Hiawatha - were those some of the sheds that you found with Troy on his trip to SK? He was telling me about that trip, it sounds like you've got some great hunting up there.

Scott - thanks for the info. Also, thanks for taking time out of your own schedule to take those guys out - they'll be reliving that hunt for the next 50 years, god willing. It takes a really decent guy to give up a weekend of his own hunting to spend it with somebody else. Hopefully each of those guys will get to cut an arrow loose before week's end. We're really looking forward to hearing the stories and seeing the pictures. By the way, Ryan didn't break anything did he? He has a way with electronics. LOL J/K

We really should get together sometime soon and do some hunting, but I just don't have the vacation time. I had to burn it all for the wedding and studying for the Bar. As soon as I pass that miserable test, I'll have plenty of vacation time and some extra spending money to burn.
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Oh, great news on the hunting front! Remember the farm that I was telling you guys about - the one where I killed my buck on opening day last year - the one where I hadn't seen anything with any size yet... Anyway, I put the wife to bed early last night and hotfooted it over there for some spotting. I pulled up to the only narrow lane that goes back into the soybean field and hit the light . . . and there they were. The boys of Summer - a bachelor group of four HOG bucks. There's one that I saw early in the summer, I nicknamed him Mister October, he's a mainframe 5x5, great mass, dark rack, probably 20" across, 7-10" G2 & G3's. He's definitely a beast, looks a lot like a racehorse right now - very muscular and lean with a stout front end and thick hind quarters. He was with areally tall mainframe4x4, andtwo otherbuckssportingdark chocolate racks that werewell past the ears. I couldn'tcount the points on either of them, b/c they were lingering pretty far back. To be honest, it lookedlike one of the deer in the back could've been thegigantic4x4 that Iwas all wound up about a month or so ago. Rumor has it that he's disappeared from the ridgetop where I'd seen him earlier - I figured he got jacklighted or run over, but he might've just come down the ridge into a more secluded place. I studied that deer's rack, andI know the shape well. I think it was him - big wraparound beams that curl up, long, long tines that curve in, but I don't wannacry wolf just yet.He was only 1.5 miles away as the crow flies - justacross the road and up the ridge when I was seeing him in July-August. It's plausible if nothing else.

As the crow flies, these bucks were about 1000 yards from my stand site at 10:30 P.M. I'm not sure where they're bedding, but judging by the size of their headgear, it won't be very difficult to single out their rubs. Since I've seen what I needed to see, I'm not climbing on Saturday morning, instead, I'll wait until 9-10'ish and go out there and walk the field edges trying to figure out where these deer are spending their days. Acorns in this place are thin, so if they're bedded anywhere near either of the oak groves, I just might have a good chance at them next Saturday since the mast is starting to come off. I'd be a really happy guy if I could take out Mister October before October even got here. I couldn't even sleep last night thinking about those deer. As long as the lessee keeps the corn up, those deer are safe from the locals.