Deer Season 2008

[Mutilated1]

I hunted again yesterday morning, I went in a lot earlier because I was hoping to get into the stand before the twilight. Well I was plenty early this time, and as I was walking up to the stand I nearly stepped on a deer in the dark -- it jumped up and ran off and nearly gave me a heart attack in the dark. Scared the piss out of me - lol

Then I turned the flashlight on so that I could see what it was and I noticed that the ladder for the stand was right in front of me. The deer was laying down basically right under the tree where my stand is.

I stayed in the stand for a couple hours, only about an hour of daylight then I had to get down and go to work.

I need to figure out some other way to hunt them during the bow season I think. Maybe I need to move my stand, its right in the middle of some oak trees that are dropping acorns right now so the deer really like to be there, but its hard for me to get to the stand without spooking them.

I think I'm going to try and setup and between the acorns and where they go to lay down and chew their cud during the morning and see if I can ambush them either on their way to the acrons or on their way back to bed from the acorns. I know where they are, just having a hard time getting close enough to them to take one with a bow.

 

[CodeRage]

Yeah, I was always taught to set up between their bedding areas and feeding areas and catching them moving between the two.