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Area 4
37F
Bright moon and calm
fat nanny will catch it

Leake Country, Landmass
28* no wind, good frost
.270 Winchester
Box blind with a brief assist from the heater. Rifle in hand, wore out that poor 20 year old yesterday. :soft:

Unlikely to shoot unless Muy Grande rolls through. Save the does for him.

Area 1
31 degrees with a light NW breeze
308 Tikka
Box stand along an old logging road in the bottoms

It feels like the red beans and rice from last night are fixing to kick in. Hoping to hold it off for at least another hour. Will keep y’all updated.

ETA- lost the battle against a belly fully of red beans. I’m sure the smell will run off everything in a 300 yard radius.

Just had a fox or yote come through in the treeline alerting the 76 squirrels feeding. At first thought it was a flagging small deer but the bushy tail was up. There is a chicken coop nearby so thinking fox.

Eta: video evidence and lsumans opinion reveal it was a yote. weird because they usually dont come in this close during daylight with the noise and neighborhoods around

Magee, 29f and calm, 3006 watching a travel corridor and crossing.

Got a pictures all morning of a target 8 at the plot I was going to hunt and changed mind at last minute.

How have things been looking for you? My bucks have pretty much been underground for the last week. Haven’t seen target buck on camera in over a week.

I’m holding out optimism that it’s just the rut and they’re off my 60 acres/will come back.

South of Natchez on Dolorasa loop. Seen 15 so far today. Just had two young 8’s running a doe come zooming by.

Saw 12 this morning. A forkhorn with 2 little stickers (I’d call him 6) that I could have killed with a spear. Gf’s son picked a terrible morning to sleep in. I’ve gone entire seasons and not seen 12 deer.

Definitely on the chase this morning. I wasn’t really planning on shooting, so I was lazy and parked the SxS right next to the box. The deer that came out DGAF.

About to head out for a long sit and hope he gets a chance. Wind has picked up, so that might slow their roll.

Area 4
Back on the same stand as this morning loc on an powerline
300 wm
I’m to the point where I feel like the deer have won, and now I can just go back to enjoying hunting and not trying to kill. Told my son yesterday when he asked me if I was mad cus I hadn’t got a big deer yet this year I said “ I’m not in jail, not in the hospital and not at work but still getting paid”
Good luck ol boys

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I’m not in jail, not in the hospital and not at work but still getting paid”

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True statement for me as well.