My buddy and I went out this morning as well. Winds were exactly how you described, so no need to elaborate further. I saw a group of 7 or 8 does again..same group I've been seeing for a while now I believe. They came out of a crick about 300 yards across an open field about 720am, feeding in the fields for a few minutes...then turned around and went back into the crick. A few weeks ago, a buck came from the same crick they did, and ran across the field right to me...but these does weren't that dumb.

As we were leaving, we saw a dead doe laying in the middle of an open field on our property. She was small, the gun shot wound was a bad one, 100% gut shot. Only thing I could figure is that someone shot her last sunday during with a shotgun, ran off...died a couple days later on our property..and has been there since. We dragged her into a thick tree-line..b/c I was affraid other deer going thru the area might be spooked by it.

We WOULD be going back later...but I gotta start xmas shopping tonight. Plus...it gives me an excuse to go to Gander Mountain and Dicks.