I made it my personal goal this year to get 2 guys a deer on the ground this year, a first for both. One of the guys did quite a bit of scouting with me; although we use trail cameras for the most part, and got pretty good at picking up on deer sign. I try to get them both as involved as possible, by asking "Where would you put a stand?". Based on the deer sign we were seeing and such and the camera times, both became decent at picking an area to hang a stand.

For the longest time this season, I thought I was never gonna get a deer on the ground with one of these guys, the big bucks were just hanging around the wrong stands every time we hit the woods. It was tough to get them to pass on some of the 2 y/o we have on the farm, but between passing on those deer and waiting on a mature doe, it seemed as if the season was gonna pass without either getting a deer for the 2nd year in a row.

This past week, I went and hung a new stand on a newly acquired section. Bound to get a deer on the ground, I scout/hunted the stand the night prior and had a nice 130 class come in and decided that was the one for him. Long read a little shorter. No buck showed up, but a nice doe showed up and finally got a deer on the ground!

The time I spent in the woods with my best friend was awesome and I can't wait to get him back in the stands during late ML.