Good Morning guys...Just checking it...I just got in from a little elk hunting this morning with my back up bow in hand.. I was awaken by a NOT SO FAMALIAR bugle this morning at 4 am.. Sure enough after 2 weeks of waiting a good bull moved in on the local herd hereby my place....of about 25 cows and 6 little bulls.. spikes and rags.. Hes a nice bull.. 5x6... I pretty much just slipped out this morning to see where he was going to take the herd....Hiawatha is coming Friday for elk for a week.. This bull is definately a shooter...

Ok..whitetails this afternoon.....I've got to make the decision as to either move a stand closer today on the "Stretch" buck..since I have a N wind and not another north wind in the forcast for a week its now or never up there..... or I canhunt him in the same stand as last night..

heres my concern.. if I do move closer .....and dont get a shot if he came out and bedded where he did ...I wouldnt be able to sneak out...he would have me pinned down.. I dont like the idea of being possibly pinned down..then again.. I dont like the idea of just watching him do the same thing..like last night..

I am 50/50 right now on whether or not to put a stand 100 yards closer in the pine..I do have the option of setting up on the ground tonight as well.. in a small patch of little trees next to the pine.... The brush out there is over 6 ft tall ..so last night when I was glassing him I was looking down into the maze of brush he was browseing in...at eye level in there..a guy would never see that buck..cept for where I picked outone spot he walked across that was like a little park in the brush... bout 30 yards in diameter..he walked right through it..

Decisions decisions... hey everything could be perfect tonight and he simply may not show up.. hes got food in every direction for a hundred miles..

so what do you guys think? play him safe and hunt from the same stand I have watched him come under this summer and was in last night......or move out closer to where he was last night.. The wind will be perfect in both spots and perfect for setting up a stand.....???

JEFF>>BEST OF LUCK TODAY! hope your feeling better..

Flst.. best of luck to your son in the Football Game!


p.s. I think hes gonna be right around 70 inches on his left side and just under 70...say 68 on his right.. 18-19 inch inside spread.. just for the heck of it I figured I would throw that out incase I arrow him.. see if my field judging is worth a darned..