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'.