Shouldn't be long now..


The rain held off this weekend and I was able to get in some seat time in the woods. Saturday I hunted pretty hard - morning and night and saw nothing. Sunday am, nothing, but Sunday night - wow what a hunt, not successful, but fun. The rut seems to be cranking up good now. There are 3 fresh scrapes in the area, one being at the base of my tree . I got back to my stand a little late and had to wade through the deer to get there. I thought the night was going to be a bust after spooking the deer from under my tree, but about an hour later I heard grunting. Within a few minutes a nice 8 came through about 60 yards out grunting and in quite a hurry. He was heading straight into the wind so I imagine he was on a doe's trail. He wasn't a huge deer, but much larger than last year's buck (nearly twice prob a little over 100"). I would have taken him given the chance but he never circled back. Idiot me forgot my call in the truck so I had nothing to try to coax him over either. I had several doe within range but being Sunday night, I chose to let them walk. Just a matter of time now fellas - rut is starting to kick. Man is that cool watching a buck all nuts like that.