Went out yesterday around 11:00am, was sitting our favorite deer stand on a ridge that has a wide ravine that works as a natural funnel for the deer to use to travel from the bedding area in front of me to the feeding fields behind me, Ive seen the turkeys there on numerous accasions in the afternoon around 1:00 and 2:00, so I decided to try this stand for turkeys and later deer, the other stand I really wanted to hunt had the wrong wind for it.
I start to walk to the stand from the fields edge one step and then and then stand and wait, listen for noise then one more step and then I hear noise, I eventually make it to about 10 yards from the tree stand and a little doe fawn pops up over the ridge not 12 yards from me , So I freeze with my arrow nocked( was hoping it was a nice buck or fat ole doe, so this little doe fawn wont leave she just stands there forever starring at me so I think how to get rid of her without spooking her and the other 2 does and button buck that are behind her??????? So I decide to do a snort wheeze with my mouth( I never tried to do this to deer before but thought what the heck Ill try it and see how it works) I snort wheeze and she perks up and looks very curious but scared and she just stands her ground , so I do it again and she starts to back up and turns around and goes back to the 2 does and button buck but never ran or lifted her tail, so I watched them slowly feed their way away from me to the bedding area, So I guess my snort wheeze worked[8D]without spooking them
Well the turkeys were a no show so I waited for the deer.
Come around 4:00pm I am sitting and soaking in the sun feeling like I could just doze off, the wind is light and blowing in my face, and then off to my left I hear deer blowing and blowing and I know it isnt me, Im sitting still and have the wind in my face, the blowing stopped and then not 15 min latter the deer in the same area start blowing and blowing and blowing, I thought maybe a coyote or OH GOD not another hunter[] Well it all quieted down and the light began to fade but I could hear deer feeding their way to me but I slipped out in the dark unnoticed by the deer. As soon as I entered the field edge there was another bowhunter walking through. So we spoke and it turned out it was him they were blowing at, he told me he got busted twice by does with fawns. He then told me HE SAID " I REALLY NEED TO GO AND GET SOME OF THEAT SCENT KILLER SPRAY, THEY KEPT WINDING ME" [][X(][]
On a bright note THE FARMERS WERE OUT GETTING THE CORN OUT LAST NIGHT Finally, get the deer out of all that standing corn.
Once last week and yesterday I saw a small 6 pointer and a nice 8 pointer laying dead on the interstate, wanted the rack from the 8 pointer but when he got hit it really busted up his rack so I drove off and left him lay, what a waste