All settled in, beautiful frosty morning, doe snuck by me with nothing in tow... About an hour later another one came thru again nothing following it...
Feels great too be out....
Feels great too be out....
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Nope, but very, very close. Had to quit early due to a sick bride. I don't even want to tell the storie(s) of the last two mornings but I'll get around to it with pics... Something should die this week...
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rgecko23
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I agree, thats why I am concentrating on another area. I have been on the field edge, and not seeing much at all. Just a little basket rack, and a spike. Not even does, so I have decided to make the sweaty long walk up to the top of the ridge, and sit up near the oak flats, and what I think is bedding. I gotta give it a shot, its a very non pressured area. Its a long hard walk, but I hope its worth it. I am even debating, taking the 4 wheeler, and then stashing it in the brush, and walking the rest of the way.
Too make long story short, another doe came by followed by a buck. I wasn't even going to shoot, but I did & he ran off. I thought I got him. I couldn't remember seeing the lighted nock. I walked around thinking he'd be laying nearby, but nothing. I could not find the bolt. I sat back down trying to re cap what the hell just happend. The buck was only 10 yards away. I didn't even seen him coming in since I was watching the doe... dumb dumb dumb. I went looking again & decided to check one of my trail cams out in the neighbors yard thinking there might be something there. Sure enough ....
After I went to the spot where the deer was last standing in the pics, I had already looked in that area on my first sweep, I could not find any blood anywhere. I did come back & find the bolt stuck in the ground on the outside of the thicket. The bolt must have deflected ... & it wasn't even a bolt with a lighted nock. I'm such an idiot for not making sure.
After I went to the spot where the deer was last standing in the pics, I had already looked in that area on my first sweep, I could not find any blood anywhere. I did come back & find the bolt stuck in the ground on the outside of the thicket. The bolt must have deflected ... & it wasn't even a bolt with a lighted nock. I'm such an idiot for not making sure.
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I'm patiently waiting for this front to pass Thursday. Looking like a 20 degree drop in overnight temps from Wednesday to Friday, with rain all day on Thursday. Friday should open up calm, and cool with a light breeze from the WSW, great for my best stand. I'm off 11/8-11/1, 11/13, 11/15-11/18, so I should hit things about right!
rgecko23
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I am seriously debating wether I should move my time off this week from wed.,thur., fri. To monday, tues, wed, of next week.
badger
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BINGO! Unless you're in a bottleneck or pinch point between the doe bedding areas and food source or another bedding area. Good luck out there!
Seasons over!!!! Found my deer early this morning. Real nice ten pointer!!! Will have pics up tonight.
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Cant wait to get the pics up myself lol!!! Wife is at work and has the camera. Mother nature flipped the switch and the rut was on yesterday. Seen three differant bucks all with swollen necks. Missed a eight pointer in the morning that was closer than i thought. Had corn husks hanging from his rack. Went back out in the afternoon and at 3:30 seen a beautiful eightpointer standing on the edge of a field in the sun then at 4:40 i here this massive crunching noise coming up on me fast from behind me. I'm sitting on a stool in weeds between a plowed field and a corn field with the outside edges just cut. This buck comes so close i could have wacked him on the ass with a golf club. I stand up quick and do a grunt noise at him and he stops and looks around then he starts walking and i grunt again and he turns a little to the left and i shoot him at ten yards. The blood trail was massive and i thought it was a lung shot by the spray. We followed him about five hundred yards across a cut bean field to a big thicket with a pond. We see where he layed down three times and decided to get out and leave him alone. We give him a hour and go back with lights and get on his trail bloods starting to thin and i get the sick feeling. Buddy says lets let him go and you come back in the morning so i agree and we are walking back to the truck and jump him again by accident. He was laying in a pool of blood which made me happy that he was still pumping and it wasn't drying up. Went back this morning and zig zaged a CRP field in and found him about a half hour. The only other time i was that happy is when my daughter was born. I will post pics to this post tonight. Now its my daughters turn as she still has her tag. Damn i love deer hunting!!!!
