I went out again yesterday afternoon after work. It was my second time out. I just went to a piece of public land near work to get my doe out of the way, but again, all I saw from the tree was bucks. Hunting in the rain is usually pretty good, and yesterday was no exception. Going in at 3:20pm, I jumped 2 does and 2 fawns on the grassy field road right up against the woods. A white oak was dropping pretty good there, so I guess thats what they were eating. My stand was actually 30 yards inside the edge of the woods off a bean field, just to the north of those oaks. There is also a standing corn field about 300 yards south of the stand, and a grown over field in between the beans and corn.

I sat getting soaked until 6:30 when suddenly I saw a deer move through the holly's to my left. It was gone in a flash, but I saw short spikes on it's head. About 5 minutes later, another spike appeared 5 yards away. He had long, curving spikes and a long body, pretty deer. He will be a heavy buck some day. I drew and held on him for a while, just for practice.

At about 7:05pm, I saw a deer moving through a brushy area up near the field. I couldn't tell how many points, but he had a decent rack. He got in some thick cover, but disappeared, and never made it to the field. I glassed the field before getting down and taking the long route back out and saw 3 does and 3 fawns about 200 yards out into the field. Interestingly, both spikes were directly downwind of me, and never knew I was there, and no, I wasn't wearing Scent Lok.

Still no does in shooting range, but having fun.