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Little help aging and scoring this deer please? I’m on the ropes with this guy. Thanks alot

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Was inspecting my arrows and came across this one. Flex test didn’t make any sounds, but once I ran my fingernail on the shaft, I noticed this spot.

I really didn’t take it seriously until I decided to break out my camera and have look. It really shows the crack better. These images have been cropped and resized, and zooming in isn’t as clear as the actual image.

It’s not very big at all, but enough to put doubt into shooting it. To the trash it goes.

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How old do you think he is and about what he scores? Trying to compare guesses. He’s got four on one side and five on the other, and yes not the best pics I know.

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I bought one of these sniper outlaw tripod stands at Menards last year when they were clearing them out. Hunted out of it once and the seat is awful. I’m wondering if anyone here has one or if they have done any modifications to it. I’m wondering about just taking the whole seat out and using a camping chair. They seat is in the center so you have enough room to turn completely around but it puts you to close to the edge. Being able to sit back further in a more comfortable chair would be good I think.

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With all the rain early and tons of heat the beans (and corn) are doing amazingly well here in Iowa this year. What that means to us bowhunters is that the protein and carbs will be there in spades and the deer can travel when ever they want and still be almost completely covered up.
Not hard to see what mini "kill" plots aren’t much use here in Iowa when your whole state is food plot. Here are a couple of pics to show what I mean. Now neither deer is has a huge body but still, see how well covered even a 3 year old buck is, and this is just the beans!

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No matter how much I look at this picture, I can’t find the deer. I’m normally pretty good at stuff like this.

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If you know me well you know i do alot of hare scramble races and enduros. Well my right knee has been bothering me for the past 10 years and recently had a good get off at a hare scramble in Kentucky re injuring my knee.

Well long story short after a few Dr visits and an MRI both Meniscus are shot and a bad ACL tear, surgery required. Surgery may take place sometime in July but I had the idea to limp through deer season and get it done first of the year. Either way I’m hanging stands early and buying a few ground blinds just incase I can’t get up the ladder.

I have had a couple surgeries in the past but nothing with this long of recovery time. Anybody else have a simular surgery done? What can I expect?