WRT: Deer Season is finally back edition

Well I spend 35 hours in a tree from 10/1 - 10/5..

The first morning I saw 3 deer, 2 does and a spotty. I couldn't get a shot on the does due to some brush where they came out. The deer were only 16yds away at one point but when I had the shot, I couldn't draw and when I could draw, I didn't have the shot.

That afternoon I sat on a foodplot. This is an elongated plot and it is starting to look good. Traditionally deer walk out about 1/2 down and then walk East towards an oak bottom. Well I was set up in a ladder stand off the plot in great cover for the deer to walk past me and get a shot. At 6:20 (right before sunset), through the brush east of me, I see tines walking away. A great 8pt had come out the creek down the plot of me at 25yds and I had absolutely zero shot!

view from stand:


new view from stand:


buck that walked out (this is him passing back, in front the stand this time, at night):



After that exciting first day I only really saw one doe and she also didn't give me a shot that I liked all that much. She was 17-20yds, I would have had to shoot through a 2' opening and just didn't want to take that chance.

We have to do a little stand moving now that we see which oaks are getting hit more than others this season. Have some things to look forward too










KEEP WEARING YOUR SNAKE BOOTS!