What a day! I saw 42 does and 8 bucks. At 2 o'clock I saw 6 does and 1 buck bedded down on a fenceline out of the wind. I decided to do a stalk on them. Got into position about 150 yds away and watched them just lying there until 4 o'clock. Couldn't get any closer. Then the does moved and I thought the buck disappeared, then all of a sudden there he was! He headed down the fenceline so I began rattling to get his attention, he didn't care. He just kept on walking and came out about 100 yds. from me. He had 6 on one side and the other side only had a main beam, odd! Then all of a sudden I look back at where he was laying and there stood another buck. This time I decided to try my stalk. I snuck over the fence then crawled in the snow to within 40 yds of where the oddball came out. The buck was headed right there. Then he must have heard me and stopped in his tracks. He stood there for about 2 mins and then jumped the fence, I shot over his back. So I found my arrow and left, only to jump a nice 130ish 8 pt on my way out. Get in my truck and head down the road and go by this old abandoned farm house, there stood an awesome 150ish 10 pt with some does. got my binocs out and all of a sudden the buck takes off running, a bigger 10 pt starts chasing him out of there. This one looked well over 170! I watched them for a couple of minutes and they disappeared into the farmlot with about 20 does or so. Then I drove around the mile section, just about dark and I see a small buck chasing a doe nonstop for about 5 mins, they were diving over terraces and jumping fences. He was driving her nuts! Out of all those deer the only thing I got was a nasty stinkin mangy butt ugly coyote before I got to my stand about 10 o'clock this morning.
... things should be much better Thursday
