Sunday, October 27, 2013
Sorry but no longer posting...
While I continue to track my hunts for myself, I am no longer going to post them here. It's for various reasons but mainly due to time and becoming a job in itself. I will always share knowledge gained from them, but the details themselves no longer. Thanks, Ty.
Monday, October 7, 2013
10-7-2013 Evening Hunt
Well I was unable to make it out the first Saturday of the hunting season, the 6th, but Sunday after raining ALL morning and through lunch the God of us all stopped the rain and the stand beckoned me. With a SW wind I knew where I was heading, back to the same oak stand overlooking the trail leading to the food plot and the micro plot at the swamp property. I was banking on deer moving from Northern bedding down to plots then off to the East where the hay was located.
Time In: 4:15pm
Legal light was up right around 7:47pm
I wasn't on stand longer than 2 minutes and I had a flock of turkeys come in right at about 40 yards on a leisurely stroll from the south working to the northwest. I quickly took a quick video of it and got settled in.
About 6:15ish I decided my half hour of sitting, resting from standing otherwise, was over and I stood leaning against a tree and giving my fantasy teams a quick check on the phone. Well I heard something behind me...okay sounded like a deer probably a squirrel. I put phone up and begin the slow motion of turning to look...through the trees I see something go from the east to the west very quickly....I thought deer but wasn't sure, almost thought turkey....not two minutes passed and off behind me where the wood line meets a cut canary grass field the same "thing" comes running in. It was a deer and it was running, not sprinting, right in my entrance trail....up the trail towards my tree....leaping over the down tree directly under me and stopping out in front of me at 11 yards broadside. I can tell at this point it's a fawn doe and she is having a ball...she runs back under me and through the woods and off to the east. I then see momma creeping in the same path I had walked from the canary grass field. I figured she'd bust me with the mixture of my entrance trail and the fact she was directly downwind. Luckily she never acted the wiser and after nibbling maybe a handful of acorns she turned and headed east as well.
I would see nothing else but swear I heard a buck right before legal light was up off to my front (west) through the woods...we shall never know.
No luck but better than being at home watching football!
Time In: 4:15pm
Legal light was up right around 7:47pm
I wasn't on stand longer than 2 minutes and I had a flock of turkeys come in right at about 40 yards on a leisurely stroll from the south working to the northwest. I quickly took a quick video of it and got settled in.
About 6:15ish I decided my half hour of sitting, resting from standing otherwise, was over and I stood leaning against a tree and giving my fantasy teams a quick check on the phone. Well I heard something behind me...okay sounded like a deer probably a squirrel. I put phone up and begin the slow motion of turning to look...through the trees I see something go from the east to the west very quickly....I thought deer but wasn't sure, almost thought turkey....not two minutes passed and off behind me where the wood line meets a cut canary grass field the same "thing" comes running in. It was a deer and it was running, not sprinting, right in my entrance trail....up the trail towards my tree....leaping over the down tree directly under me and stopping out in front of me at 11 yards broadside. I can tell at this point it's a fawn doe and she is having a ball...she runs back under me and through the woods and off to the east. I then see momma creeping in the same path I had walked from the canary grass field. I figured she'd bust me with the mixture of my entrance trail and the fact she was directly downwind. Luckily she never acted the wiser and after nibbling maybe a handful of acorns she turned and headed east as well.
I would see nothing else but swear I heard a buck right before legal light was up off to my front (west) through the woods...we shall never know.
No luck but better than being at home watching football!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
So It Begins-October 1st 2013
Well with the opener I was found hunting what I assumed would be the least intrusive stand...not necessarily the one I expected the most movement as I realized it is early and nothing needs rushed.
So I hunted the Oak stand that is central on the swamp property just N of the food plot and to the NE of the micro plot just yards up the two track from the larger one. For reference in 2013 this puts the Hay all the way to the East of this stand, the corn E and SE, and the beans already picked to the S. (the corn was picked too).
Wind was SSW, not the best but not the worst either really and I was hoping the pre-dawn wind would suck a deer worth an arrow up into the northern bedding...Temps were mid 50s at light and creeped up to the mid 60s by 11 when I started packing up.
-Had an unconfirmed buck subtly grunting and visibly shaking a branch but never got confirmed visual.
-Around 8:15 had two does come in from behind and get nervous when hitting access trail...no stomping or blowing just slowly leaving.
Had to get a lot of work done for my one business scheduled to have a big day October 2nd so left at 11am. Oh how great it was to be back in the saddle!
So I hunted the Oak stand that is central on the swamp property just N of the food plot and to the NE of the micro plot just yards up the two track from the larger one. For reference in 2013 this puts the Hay all the way to the East of this stand, the corn E and SE, and the beans already picked to the S. (the corn was picked too).
Wind was SSW, not the best but not the worst either really and I was hoping the pre-dawn wind would suck a deer worth an arrow up into the northern bedding...Temps were mid 50s at light and creeped up to the mid 60s by 11 when I started packing up.
-Had an unconfirmed buck subtly grunting and visibly shaking a branch but never got confirmed visual.
-Around 8:15 had two does come in from behind and get nervous when hitting access trail...no stomping or blowing just slowly leaving.
Had to get a lot of work done for my one business scheduled to have a big day October 2nd so left at 11am. Oh how great it was to be back in the saddle!
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