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Post by deerhunter23 on Oct 25, 2012 15:52:41 GMT -5
Had the itch to get out this evening..so this is were i sit. Have a water hole 50yrds to my left..cut cornfield directly in front of me..and a thicket directly to my right. Not bad for a warm evening..figured if they were moving i had a good chance to catch them this evening.
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Post by LawrenceCoBowhunter on Oct 25, 2012 16:02:53 GMT -5
Good luck!
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Post by raporter on Oct 25, 2012 16:03:59 GMT -5
Good luck, just to warm for me to walk out to the stand.
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Post by deerhunter23 on Oct 25, 2012 16:10:40 GMT -5
Heres a pic Attachments:
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Oct 25, 2012 16:11:02 GMT -5
When you can go outside in shorts and sandals, I am going fishing! 33 bass and bluegills for the fryer.
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Post by deerhunter23 on Oct 25, 2012 16:14:17 GMT -5
Yes very warm..luckily its only about a 10 min walk from truck to stand...didnt get to sweaty. Was awful loud coming in though with all the dry leaves on the ground. Makes it easier to hear them coming though!
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Post by swilk on Oct 25, 2012 19:23:02 GMT -5
I pulled up to the woods....read 81* on my truck mirror and headed home. Figure with the weather change coming tomorrow's that I could wait .
Did you end up seeing any?
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Post by indybassin on Oct 25, 2012 20:18:37 GMT -5
I moved a stand and got out of the woods, lol
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Post by DFINN on Oct 26, 2012 7:57:10 GMT -5
I saw an 8 at the cut corn field running twords me 100 yds out. Then walking out at dark had two run off in the middle of the corn field.
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Post by bigballer on Oct 26, 2012 9:05:56 GMT -5
Saw 5 myself. one big doe with two young and another doe with a young one. No shots. Not sure I wanted to shoot anyways. Would have had to cut her up last night. And didn't want too. I made a lot of noise going in as well but man once in the tree couldn't hear anything with all the wind. But a day in the stand is better than any TV show!!!  BB |
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Post by deerhunter23 on Oct 26, 2012 9:57:53 GMT -5
I didnt end up seeing squat! but thats par for the year. I hunt in 3 east central indiana counties, been out prolly close to 25 times with combined morning and evening hunts. Seen one deer all year from stand and he was about 300yrdsa away in a cut cornfield. Ive tried just about everything as far as where ive been sitting and notta! Very unusual for the propertys i hunt as they usually produce year after year...including last years 162in 13 pointer i took off one of the propertys. Im hoping its the cornfields that are still standing thats causing it. Gonna stay after it though....anybody have any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2012 10:21:36 GMT -5
I am having the slowest October for deer sightings in Franklin County that I have had in my 13 years on this lease. The previous 12 years' logs show that I average seeing more than one deer per hour spent on stand. This year, I have seen 12 deer on stand in over 40 hours of stand time. I don't know how to explain it. There is fresh sign, but we aren't seeing the deer. Nocturnal? Frustrating!
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Post by deerhunter23 on Oct 26, 2012 10:36:33 GMT -5
Same here metamorahunter...seeing all kinds of sign..rubs, scrapes, tracks everywhere but not a deer in sight. Im hoping its either they are nocturnal like you said or its the crop fields, im out of ideas! ive seen literally one deer all year long..very frustrating! maybe with the rut heating up and the weather changing for the better for us in the deer hunting world things will change...either way im still gonna be 25ft up in my tree.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Oct 26, 2012 11:13:49 GMT -5
All the deer on the trail cams (last 2 weeks) that I am getting are after 830pm till dawn. No daytime movement at all. But this weather will be changing that hopefully.
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Post by bigballer on Oct 26, 2012 11:37:11 GMT -5
Yea having a feeling that the heat made them stay down. I usually only see about 5-10 deer before gun season... I've only been out once (last night) and saw 5 so have a feeling I will only see 5 more the rest of the year... LOL... That's not good. Last year I saw 5 deer up until the last Saturday of MZ season and on that Saturday morning I tagged out after having 17 does come running into our woods from somewhere... LOL...that's how it works for us. I usually see 2-3 deer and then wham see 10 at one time... But after tonight we should see some moving around. Keep up the hunting they will come.. Can't see them if your not out there... BB |
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Post by zm111789 on Oct 26, 2012 14:56:07 GMT -5
Metamorahunter I live on lower jim run idk how close I am to where u hunt n my deer sightings are way down as well used to see about 10 to 15 a night n the fields close to the house would be full at night but ive seen 27 deer in about 45 hours of hunting all does except one spike hopefully this weekend picks up
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2012 15:17:26 GMT -5
ZM, I hunt on McGuire Ridge, just N of Metamora. Not sure where Lower Jim Run is
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Post by parkerbow on Oct 26, 2012 20:07:58 GMT -5
I am having the slowest October for deer sightings in Franklin County that I have had in my 13 years on this lease. The previous 12 years' logs show that I average seeing more than one deer per hour spent on stand. This year, I have seen 12 deer on stand in over 40 hours of stand time. I don't know how to explain it. There is fresh sign, but we aren't seeing the deer. Nocturnal? Frustrating! Welcome to my world. I hardly ever see any deer anymore. Logged 41 hrs so far and seen 15 deer so far. all small deer. Between last year and this year bowhunting I have been out over 60 times and have not killed a deer with a bow. I feel your pain... |
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