john deer.....good to hear from you. Sorry you missed the big one, but hey you still have a month left to get some points. Good luck!

up...I guess I need to get you a cough silencer for christmas, huh? [8D][8D]LOL, that was probably the only time you ever needed it, so you should be good to go now! Hang in there, you'll get a good one yet! Can't say you ain't trying!!!


I went out Sat to an area behind my house that they have torn up. There must be 150 rubs and a bunch of scrapes in the area. Most of the rubs are small, but they have definitely been working the area over. I got up in my stand early, and about 7:30 had a pile of deer come through. Probably 12-15 total. I couldn't see most of them clearly, but I saw 3 bucks, the biggest a small 6 or 8....no shooters. About 6 of them including 2 of the bucks bedded about 40yds from me for 2 hrs. I hate that, and not to mention they were looking right in my direction. They never saw or smelled me, so I made out ok. I scouted a little on my way out and found a tree right in the hot spot. So I hunted there on Sat eve, but only saw a doe and fawn. I hung a stand there yesterday, so I can slip out there quick and quiet. We'll see. We still have about a month left here as well, though the later in Dec it gets, the fewer deer I typically see. We don't have any good real thick areas for the deer on my place...not like my neighbor behind me with the cedars. I think that is where they spend the real cold months.

I found a dead doe on Sat afternoon while out cutting our Christmas tree down. She had been shot way back, intestines hanging out. Couldn't have been dead an hour probably. My son and I drug her back to the house. I gave her to my neighbor, he was pumped.

Oh and I got a call from a buddy on Sat, he shot a 160 class 15pt in Illinios with his muzzleloader Not that it does us any good...LOL.

Good luck guys