With 2024’s bow season set to start between 9/14 to 10/5 in Pa, Nj, Ny, Nc, Ohio, and Maryland, as well as many other states, I am sure a lot of leather wallers are chomping at the bit! Because I went on my South African bow hunt last September and came home to an immediate job change, I only got (2) days of bow hunting for deer in. The season before I got (0) days in due to issues with a knee replacement. This season I will be working on a project in NJ and this will allow me to hunt some places I use to hunt on both sides of the river when I lived in Nj & Pa area. It will also allow me to get my camp in north central Pa each weekend. That being said and after seeing many photos of the great bucks that Nemophilist has taken over the years and posted over the last year. I thought it would be fun to post some photos of the past with the hopes that others will also post their past successes. The idea is to pump us up a little before the season and encourage everyone to put a little extra effort into their shooting and preseason prep work. A lot of great guys do CD’s shot of the day as a way to get ready for that big moment that may only happens once a season. Good luck to everyone and I hope people will add photos and join in on the shot of the day! Thanks - Joe

Sounds awesome Joe, love the pics and hoping for even more. Chomping at the bit is right, a lot of us are ready to git er done. Hoping that you get lots of hunting in this year, also hoping that you draw an elk tag. Jerry

Buddy I couldn’t be more excited for the up coming season myself!! My kid is 18 now and so I am free as a bird to come and go and hunt as much as I want. I get out at 2 so I can hunt every evening I want plus weekends.

Good luck to you and everyone!

Very nice trophies

Nice Joe!

Nice pictures and great memories Joe. Won't be long until we'll be hitting the woods again chasing them bucks. :) Here are the bucks I've taken from the last three years.

Here are a few more from the past.

My littlest buck.

Pennsylvania late archery season buck after Christmas. Temperature was in the 20s that day.

Thanks Frank, here is the lay good one from 2021. I hope other join in on this post and the shot of the day. Take care and good luck this season. Joe

Cutout, glad to hear and I wish you great luck this coming season. Joe

Gettin ready. just came in from shooting some arrows. Less then 2 months to go here in IOWA!

Murph, those are a couple of super bucks! Thanks for posting the photos! If that does not get you fired up, nothing will! Joe

Think success.

Big or small I like them all!! They can ride in my truck anytime.

This aint no TV show!

A little while ago. In a tree. Stick and string. No calls or cameras , decoys or scent stuff. Just huntin.

Need a girl one in here. Gotta love em.

Nice guys

Love the ladies also Murph! Hey it is great to get a big buck, but my dad use to say - a buck is a buck is buck. Same with a doe, if you work and make a good effort every deer is a well earned trophy! I hope others join in with big buck, smaller buck, does! Let get pumped up for a great year for all our men and women and youngsters here on the Wall.

Great pictures guys! Nemo and Joe some great bucks!

X2 Jed great thread!!

Joe, The early archery season starts in my area September 21st and runs until November 29th. I can't wait to get out in the woods after them bucks again. Also, in my area the early archery deer and archery bear seasons run together. Not a lot of bears in my area but they show up sometimes like these ones in the pictures that weren't far from my house. I always get my bear license in case one shows up when I'm bowhunting them bucks. :) I killed a couple black bears bowhunting in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Canada, but it would be nice to get a Pennsylvania black bear.

No doubt getting a beat in Pa is something I have tried to do. Both my dad & one brother have taken bears out of our camp. We have a lot of bear and some big boys. This year I will take two weeks off when the deer & bear seasons run together in 2G. If you get your buck early and have time, you would be welcome to join me while the archery bear season goes on. We will be setting up stands soon and we usually have 10 to 12 in areas where we see bears and deer. If you pm me I will give you my phone & email. Thanks - Joe

Joe thanks for the invite. I can't PM anyone anymore. I got the same glitch in the system as Phil Magistro and I believe 2 bears has.

