Its hot with a south wind. [:'(]

I go to the surgeon Monday to see about getting the tendons reattached. And a couple small bone chips removed. If I have to I will take my bow riser with me so the cast will fit my on grip.

We have acorns every where ,that black bear is keeping the deer out of my corn. I have my camera on an oak grove ,I'll check it in a couple of days.

I'm going to head up to the U.P. and grouse hunt for a couple of days later this week. I can still carry my O/U 20 with out much trouble.

went sat morning. finally a chilly morning so we took advantage of it but didnt see anything. We saw one deer as we climbed up, but it was about 50 yards out feeding, and it was too dark to ttell buck or doe. it fed out of sight around the corner before we continued up to the stand. Im gettin antsy about not seeing those big bucks, but atleast i know two bucks are still in the area.

I parked at the top of the hill probably 600-700 yards away from our stands. As soon as i got out to get dressed, i heard bucks fighting. idk how to explain it, but its that unmistakable noise that those of you who have seen or heard it know what im talkin about. it came from a very dense pine thicket that i know deer bed down in. My friend didnt hear it, nor did he believe me, so i told him to shut up and listen. sure enough they went at it again about a minute later for probably 20 seconds. idk if you can tell much about the size of bucks from hearing them fight, but it sounded like pretty big heavy racks. i say this because i dont think little basket racked 6 or 8 pointers could make those loud pops. idk but it sounded like they had some mass to them. sound came from about 600 yards away from our stand too.

pretty positive sign, just hope they show themselves during daylight sometime this season.

Just checking in fellows, not much to report.
Good luck in the UP Jim.

Ok gonna try this map posting Firemedic..I'm not too good at it. I have some ideas but didn't mark anything as I don't want to bias the group.. Pic a few stand locations ..Blind..as I know NOTHING about what's in there yet.

Total it's about 96 acres..fields are off -limits as thats the property line. The red star is nothing other than the starting point I enterred. The yellow outlined area is what I'm assuming to be hunt-able even the landowners were wishy washy on any real property markers other than the dirt road just below my southern line and the fields.

oops, made my pic on the main board but i'll re post my stand choices.

Definately check the corners of the fields on the east side, especially if they still have crops or browse.Generally, I try to be 40 yards from the field so if the bucks are holding up til dark I may get lucky and get a shot. I marked the north and south of the pond because it acts a natural obstruction rerouting traffic as well as a water source. The creek bottom is hard to say, I would probably just walk the entire thing looking for low banks and the easiest access to cross. Find those areas and you should find what we call "slides", those beat down areas on the banks were the deer cross.

I have an area right now were the deer come down one slide, walk the creek bottom for 40 yards and then go up a steep bank on the other side. I haven't figured out why, but they are breaking the path of least resistance rule. There is plenty of cover for them to come out of the creekdirectly across from where they enter and itsa heck of a lot easier.

Whats up team just swinging by a PC to say hello and thanks for the cheers. Bob thanks for posting the news for me Yes all is well at the Mayer house. Everyone is healthy and doing great. There is no chance of changing his name to Rob. None! Maddox Francis Mayer is an awesome lil man. I'll get some pictures up tomorrow night maybe when I check in and can spend some time but now I've gotta run. Good to see you all are post whores as usuall looks like I got some catching up to do. Later team and good luck!

Went out this morning...absolutely gorgeous morning to be in the woods. Was in the tree 30 min before first light and could hear lots of movement in the woods. Never saw a thing except for squirrels after daybreak. How bought you guys that had season openers yesterday? Anything to brag about?

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Flying intoBaltimore Thursday morning. Staying downtown (inner harbor), got any suggestions for dinner Thursdayor lunch on Friday? Maybe a local seafood place or something? I've been to one place in Fells Point with all you eat blue crab and the big seafood restaurant in theshopping area on the inner harbor. Fells Point was pretty good and not outrageously priced, the other was OK but seemed to be a tourist trap. If you know of any local pubs (irish/scottish) that would be helpful too.

NO shooters yet..I did see 3 bucks last night. (2)1.5 yo and one 2.5 smallish 8 pt.. Along with 18 Turkey that I filmed for 9+ minutes stroll by me.

The bucks were not togther per-say but they were traveling within 5-10 minutes of each other. At least 2 were bedding in the same general area (which is a known bedding area) that I set-up 125 yards off of.