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Post by Huntnfreak on Nov 14, 2024 14:37:56 GMT -5
They have moved to my side of the valley. Currently bedded 45 yds away behind some brush. Need a few more yards closer whenever they get up!
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Post by squirrelgravy on Nov 14, 2024 14:48:05 GMT -5
In the stand, questioning my choice.....but I'm not killing anything in the living room 😉 I feel the same way. Let some milkweed go a couple minutes ago and it blew to my left, now one just came back and kept going to my right. Wind has given me fits today no matter where I go. |
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 14, 2024 14:56:03 GMT -5
All set and ready to go. I observed a couple new, fresh rubs and scraped on the way in that were not here yesterday. 🤞🤞🤞
Good luck everyone! Hunt safe and God bless!
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Nov 14, 2024 15:32:03 GMT -5
I access this food plot right along the property line, between the fence and some thick brush I left as screening. I heard some commotion over in the neighbor’s hay field, and saw a couple deer running all out away from my property. At first I thought I’d spooked them somehow, but they turned 180* and came back into my woods. It was a decent buck chasing a doe.
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Post by deadeer on Nov 14, 2024 15:51:37 GMT -5
Get em boys!
I got 4.5hrs at work left until vacation starts and 10 days off straight. LETS GO!
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Post by featherduster on Nov 14, 2024 15:59:22 GMT -5
All my honey-dos are done, bring it on.
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Post by welder on Nov 14, 2024 16:17:08 GMT -5
Up and ready.
Lots of things to get done tomorrow, so this is highly possible my last bow hunt until after Christmas. Be careful and shoot straight!
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Post by Huntnfreak on Nov 14, 2024 16:40:22 GMT -5
As my usual luck runs…they fed away from me.
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Post by willy7948 on Nov 14, 2024 16:47:25 GMT -5
Well ….. the saga of #godsplan continues! I do believe my target buck got hit by a car last night, but he survived! I’m gonna hunt him hard the next three or four days, but it’s hard for me to imagine him living past Sunday in this shape! youtube.com/shorts/bdjUZFWO4_E?si=Zl4xtpBJNeEcIKM9I’m out here in the rain waiting on him 🤗 |
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Post by titanium700 on Nov 14, 2024 17:39:32 GMT -5
I just found a small buck dead in my pond. I fished him out and it does not appear there is any trauma to him. I wonder if coyotes pushed him into it and he couldn’t get out maybe exhausted.   Feel sorry for the poor guy. Looked healthy otherwise. |
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Post by astronankin on Nov 14, 2024 18:45:55 GMT -5
Anyone have any rattling and grunting tips? Been doing it A LOT but so far only got the attention of 2 bucks, who hardly cared. Been mixing some doe and fawn bleats in. I use real but rather small rattling antlers from a buck I killed 3 years ago.
I suspect we may also need to move one of our stands - big boy hangs out in a corner 80 yards away and has only been seen about 4 times in 2 years but never comes over to the stand while we are in it. There's a little shelf just over the edge of a slight slope before a drop into the big ravine that has a lot of oaks and the deer often either come from that direction or head in that direction. They also follow the property line fence, which takes a turn near the ravine and heads east along the edge of the ravine. The ravine's head is on the other property, but most of it is on the place we hunt.
We have also noted that the deer, especially the bigger bucks, mostly hang out on the other property, up on the east ridge, and down in the creek bottoms near the front of the property. I walked out that way checking for deer, since they like to bed on the steep slope, and that's where I about walked into the bedded spike near the edge of the woods.
We have no access to any crop fields. Our spot on the Purdue property has a food plot/research plot that is on the edge of it that I might hunt tomorrow. The big issue with that spot is that it is the meeting place for 2 hunting areas, one of which we don't hunt. It is still large enough we can hunt it and shoot deer on it. People also tend to park at the edge of it.... But the deer use it all the time. Other than that, everything we hunt is in the middle of the woods, so it's a lot of a guessing game and there's also not a lot of fence lines, etc to hunt.
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Post by boonechaser on Nov 14, 2024 18:55:49 GMT -5
Come out 30 minutes early, bowling night. No.1 target buck chasing doe's edge hayfield and my yard. 😆 🤣  |
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 14, 2024 18:55:59 GMT -5
I just found a small buck dead in my pond. I fished him out and it does not appear there is any trauma to him. I wonder if coyotes pushed him into it and he couldn’t get out maybe exhausted. Feel sorry for the poor guy. Looked healthy otherwise. Looks like he was going to be a cool nontypical. I hate to see that. |
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Post by genesis273 on Nov 14, 2024 18:57:21 GMT -5
I ended up seeing one forky buck and seven different does. No shot opportunities though.
I'm sitting out tomorrow but, fully intend on an all day sit Saturday.
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Post by huntnandplumbn on Nov 14, 2024 19:05:43 GMT -5
Slow night. Small buck and a few does. Neighbors driveway basically goes down the property line. He has blinds facing his field right off the driveway. Cut lanes along the driveway for left and right shots with a battery pole saw. I’m sure the commotion didn’t do me any favors. Back at it again tomorrow.
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