Mr Hogan , been enjoying awesome thread .However must be honest when I first saw thread title I thought you u had an issue with a pack horse or a " cribber " ! ... LOL

Vaquero 45, that’s funny! My son was born in September about three weeks before I shot that big wide 6 point in the swamp behind my house in Nj. It was land locked and I had some good hunting there until it was sold during a divorce. That was thirty one years ago. Another picture is about (7) years later with my son and a Pa buck hanging in an apple tree in my mom’s yard in Philadelphia. I hope more folks will put up their pics. This is not some kind of ego post. I was thinking like preseason football, it could be a way for all of us to get fire up for the coming season. It’s been stinking hot or wet out and for a lot of us it’s hard to want to get out and practice or scout a little under these uncomfortable conditions. I was just thinking a little positive vibes might encourage us all. Good luck this season and thank you - Joe

Good thread. My upcoming season will look significantly different than it has the past 4-5 years. We will no longer be hunting west Texas and no plans on where to hunt. Lifestyle choices and situaitons change. Kind of the theory of life, but this was last years success.

-Bones

Gotta love it, some awesome pics to get the blood stirred up. Some real beauts too! I remember a time when just seeing one was success, they were so few of them back then. Now that I can barely get around, they are everywhere. Thanks for the pics all, may you all enjoy a very successful season this year! Yeah Joe, I tell these guys not to apologize about a smaller deer with a bow, it is still a trophy plus you get to eat it.

Great buck Dry Bones! I hope it works out for you how ever it goes.

I’ll post a few pictures. Not much I’d rather do than bowhunt whitetails.

On the hunt last season.

That a boy Greg!!!

Nice Greg.

Those are some great deer Greenstyk! I am glad so many are adding to this post! I know I am fired up, I can wait to get out in woods. Good luck this season! Joe

Those are some great deer Greenstyk! I am glad so many are adding to this post! I know I am fired up, I can wait to get out in woods. Good luck this season! Joe

Last Halloween , heavy snow.

Gun season

Late season

now you all done got me wound up agin! here i was just calmly shootin' a few arrows every day and now i will be tearin' my targets up again! october 1 here in iowa and after 59 years of bowhunting i'm still rarin' to go! and thanking the GOOD LORD i still can! amen!

Deer camp public land

Thanks guys. There are some nice animals posted on this thread and some very good hunters that post on the Leatherwall. Good luck to everyone this fall!

Great going Jed! Thanks for adding to this post. Glad to see so many good hunters are as excited as I am. I hope you have a great season. No doubt you will get out there and make the effort. Thanks again. Joe

Like Nemo I love hunting the late season

1980s bowhunting camp ..rebels cove mo.

1992 longbow buck from our english creek hunting area.my 2 sons and i have hunted this area since the early 1970s!

don't know where the bows came from but not mine. here is the picture that should have been with my comment . sorry boys!

Really late season lol

Great pictures Gerald!

I love bowhunting when there is snow.

It’s rare to get snow here but the times I’ve hunted in it I loved it. Maybe this will be the year we get some.

Good stuff! I am indeed chomping at the bit!

Ugh, thought I had it right

Gary, The hard part is after the shot. Last year I cut my deer in half to get it to the truck.

Eric, it took alot of years to get that many.

44 days until archery season here. :)

Good bucks Nemo. That’s what we’re after.

Thanks Greg. Won't be long and we'll be after them again.

Jed, I don't know about serial killer ("LOL"), but I do OK.

Great photos gang! Thanks for posting! Good luck to everyone this season. Hopefully we can put up a post of our collective success’s after this season. Joe

what a great day here in iowa! low temps and low humidity sure got us thinking october! a few big ones around here on my sons trail cam.

Great pictures everyone!

I haven’t killed as many animals with my traditional bows as some of you have but I’m chomping at the bit to get out there. I had a successful season last year and I’m hoping for another one this year.

They are all one at a time.

Jim, I know you had to work your butt off after the surgery. You had a awesome year on inspire of it. Hat's off to you!

yep, getting ready to head out and do a little scouting this morning.

gotta get a little coffee in me first.

Good thread. I enjoyed the pictures.

Good morning hunt

Girls deserve some photos

Dressed her with dads knife

Nice guys

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