Matt, i think your work will pay off...you are putting alot of stand time in....your on deer....hang in there!! every day will get better and better...its early, but the big ole moon is gunna start shrinking and shrinking...i have a feeling Halloween weekend and the following week is gunna be HOT in terms of deer activity...new moon is Halloween or the day after....i cant wait! just hope the weather keeps cool.....

talked to my buddy this evening and he said he might goto camp next week for a day hunt....that is where i killed my buck last season.....the buddy i was with last year, is heading up this weekend to hunt(they are cousins its their family camp...im practically family...i can go up ANYtime i want...) so i might head up with my buddy next week, depending on whats going on...

or, i may head home monday afternoon to hunt at home Tuesday...or just hunt here at school...we'll see...i need spots closer to school, but in 3 years i failed to find anything close that i felt was worth my time...found a TON of deer last week spotting on a bunch of different farms(never spotted down this way) but that does me no good...wish i found them a year or 2 or 3 ago...my spot i hunt here is a half hour away...and a half hour hike....so its either setup all day or choose between morning and evening....

i gotta hunt a spot dad and i used to see numerous wall hangers cruising...every year in fall turkey we setup in an area and seen about 4 on average GOOD shooters every morning we hunted it every year(before i bowhunted) the last few years the canopy closed and its nothing but thick, high ferns....just didnt look like "deer" woods...but winter, i found a TON of tracks in there...the thicket matured some too, which turned me off as well...but its worth a shot...its directly below my oak ridge i hunt now...which i still say is gunna be a hot spot..right time, right tree...i know they use it hard...


good luck guys....keep at it....i got 3 more days of pretty physical training...i gotta hit the bed....i wish the general public could see the training LEOs go through...."those fat donut eaters" go through some serious training....i'll say that much...this is just the beginning of it, and i truly am enjoying it and really think im on the right track for myself...