Almost the best morning Ive hunted!
 

Well this morning, I overslept a little, and ended getting on here and decided to wait and go out later and sit late in the morning to see what was happening later. The last two days Ive seen all my activity later, like around 8 or 9 o clock. So I set out at about 7:30 and head to a stand, after yesterday morning, I didnt take anything with me but my bow, not even my backpack,horn,decoy,camera. Only a bow and grunt call and a can call. I get to the tree very quietly, and climb up and start to get settled, until I go to pull up my bow, and find I dropped the rope on the way up[:@]! So I look everything around me over real good, and start back down the tree(climbing stick).I make it down quietly enough, pick up my pull up rope, and see a small doe trotting back down a draw behind my stand away from me, I dont know if she saw me or heard me or was just traveling that direction. So I look through the binos trying to see if shes alone and see he go past a large rump sticking out from behind a tree, I finall get focused on it and it was a really good shooter buck, he wasnt trailing her, he just looked at her and continued up the hill the way he was headed, he was about 90 yards and angling away from me and Im thinking ok, Im on the ground, my grunt call and can call and release it up in the stand, and my bow is down here[:@]so back up I go without spooking him, I tried grunts, roars, and estrous bleats, and he acted like he never heard any of it, he just walked off. I dont know if he was spooked, or just going somewhere, he never flagged or trotted, just a slow walk. He went on over the ridge and into one of my food plots and AI could see him walk right through the middle of it. When he was gone, I sat down and got settled, hoping he would come back, after about a minute, I heard a ton of noise coming through the woods, and here came 5 does and little ones running hard up to a saddle on the ridge where I sat, then came a grunt. They passed at about 30 yards, and right behind them was a 5 pointer grunting all the way, the all went by and about a minute later another buck another 5 pointer, then a spike. For an hour bucks and does were everywhere around me running in every direction and so confusing I couldnt keep up with it all. In that hour I saw a spike, 3 pointer, forkhorn, 2-5 pointers, 2 buttons, and I dont know how many does were in all this mess. All of these deer passed by my stand at least 6 times each, and I never had a moment that I couldnt see a deer somewhere. They were all 1 1/2 year old bucks and were all grunting and running like crazy. When It all started to slow down, another buck came through on the trail of one of the does, he was a 2 1/2 year old 8 pointer and he came past a 25 yards. Then after another hour of no deer two more does came from behund me, and I think might have smelled me a bit, they never spooked, but at about 30 yards they turned and went back the way they came. The wind was starting to swirl pretty bad then so I got down before I spooked anything. I havent seen many days like this one, and Im hoping its not a little early, I usually see a day like this some time next week, But the entire time, a mature buck never came through, I kept thinking the one from earlier would come in to investigate all the action. Do you guys think the young bucks are just feeling their oats a little early, and thats why the mature bucks didnt show, or do you think the does were ready, and the big boys just hadent found them yet?? Should I be there again this afternoon? Sorry for the long post, Just wanted to share.

RE: Almost the best morning Ive hunted!
 

I would get out there right away, sounds like your in the right spot and you never know when mr big is going to come out and play.