re: IST 11/30

Area 4
60s N wind 1-2
Tried to get to a tree that I normally hunt looking into a 4yr old cutover but didn’t have the ambition to bust the briars. Sitting in my climber in some thick azz shite with 60yd of visibility.
Tikka 308 but should have my 30-30

I'm hunting a food plot this afternoon looking for a doe with my .30-06. Been some very poor hunting lately for me. Hoping to turn it around tonight.

I’m with you. Dating back to January of last year I don’t think I’ve seen but two deer during a sit.

See them all the time on the way to the stand, by the camp etc lol

Really bad run of luck.

We just didn’t do spinner feeders with timers this season because we want them eating the food plots. Well the baws next to us with pallets of corn are probably (they are shooting) having all the success.

I hate corn.

My old man hasn’t hunted much the past 10 years or so, and didn’t feel like springing for a MS license so I told him to just come hunt with me. The hunt started with a family of squirrels in the stand that wouldn’t leave, followed by too many wasps on the wall to start off the morning hunt. Ended up sitting on the ground under the stand (that’s where all the old guys sit at this stand, so there’s a makeshift ground blind… I’m the only one who gets in the stand, it’s a little tough to get in and out of)

Had 10-12 deer in our lap/back pocket most of the morning with about a dozen turkeys, but no shots were given. I don’t think we’ve hunted together in over 25 years, it was pretty cool to do that again, especially on the ground like we used to. He made WAY more noise than I remember him making back then.

Walked through the woods looking at sign and places hunt like we did 20-25 years ago.

Had lunch at community grocery in Woodville.

This afternoon I sent him out solo in Louisiana while I cooked, it was good day.

Doing away with baiting deer would make hunting so much better for everyone.

We have pigs and feeding just attracts those bastards. Plus I don’t enjoy the box stand/feeder.

I’ve enjoyed the move to climbers and lock ons in the woods. Scouting areas and setting up on the out skirts. I found an area untouched on our lease and in the last 2 plus years have shot 6 deer from one area with zero feed.

Son and I went walk a different area, found trails, set up camera and I bow hunted it. Saw a deer that was within 10 yards that I let walk. Daughter and I scouted a nearby area and set my climber up. Shot a deer yesterday and saw 2 bucks today. No feed.

Great read, enjoyed!

I’m late to the party, but I got a good one yesterday and a pretty good story to go along with it.

I’ll start by saying that I am fortunate enough to have had several nice bucks show up on my cams this year consistently. One in particular I named the Rock because he has a peculiar brow on his right side.

Noon yesterday nature was calling but there was a doe and fawn behind me in the woods. I finally couldn’t see them anymore by 12:30 so I slowly stood up and let it fly over the side of my stand. As soon as the last drop hit the ground, I saw antlers. An 8 point was walking downwind of my stand with the fresh puddle right under it. I only have time to put the horse in the barn, can’t even close the barn door.

He gets behind some brush thick enough for me to get my gun up to check him out in the scope. He’s a shooter.

While I’m watching him, I hear more steps from where he came. So I ease the scope in that direction and I see in a small window between trees, the people’s brow. He stood still for the next minute, but it seemed like an hour.

Propped against the tree and with only his neck in the scope, I touched the trigger and he dropped in his tracks. What a great day!