buckeye

I used to keep one for a few years, our PC crashed and I lost all of them (3 years worth).... Out of irritation and aggravationI didn'tkeep one the past two years... I decided that I am going to start keeping one again this year........

I got a little constructive criticism from Mobow and implemented his suggestion.... I am just looking for more ideas to add to mine before it gets to late into the season.

Let me know what you think I need to add. If you keep one post at least afew days worthso I can check it out.

Here is a copy of my log up to date......




[align=center]2007 Bowhunting log[/align]
[/align]Sep. 29, 2007
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[/align]AM.6:00-9:30 3.5 hours.
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[/align]Wood Lenhart- Inside corner stand.
40's N wind. Overcast.
0 sightings.
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[/align]PM 4:00- 7:45 3.75 hours
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[/align]Newton Bailey- Front Oak flat.
60's N - NE wind. Overcast.
2.5 y/o 8 point no shot offered.
1.5 y/o 9 point shot offered.
Doe and fawn shot offered.
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[/align]*They were all in the acorns except for the 2.5 buck.
*The 2.5 buck had a decent frame shorter tines and not a lot of mass.
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[/align]Sept. 30, 2007
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[/align]AM No Hunt.
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[/align]PM 4:00- 7:45 3.75 hours.
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[/align]Newton Bailey- Swamp Oak.
70's S - SE wind. Partly cloudy.
9 Antlerless 6 out of the 9 shots offered
2.5 y/o buck no shot offered. No point count.
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[/align]* Most were into the acorns.
*I got busted while climbing down at dusk.
*2.5 y/o buck busted up a doe group by chasing a doe out of the pack, first chasing activity I have noticed this fall.
*The 2.5 had a decent frame average tines and not a lot of mass.
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[/align]Oct. 1, 2007
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[/align]AM 6:45 - 9:30 2.75 hours.
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[/align]Freedom Front corner stand.
50's S - SE wind. Partly cloudy.
0 sightings.
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[/align]PM 4:00 - 7:30 3.5 hours.
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[/align]Fisher Cornith small pasture.
Upper 70's S - SE wind. Sunny and windy.
0 sightings on stand.
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[/align]*Bumped a couple deer at the Bistarky stand on way out.
*Hornbeck trespassed onto my property and left note “Keep out” on my truck window. Man does that guy piss me off.
*Appointment with attorney set to get rid of this ass hole for good.
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[/align]Oct 2, 2007
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[/align]AM No hunt.
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[/align]PM 4:30- 7:30 3 hours.
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[/align]Newton Bailey 9 point stand.
70's S - SW wind. Mostly sunny.
0 sightings.
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[/align]Oct. 3, 2007
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[/align]AM 6:45-9:30 2.75 hours.
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[/align]Newton Bailey 12 point breakline stand..
60's SW wind. Partly cloudy.
6 antlerless 3 shots offered.
1.5 y/o buck no shot offered. Tall narrow rack no point count..
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[/align]*First group of antlerless deer the mature doe bleated at her fawns numerous times...... A 1.5 buck busts in chasing her and grunting up a storm.... He grunted numerous times. Was fun to watch!
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[/align]PM 4:30- 7:45 3.25 hours.
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[/align]Wood Lenhart- Inside corner stand.
70's S - SW wind. Overcast and light showers.
1.5 y/o 5 point shot offered.
1.5 y/o 5 point shot offered.
2.5 y/o 7 point shot offered.
2.5 y/o 8 point shot offered.
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[/align]*They were all over the acorns.
*The 2.5 8 point was a fine looking buck, had great mass and a decent frame. Good tine length as well.
*The 2.5 7 point had a decent but smallish frame with average tines and mass.
*I could hear them sparring after they were out of sight.
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Rob/PA Bowyer

Oddly enough, while I was downstairs looking for something I saw a perfect log book so I quickly jotted down my only sit for this year. We'll see how long that lasts..

Of course I can go back to through my HNI journals the last few years. It doesn't tell all but gives me a good idea.

buckeye

I would flood the system if I reported all my sits on my HNI Journal

This is more for record keeping than anything.

quiksilver

I keep a detailed log in MS Excel spreadsheet.

I use Excel b/c it allows me to do quick math - total deer, total bucks, total shooters, total hours on stand, deer per hour, bucks per hour, shooters per hour...

I keep the same basic notes - hours in stand, bucks, does, notes, wind, weather, temp, stand site, etc...

If it matters to anyone, I'm averaging 1.162 deer per hour (dph)this season. That's up from last year's whopping 1.091 dph.

It's not too late to add another column, so I might start taking note of the solunar peak times, just to see if there's any long-term correlation there. Obsessive? Probably.

It's nice to comparepast years to the currentyear... etc...

buckeye

Looks like I have saw 25 deer in 26.25 hours so far this fall for .95 deer per hour.

mobow

I thought of something else concerning the weather. If it were pre cold front, post cold front, warm front, ect....and pressure. Whether it were high or low pressure, falling, rising or steady barometer....

Holy cow, I sure am glad I don't keep one of these......[&:]

Germ

Hey guys I have one.

One I have been testing. It is a website you put your sightings in. Along with weather conditions etc, wind direction, moon phase. Crop field or mast your where hunting.

The next year you can run reports for area. Put in info

Location
Weather conditions
Wind Direction
Moon phase
Crop or mast

It will give you report on deer you have seen for the above location throughout the years.

mobow

And do those of us without computer hacking skills have access to this sight Jedi Master?

Chicks dig skills, by the way.

Germ

I am thinking about going live with it. Right now just me

JoeRE

Bingo--I started one just like that as of last year, however, I break down my data acording to stands--my spreadsheet serves 2 purposes, oneis a stand predictor (I made it just out of curiosity, to see how closely where I decide to hunt corellated with the known factors of wind speed & direction, temperature, time of year, AM vs PM, precipitation andbarametric pressure. I use a simple algorythm to calculate the most worthwhile place to sit on a given day's conditions based on a probability, stand 1 might be .85, and stand 2 might be .62, so i would pick stand 1.....much to my supriseit coorelates quite well with what i decide as to where to hunt.

the other half of my log I record everything deer sighted, type, hunt conditions etc. I do not have enough data in it yet, but my plan is to use the data gathered and refine my algoryms--for instance right now winddirectionis weighted 3, time of day and year 2, wind speed 1.5, temp & percip 1 etc.