Germ, sounds like a plan.

That area looks like God created it just for big ole bucks to meander through.

Due to better weather this time - lows in the mid 50s and highs in mid 80s (yeah, unfortunately that's
a lot better especially on the lows), I will also be hunting two new, unhunted stands put up a couple
months ago. Gotta like that. Nobody's hunted in two weeks out there, so things should be pretty good.

I will be pretty disappointed if I don't come back Monday with something to report, even if its
to join the Nannywhacker club.

Just checking on the team-Congrats on ya jmbuckhunter on the great heart shot!!! Way to put them down!! Its been real wet here rain and more rain. The bucks here are moving more now but the corn......! Corn Corn all around me. The farmers cant get the corn crops out because of the rain. Seeing lots of does and their little ones. I did get some video of a little button buck licking my latter stand and a couple of little bucks play fighting in the creek the other night. I think that I will be able to get back out tonight if the weather man is right. Go and gettem team GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY RUTTING GUYS!!!

Thanks huntinlady.

We have the opposite problem around here. We are bone dry, all of the crops have been out in these parts. We did get a little rain last night, but are still 5 inchs below normal.

I am hoping to get back to IL this weekend. And maybe a little huntin around the house too.

Checking in.....

I haven't been in my best morning oak flat since I took one and hit one last Tuesday. I told Rob, today....I'm not going back in there until he gets here (he's coming the weekend of 11/16-11/17. I'm not going back into my honey hole OR the "BEST" spot until then, too. I'll hunt the fringes and take what it gives me. I'm convinced I can take care of both season goals if I play my cards, correctly.

I'll be back at it, Saturday. Gonna move up the line from where i found the dead doe about 100yds.....where I've only hunted, once, this season. Maybe a buck will be trailing a doe, early.....or maybe he'll come looking for some acorns on his own. I'll still take a doe, here. I won't be taking any more does in my best spots. Too late for that.

I feel like I'm in a good position. I'll feel REALLY good about it if I can take another doe, this weekend. Nothing's a given, though.

Almost forgot.....I'll be in PA, next week (thurs, fri & Sat) with Rob/PA; Q2inwhitetails (Kurt); Rick James (Matt); Matt/PA; KIDD (Frank)and possibly APA Jaws. I'd love for the guys hunting to take something while I'm there. I'd be JUST as happy if it was one of them. Maybe moreso. I get my chances.

Good luck to all. I'm rooting for all of you!

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Gary, Good luck in that new stand this weekend, sounds/looks like a great place. I like your all day (pretty much) in the stand efforts. I need to do the same here. The old bucks really like moving at mid day when most hunters leave the woods. I am going to pull an all day sit Sat in my mountain top saddle treelounge.. right above my mock scrape thats getting wicked business as of tuesdays check.

Will, good luck bud, any time I leave a spot alone for two weeks.. I almost always see good movement.

Jeff, good luck, I like your game plan for your home area. Good luck in PA too!

Huntlady.. Sounds like its a matter of time for you!

John, keep after em bud, hopefully you'll bust a bucks ticker this weekend..

Flst, Arrow and Tlutter.. best of luck this week guys...

I drove seperate from my wife today so I can race to my 2nd fruthest area to hunta standthe first time all season! I will report in tonight if anythinghappens by..

Troy

I am taking the day off of work tomorrow. I just need a day away from the MADNESS there.I really need a new job! I am going to hunt till around 10:00 or so around the house, then butcher up my doe from the other night. I have had her in my buddies cooler since I got her.

Then the plan is to go to IL on Saturday and sit on afunnel leading to a small but nasty thick bedding area. There is a thin patch of woods that connects the big woods to this overgrown ditch that the deer love to bed in. It is only a couple of acres in size, butI always see bucks checking it out during the rut and cruising thru it. There were a bunch of rubs in there last week, so there may be a buck bedding there too.

john, you ready for that warehouse job yet??

shed33, congratulations on that monster buck. Amazing and you deserve it!.

Way to go Troy ! What a way to get us started !

You're gonna break a 100 yet aren't you !!

cough, cough... 110 cough, cough

Sorry to read about all the trouble you had. I put in a 112 hrs in the last seven days with 3 days of20 hrs eachso haven't been on much at all. Corn harvest is going horribly slow with the crappy weather.Rain killed us todayso maybe getting some hunting in Saturday.

Congrats on your big, big buck!! You the man!!! Barb says congrats too!!

Tim