Weekend Results Thread: LSU/Saints get a November W!

Hunted Fri-Sun. Saw lots of deer movement but didn't shoot any.

Friday AM:
Hunted a box in a cutover. Early I saw 4 does cruising through the grass but they were 250+yds out


Friday PM:
just saw a yearling (not pictured)


before I went sit on the stand I started to smoke a shoulder from last weekend's boar. I seared/smoked it for a bit then wrapped in foil and put on the far side of the pit then went to the stand. It came out perfect!!


Saturday AM:
2 spikes

Saturday PM:
was set up in what looked to be a great spot. Right at sundown when it's getting good I see another damn coyote step out at 100yds. Thats his arse. I put the crosshairs on him and fire. He stands there for a second then takes off. Idk how I missed. Keep racking my brain. Then I get down at dark, walk to the spot and boom! not a miss! He gone!



Sunday AM:
This is the fun one. Decide to switch it up and get in a lock on rather than the box. I sneak in quietly before 6:00 and set up. I'm sitting in a tiny hard wood bottom surrounded by 8-10ft pines. Acorns falling all over!

At 6:20 I hear deer approaching. 1..2.3! I realize that I definitely hear 3 different deer approaching from 3 different directions! A few minutes later, there's one, its a very fat spike. He walks in from my left and comes right in front of me, 15yds (red lines). Sniffing the camera and eating acorns. At the same time I hear the deer approaching from the front (blue) get very close then through the trees I see tines!! It's one of the shooter bucks and he's 30yds out and coming in upwind of me! Then he stops. I can't see him. The spike is looking over at him. The buck begins to move again and he decides to head west and away from me. I couldn't believe it. So now I'm watching this 2-inch spike eat acorns.. great. Then a couple minutes later I hear a noise to my back left (opposite from where the shooter went)(black line). Takes a bit but then it registers as a buck rubbing a tree. Not 10 seconds later I hear a grunt. Spike pops his head up. Another grunt, spike bolts towards him. They are just outside the oaks and I can't see what it is but they walk off to the East. All gone.. sad...







TL;DR version: saw deer, had a shooter close but no shot, kilt coyote.