Thanks Woody....and mod's.

Yep, this is a good site. One of the best in my opinion.
Have fun on your hunt and good luck!
Robert

Well said, all.

Good luck on the hunt.

It's my favorite Indiana hunting board by far..

Not much information on the other ones.

Just a lot of shuck and jive talk.

I surely do appreciate what all that you guys do.

Thanks a lot.

Yep,

This ste is a good one!

Good luck with the baldies!

Work has been crazy so I'm just now getting a chance to post the details.

In a nutshell, it was GREAT! ;D

Got down to Solohunters around 12:30 on Saturday afternoon. I no sooner hopped out of my truck, and we were in his riding around the roads of the property. What a great piece of land....corn, beans, swamp, ridges in hardwoods....beautiful piece of property.

Went back to the house, unloaded the gear, grabbed the bows and slung a few arrows right off his back deck to the 30 and 40 yard targets down the hill. After that we quickly formed our afternoon hunting plans, showered, dressed and got to the woods around 2:30. He put in a stand he had taken two does from last year within 20 minutes. Needless to say expectations were high! I was just inside the woods at an inside corner of some standing corn and where 3 atv trails came together. The afternoon was fairly slow but ended up having 2 button bucks walk directly below me before dark and walk into the corn.

Got back to the house after dark, slapped some backstrap and round steaks on the grill. Solo fixed some greens and an excellent mayo/horseradish/srirachi chili dipping sauce that was an EXCELLENT addition to the perfectly cooked medium rare steaks! We talked about our previous hunts, our families and our childhood. Just a great time enjoying delicious food and wonderful company!

By the time we finished dinner and formulated our plan for the morning it was already 10pm. We watched 20 minutes of a PRIMOS dvd and turned in as dreams of 160" deer offered us 15 yard quartering away shots! ;D

I woke up before 5am ready to go! The freeze warnings were out, the temp was 30, and it was amazingly quiet. I was going to hunt a stand that 'Buckhead13' had just killed a doe from 2 days prior. It's simply put an AMAZING stand. It's about 100 yards in from a corn field to the north, a swamp to the east, thick cover to the west, and two ridge lines to the south east and west. All these areas converge in one spot where Solo had strategically planted a small food plot and a stand location that offers no more than a 30 yard shot in just about any direction.

Well, we climbed into our stand WELL before daylight and as the woods started to awaken I could hear leaves cruching all around me. Well, more time than not I would catch the movements of a brown furry tail as another limb rat moved through the understory but right around 8:30 I had my first deer come into view. A small button buck came in from the east and right about the same time a big bodied forkhorn come in from the south. Both hit the food plot about the same time and neither were farther than 15 yards. They were content browsing for a few minutes then moved off to the northwest. A bit later had a small doe come down the same trail. I was debating on whether she was a shooter when I noticed a larger bodied deer farther back. I let her work up the ridge, and when the larger deer finally came into view it was a nice young 6 pter. His left side was fine, but his right side looked like a large palmated crab claw. Neat looking deer! He too worked up the ridge to the south.

Around 9:30 I see more deer to the south. Two yearlings working their way into the plot from the south and mom was slowly on a trail behind them browsing. She was HUGE. I thought it was going to be perfect....a deer hadn't winded me all day, she was coming into the plot upwind...was happily browsing along the trail. Well, she took two steps into the food plot, stops and looks right up at me! Obviously this old slick head had been educated to that stand at some point in. She didn't blow out of there, but tried to walk down wind of me, circled back and ran out of there with the two little ones. I know guys have talked about it, but hunting mature does is EVERY bit as hard as hunting a mature buck in my book! A big buck my drop his guard in the rut, but a mature doe is practically ALWAYS on alert.

Saw a few more off in the distance later that morning, but no deer down. Had 7 deer within 15 yards at some point, but they were all either button bucks, small racked bucks, and one doe that was a bit too small in my opinion. But I couldn't have asked for a better hunt! A memory that will last a lifetime...

We got back to the truck. Solo and I talked about the morning hunt and the deer we had seen. Headed back to the house, loaded up and headed home so we both could spend some time on Sunday with our respective families. The hour and a half drive seemed like 5 minutes due to me recapping that mornings hunt!

Some time later in the season Solohunter will be coming up to my place, and we will be doing it all over again! I would encourage everyone to "share" their place a bit....either in a trade with someone else's property as solo and I are doing, or better yet to someone that is new to hunting or doesn't have the land to hunt!
There's plenty of deer to go around!

Sorry for the long post, but wanted to describe in detail what a GREAT weekend we had, and never drew on a single deer!

Good hunting,
Jon

Great story Jon.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm glad that HuntingIndiana could be a small part of it..



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