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Post by Buckfever on Dec 7, 2005 11:54:09 GMT -5
I'm back to hunting here after the second shotgun season. I scouted Sunday and found 2 places that they were running based on the tracks in the fresh snow. Setup but saw nothing on Monday till I was walking out and three does walked right in front of me. I kept walking back and then as I'm cutting the corner, on up ahead in the clover field there was a herd of deer, a couple of bucks, 12-15 deer total. Yesterday I scouted the field and there's 2 ways they're coming in, I setup on the heavier trails mostly because there was a better setup there covering 4 trails that funnel past a split Oak that I setup in the middle of all the splits. Great cover. And I cut some great shooting lanes. Thing is though last night they came in mostly from the other way but really from several locations. First a six came in and fed till he saw something and bolted. Then a nice 8 come in and he fed and bedded down 60-70 yards from me, then a doe come in and she fed and moved off, then 3 more doe come in and feed. Then the buck got up, they run a little and he chased them but then they all went back to feeding and the lone doe came and joined them. Nasty cold 10degrees with gusts of 20mph. But hte show alone was worth it. I had to wait till they moved off a bit to get out of there undetected.
I'm going to stick with the same setup, because if they come through I can kill them there. But this is one of those deals where 2 guys would be more effective.
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Post by Buckfever on Dec 7, 2005 19:34:53 GMT -5
Same 6 come in from a completely different direction. I should have moved I could have caught them leaving from the other way. I could do without this 10 degree weather. It's definitely trying to keep at it with this cold.
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Post by indianadan on Dec 7, 2005 20:17:39 GMT -5
I think you've got half the battle fought and won with the finding of the late season food source. I sense a doe is going down soon.  |
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Post by Buckfever on Dec 7, 2005 21:12:11 GMT -5
Naw I'm done over there, only had that park for 4 days. And to tell the truth I'm not hunting that one next year so it was tough to find the motivation, it's just that it's so close to home. Last year it was an incredible park as the draw was held every Monday morning at 4:30 a.m. It's a different breed of hunter that makes it 4:30 in the morning on Monday just to draw a permit. It was the same 13 guys every week and towards the end it had whittled down to 9. This year was a mail in draw so you have 5 different guys every week trampling 125 acres on the weekend before the hunt to learn it. 55 five different hunters so far. And the setups are so poor that they've educated the deer to the point that they're hardly using any of the property anymore. I looked at the log sheet for the last 3 days and I'm the only one who saw a deer.
At this point I'm really working for next year so I'm going to focus on a property that I plan on spending at least a third of my time next year and then after Christmas there is a late season bow only property that I enjoy hunting immensely and has tremendous buck potential. On both those properties the knowledge gained hunting this year will help me next year and in the years to come. That I can get motivated for.
But I'll tell you, without a buck tag, 10 degrees and a wind chill of 0, is getting harder to do.
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