Hi Guys. Sorry I haven't posted for a while, been very busy.

I was out almost all of this past weekend, and the bucks are moving, but no shooters came by my stand, except for one monster that I actually grunted in, but could not get to stop when he entered my shooting lanes. He was pretty riled up and just trotted through two of my shooting lanes without slowing down. Judging from other pics in this contest, I would guess he was a mid 140 to low 150 class animal. Really nice.

I was out this morning (Wednesday, Nov. 8th) and there were bucks moving but they were taking the alternatetrail to their destination than the one I was sitting on. One very small 8 point did walk right by my set-up, but he was too small and young to seriously consider with another full day of hunting left. I did move my stand tothe intersection of the two trails, into a slightly more exposed tree, which I don't like, so maybe tomorrow morning Iwill be in position to get a shot at something nice, but deer have a way of confounding the best laid plans. Tomorrow is my last best chance before rifle season opens this Saturday.I'll postmy results before I head off to Northern Iowa tomorrow night for a 3 day pheasant hunting and fishing trip. When rifle season opens I pray that a few big'uns survive to late season and next year.