I had my first outing yesterday, the weather was very cloudy and dark, 38 degrees with a very brisk wind, it looked like dusk at 3:00pm. I wasn't up in my ladder stand 10 minutes when I saw movement at the lone whiteoak below me that was dropping acorns. I saw a doe with two fawns feeding on the acorns.
They worked their way toward the plot I planted, passing at about 40 yards. I chose not to shoot the doe because the fawns were small, no spots but 30 pounders.
About the time they got to the plot a huge dry doe I hadn't see came up out of the hollow, they were all down wind of me at this point. The big doe blew and went back down in the hollow. The other three came out on the plot and walked around stiff legged on high alert for a while before easing off.
I put my sights on the mama doe but gave her a pass again. Had the big doe offered me a clear shot I would have taken her.
Earlier that day I built two ground blinds on my neighbors 40 acres to ambush the deer I have been watching for a week or so. When I can't see my sights I get down, as it was still light, I walked to a point I could see my neighbors fields, no deer were out. All my blind building had disturbed their routine.
They worked their way toward the plot I planted, passing at about 40 yards. I chose not to shoot the doe because the fawns were small, no spots but 30 pounders.
About the time they got to the plot a huge dry doe I hadn't see came up out of the hollow, they were all down wind of me at this point. The big doe blew and went back down in the hollow. The other three came out on the plot and walked around stiff legged on high alert for a while before easing off.
I put my sights on the mama doe but gave her a pass again. Had the big doe offered me a clear shot I would have taken her.
Earlier that day I built two ground blinds on my neighbors 40 acres to ambush the deer I have been watching for a week or so. When I can't see my sights I get down, as it was still light, I walked to a point I could see my neighbors fields, no deer were out. All my blind building had disturbed their routine.