jb
11-15-2013, 06:51 PM
Not perfect, but a nice day. Temps warmed up and all our snow melted, made the woods very quiet with the damp leaves. Hardly a sound when you walk, even quieter when the deer do.
Ground is now brown and tree are grays, if you don't see the deer walking they disappear into the background
Got in the ladder stand about sunup, small buck walks by about 9, (we are QDM so it's a min. of 3 pt's on a side), about 10:30 nice doe walks about 30 yd's from me and never knows I"m there.
About noon a really nice buck is nose to the ground on the same trail the doe was, moving fast, can see it's ivory white antlers curved outside it's ears with about 6" stickers coming off main beam, but just cannot see if there are brow tines (eye guards to some of you). Grunt and he stops behind a big beech tree, still can't see it he's legal so have to let him go.
#3 had a cow horn spike come within 20 yd's but no legal buck. Saw about 11 more doe. #3 has a doe tag but usually won't fill it on opening day.
Try again tomorrow.
Here's what it looked like today, blue skies, temps near 50, just not normal deer season weather.
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Ground is now brown and tree are grays, if you don't see the deer walking they disappear into the background
Got in the ladder stand about sunup, small buck walks by about 9, (we are QDM so it's a min. of 3 pt's on a side), about 10:30 nice doe walks about 30 yd's from me and never knows I"m there.
About noon a really nice buck is nose to the ground on the same trail the doe was, moving fast, can see it's ivory white antlers curved outside it's ears with about 6" stickers coming off main beam, but just cannot see if there are brow tines (eye guards to some of you). Grunt and he stops behind a big beech tree, still can't see it he's legal so have to let him go.
#3 had a cow horn spike come within 20 yd's but no legal buck. Saw about 11 more doe. #3 has a doe tag but usually won't fill it on opening day.
Try again tomorrow.
Here's what it looked like today, blue skies, temps near 50, just not normal deer season weather.
2130