Here in Pa it is getting down in the 40's at night. The Pa season doesn't open till the 3rd of Oct., Ohio is this upcoming Saturday. I have the itch bad and decided to go to sit in the stand where I shot my buck last year. At 6:45 I saw a fawn followed by a big doe-(150 lbs plus) they fed for a few minutes and two more adult doe joined them from the same place. They fed for 15 minutes on the clover and chicory and then walked back the way they came. At 7:30 I saw the biggest buck on the property step out and walk from the lower woods and then proceed along where the soybean/clover field's meet. A couple seconds later a smaller buck appeared and followed the first's path. They fed for about 10 mins when they were joined by another buck that came from the direction of the ground blind. the three of them fed in the clover and then moved into the beans where the larger two buck began sparring until it was too dark for me to see anything other than their dark bodies but I could hear their racks clashing together. They then moved up past my blind and back down into the woods.
The pic will help explain. I am glad I went down and sat there. Now I know to sit in the blind the first night and wait for them to hopefully travel that way again. They passed within 5 yards of my ground blind. Here are pic's of the buck I was watching. I'd say the larger one is around 125" What do you guys think?