2019 updates from the stand

Look forward to stories and get a feel for movement.  Look forward to the opener tomorrow.

Two raccoon and 15 turkey.  No deer.  Windy and cold

Got up at 415, 515 had 6 turkey work the beans by me.  Then in front of me in the woids two bucks, small 6 and small 7.  Worked a tree and moved off.  Need a doe or big boy 

610pm, both bucks on bean edge 12 yards downwind.  Never busted me.  Are there no does?

Deer were active this afternoon!

Saw 3 different bucks. Missed 1 nice 8 pointer. Couldn't get a shot at the first 8 I saw.

Than after my miss,  & waiting a bit to get down & check,  a BIG 10/12 , came in within 60 yards (?).

A clean MISS! Glad. I hate wounding anything!

Southern Clark County. 

Big Mac 

that's junk.... as they say if you feel you've gone far enough go another mile in.

On a 5 gallon bucket 6 rows in standing corn on a grass waterway.  Never tried before, tough.  They cant see me, but i have minimal viewing lanes.  Hope a doe visits

Finally first deer in range, young thin 9 pt, gets heart pumping.  One racoon too.  

Buck was maybe shooter. Think a 10.  Also had a 6 pt.  None in range, 50 yards or so uphill and worked up top.

Update...So, total of 4 buck, 10 pt shooter, sm 8, 2 sm 6.  Fun yet frustrating.

SE Minnesota. Set up by 5, deer above me by 505.  Two doe, browsing.  Worked away from me, still see one.  Hot out, hickory dropping. Buck now, 8 pt

I did call her a jerk though so maybe that wasn’t politically correct???

Ahhhh that’s what I missed!! And I just thought I was doin the herd a favor. My mistake,   

Admit what? Shooting a deer legally during archery season? Using bait? 2 gallons per day is allowed in the state I hunt. Having an automatic feeder by the cabin? Again, legal in the state I hunt as long as it doesn’t dispense more than 2 gallons per day and it’s legal to use year round within 100yds of a dwelling. Maybe I’m missing something?

Not sure I would admit that on a public website, Sir.  I'm sure wardens monitor this site.  Guarantee that you do not want to argue details with a warden.

Same here, I won’t shoot a doe with fawns. We have a feeder outside of our cabin, a couple years ago there was one doe that would guard that thing like crazy. I mean she wouldn’t let another deer even near this thing. We have a rule that any deer that are in our yard at the cabin are off limits to hunting, that feeder is there for viewing pleasure only. So my wife and I were watching a doe and two fawns at the feeder when here comes the jerk doe. She comes in and like usual starts kicking all the other deer so they get away from the feeder. A few minutes later one of the little fawns comes walking back and the jerk doe runs up and starts kicking it. My wife and I both decided that was the last straw and that deer had to go!  That season we were on a mission to get that deer. We even put out a couple bait piles which we normally don’t do just to lure that doe in. Well one afternoon during late season I’m watching 6 does eating corn when guess who comes walking in and starts kicking all the other deer, the jerk doe.  Broadside at 20 yds I drilled her with a perfect shot and watched her run 50 yds and fall. I feel like all the other deer thanked me. Lol

Big Shane, personally I feel the same as you.  One bad experience with that and makes you think twice before doing it again. Especially when I have one of my daughters with me!!

Just got in, don’t like using phone as it gets dark.  On doe at 70 yards in a bean field.  Mosquito.  Hope for a frost soon.