"I did 12 hours in my treestand one day last year - I got woozy, dehydrated & exhausted. Longest I lasted this year was 6 hours. You're one tough hombre to stay up there all day & then drag one home. Good for you - you deserve it. That hard earned venison will make many great meals. So you were hunting the edge of a cypress head? I thought I remembered reading that in some of your older posts. Were you in a pine tree or a palm tree? I was at Chaz yesterday & I still hunted through a tall cypress head, but I saw nothing. Maybe I should find a good climbing tree on the outskirts & wait it out like you did. Thanks for posting your story - it's inspirational - I'll be thinking about it on my next hunt... "


You are correct..I had always hunted the inside of bay heads..and in archery I still do..Problems with inside bayheads..at least with my experiences..

A. By the time you see them ..they see you..archery you have no other choice...I've seen many deer in bayheads but have gotten busted 100% of the time..had to have a new plan.However ..during archery..back in the bayheads..you have to get close.

B. ACtually I had called another deer in at 9 :00 AM. I think it was a buck..it was 20 yds away from me..I was finishing up chapter 8 I beleive..cold...sleepy and careless...I was going to put the WOrd up for now as I could not keep my eyes open..I had given a bleat call about 8 :15 AM..I unsnapped my upper left jacket pocket to put my New Testament away..and the snap startled a deer { Probably a buck as it was big bodied} stadning in the field to my left 20 yds away..Quickly I snapped off the safety..and could not find that deer in the scope as I watched it bound 200 yds across an open field...I had nver been to this spot ever before I found it using Google Earth...NOW the week before I watch ed a 120 inch plus buck walk just out of shotgun range about 300 yds away.same general area.. this time I brought my 270..ok back to stoy..this place I was set up was looking at an inside 45 degree angle of a large bayhead...I was only 10 yds from the game traill because it was the only tree I could find big enough in the dark for my climber..Afer I spooked the buck I found a much better pine 100 yds away to finish the hunt and see literaaly a few hundres yds 360 degrees...

Lesson learned..get far away from the deer trail..in a bay head inside lookng out..those deer can see you long before you can see them..Three Lakes is not like the Green Swamp...more funnels to hunt ALOT less water..but lots of diamond backs

C. If your not going to stay all day..you greatly reduce your odds in scoring..I read the Word..that way it's not a wasted day..I brought one water...4 tangerines off my tree..that was it..and I had more water in the truck with more fruit.
I actually learned this lesson from an old hippy this year who had shot number 7...his secret..stay all day.