Too windy and warm today kinda slow but saw antlers.
Button buck watched me climb into stand today then bedded 40 yds away getting up once in a while to hit the plot he was behind my stand last week but 2nd day in a row he was in same spot on edge of field.
Saw a small 6 pt cruise thru 720, 830 a doe came running from across the street but no buck behind her,and another doe in brush eating apples this afternoon.
Going out again in morning.
Checked cam on way out of stand this morning guese who showed up Sunday afternoon same one I had nighttime pics of and saw Saterday afternoon so heres a daytime pic of the buck that's been avoiding me hope he makes a mistake soon.

 
BTDT-I am hunting an entrance /exit to their core area that has a staging area with apple trees and brush,then plot ,then they cross road to ag fields between 2 houses its been good to me in past but its not perfect have to be patient.
 
I am not big on moons or certain dates I see best action on cold damp days .
 
Wags if hes only a nine you can send him over my way NICE BUCK good luck...WCW

Seen over twenty bucks chasing tonight. Some very nice bucks at that. Bedtime! Good weather tomorrow lets give em.a dirtnap

This morning was good had 3 bucks chasing does for hour plus spike 3 pt and a bigger one that I just saw flashes of.No shot but I really enjoy watching and listening to the chase here thru the brush and splashing around in the  swamp mud.They were  not locked on 1 doe they just pestered every doe they could find the does ran they turned to find another.
 
Same group this afternoon but the bucks were not present just 9 does and peewees.
Just seeing same deer morning and evening in and out no outside bucks roaming or chasing.
 
Hope you folks had better luck!
 
Sleepping in and doing work tomorrow back at it Friday...WCW

The bucks.are ready does aren't..

deer for the most part, around here, are still NOCTURNAL ... 
 
5-6 does and now 3 different 6 pointers all showing up 9pm until 5:30am ....
 
I  saw a 6 point last Thursday at 7:30am and a SMALL doe yesterday morning (passed on her) that is it in daylight hours since mid-October ....  ????
 
I am getting a large Gray Fox on camera for the past 4 nights at 9 - 10 pm .....
 
rained out so far for today...
 
 

Slow for me today.bucks are ready does still iffy. Two buck six doe today bucks were at 1230 and 3

No work again until Wednesday for me! 
 
Looks like the wind machine will be turning on tonight so my mini vacation may not get off to the best start.  But it is November, which means just about anything can happen regardless of how crappy the weather will be. 

  Hi kids.......  did ya miss me? 
 
Sorry.....  I been pouting and sulking allllll day cause, I'm mad!  Wanna know why I'm mad?.............  well I'm gonna tel ya anyway... so sit down and be quiet!
 
Dateline:  Yesterday morning, AM.
 
Went tippy toeing through the trees, just south of my stomping grounds, walking just over a mile and a half in three and a half hours.  Hey Jack, I'm 'still' hunting and that takes time!!!  Anyway I'm working my way thru  the river bottom, keeping real close to the red brush, green-brier and , crab-apples while watching into the open timber.  Place is polluted with tracks of all sizes and I'm thinking this has got to be the place to be.  Well, it was, apparently when I wasn't there cause that's all I saw........ tracks.  Moved further southeast and became fascinated with the size, type and, openness of the trees.  White-oaks everywhere, man, I am in deer and turkey candy-land and I knew I was cause I took two more steps and 'down the road they go', six whitetails.  Hoping they might circle back around I took a stand and waited, and waited, and got bored and left.  By this time the wind had picked up quite a bit and those leaves on the ground became crunchy in a hurry so I decided to reverse my hat back to orange and 'down the road I go'.  Back tracked til I got to the thickets and briers where I stayed out in the open and watched along the heavy brush line when suddenly, as I moved along, my right foot sank into the leaves and I knew, I stepped into a really marshy area cause I could feel the water running into my ankle highs.  Bad enough getting a soaked foot but, now every right step sounds like I'm plunging a plugged sink.  I returned home for some dry socks, boots and, my baloney and cheese sandwiches.
 
