Update,

2 fellows from Utah and Idaho came in Tues. nite. One killed his first trad critter this AM, a nice midsized doe! He passed on a group of does a couple days back cause he was wanting to get a buck so badly. I told him to get a deer, then worry about a buck later!

The other had deer under him yesterday and today in AM, but when too dark to shoot! 3 bucks this AM , but right under him , yet he could only see shapes and the the whiter tines on their racks!

We've had wind the last 2 days, so I think the deer are skittish and hittin the cover early.

Oh, the doe taken was from the Gap stand.

Not excited, are you Charlie?      

is it obvious?  

I didn't finish that year for whatever reason, the last eve they were there, the young guy who just stared with trad stuff asked me, where would you go?

With the wind, I told him if I was a deer, I would ease out of the downwind edge of the big cedar patch where I laid up during the 35 mph winds just before dark.

He slipped in there in the afternoon and sat up by a pinoak with lots of drooping limbs. 2 big toms showed up and once were 12 feet from him,but he didn't move for fear of them spookin everything in the cover.

Just after that, 4 bucks showed up 20 yards south of him, so here we are .  Bucks at 20 yds, the dang turkeys at 10. So he sat and watched the bucks walk on past , then the turkeys went on to roost.

He said one of the bucks was like a muley, wide and tall. He is now hooked on whitetails and trad bows!!

He killed 2 whitetails from the ground last year with a ghille suit.

Sorry for the long story, I told it as it was told to me by a new trad addict.  :D