 11 26 2023 7 Pointer
Very nice 7 Pointer taken @ 4:42 PM as I was about to climb into Farmers Woods Stand for a late afternoon sit. I was late getting out there as I really had had enough of the frozen suffering and was seriously hurting after too many long hours on stand trying to stay warm.
|  11 26 2023 7 Pointer
Saw him staring at me across the cut cornfield, his tall white beams brightly contrasting against the dark fir trees of the North Woods. It was crazy exciting and frantically loaded a round and benched off one of the treesteps in the tree, waiting for the right moment. He closed the distance from about 100 yards to about 60 or 70 and it felt right. I think he might have been curious about what I was. He had 7 or 8 other deer with him, all slick heads. One heart shot later and I am done for the season!
|  November 20, 2023
Nice 8 pointer from Farmers Woods Stand. A late and frigid night and the camera would not work properly. Could not get the flash to fire. Managed to manipulate and salvage this insanely underexposed photo enough to be somewhat visible.
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 November 23, 2022
Arrowed this fellow when a small group of does "dragged" him right under me at about 20 yards!
|  November 23, 2022
Not the best photo, but I snapped this with my phone maybe 5 minutes before this group of does reversed direction and came right under me, him following behind.
|  November 21, 2021 Hooks Grip and Grin photo 1
I had been watching this mature buck on trail camera for the last couple years. This year his antlers were basically unchanged from 2020, maybe a bit more mass.
Anyway, within the last few days, he started cruising our woods for does quite often. I was astonished to seem him suddenly approaching me. Still recovering from surgery for a torn bicep tendon, I was forced to use a crossbow. My deer for 2021.
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 Hooks Grip and Grin photo 2
I named him hooks a couple years ago due to his outward hooking brow tines. With all the countless "generic" 8 pointers we have running around, it is nice to have something distinctive to tell them apart.
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A still taken from video from the night before. Cruising for does. . .
|  Riott's DeerFest 2021 Buck.
DeerFest 2021, South Edition, November 5, 2021
Riott's Rack Fork about 10 seconds from being arrowed
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 Riott's Rack Fork Grip and Grin 11 05 2021
Amazingly, we got the shot on video on one trail camera and video of the doe and him fleeing then him crashing on another camera.
|  Mick's first Deer! 10 02 2021
Mick was hunting from Center Woods Stand and made a great spine shot that dropped her right there!
|  The Broadhead as it was removed
Mick's broadhead after pulling the arrow out.
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 As I found him December 3, 2020 What a horse!
The big boys were seeking and chasing HARD on this frozen morning!
|  December 3, 2020 My Deer for 2020 A big 8 pointer
Our deer meat was finally getting low so it was time. I skipped shooting a deer last year (2019) because we still had tons of venison and turkey in the freezer.
|  Riott's bloody arrow stuck in an apple tree after a pass through shot
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 November 8, 2020
DeerFest 2020 South Edition was a tough one. Not much moving and the temps were too warm. On the last day, in order to put some venison in the freezer, Johnny Riott lowered his standards and arrowed two bambi deer within an hour of each other. A male and a female. Two perfect shots.
He would not let me take grip and grin photos so I am using these amazing gory photos. I was able to extract the arrow and broadhead without damage.
|  Kenny's December 4, 2019 spike
From Kenny's stand.
|  Riott's DeerFest 2019 Buck
It was a quiet DeerFest this year with not much seen at all on Friday, but on Saturday morning (November 9, 2019), they were moving. Have been seeing this large spike on camera for a few weeks.
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 Johnny Riott's spike.
|  Johnny Riott's spike.
|  Kenny's 8 Pointer 12 02 2018 Pic 3
Kenny blasted this nice buck from his treestand during the late afternoon of December 2nd, 2018.
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 Kenny's 8 Pointer 12 02 2018 Pic 4
|  Kenny's 2018 Buck Alive 12 02 2018 Pic 1
Kenny's December 2 2018 buck from earlier that day. He was cruising our woods for does several times that day and in recent days judging from the trail cam photos and videos.
|  Kenny's 2018 Buck Alive 12 02 2018 Pic 2
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 November 8 2018 8 Pointer Photo 1
The first buck of 2018. Been watching lots of bucks of this size/age class on the trail cameras out back.
There are several much bigger running around as well but decided I had better finally get one in the freezer.
|  November 8 2018 8 Pointer Photo 2
|  My Winter Buck December 1 2017 Pic 1
My blood thirsty days are gone. No more need to fill all 4 of my Maryland buck tags with racks. Now, I pick one deer late in the season after I have helped everyone else get their deer in the freezer.
I had watched this buck on trail cameras since July and as he shadowed a group of does, I decided it was finally time to end my season and start catching up on chores!
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 My Winter Buck December 1 2017 Pic 2
I passed on many bucks this season, including several much larger than this fellow but on the full moon late afternoon of December 1st, it just felt right. It has been a great season!
|  My Winter Buck from earlier in the season
Digging into my trail camera photo archives I was able to find a few photos of this buck from earlier in the season.
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 Early September and still in velvet
|  |  Devin's First Deer 11 22 2017
Shawn and Devin drove down from Maine to hunt over the Thanksgiving long weekend and Shawn and I peer pressured (via real-time text messages) poor Devin into arrowing this deer, his first, to get it under his belt so to speak. He made a PERFECT shot with the crossbow I loaned him. We need to get him a proper bow now. He has graduated and has the passion. Good stuff. Now, onto bigger deer for Devin!
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 Johnny Riotts 8 Pointer 11 10 2017 Pic 1
John came down for DeerFest 2017 and this sweet 8 pointer was the buck he chose. On the good days, we saw, and could have arrowed, many deer. On the poor days, we saw little or nothing.
|  Johnny Riotts 8 Pointer 11 10 2017 Pic 2
it was a good DeerFest2017 with 100% shot opportunity on antlered bucks and John made a PERFECT shot on this buck.
|  Mc8 Pointer under SW Stand 10 07 2017 Pic 2
Here are a few photos from earlier in the year of John's 8 pointer. I have 7 cameras running out back and there were so many bucks of this age/size class running round that in early summer I had named this one "Mc8 Pointer" for some reason.
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 Mc8 Pointer under SW Stand 10 07 2017 Pic 1
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|  Mc8 Pointer at Salt Site 10 05 2017
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 Mc8 Pointer at Salt Site 10 01 2017
|  Mc8 pointer and the Uni 6 under SW Stand 10 01 2017 Pic 1
|  Mc8 Pointer and the Uni 6 under SW Stand 10 01 2017 Pic 2
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