re: ***12-30-23 IST***

Yancey
Cold and calm
28 nosler
Same spot I hunted all day yesterday. Saw a 6 with some does yesterday morning then nothing the rest of the day.
They must have really turned on overnight though because I’ve seen/heard chasing basically nonstop since I got in the tree. Had a decent 8 pushing some does around but he wasn’t worth putting my last buck tag on. Hopefully a big one will catch the trail and come through for me.

Debating moving trees after 10, but who knows how easy that one is or if the view is better. Seems like it would be but sometimes you can't tell until you're over there.

Update even though no one cares:

Dickin around with trees: 3
Deer action: 0

I'm in a different one after ruling out one that was too big. Pretty view but it was twisty enough to not be fun to climb. Duck River on my right, food plot to my left, I'm downwind of it. Small strip of woods I'm in might be a travel lane, we'll see. And I got nice and warmed up dickin around

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I never can time a piss well when hunting.

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Don’t climb down baw, I never climb down and have killed a good bit of mature bucks.

I always piss from the tree too, and I've shot 2 or 3 within 10 minutes of doing so. If they see a human they freak out, but I think various forms of urine get them interested sometimes. Or they don't care. Getting looked up at while your junk is out and also not holding your gun would suck though.

Action picked up for us from 10:15 to 11:45.

4Jr didn’t want to shoot a doe, didn’t care for a nasty cull 3pt we’ve been wanting to get out for a while, then decided he wanted to kill a doe after we had seen 9 deer. He then got hungry and his phone battery was down to 10%.

I’ve decided one of us is pulling the trigger before dark. I’m tired of seeing deer and not cleaning one.

Area 4
Warm and wind out of the NW a lot
Loc on on a powerline
308 tikka
Skipped this morning was burned out and fighting some kind of sinus/alergy shite. 7 yrs ago today I killed my biggest buck ever chasing a doe so there’s still a chance.

Smithdale ms 55
All 4 of us are back at this evening.
I saw 2 spikes @ 0730 this morning.
First buck/deer sighting this year for me.
Good luck this evening!!

Area 6
60° slight SW wind
.300 mag

Switched spots from this morning. Trying to get my wife’s first deer. A close family friend gave us the green light to hunt his property. It’s a beautiful day.

Yancey
58, feels like 85, slight SW wind
28 nos

Moved from my morning spot to the edge of a dry bottom that I’ve been seeing rubs and scrapes along on my walk in. Saw a bunch this morning but I needed to hunt close to the bike. Gotta pack up and clean up around the Airbnb when I get back. Tomorrow morning is my last hunt of my week long trip, and my last gun hunt of the season unless I get invited somewhere.
So far this week I’ve seen exactly 0 deer on evening hunts so my confidence of seeing a nice buck is low. Giving it all I got though.