Joe, I think these bucks are laughing at us :D Damit!!! good luck on him, now you know what is there!!
I read your story and I think either "curse" or "good run of bad luck" defines us this early season. lol But honestly, I feel this turning around very fast...for both of us.:D
GL to you both and it will turn around real soon. Right now I am fighing myself to be near the cornfields not to far from the bedding areas or right smack dab in the middle of this woodlot.
In two hours I will be on my way to the Bone Yard !! I will be hunting my first day of this season tomorrow morning !! Just received a scouting report from one of the other hunter at the Bone Yard. He has been hunting the last two day. The scouting report says that lots of turkeys and doe’s on the Bone Yard. I know which stand I will be in tomorrow morning.
Where did you see that at Joe? I got out tonight and had a basket rack size buck under me at 5 yards. He had a nice size body but the rack was just way inside of his ears. He came right down the same path I use to sneak into my stand. Thank gosh for HS scent away spray as I believed is saved my butt when I sprayed my boots right before I went in. On a side note I was trying to make up every excuse to not go hunting this afternoon. Then i relized I had left my hunting boots out in the middle of the field the last time I hunted when I changed out of my hunting cloths. It had been raining all day but I said heck with it and still went out and now I am glad I did so. I got my boots back and heck I got to learn a bit about this buck and where he came from so a good afternoon anyways. So if you dont feel like going to bad get your butt out there you just never know.
She posted it up in the score thread. And for some reason I was thinking Wildlife Research Center Scent Killer not Scent Away. I guess my mind went blank after 5 hours in a tree lol.
I made it out on our opening day here in Illinois and of course had deer coming under me in the dark with the climber only half way up the tree... so I waited for what seemed an eternity for them to leave so I could finish my climb before it got light. I was hunting the edge of a thicket that's where a few Doe's and their fawn's bed. I was hunting the park property where we are required to take a doe before we can take a buck. I had a Doe fawn come out of the thicket but her mother wouldnt present me with a shot ....... so the doe fawn was my target and she presented a quartering to me shot at 22 yards and I took it... she went 12 yards and piled up 10 yards in front of my tree. No Blood Trailing needed.... YEEEEEEEEEEEpe I was testing a new Grim Reaper 2 inch Broadhead... I like them ! The arrow went through a small amout of the top of the shoulder blade and cut 2 ribs in half before punching through her other sire So I am now Buck Hunting and looking for a second Doe, if I take another doe I can then take 2 bucks off the park property. I did pass on a young buck yesterday morning at 18 yards.... he needs a few more years to grow. I did post a pick of her in the score card thread. The hubby got his Doe yesterday afternoon when she came in with twins and she was Huge she measured 170mm from tip of eye to the corner of the nostril. Gonna be back out hunting tommorrow morning.
Tonight I pull into my parking spot. I had to roll in the van tonight due to truck issues. As I was getting out I look across the driveway and see a big doe and a fawn haulin along the treeline 60 yards off. The appeared spooked by something over there. Not 5 minutes later as I am getting dressed behind the van, I look up and there is 2 fawns high tailing it too. I dont know how these 2 didnt take my mirrors off they were that close, and never paid any attention to me. Something or someone had them running over there. So I get in my stand and the woods is dead for 4 hours then at 6:00 to my right the 2 fawns appear. One was acting like she was sneezing (like a snort every few seconds) but was not spooked. She continued feeding like nothing was out of the ordinary. They worked their way under my treestand and sniffed a strap I accidently left at the base of the tree. Then I watched them work their way towards their feeding grounds for the evening. Second sit with deer in range but nothing I wanted to take.
