1/10/21 IST playoff edition

St. Helena
33 degrees slight breeze
In a tree between pins and hard woods.
Bowtech Allegiance.

My cam has picked up a nice big body 7pt walking through here on cold mornings. I hope he comes this morning.

Washington parish
7mm08
Cloudy and cold. Great morning it seems

Smithdale ms.
32 deg
Box stand
300 blackout

Lake Arthur
38, wind chill is 32
Sitting in a pit blind that’s more narrow than some vaginas I’ve seen. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why they build these a-frame motherfrickers so small.

Yesterday I helped clean an 8pt killed about a mile away that was still stinking. Activity on my block has moved that way it seems. Cameras aren't showing much so I think im switching to doe patrol as I gave them a pass all season so far

Eta the 8 i mentioned above i had on camera 2 weeks ago. Thats 2 I had that moved off and got caught

I killed a nice 8 that I missed with bow the first morning of primitive. Three other decent young bucks I’ve had on camera were killed by neighbors. Still getting a few passer bus on camera but no shooters. Now I have a heavy big cull 6 that’s a 5 to 6 yr old deer we are after. He showed up the past 3 years about this time and stays untill he dropped horns but I just can’t ever catch him. The first year I passed him and last year when he looked identical but had more mass I tried to let a kid come shoot him but it never worked out. Now he’s back and looks old fat and still has the same horns just more mass so he’s getting a bullet if I see him.

Leake Co, MS. Boys are both on boxes over feeders and food plots, I’m hunting a road intersection where I whiffed on a buck two weeks ago. Youngest heard all sorts of grunting early, turned out to be a 4 point youngster full of himself. Oldest saw a nice six but couldn’t get a shot. All I’ve seen was the first ‘yote I’ve ever seen, but he was over 250 yards so I decided against the Hail Mary.

We’ve seen very little all weekend. Supposed to snow all night, wish I could stay and hunt in the morning. Saw a lot more does and spikes a month ago, they are supposed to be rutting right now.


ETA: having never hunted Southern deer in the snow...do they move or stay hunkered down with the white stuff?

A few years ago when we got 6”, I did not find the der moved much at all, think it was just as different to them as it was us and they don’t like different

Anyway it was a pretty cool experience walking through the woods in 6” snow and was beautiful

I hope you survive the wood platform 30’ up. No deer is worth dying over.

Cold, cloudy and still
7mm08 for buckzilla
.300blkout for hogzilla

Filled feeders and trailed corn after morning hunt making them think I left...big brain tactics

Truck is packed and camp locked unless its 8pt or better