The past week and the last two days

Gloom, Despair and agony poor me. Yep sure seems like the deer know my game plan, last week my schedule looked like this-Sat. and Sun. work mornings, deer hunt from 3:30 pm to 1/2 hour after sunset. Deer hunt Mon. morning work Mon. at 2:30pm til 11:00. Tues. and Wed. off hunt both days mornings and evenings for deer. Thurs. hunt morning for deer work 1pm til 9:30. Fri. work 6am til 2:30 deer hunt 3:30 til sunset. Whew I'm whooped. Now I've seen a number of deer and yotes and nothing has given me a shot opportunity.

Yeah I know I said I was going to stop when Duck season came in, just couldn't do it really need to stick a deer. So no yote huntin' til I get a deer.

This was MY opening morning Duck hunt (yesterday)

Goose isn't in right now.

Which leads me to the reason behind the intro- I've got 2 stands 75-100 yrds apart. Well for the most part I always hunt out of stand #1, waiting for a NW wind to hunt stand #2. Well I've hunted that stand only twice this year. I watch deer come and go at that location on a daily basis. The second time this year I've hunted that stand was last nite. I was sooo happy to finally get to hunt this stand that I was practically giddy....... until I watched a 10 point walk practically underneath stand #1. Yep if I would've been in my #1 stand I would've been done deer hunting and had a great deer.

If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony poor me.

This is my second day of Duck hunting

Goose is still not open

Isn't this the way it always goes?

Well I was able to scratch out a couple ducks today. 1 woody, 1 ringneck, and 1 drakemallardpintailhen.

Long time no see

Well, bow season is now in full swing.I haven't been on here because I've been hunting. I know my thousands of readers are chomping at the bit for this installment so let me clue you in to what has been happening.
Nothing.... I've been out 6 times seen deer all but one time. I've seen the buck I want to shoot twice, he just didn't cross close enough.
The bad/good thing is duck season starts here on the 18th. I would much rather duck hunt than deer hunt so, I've already cleared it with my wife that I'm going to start duck hunting with or without a deer by the 18th. Now the other problem is every time I've been out I've seen at least 2 yotes which is good and bad. Good because I have yotes using the property everyday, bad because I have yotes using the property everyday. I know this is why I haven't been seeing the numbers of deer I have in the past. There has always been yotes out there they just haven't called the property home before this year. They really need some thinning out. So that's what I'll be doing during duck season. Hopefully I'll be able to get a deer during muzzleloader season, at least that's the game plan right now.

Things that make you go ...Dumbass

I knew from the beginning that I should just stay at home today. Checked the weather and the wind was from the wrong direction.My nice cool weather had left for warmer days and to top it all off it was supposed to start raining. I hate hunting in the rain.

So even though I had all this stacked against me I decided to go anyway, cause I'm just not that bright. Got out to the field to walk in and there was a deer milling around just about under my stand.If I could've just gotten there an hour earlier .......... Even though it was just a yearling she still would've put meat in the freezer and gotten me off the snide. I waited for the deer to go into the woods on the other side of the field before entering the field, then I practically ran to my stand and got ready for the action that I was sure was going to happen at any moment....... 5 hrs later the action started.

The first fur I saw after the yearling was a coyote. He was crossing in front of me about 50 yrds away so I thought to myself might as well shoot something and he'll do. So I started making kissing noises with my lips to get him to come closer for the shot, he just looked around. Then he went into the treeline,I kissed again and he came back out and looked around again. When he went back into the woods for the second time I noticed a black spot in my peripheral vision. I slowly turned my head thinking it was another yote, and....... nope there's a mid-sized doe looking at me wondering why I'm kissing the air. Well to make a really long story shorter, she took off, the yote disappeared and I was left to mull over what had just transpired.

Something just moved at the top of the field, get out my binos and see it's another yote. I put my binos away put my release on my loop and .........crap the yote I was kissing at just saw me move. He was coming up the other side of the fence row by the corn and bolted. In the mean time the other yote had vanished, and the deer are nowhere to be seen.

So here I sit at home deer less,yote less, and slightly damp thinkin'.........I had a great day, glad I went out.

fresh paint

been thinkin bout doin this for a while just had a hard time justifying it. my shotgun was not cheap but finally talked myself into it. I have to seal it yet but I think it turned out pretty good. Sorry bout the bad pic.

At long last it has arrived

Yep today was the first day of bow season. The morning sun found me sitting in my deer stand watching everything come to life.
I had a great day, the sky didn't pee on me and the sun didn't roast me. I saw 4 deer, 3 of which were bucks. They stayed far enough away from me as to not become supper in the near future. I watched around 3 billion geese come and go all day ... now that might be a slight exaggeration but I saw alot of geese. I also watched at least 6 coyotes cross in front of me. They were closer than the deer but they were still 100 yrds out.
No shots, no meat still had a great day and as soon as I stick a deer I'm going to head back out to thin the yote herd that seems to be growing wild out there.