pro with UV3XL scope
Hamskea Trinity
Conquest Bars
28.5" draw.. 82lbs on the scale.
580 grain Axis tipped with most likely QAD Exodus. (I like to try different heads but Exodus has always been my go-to, always have some in my quiver)
I have a couple different bows I hunt with.
2005 Mathews Outback 29/70
2007 PSE HF6 28/70
2012 PSE Dream Season Evo Franken bow 29/94
2014 PSE Full Throttle 28/62
I'll probably hunt with the throttle the most this year. Just waiting on the new string set to come in from Breathn and then I'll get it all setup and tuned.
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Appreciate that..

I have a full "pro-shop" set up in my basement as well.

But I'll take you up on coming and shooting one of those hogs ;)
The pigs don’t stick around much. It’s a small population of them thankfully. Where I killed that one yesterday was within 5 miles of the city limits of Atlanta. Our season in the urban area runs until the end of January and if we are needing points for the team we can definitely find a buck to put up some points. We do need to meet up and at least whack a doe on video.


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I have a couple different bows I hunt with.
2005 Mathews Outback 29/70
2007 PSE HF6 28/70
2012 PSE Dream Season Evo Franken bow 29/94
2014 PSE Full Throttle 28/62
I'll probably hunt with the throttle the most this year. Just waiting on the new string set to come in from Breathn and then I'll get it all setup and tuned.
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The outback was the first Mathews bow I bought in the fall of 2003. I shot my first p&y and won my first state championship shooting 3-d with it. Traded it off in 2006 for a bow for my wife. Still have the same beautiful wife so was a good trade. She don’t shoot the bow I traded for but I still think I got the better end of the trade.


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Anybody got trail camera pictures of bucks they are after? Several of the urban spots I hunt and holding bachelor groups but as soon as the velvet sheds it’s a craps shoot on which ones stick around.







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The outback was the first Mathews bow I bought in the fall of 2003. I shot my first p&y and won my first state championship shooting 3-d with it. Traded it off in 2006 for a bow for my wife. Still have the same beautiful wife so was a good trade. She don’t shoot the bow I traded for but I still think I got the better end of the trade.


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It was my first bow also. My brother gave it to me in 2007.
It was my first bow also. My brother gave it to me in 2007.
It wasn’t my first bow. My first was a Bear Pronghorn around 1992. I killed my first deer with a Jennings Buckmaster that I bought with my first pay check when I was 16. I’ve spent enough on archery equipment in the last 30 years to have a huge 401K but would not have had near as much fun.


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I’ll post some more this week, looking forward to getting to know all of you a little better. Idabowhunter maybe this is the year! I’ll try to bring a little more to the table than last year.
The pigs don’t stick around much. It’s a small population of them thankfully. Where I killed that one yesterday was within 5 miles of the city limits of Atlanta. Our season in the urban area runs until the end of January and if we are needing points for the team we can definitely find a buck to put up some points. We do need to meet up and at least whack a doe on video.


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Thatd be fun. I was hoping to be in a self filming set up by this season but it just ain’t gonna happen this year..
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Here's some I've gotten pics of but the bigger ones haven't hit my property yet. Gotta remember I'm in PA though so I'm not chasing giants
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I’ll post some more this week, looking forward to getting to know all of you a little better. Idabowhunter maybe this is the year! I’ll try to bring a little more to the table than last year.
Glad to be on a team with you again, always look forward to this. No real big bucks on cams yet but that doesn't bother me, I'll find a few decent ones come Nov.
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Man what is everyone considering big bucks? The ones you have posted I'd be more than happy with. Now I feel like I'd be letting everyone down taking one of those.
Man what is everyone considering big bucks? The ones you have posted I'd be more than happy with. Now I feel like I'd be letting everyone down taking one of those.
Nonsense, man. I wouldn't want a friendly online competition to do that to anybody. Shoot whatever would normally make you happy! Besides, not all parts of the country are created equal. In my part of PA a 100" is a very nice buck, a 120" is big and a 140+ is once in a lifetime. So that's what I'm working with here. I'm going to be pumped for anyone on here whether they kill a doe, basket rack buck, or the next world record, lol.

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I’ve got a couple of 8’a that are probably going to finish in the 140’s. I’m looking for a ten that I haven’t seen yet. I’ll hopefully get a cam out on another place today that usually has a good one.


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As I said earlier, I'm hoping for some redemption this year. Last year wasn't one to remember, I didn't even get a doe shot with archery equipment. I got a shot a decent buck in the late season, thought I put a great shot on him, but never found him. After watching the video many times, I believe I hit his near leg and that caused the arrow to deflect back into the liver on the opposite side, resulting in a single lung hit. With the number of coyotes we have, I'm sure they ran him out of the area, we looked the entire next day with dogs, but to no avail. I continued to look the next couple of days by myself and never found him. He was a buck I wanted shot, so I was hoping he didn't make it actually, but losing a deer stinks! Anyway, hoping for a better year. I shoot a Prime Rival LD; I've been hunting with it for 6 years now. I just recently put up a few cameras, and nothing much has shown up on them as of yet, but the bucks will come. We're in the middle of a major drought right now, so I'm hoping that will break sometime soon. It's hard to get too motivated for fall when everything is brown and crunchy and it has been in the triple digits much of the summer.:(
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We still have 5 hunters who haven't checked in, I'll reach out to them by pm.
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I'm 1 of the 5 who hasn't checked in yet, my apologizes. Checking in from N. IL!
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