This year , we have been meeting around lunch time to trim new stands , repairing or tearing down old ones , then taking an evening stand with our climbers approx 4:30pm .
Haven't done any morning stands yet , since we have both have things to take care of in the morning , and to tell the truth , my back aint as good as it use to be ... most morings I feel as tired as this cat I snapped a picture of at one farm
Have moved around between 4 farms , but still haven't had a decent buck encounter ! Yesterday , I was set up in a nice cedar .... had some good doe encounters , but the buck came out on the other side of the field .
Tonight we carved two new trees approx 100 yards apart ... I saw deer moving in the corn and tried every call in the book to get them over to me ... only this little button buck came in right under the tree .
He stuck around for awhile ... I took several pictures of him and one quick video clip before he left ... The as the sun was dropping a big doe and decent 8 point buck stopped in my 30 yard opening that runs off this trail cut ...
I'm thinking Sweeeeet ! ... Tag # 2 filled ! ... then in my excitment , I blew the shot with a rookie mistake !
( new tree ... forgot to check clearance on my left hand limb before the shot )
the limb hit a branch and nearly thru my Y25 Relayer out of my hands ! ... The arrow hit low and way right ... oh well , good it was a clean miss , but it still hurts , thinking about it as I type this !
We are part time hunters ... they are full time deer !
Page Break ... Wednesday October 6th
Yep , the Y25 is in good shape ... It took a pretty good sideways jolt , but some minor adjustments and shooting spot on !
Wednesday , finds us back in the field carving new climber tree locations ( gotta keep moving around looking for buck sign ) .... we carved two new spots ( one overlooking a travel funnel bush between a creek and a food source , the other at a cedar swail edge overlooking a clover / bean field )
Still dealing with some back pain , I climb slowly and trim ...
While Randy does the ground work ( clearing branches and shooting lanes ) ... I used my truck to knock down a trail thru the tall weeds ... by day three , my truck has so much mud and dirt road debris covering it , you can hardly tell , color / make / model ...
4:00pm ... We are set up in the funnel bush .
6:00pm ... Randy has a big male Coyote under his stand , but doesn't take it because he has deer in the field heading his way ( he let the air out of two Coyotes earlier on in the week > sorry no pic's ) ... Anyway , later we find we are surrounded by Coyotes ... on the ridge , in the bush , at the field perimeter ... looks like they are going to mess up our new location ... The big male Coyote moves into the corn and when he starts crashing thru the corn , a yearling doe moves forward in range to check out the noise , at just under 20 yards , Randy sends a 2216 with WASP Boss on board , of the deck of his "old model " Exomag ! ( The old , hand painted camo , carved limb Exomag , still shoots like a charm after all these years )
Another spine pass thru does the job and drops the doe in her tracks .. Randy fills his 1st tag of 2010 .
Two more days left to hunt this week ... We still haven't found any awsome buck sign , and me missing the 8 point Tuesday , didn't help , but we are enjoying our time in the field and have some tastey venison treats to show for our efforts !
R.J. have you inspected the Y25? 
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