I told y'all this week was going to be my best chance before the rut and I was right! Got into the stand at whatever time I texted Don and sat down. After a bit a doe, BB, and fawn came out behind me. While they browsed on the meadows edge, 2 more does and a fawn came out in front of me. Then a group of nine more slickheads came out from my right. The young'uns broke into the meadow first and then the adults joined them no more than 25 yards out in front of me. After a short while, I heard a blow way down to my left. Then a deeper blow. They blew back and forth for a few times and then came into sight. There was a itty bitty 4 pointer and a little 6 pointer. They came running into the midst of the does and all the slickheads scattered into the woods. Then a really deep grunt came from the left. I looked between the limbs waiting to see what grunted. He came into view out in the middle of the meadow. I glassed him and he was a wide 8 pointer. His rack extended past his ears at least 6" on each side. I pulled out the range finder and kept it on him. 103 yards, 87 yards, 75 yards in he came. No hurry, just walking and browsing the whole way. At 67 yards, he jacked his head upright and looked off to his left a little. I thought "Is there an even bigger buck coming in?" I glassed in the direction he was looking and didn't see anything. The other two bucks both blew in unison and bolted in opposite directions. The 8 pointer turned and blasted back the same direction he came from. "What the heck?", I thought. I watched the spot big boy was looking before he took off and into the meadow came a coyote. He walked out and began marking territory by scraping the gound with his paws and urinating. If I would have had a shot at him, I would have nailed that low life son of a (insert explicative here). I thought why the heck would that mature buck run from one coyote. Then the other three trotted into the field next to the first. They kind of scanned the area and then trotted off in the same direction the smallest buck went. After a second, the little 4 pointer bolted out of the woods and back across the meadow. I sat there until dark without seeing anything else.[:@]
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I hate them little B!#$@$%^. Shoot them all, when you can. I think that's allot of the problem around here also. To many of them and no one is killing them.
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Man, sorry to hear about that, atleast you had action while you were in the stand. I wouldnt worry about it though, those deer will be back.Dealing with yotes is a daily thing for deer.Best of luck to you.
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Oh, I know they'll be back. This was the first real shot I had at a buck this year and was all pumped until Wiley and his buddies showed up. I think I'll make up some "No Yotes" signs and post them out there and see if that'll help. Yesterday afternoon, while helping the elderly neighbor, he showed me a creek crossing down on his bottoms that has heavy traffic. He told me that if I wanted to put a stand there, he'd give me the keys to his fenced in timber to get through it to have access to the stand. I just have to have the stand out before spring when they are going in to cut down the walnut trees. Once the rain passes today, I'm going to take the stand that came out of the tree that fell over and put it up down there. I wish I had a double bull to put down there instead, but that costs money.[:@]
__________________ Retired US Air Force MSgt Mathews Reezen 7.0 Easton Storm 400 Hindsight Eclipse TruBall Release
AF--a couple of years back I saw a group of 3 coyotes put a doe on a death run...was kind of unnerving but hey, that is nature. I shot at a coyote standing a laydown at 35 yards...just missed him right under his chest
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Yesterday afternoon, while helping the elderly neighbor, he showed me a creek crossing down on his bottoms that has heavy traffic. He told me that if I wanted to put a stand there, he'd give me the keys to his fenced in timber to get through it to have access to the stand. I just have to have the stand out before spring when they are going in to cut down the walnut trees. Once the rain passes today, I'm going to take the stand that came out of the tree that fell over and put it up down there. I wish I had a double bull to put down there instead, but that costs money.[:@]
