I agree with BadShot! At least you are seeing deer.

I don' t get a lot of time to hunt (new job, new wife, etc), so when I do get a day, I try to stay on stand all day. I went out a couple of Saturday' s ago. It was pretty cold...for me anyway. It never got above 35 degrees. I stayed on stand for about 4 hours before getting down. I was hunting on property my wife' s cousin had permission to hunt on.
Since he lives just down the road, I decided to go warm up at his place. When I get there, he asked me if I had walked around at all. When I told him no, he said I was probably going to be mad. He goes out to his garage and gets the head of one of the biggest bucks I' ve ever seen. It was a huge 9pt that the main beams were as big as my forearm (not that my forearm is that big, but you get the idea!)

He said he shot it the night before while coon hunting. I’m not sure what I was most upset about: it wasn’t legal to coon hunt yet; shooting a deer in the head in the middle of the night; or cutting the back straps out and leaving the rest of the body 30 yards from my stand.

Needless to say when I went back on stand I really didn’t think I would see another deer for months. Normally when I walk back to my stand during the early afternoon I will take two steps then look all around; take two more…you get the idea. Well, since I wasn’t expecting to see anything I was just moseying on up to my stand. You guessed it, walking directly by my stand on the trail I’m set up on was a nice doe. BUSTED and she was gone!!!!

Before everybody jumps on my case for my wife’s cousin being a law-breaking moron, please realize my hands are bit tied. Besides the fact they are family (even if by marriage), if I don’t hunt there, there are few choices where I live. I would rather hunt there than not at all.

Sorry for the length of the post!