Well, good luck to those of you who gun hunt. I will be stuck in this factory for the next 13 days straight, so put your stories on here, so I can at least READ about deer hunting.....
not much to tell. got up late today. loaded my smokepole and headed out . got to my stand about 7:45. at 8:05 3 nice does" 80lbs or so" came by. i picked out the smaller of them and filled the morming air with white smoke . so i had 20 min. of enjoyment and 4 hrs of draging ,skining and cuting up. think i'll sleep in tomarrow......good luck all john f
Not much for me to tell.Got in the woods about 6:15, saw a buck off in the distance, but not near close enough. Only deer I saw all day. I stayed at my red oak trre till about 10am,not able to stand still any longer. I walked and sit the middle part of the day. Usually I jump up a couple deer but not even a sound of one in the distance. They simply were not moving. I finished the day in my "evening " stand. Heard deer crossing the creek (hooves on rocks) and hoped they would eventually wander past my stand but never did.I left after dark. Tomorrow I hit it again. PS, not a complete lost day, saw a redtail hawk drill a fox squirrel. Very cool.
-- Edited by flinttim at 02:22, 2007-11-18
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Just the opposite here. Fewer shots heard than in the past and less deer. Maybe the wind has something to do with it. I think what's happening at the farm is relative to them closing the old Brush Creek property to only those with permits. I think fewer guys are hunting there and they are not pushing them out to our place as in years past. Last year was the same way. I had 6 does coming my way this morning and thought I would get a shot but a young buck with his mind on love broke them up and scattered them all over. Nothing ! I don't think there are fewer deer in the "area" but a lot of them aren't getting pressured to move far. I heard maybe 6 shots from the old Brush Creek area yesterday and none this morning.
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