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I debated about getting up and going on saturday morning since the wind was howling and I knew it was going to be chilly sitting in a tree. But much like fishing, your not going to get one sitting on the couch.


It started off as a pretty quiet morning, the squirrels weren't even moving.  By 8 with the way the wing was blowing I was thinking about getting down out of the tree and just sitting in a ground blind. The way the tree was swaying back and forth I thought I was going to end up sea sick.  Right about then I spot a deer off to my left moving through the woods feeding. I pull out the binoculars and see he is a 8pt buck.  He feeds around for about 20 min and decides to bed down. He stayed there napping on and off for the next hour and a half before getting up and disappearing.  It was funny watching him nod off and jerk back awake. Just too bad he was doing all this at 60 yards. 



The rest of the morning was quiet till right around 11. I was getting ready to get down and move to a better spot for the after noon when a little button buck strolled on in and feed under my stand for a bit. I decided to let him walk.







Once he feed his way off I climbed down and headed over to my afternoon spot. I had just finished my lunch and was getting re-situated when a fork horn came trotting by (photo not avail) at 30 yards. Not sure where he was going but he did stop for me.

Around 2 caught something moving out of the corner of my eye and it was a doe and fawn feeding their way towards me. Once they got to about 40 yards out they stopped and bedded down. And stayed there for the next 3 hours!!!



With them a bit up on the hill, it was tough to get stand or sit or move or do much of anything. I had to wait till the one would either nod off or start cleaning herself before I could move.

It wasn't too longer after those two showed up that I heard that distinctive clump clump clump sound of a buck walking up behind.  I'm stuck sitting because of the does off to my left, so I lean out and bend around the tree to see an 8 pt coming up the trail but moving off towards my right (i'm right handed) and at this point he is about 20 yards out so my chances of standing up and spinning all the way around are about zero.  He moves off to my right behind and cedar and stand up then but I never get a chance to draw on him. Once he was 40 or so yards out a grunted a few times but he either didn't hear due to the wind or just didn't care.



I found it interesting that this bucks neck wasn't swollen at all and the one I saw in the morning and fork horn as well looked like theirs still were.

The does finally got up and started feeding at last light. By then I was getting cold and couldn't see though my peep sight any more. I lowered the bow, they spooked and took off.


*** As a side note, score one for the good guys. I got a message from one of the other guys who hunts this property that the game warden nabbed some  guy poaching with a RIFLE (this property is east of belmont ridge rd and surrounded on 2.5 sides by houses, a major road and an industrial area on the others).  This to me is just beyond reckless and I hope they throw the book at him.

Last edited by NOVAhunter (Nov-30-10 7:35AM)