Took the wife out....
 

Took the wife out for PAs antlerless muzzleloader opener...


On the way to our spot for the morning I joked that we'd probably only see bucks....


Shortly after daylight a redfox came through.


Next was two nice 8 points. The second one stopped and she would have had plenty of time to shoot. Watched him through the binoculars...


About 40 minutes later a nice little 12"7 point came in. All the way to about ten yards. Stomped his foot, snorted, stayed in front of us for several minutes. Close enough to spit on.


The seven pointer left and came back around behind us, and did the same routine. We saw the 7 point three more times before 9am....


We got up to move a little after nine. We still hunted out to a very large powerline. I told her the deer bed in the thick power line and we'd move to the edge and glass for a while. Once we got to the edge we found a very nice, large 10point bedded down not even sixty yards away. We set our chairs up and watched him for a while. He eventually got up to move.


We hunted up the edge of the powerline and bumped three doe, they were moving to fast for her to get shot. We came out to the edge of a soybean field, and there, about twenty five yards out was a bigger 7 point feeding. He raised his head, stared right at us, then went back to his meal. Never ran, just fed away.


Later in the afternoon she did get an opportunity to shoot at a doe, but didn't connect.


It was a good day in the woods.


Too bad buck wasn't in!


-Jake

It's like they know. . .

Sounds like a fun hunt.

Now when you go back in buck season, you will only see does.

I believe the game commissions do this on purpose to warn the other deer they are being hunted. Just my thoughts...

Thats a nice hunt for sure. Hardly even seeing any deer these days in our neck of the woods. Numbers are way down and there are acorns everywhere. Good luck!

They do know. I guarantee had I taken my bow with us (Which would have been legal) that none of those bucks would have stood around looking at us like they did.


I don't know how they know... but they sure as heck do.


It was a nice day in the woods.


-Jake

Sounds like a fun day Jake.