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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 16:07:13 GMT -5
We've got plenty of candy, root beer and Mt dew to hold us over for the afternoon. Pulled the plotwatcher card before getting into the blind to see what's been using the plot. Already had a lil 4 point feeding for 30 minutes or so....Easton thinks it's funny the way he rips out a radish and eats the whole thing. Should be a fun evening. Yesterday and Thursday evening pictures from the plotwatcher. Maybe 30 deer each evening but impossible to tell what they are other than brown.   Easton checking out the lil 4 point.    |
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Post by bill9068 on Dec 2, 2017 16:36:41 GMT -5
What county you hunting in?
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 16:38:27 GMT -5
Gibson.
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 16:52:21 GMT -5
Our second visitor for the evening...little spike buck. Easton asked me to fire up the heater a few minutes ago.... little warm in here for me but he's comfy.  |
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 17:19:37 GMT -5
Visitors 3 and 4. A little yearling Doe and a little 8 pointer.   |
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 17:23:04 GMT -5
Quickly followed by 5, 6, 7 and 8. Three more does and a lil buck.  |
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 17:30:50 GMT -5
Visitors 9 thru 12 included two eight pointers....Easton got a shot at one. I was watching through binoculars and *think he hit him.....
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 2, 2017 17:36:42 GMT -5
Good luck.. keep us informed..
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 18:11:26 GMT -5
Wasn't able to find blood at the point he was standing when shot or on the first 20 or so yards of where I think he ran. Was getting dark though so I could have just missed it. He mule kicked at the shot and ran half speed away....I was watching his off side as he ran and couldn't see any blood. I'll come back in the morning and see what I can find. The moon hanging over our blind as we head out....  |
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 2, 2017 19:33:11 GMT -5
Best of luck in the morning.. blood and the deer is definitely easier to see in daylight
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 2, 2017 19:39:46 GMT -5
Good luck on your search. You guys have about convinced me to try a foodplot. Lol! I resisted field sitting for over 20 years until this firearms season, but it's still been merely hay fields with one sit over cut corn. I've never had any inclination to sit over a foodplot before, but now I'm getting desperate. I've never killed a buck this late in the year.
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 19:44:42 GMT -5
If you have a place you can keep pressure minimized a post rut food source is hard to beat. As yearlings and does that didn't get bred the first go round come back in those food sources will be the place to be for any late rutting action.
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 19:47:36 GMT -5
Except for a yearling Doe I killed last year with my dad I've never killed a deer off my plots. I don't archery hunt them very often .... Try to leave them for dad and now my boy. If I find myself with a buck tag come muzzy season and dad is tagged out though I know where I'll be....  |
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 2, 2017 20:17:03 GMT -5
Yes, I'd need something for very late season -- like possibly the last weekend of firearms and then muzzleloader. I'd have to find a spot far from property lines to keep others from benefitting from my labor. Lol! I understand that a person's best bet would be to avoid the plot during early archery and to only kill a buck off it. How big a plot would I need, and of what would it consist? (Sorry for the hijack.)
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 20:24:01 GMT -5
Size usually depends on deer density but bigger is better ... Some guys do micro kill plots but I'm a believer in the more does and Young bucks you can get to use it day in and day out the better chance you'll have of the deer you want showing up too...during daylight.
Radishes are a great draw from germination till the last tuber is eaten during the winter. Turnips don't get touched (on my place) till after a few freezes. The deer are just now going after both the tops and bulbs.
There are many choices but those two have worked for me.
I did add Austrian peas this year to one plot simply because I had to replant really late.
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Post by swilk on Dec 2, 2017 20:26:18 GMT -5
Because my ground is wrp I'm limited on how many acres I can put in to plots...I have 2 and both are around 3 acres.
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Post by swilk on Dec 3, 2017 9:32:23 GMT -5
I believe we have a clean miss. I find no hair. No blood. No deer.
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Post by esshup on Dec 3, 2017 11:24:01 GMT -5
I had one deer mule kick at the shot, no blood, etc. I found it within 100 yds and was heart shot. I am still amazed at how far they can run without a heart pumping blood.
I found mine by doing a grid search and it took about an hour to find after I started looking.
Where I hunt the coyotes are so bad I doubt that I would have much left if I were to leave one over night.
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Post by swilk on Dec 3, 2017 12:29:53 GMT -5
I figure a bullet cannot go into a deer without cutting off hair...I never found the first hair or drop of blood. I did search a 180* fan shape out from last visual I had on him without finding anything. Then I walked some of the trails and nothing.
It's strange.
He is using a 243 and I'm loading 95gr nosler ballistic tips at a very healthy speed. Everything I've read of that particular bullet says excellent performance on deer.
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Post by M4Madness on Dec 3, 2017 14:22:19 GMT -5
I know of two good bucks shot on the same farm in the past week with .308's in the ribcage. Neither left a bloodtrail and luckily both were found visually. One was this morning.
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