I'll be on a flight back to Japan.
I hate all of you.
Reserve weekend, don't be a hater Chuck!!!! I will be seeing COB in the mornin any messages????
I'll be on a flight back to Japan.
I hate all of you.
This will be the first year since they started to youth deer hunt I won't have a kid to take. Couldn't even find one to borrow.
I think I'll be in a stand in a funnel between 2 patches of woods, I have 2 places like that and am just trying to decide which one would be better.
We were so, so close last night it was ridiculous! We settled into the stand around 4:30 thanks to Tracie taking so long to get ready. (Go figure right?!?) I wanted to hand a set, but didn't have time and it cost us! At 4:57, I looked to the west and I said: "At 5:15, they will come from that direction. I'll see them, then you can stand up and get ready to shoot out this window."
One Mississippi
Two Mississippi
Three Mississippi...
"Shit. They're right there!" :smiley_crazy:
So I got her up and in position and the fun began. The wind was swirling like crazy and the lead doe was super cautious. She'd started towards the food plot, then turned back no less than four times before committing. She worked to 18 yards, then stopped behind a tree to survey the food plot. Tracie could see her and had tension on the string when: "Zing...ting...ting...whirl...zing" Yep, the damn feeder went off and scared the hell out of an already keyed up doe! I knew I should have turned it off when we got in the stand!
We waited 15 minutes, then climbed out to pick a tree and cut another lane so we had a better shot to the food plot from the platform blind. As I was breaking branches, Tracie yells "LOOK!" I turned to see a nice 120" 8-point 25 yards from us not paying a bit of attention. We quickly got behind a tree and I whipped out the grunt call. I ended up grunting that deer to within 30 yards, but it was too dark, brushy, and far for a shot. Still a cool encounter.
We'll be back tonight and I'll have a stand hung to kill this doe. Oh, and I'll have the feeder turned off!!!
Hopefully I can cut a deal and put my wife in a new car by tonight... that way I don't have to dick with it this weekend. My thirst for blood is peaked right now and big bucks are on the move. (Oh yea, the does are in trouble too... bitches) I've GOT to hunt hard this weekend because after that I'll be screwed for hunting time until the extended gun weekend. I'm planning on hunting a ridge top saturday morning between two bedding areas, just downwind of a 3/4 acre oat plot. Hopefully Saturday evening I'm caping out ol' mossy horns instead of hunting.
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Hey badg is the son bloodthirsty?
Good luck to all who are guiding youthhunters! That's a great thing.