Okay it's now 4:00 PM and I change tactics; instead of going to my ladder stand I head to the opposite side of the field where, I positioned my self beside a cluster of cherry trees.  From here I can see deer coming out of the woods to the south and I can see anything coming from the pasture to the north.  Wasn't long, I could see a deer heading straight out of the woods and it was north bound right at me.  A single deer, head is up, wind to it's back and, high stepping...... nuts it's likely a doe that's been harassed and looking for a place to hide.   Still 100 yds.  out and still coming I'm thinking I see antler but, I'm still looking thru branches so, not sure.  Beginning to think I should take this deer if it is a doe as I've passed on four already when, a turn of it's head shows me what I thought was the antlers of the wye-buck I saw Monday at this time.  Approaching at a steady pace but still about forty yards before he breaks into a shooting lane and I thought this will be cool as, I'll be looking him right in the eye when he goes by.  Go by he did, just as proud as he could be, 20 yds. out but, no wye-buck, this guy has brow tines making him a ssssssssssseven point,() dang three-up on his left antler and I just saw the third point when he went by.  No trophy antler wise but, he was a shooter and still a trophy otherwise.   I'm bettin' we'll meet again. 
 
Dateline: Today, all day
 
Rain, rain and, more rain but don't get me wrong I'm no "fair weather' hunter by any means.  I did hunt from my other stand today and really didn't care that I saw nothing cause, I didn't have to go but 15 ft. for a cup of coffee or a baloney and cheese sandwich.
 
Full moon tonight; rain and more rain, maybe a bit of snow too, deer will will be out early to freshen their scrapes.  Ask me why I love huntin'.

Three legal buck and three doe all chasing.. snowing and windy. ,2f. Gonna be great day

Three deer in evening. Big bucks still nocturnal.

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Hey Jack!!!!!!. I'm hunting and need to be quiet so, I'm sending morse code.

WCW we'll keeep the fingers crossed........  Just a reminder (FYI for the newby)..... mark the last spot, you saw the animal using, fluorescent tape or garment, hat etc.,......  using this as the starting point......  if there is a blood trail; mark the last spot found........  from either point begin making circles, returning to the last marker then making  bigger circles checking the ground, weed stalks, leaves on trees and bushes for signs.  Blood spatters, bedding area, broken branches, foot prints that show signs of dragging feet/legs and even tracks that show the animal is staggering.  Mark any new evidence and start your circles again, returning, to the new spot.  LOOK on both sides of logs, around/in brush piles and downed tree tops as well as high grass  but, just don't look for the animal, LOOK for evidence of the animal having been there there.
 
Glad to hear you read your arrow/bolt; I shudder to think of all the self proclaimed archers that do not know how, to do this.
 
 
Speaking once again to the self proclaimed archer; Even if you witness the animal going to the ground or hear the animal thrashing in the near distance STAY IN YOUR STAND, thirty minutes minimum,  giving the animal time to die.  Retrieve your arrow/bolt and read what it has to tell you (if you don't know how, LEARN), mark the last spot you saw the animal and wait another thirty minutes or more. Remember to search in circles returning each time to the starting point.
 
YOU FIRED THE SHOT; you owe it to the animal to find it!!!!!!
 
Good luck WCW, I feel your pain cause................  BTDT.
 
 

That's because NOTHING happened all day.  Not one deer did I see;  back at it Monday.... 10-4?......
 

I was SO anticipating what the cam would have on it for the past 5 days,,,,,
 
WHAT A  DISAPPOINTMENT  !!!!!
 
One buck last we
ds. Blurred picture looks like Mr.9 or 10.
And what looks like and small 8..
They better be mobile in the morning
 
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Congrats WCW   I'm really eager to hear your story; in the mean time, here's to ya.