As I posted earlier , we stared out the week with some decent weather and a crew of 7 guys
CH got a gnarly old buck on opening day ... he got to hunt two days with his dad , and had a blast ...
Tuesday night , the group spilt up ( guys heading back to work etc. ) leaving only Randy and myself to tough it out Wednesday ... ( not easy with two guys when crews on surrounding farms are running up to 12 a group ) ( lots of pressure on the deer , and they are getting scarse in our area ... heading to properties with no hunter access )
Randy and I move around scouting farm to farm ... Weather is still good and I got this picture Wednesday morning as the sun crept up thru the trees ...
There is that few minuets during the sun rise , when it lights up the clouds and sky behind the farm with cool colors ...
Randy tries a new climber spot ... but only gets a glimpes of a deer moving across the fenceline towards another farm ..
Later Wednesday afternoon ... the bottoms drop out of the clouds , and some hail blows in ...
The weather breaks again , and only thing that I see from my next climber spot is one of many small birds that drop in for a visit ...
A missed shot , and lost doe on Tuesday , gave my confidence a knock , but I shook it off and got a " Jack Rabbit Double " when Randy was finished one of the last drives Wednesday afternoon ...
Thursday morning I was on my own ( Randy back to work and the rest of the crew gone as well ) ... I scoped out another property we use to hunt , got permission again and went in to set up around 6:35 am ... unfortunately there was another crew in place there , so I skirted their position and headed thru a clear cut between two farms ...
With a late start that morning , and two controlled hunt tags in my pocket , I was starting to second guess the extra tag purchase ... but lucked out when I saw this six point cruising across the field at the second farm ... He was travelled with his head down ... I grunted at him and he eventually angled across to my side of the field and , close enough to make a clean 45 yard shot .
Tagged and loaded , I get a call from CH to meet for breakfast ( he got off work )
We drive to the butcher and I get a look at one of the bigger bucks that came from our area ...
CH and I spend the rest of the day doing single man drives , but only move coyotes , and the weather bottoms out with gail force wind and snow ..
We don't even take an evening stand as the wind continues to howl ..
Today , Friday ... The weather is awsome ! CH gets another day off work , so we meet for breakfast and make a plan ... We find fresh scrape activity on one farm and follow , buck track thru the muddy field edge that leads to a cedar swail ...
We are in stealth mode .... Only wisper and hand signals now ... CH motions to me , he is going to circle round and do a silent push towards me from the North ...
Within minuets I see the buck spilt out between us heading west ... too far for me to shoot with open sights , and I see it bolt out of sight .
CH sprints towards the fence row ( I'm thinking yeah right , good luck ! ) ...
Then I hear a crack from his old faithfull Scoped Remington 870 Wingmaster " Sniper " slug gun !
As I crest the hill he's yelling to me " I got him ! " ...
I yell back " No freaking way ! " ...
But minuets later here is Chris posing for a picture !
( 80 yards at a dead run and he's down ! )
Dragged and tagged ... some points are broken off from fighting I guess he would have been a 12 point ...
As CH heads to the butcher , I take and evening stand at a different farm ... the weather is perfect ! ... I pass a small buck missing one side , and end the evening with a quick picture , of one of two does that came out approx 65 yards from my location ...
One last picture ... One of the many Menonite Hunting rigs I saw this week ! ... Who needs an SUV !
Good luck to all that venture out tomorrow for the last day of our November Controlled hunt ... shoot straight and have a safe hunt !
