Good night. Minor feeding time was 7:40 pm here. Deer started moving around me at about 5:45 and continued till dark. Several small bucks lots of does out under the kids stand. Saturday will be a blast with them. Good Luck All.

Rubs are almost non existent in all the areas I have scouted, but there are decent buck numbers there. Weird year for sign.

Three doe, 2 fawns, three small bucks close enough to shoot. five misquito bites, washed the sweat out of cloths twice, few rubs. Typical early hunting. Deer hunting normally doesn't get good for me until the steelhead start running in big numbers.

Dars can't even post congrats to someone on a deer harvest without having to mention my name in his reply ..

Don't ya just LOVE IT !!!!

What little time afield I have had has been the big sucko.

Might get out Sat. AM at this point, if I am lucky. More rain moving in today.

By the way, where is your criticism of Ken hunting over a food plot? On private ground not less? Hum?

If you go back and read the thread I never said a thing about food plots until you made light of me hunting near my home where I supplementally feed deer in the winter then posted about your hunting near a beet plot..

I have never had a single thing against hunting over food plots.. hunt where you or anyone wants to that is legal is my story.. IN fact many here will tell you I'd vote YES for baiting tomorrow, so why would I be against hunting food plots.???

I refer to guys hunting food plots when those same folks complain about me hunting 500 yards from my house... that's all it is... I don't see any difference...

feeding spots, food plots and crop fields all do the same thing.. they draw deer... as do apple trees and acorns... and if a person wants to hunt there.. fine.. but if they do they should not make negative statements about someone else that does which your statement did and that's what started the debate and why I returned the favor and called you on hunting near a beet plot...

as for calling me stupid... whatever floats your boat ... you know you'll get away with it on this site

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By the way, where is your criticism of Ken hunting over a food plot? On private ground not less? Hum?

If you go back and read the thread I never said a thing about food plots until you made light of me hunting near my home where I supplementally feed deer in the winter then posted about your hunting near a beet plot..

I have never had a single thing against hunting over food plots.. hunt where you or anyone wants to that is legal is my story.. IN fact many here will tell you I'd vote YES for baiting tomorrow, so why would I be against hunting food plots.???

I refer to guys hunting food plots when those same folks complain about me hunting 500 yards from my house... that's all it is... I don't see any difference...

feeding spots, food plots and crop fields all do the same thing.. they draw deer... as do apple trees and acorns... and if a person wants to hunt there.. fine.. but if they do they should not make negative statements about someone else that does which your statement did and that's what started the debate and why I returned the favor and called you on hunting near a beet plot...

as for calling me stupid... whatever floats your boat ... you know you'll get away with it on this site

as for calling me stupid... whatever floats your boat ... you know you'll get away with it on this site

What was that saying ? I think it goes something like stupid is what studid does or something like that. Well anyway you state your all for baiting and you would vote yes tomorrow. Why is that when only a few post ago you said that killing deer for you is easy or do you already hunt over bait ? Maybe you could shoot a fawn sucking on mama while eating at your corn pile. Would that make you feel like the great white hunter you claim
to be ? Yeah "don't hate me because I'm sucessful" !!

Yeah, I might have to bag it tomorrow too. I was only going to get to hunt the AM anyways with a b-day party and halloween party to attend later in the day. I'll still probably get up to check on the weather and make the call then but it isn't looking too good.

The Deer live in the woods despite the weather. HUNT. Mucho better than sittin around watchin the TV.

I called my evening hunt early as well.  Too dangerous for my liking. 

I never had real good luck in the air during high wind but have killed quite a few on the ground during wind and rain or snow. Shot most in their beds. Wind is blowing as hard here today as it was Sat. Hope I don't get rocked to sleep.

Wind was rockin the double split pine tree when I first climbed in but laid right down about six. Had a doe and two fawns under me and a small buck further out. He seemed to be crusing, the doe sure wanted nothing to do with him and bolted when she saw him. No hard mast where I am at but lots of soft.

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Had the crossbow with me but decide to not shoot anything since tomorrow is a work day ... I sat in my ground blind after work and had 7 antlerless deer walk by from 5:45pm to 6:15pm headed to the neighbor's apples trees still loaded with apples... 4 adult females walking by and 20 minutes later the group of three (the doe with the "goofy" ear and her twin fawns) looking good for the senior hunt later this week !!!!

Humm ?? But you claim you are a meat hunter big or small and a processor cuts your deer up for you. You puzzle the **** out of me at times.

Bigger bucks don't get big from being dumb. This week and weekend should educate them as gun hunters put more pressure on their home ground. Be patient, they could show up during light in about 2 weeks. good luck !

Dad and brother both had decent bucks chasing does around them last night. Not serious chasing, but getting interested. I had a big spike walk right under me, the only deer I saw. It was a bit windy for the spot I was able to hunt, but it is what it is.