2024 - LIVE, FROM THE STAND!

I’m finally out for the first time this year, it’s warm and breezy.

I went back out at 3:30. Not my favorite stand location. Saving best for gun, plus wind was wrong for best two stands. The one in now will get moved this winter.My guess last week of the year.

Had a doe come by with a scruffy 4 point following then about 10 minutes later a button buck.

My boy can't catch a break. Just had yet a different buck cruise by looking for does. He might have been 20 yards

Another buck, 7 point, strolled by at 28 yards. Hes getting antsy.

You should probably see a doctor for that grunting and wheezing, a lot of that going around.

Almost got it done right at dark. A doe pulled the big one across the field. She came within 30 yards. He stopped to make a scrape on the property line. Then turned around and chase some more does that were in the field with him. Ugh

Ended up seeing several bucks and does

I ended up having 7 more deer come into the plot after the big buck passed through. One was another shooter, he walked about 100 yards down the edge of the plot making scrapes. He curved back into the woods before coming into range.

Got out about 3 but the wind was wrong for the whole property. Blowing from North to South. Luckily it was time to break out the scent blocker spray and the doe-in-estrus spray.... Very quiet most of the time other than a few birds. Saw 1 grey up a tree about 50 yards out around 5:20 after doing a rattling sequence. The deer never came to the right side of the creek - about 5:30 1 headed down the slope into the plantation across the creek from a field up on that side, then a big doe showed up for a moment near the creek bank on that same side walking away from the spot they like to cross. Saw a white tail flicker while walking away from me towards the back of the other plantation and towards a field that's back there. I think both deer headed into that field. A little after sunset another deer, possibly a small buck (couldn't truly tell) took the same path from the upper field that the first had taken. I rattled, grunted, bleated, sprayed the doe-in-estrus too (needed to spray it every half hour anyway) and no one came across the creek, but no one detected me either. Fox squirrel then started messing around behind the stand a little. Ended the evening with a tiny winter wren singing and moving around between trees near me - it came and sat on a branch next to me for a moment. Thinking about going out tomorrow morning - but need to think about logistics since I am looking to shoot a doe or a buck with a minimum of 115" (I know, that's small for many of you but that's the size of my biggest one - have seen a few giants while hunting before so I do know what to look for - Have my eye on one buck who hangs out just over the property line from our best stand - he's the one I saw a week and a half ago bossing some does around). There are 2 other stands, but both of them are climbers and I have never used one, plus I sort of prefer the other stands anyway due to the high success rate in one and the high number of bucks that walk past the other in mid-November.