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Sit 2 My second trip to the blind was less planned. I ended up with some free time after work because the kid had basketball practice that my wife was taking him to. I was going to miss it with work, anyway, so I got home with a favorable wind and went for it. I could hear deer below me chasing...

Sit 1 On my first sit as home owner here I made the decision to carry the cheap budget bow. Shortly after I snapped this pic I got around the corner of the out building and the two fawns (one doe, one BB) were right there. They are practically tame, and I'm half surprised they didn't follow me...

I have been taking it pretty slow as far as getting into the woods. I have made two sits so far, both just in the corner field blind that I can get in/out of with very minimal disturbance. I have a couple of stands in traditionally good rut locations I plan to sit soon here. Bottom line, as far...

Anybody seeing much out there?

We got a decent frost just outside Athens this morning.

35 degrees in the hills near Athens this morning. I want to see that first frost so badly to know this junk is over for the year.

I googled fly strike since I didn't know what it was...now I'm wishing I still didn't. :oops: Our fly bag traps were basically full in 4 days (2 bags on our deck). I tossed them and bought a reusable/refillable trap from Rescue. It's already catching them in large numbers in the first 24 hours.

Listed at 45@28". I have no scale but it feels about right and the arrows I shoot from my other bows of similar weight shoot fine from it. I draw closer to 29" and it definitely stacks a bit in that last 1-1.5". Nothing I can't shoot through, but the tail end of the draw is not great compared to...

This is our first year at this house, but the last house was only about 8-9 miles away so it's not like a really new area. We had one random year at the last house that was similar to this. Now I wish I could remember if it was a bad EHD year.

That's my current approach, as well. I've decided I'm not shooting a doe for sure until after we've had a frost and see where things stand. Got some bucks on camera I'd love to stick but I'm not blowing stuff out right now with this hot weather. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the Black Widow I've been shooting for the past couple of years. I shoot it great and I feel it was worth every cent that it cost. The one catch, I can't shoot it out of all of my ground blinds. It's a 62" bow and I shoot with a near vertical bow. In a...

This is one of the traps. They’re both this full.

Somewhat random question: is anyone else seeing crazy amounts of flies outside? Is it possibly related to the EHD outbreak (large number of carcasses leading to large amounts of flies)? I am in Athens County. We have two disposable bag fly traps on our back deck and in about 4 days they are...

It makes more sense to me to study EHD deeper than CWD, but I'm new here.

I even had the thought, what if in the future I put out a couple of water tanks to provide the deer with a water source that has steep walls and not be suitable for the midges...but there's just too many other water sources for them that you can't control. Creeks, ponds, wetland areas...I'm just...