Well, made it out this morning, almost didn't, the baby was up from 1:30am-3am, had to give him a cool bath to get his temp down from 103.5, (got him to a doc today, looking like a double ear infection) was a long nite, more so for the wife, but long nonetheless.

Got out on stand at 5:25 am (sunrise 7:08) wanted to be out before the deer started moving from the corn/clover fields across a couple hundred yards of swamp grass to the tamaracs (sp?) and ferns they are bedding in.

Well, just before 6am I heard what I was hoping for, a couple of bigger bucks going at it, I have heard enough yearling/two year olds this year and the timber was so much deeper and louder and just more aggressive. To bad I think it was probably a couple hundred yards out, but if they were gonna come to where I think they were bedding up, they had to pass by me (i am in the middle of a 100 yard strip between two ponds)

By the time it got light enough to see, I found it was gonna be a foggy morning, but at 6:45 I did see a nice 9 pointer 100 yards out, should have been upwind, but the wind was light enough maybe some scent was blowing up there, I don't know, he sniffed the air and looked in my direction for more than 5 minutes, before he slowly walked away from me towards one of the corn fields, thinking it looked like a 120ish 3 year old.

All I saw this morning, wondering if being in the area yesterday setting up the stand left enough scent in the area that it would have effected the deer 15 hours later?

No hunting for more than a week for me, can't get a babysitter for the next 3 days, then starting thursday-sunday it is an anterless only weekend, (can use a gun) hate this little mini season where the department of natural resources (DNR) opens it up to cull the deer herd. At least it isn't at the end of the month like they usually do (right at the beginning of the heavy rut)