the bucks are gearing up here more. Had one of the split brow nines ten feet from my tree a few weeks ago but he snuck in from the back so I couldn't move. Then the next day we had a guy come in and tell us we weren't allowed to hunt there because he was the only one with permission. This property butts up against the farm my brother in law lives on and this stand has been there for four years all year round and we have never seen a sole. We went back the next day to take down the stand and this joker was sitting in it.
He was a perfect example of whats happens when the state says yes to anyone using a crossbow. this guy was in no way shape or form an archery hunter. He probable never shot a real bow in his life and with him being dressed like he was I dont think I need to be to concerned with him killing any smart deer.
He had a jacket on unzipped pretty much the whole way with a button up dress shirt on under it that was blue and white and it was pretty much unbuttoned all the way to his belly showing his "lovely" fat grey hair covered gut and chest gee wonder ifthe deer will be able to smell him.
Just kills me that these stands have been there for this long and we have never sen a sole and now this guy comes in and we haveto move. We did go to the house after finding out that the older lady above this area owns it but she said no to allowing us to hunt it so now we moved the stand to field edges and wil hope to catch them cruising the edges. (we have been trying to figure out who owned it for sure for a while but no one seemed to know and it wasnt posted so we hunted it while we could)