What a great family moment! Congrats to all of you dude. That is one hell of a way to start the deer season!
1023's Seasonal Exploits - 2020 Edition
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Awesome, once again I really like your Pics, you spend the xtra minute for what makes great pics..
Congrats to you both
Congrats to you both
lung buster
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Nothing better than watching your kid have success in the woods. Congrats again!
bigten05
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Big_Holla
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Sure was purdy out there today. The deer have clearly transitioned to the acorns. The woods are covered in droppings and once forgotten woods trails, are alive again.
Food plots need this rain and cooler weather. I can't wait to sit over this baby in a few weeks.
Food plots need this rain and cooler weather. I can't wait to sit over this baby in a few weeks.
Made my first solo sits on Sunday, but no deer were harmed. Got skunked behind the house in the AM, seen a doe with a fawn on my walk in at the farm that afternoon. I'm taking a more qualitative approach to tracking my season this year and abandoning my usual "metrics". My goal is to share a lesson learned from each hunt, so here's the start to that.
Sunday morning I was able to confirm that I can hunt that blind in the AM on the wrong wind so long as it's a light wind and sunny. I also learned I don't enjoy sitting in a blind staring out a hole at a pile of corn. It's boring. But big bucks make us do stupid things.
Sunday afternoon was a good lesson on quality materials. I bought some cheap screen to put around my ladder stand and it's noisy as hell. I also moved this stand 30 yards and it changed the thermals. It probably doesn't work for afternoon hunts anymore. I'm guessing morning hunts on stiff NW-W winds will be better. Only one way to tell....
Sunday morning I was able to confirm that I can hunt that blind in the AM on the wrong wind so long as it's a light wind and sunny. I also learned I don't enjoy sitting in a blind staring out a hole at a pile of corn. It's boring. But big bucks make us do stupid things.
Sunday afternoon was a good lesson on quality materials. I bought some cheap screen to put around my ladder stand and it's noisy as hell. I also moved this stand 30 yards and it changed the thermals. It probably doesn't work for afternoon hunts anymore. I'm guessing morning hunts on stiff NW-W winds will be better. Only one way to tell....
Big_Holla
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MILKWEED
That's how I determined the shift in trees made a huge difference in evening thermals. There's a drainage right behind the stand that was a funnel for my scent. It leads to bedding, which is a recipe for disaster. That was on a southerly wind. On a northerly, it should push me towards the creek and with rising thermals, it'll carry out of the holler. Anything westerly pushes it back down my access. I'll experiment ASAP.
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Think back 10 years ago. Would you have know all this and why it was happening? Crazy to think back about how we thought we had it all.figired out. Lol. Keep learning and sharing!
I had an awareness on the macro level, but not the micro. My attention to detail is much better these days, as is my patience. Definitely a much different existence today than a decade ago that's for sure!