Got out yesterday for the day. Hunting an area where I found a big shed while turkey hunting this spring.
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Put the tree stand up about a month ago and was there last sunday to set up a mock scrape. Found a big deer rub on a cedar about 60 yards east from the stand then.
Wind was perfect N to NE and I was hopeing the colder weather would have the bucks moving. In the stand by 7am and as it gets lighter I can see another rub 30 yards to my west, just beyond the mock scrape. My hopes were high. Spent a long day in the stand, except for 1/2 hour lunch break taken downwind by the edge of the pond. At 6pm the sounds of a deer slowly approaching & feeding down through the timber are heard. The doe worked her way in, checked the mock scrape and fed around the stand for 1/2 hour before leaving as the dark settled in. I was sure I heard another deer approach not long after she did, and she kept looking in that direction, but it never showed itself.
That last half hour of the hunt made the cold day in the tree worth it. Watching her feed around and no more than 10 yards from the stand at one point had me all warmed up again. I started my walk out in the dark, wondering if maybe next time I'll get to see her travelling companion.
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Bruce Ogilvie
"Fish Hard, Hunt Hard, Live Hard"
http://www.muskiescanada.ca/
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