sunday is the last day feb.1st

Headed out this afternoon about 3:00 so Hope to have a tag filled (yeah right). Well at least hope to see some.

26 does walked past me this morning from 7:15 til about 9 am. It was a great show! I have my buck tag left so I've been holding out shooting another doe for one of the good boys I've been seeing.  I was at Kzoo last night while a friend was in my stand trying to fill his last doe tag.  He called all worked up because a 160 class 11pt walked right up and stood broadside at 10yds oblivious to everything while the does walked by just out of range.  I've had him come by me twice in two weeks just out of range while does were standing all around me.  Life just isn't fair...  

That sucks          

Here's my edited entry from my hunting journal for today...

31-Jan-09

Today was the last day of deer season for us.  Once again, it was very cold and crunchy.  My son hunted the corner again and I sat next to a tree and ambushed the heavy trail I had spotted the previous week.  I lasted until about 10.30 and had to get up and walk to shake (literally) off the cold.

Up until this point, I had seen woodpeckers and crows but no game.  Moving down the middle ridge back towards the road, I immediately started seeing better deer tracks.  Just beyond my field of view from the morning, I saw several deer beds and loads of tracks, poo and so forth.

Beyond this, in an area that I've ambushed before, I noticed tracks of an apparent tap dancing contest for whitetail.  I've never seen so much sign in one area in my life.  



Crunching up the trail from this, I startled a group of does.  As loud as the footing was, there was no question of attempting to sneak after them.

Later, my son and I decided to try to work a pincer move on a group of does he had seen in the area where he took his buck earlier in the year.  He came in from the bottom and I moved down from the top seeing three or four does almost immediately.  I played cat and mouse with them for a while (and with a last moment fox squirrel – which I missed) as I tried to drive them to my son.

Following his's tracks from earlier in the day, I saw where he had laid his bow down to mess with his hat.  All too soon, he and I met up and that was all she wrote for this deer season.  It was a blast.

Next – bunnies.

Sounds great Jim! I didn't get out this weekend. I saw a really nice buck while driving in the car today. I guess I'll hav to wait for next season.

-Charlie

:-D

So are you going to GORH?

Well, no deer.  

So it's time to home in on some B@C rabbits. COME ON G.O.R.H.!!!!!        

Raven >>>>-------->

I woke up at 330 am saturday and the wife says "you going hunting?" I said I wish I was. I was headin to the throne with rotovirus. Not the way I pictured ending the season. I thought I would be freezing my butt off in a treestand watching woodpeckers.  

Passed on 3 does Sunday morning and didn't see a thing the rest of the day.  Time to start getting ready for pigs in May!