No Kill This Week End

[Semisane]

Well guys, I spent the weekend hoping for a buck to show up on my best food plot (picture below). I sat there with the Mustang in my hand looking at these same six does onFriday evening, and Saturday morning and evening, and had only one 4-pointer show up - not legal for our club. I need to take a doe, but don't want to do it on this plot because these gals are my "buck magnets" and I know there's an 8-pointer in the area. I just don't want to disturb the area unitil after the rut, which will start about mid-December.

So Sunday morning I sat on another stand with the intention of taking the first mature doe that showed up. You guessed it - nobody showed up.

EDIT: No, the picture wasn't taken from a helicoptor. I'm sitting in a 16' high stand that's on top of a 12' bluff next to the plot. Distance from the stand to that corn feeder is 121 yards.

[gleason.chapman]

That is quite a view. Sounds like a good plan, best wishes for the 8 pointer.
Chap

[Buck Hunter 1]

Take a rag ofr that nose bleed your going to get being upo that high!

[Gotbuck]

With my luck I'd hit the feeder

[cayugad]

Have you ever practiced from that elevated stand? It looks like you might have a steep enough angle that it could influence the POI from a rifle sighted in on a flat open range.. if you catch my drift.

[Semisane]

You're right to be concerned about the steep angle Cayugad. I haven't shot targets out of that stand, but did manage to pop a bobcat from it a few years agowith my New Englander and a big old slow 410 grain Great Plains bullet. I aimed just a tadlow to compensate for the angle andthe shot was still a little higher than I expected, though that could have been shooter'serror. My 25-06 doesn't even notice the angle at that distance.

[cayugad]

I just wondered because I hunted out of a climbing stand once on the side of a steep hill. I buck came down the bottom of the draw, and I aimed at his heart and spined him. When I saw that picture, thats the first thing that popped into my head.

[Semisane]

I've always thought I ought to put targets out on that field at 100, 125 and 150 yards and shoot them with the Mustang, just never seem to get around to it. Might be a good project after the season ends Jan. 31st. Multiple loading in that little box stand is going to be a hassle though. That's probably why I haven't done it already.

[jayman035]

great view, i could sit there all day and watch the day go by.

[Semisane]

I do that quite often. I take alongathermos of coffee, a sandwich,a can or two of Coke,a gook book, and I'm a happy camper. That's why my wife says I'm totally nuts. Women don't seem to be able to go a whole day without talking to another human.