Congrats out to Lady Forge way to go gal. Joe here ya go: http://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/article/the-best-way-to-inhibit-your-scent/ T
Congrats to Lady Forge. I'm thoughroughly disgusted with my property in WI, or should I say the neighboring farmer. Last time I hunted there was in 07-08 and killled a doe. TRhe farmer is a quirky guy who likes deer and dissaproves of killing does. In 07-08 when the introduced Earn a Buck for the gun hunters, his BIL explained to him that he needed to shoot a doe first and Lavern (the farmer) tells him "not on my land you don't". Wouldn't even let his own wife's Bro hunt there! So I didn't hunt there last year, and this year there are almost no deer there. Of the two times I've been there I've seen the same doe and twins twice. This is a place where in the past youd see 2-12 deer per sit! What's up? Well during the day while I was back at the cabin I see his two dogs come loping out of the woods (our woods not his) The dogs are essentially trespassing! This repeated itself every day. The dogs spend a lot of time in the woods during the day. What do you think they do inthe woods? Well they chase anything they can! How long would you sleep there is you and your kids got chased every day? The other neighbor a bowhunter is really pissed. He may shoot the dogs if he gets a chance. Anyway I'm not going back. I was supposed to go Halloween weekend but "fuggedaboudit". Looking for a new place to go. Duke offered to take me and I might have to take him up on it. As an aside, I did get to watch a Jake under my stand. I was 20' above him and he was 10yds out. I blinked at him repeatedly but he didn't move. I just raise my one shoulder an inch and "puck" he turned and ran. Their eyesight is amazing!
Sorry I did not see your email until I got back from hunting. I did see 3 bucks and 6 doe's and two turkeys. One buck was a good one. No shoot opportunities last weekend.
Wat to go Deb congrats on the Doe!! Well today I was planning on tagging a Doe, and believe me I had my chances but never flung an arrow This morning about 9:00 two Does came in heading to there beds. The bad thing was, they both hugged the very edge of a very big highwall with a strip pit behind it. If I shot and missed it was good by arrow, and If I connected and got a pass through it was good by arrow :D SO they got a free pass. This evening I set up in a spot that always has turkeys and I have a fall tag. As expected two toms came in but stayed 70 yards out. They usually walk the ridge I was on but instead flew across some water SO, I was still Doe hunting and it was getting about that sweet time. I just told myself that I better get stood up just incase, when I here something behind me. Its three Does that snuck in on me while I was parked on my butt with Bow in holder When I finally got in position to shoot it was to late, they had moved into the brush!!
Went out yesterday morning and the hubby got another big Doe Nothing for me in the morning... Christine and Kendal and Louie and I went out to breakfast and came up with our afternoon Hunting Gameplan. Kendal had already gotten his Antlerless the other morning and was off to try a new spot for a big buck, the hubby was heading home to ice down the morning Doe and Christine and I were heading to the same general area to hunt, At 5:00pm I had a Doe with twins come walking in heading to the Acorn Patch and when they hit the opening at 25 yards I was at full draw on the Big Doe but they trotted across the opening so I didnt take the shot I new if I took the shot by the time the arrow got there with her trotting it would of proabably resulted in a gut shot. Had 2 more doe's come in out of range a little latter, but the Big Guy never showed up . I found one of his new rubs that was very impressive. Christine had headed to spot where my husband shot the big doe since we knew there was now 2 orphaned fawns in that area and plenty of Doe's.... since she had to get a doe before she good take a buck. Sure enough she got one... the arrow looked like nothing but a high muscle hit with almost no blood on it and lots of fat on the arrow. We followed the blood trail even though Christine was sure we wouldnt find the doe she was convinced it was a high muscle hit, but the blood trail was getting a little better and I saw a few bubbles in the blood and the blood started to flow even better. About the time that christine said she was ready to give up the blood trail I went around the other side of some tall horse weeds and Christine was on the other side and she said to us I think she went this way when in reality she was standing not 8 feet from her dead doe fawn. I had already spotted her dead doe so I said to her " Why dont we get your dead doe right here before we go that way " Christine didnt believe me at first she said she thought I was kidding. So now Christine and Kendal are Buck Hunting ... Yeeeeeepe Slept in this moring and gotta work today but I'll be back out at it tommorrow morning,
