I am in!
From 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., I hand hauled cut firewood out of the creek bottom near my home. I tightly packed my truck nice and full. I will be unloading it after this evening's hunt.
Right afterwards, I took a much needed shower. Now I am relaxed and in a nice leaning back tree-stand, which is very comfortable.
Hope to get a much better look at that good buck I encountered this morning.
If he does not make it out before the last half hour, I will try to call him out.
Again, I think it was THUNDER, but I am not certain because he was broadside @30 with tree limbs in the way and I could not see his brows.
Wind is perfect too, from the bedding area to my S-SE.
(More details below of this evening's setup and situation.)
(Top photo is looking to the NE into the alfalfa field, middle is looking to the NW into the same field, and bottom is looking SE towards the very small creek bottom and on the other side are deep drainage raveens for the CRP fields that are to the South, which is where I saw that good buck go this morning @8:20-25)
(Top photo is a fresh tree rub 10yrds. away just to the NE that is also right next to the main deer trail that goes from the alfalfa field to the creek bottom and into the thick bedding area. The bottom photo is my 'Southwestern Stand', which is the setup I watched this good buck walk underneath to head to his bed from my 'Northwestern Stand' this morning.)
(The top photo are fresh tree rubs that I took from when I first & last hunted from this setup, which is my 'Southwestern Stand, through my binoculars. It is also where this morning's good buck walked out from to cross the field straight across to the other side and onto the deer trail I am hunting over this evening.
The bottom photo is the same tree rub just below my setup, to the NE@10yrds.,when I first & last time I hunted out of this setup, which my 'Southwestern Stand', the one I am hunting out this evening.)
Good luck to whomever is hunting this evening!