It's been a while since my last post. This year has been very profitable. I've seen 11 deer in all. A couple of weeks ago I went to BF Grant down in Eatonton. The moon was full in the evenings and the deer just weren't moving in the day. Friday November 6th I drove up to Loganville from Eatonton after the morning hunt so I could be ready for Saturday morning.
Saturday morning was cold! And everything that could have went wrong... you guessed it, went wrong! The tire on the trailer was flat, so we blew it up. While we were getting the four wheelers loaded on the trailer the tire went flat again! That fast, so we had to blow it up again. Greg rigged it up so that we could drive on it and it wouldn't leak. Straight up redneck engineering I tell ya.
Anyway I didn't get my stand in the woods and in it until 8:00 in the morning! It was terrible. One of the best days of the season, good and cold outside, bucks were chasing doe, they were moving, and I was WAAAAY late. That didn't stop me from seeing deer that morning though. I saw 6 deer. A doe and her fawn came out of the brush at about 8:30 and right behind them another deer, that didn't hang around long enough for me to tell what it was, came out. Later at around 9:30 a spike came trotting through, he thought he was Gods gift to deer, holding his head high and strutting around smelling all of the scrapes. After he left a five point showed up and would stay for a while and walk out and come back. He did this three times until a 10 point came out and chased him away for good.
I was looking at the ten point for about 10 minutes through the brush as I was moving slow trying to get my rifle to a firing position. By the time I saw him through my scope and saw that he was a shootable 10 point he trotted off into the brush straight ahead of me toward where the 5 point had exited the area. I grunted a few times and saw a deer come back out of the brush. I couldn't tell if it was the 5 point or the 10 point. I got my cross hairs zeroed on his chest cavity and kept looking with my left eye to try and see his rack. finally when he had walked nearly behind me I saw that it was the 10 point but couldn't shoot before he disappeared into some more brush. He wasn't spooked but he was moving fast. So six deer for that trip.
The next week on the morning of November 14th I got in my stand on time! It was a little warmer than it had been the week before but the deer were still moving. I must admit I fell asleep for about an hour one time!!! I know right. The ground was damp and 4 squirrels were foraging on the ground without making the slightest noise, so there's no telling what passed me by as I snoozed. When I woke up a doe came from my right side and walked briskly past me and left the area. About thirty minutes later an eight point buck walked in from my left side. He had an average rack height wise but width wise it was skinny so I let him walk. He left the area quick without seeing me.
So hopefully this weekend will be good and cold. Rut's still on in Loganville, though it will be dwindling down soon, bucks are getting tired from chasing.
Saturday morning was cold! And everything that could have went wrong... you guessed it, went wrong! The tire on the trailer was flat, so we blew it up. While we were getting the four wheelers loaded on the trailer the tire went flat again! That fast, so we had to blow it up again. Greg rigged it up so that we could drive on it and it wouldn't leak. Straight up redneck engineering I tell ya.
Anyway I didn't get my stand in the woods and in it until 8:00 in the morning! It was terrible. One of the best days of the season, good and cold outside, bucks were chasing doe, they were moving, and I was WAAAAY late. That didn't stop me from seeing deer that morning though. I saw 6 deer. A doe and her fawn came out of the brush at about 8:30 and right behind them another deer, that didn't hang around long enough for me to tell what it was, came out. Later at around 9:30 a spike came trotting through, he thought he was Gods gift to deer, holding his head high and strutting around smelling all of the scrapes. After he left a five point showed up and would stay for a while and walk out and come back. He did this three times until a 10 point came out and chased him away for good.
I was looking at the ten point for about 10 minutes through the brush as I was moving slow trying to get my rifle to a firing position. By the time I saw him through my scope and saw that he was a shootable 10 point he trotted off into the brush straight ahead of me toward where the 5 point had exited the area. I grunted a few times and saw a deer come back out of the brush. I couldn't tell if it was the 5 point or the 10 point. I got my cross hairs zeroed on his chest cavity and kept looking with my left eye to try and see his rack. finally when he had walked nearly behind me I saw that it was the 10 point but couldn't shoot before he disappeared into some more brush. He wasn't spooked but he was moving fast. So six deer for that trip.
The next week on the morning of November 14th I got in my stand on time! It was a little warmer than it had been the week before but the deer were still moving. I must admit I fell asleep for about an hour one time!!! I know right. The ground was damp and 4 squirrels were foraging on the ground without making the slightest noise, so there's no telling what passed me by as I snoozed. When I woke up a doe came from my right side and walked briskly past me and left the area. About thirty minutes later an eight point buck walked in from my left side. He had an average rack height wise but width wise it was skinny so I let him walk. He left the area quick without seeing me.
So hopefully this weekend will be good and cold. Rut's still on in Loganville, though it will be dwindling down soon, bucks are getting tired from chasing.
