Pat tell you buddy great buck! I am planning on hitting it hard again this weekend. I have a stand that I have not sat in yet right on a natural hill side funnel across our property, with the deer not out in the open I am hoping I bust a big guy moving along this funnel. Worth a shot.......good luck everyone, let hope the deer start moving for all of us!

Scott

Nice deer there Pat. Looks like you guys got on em good this year.

I was out tonight in the howling winds, sat in the stand i had set up for my brother. About quarter after 5 i seen 2 deer take off across the corner of the bean field. They entered our woods in the thick stuff and never came out. This makes the 3rd straight day we have seen deer in that general area. I can't go in the morning but i told my brother to sit on the ground along that fencerow and see if they show up again.

Thankfully, this weekend looks a lot better weather wise.

Well no luck for my brother this morning. He said it was a great morning to be out, but not a single deer[:@]

Probably try again tonight and tomorrow morning. Tomorrow evening we might be hunting up in the Akron area with my wifes friends husband. Guess he has an 800 acre spot and seen 45 deer opening weekend.

The guy that shot that buck (on the previous page) kills huge deer year in and year out. His family has a bunch of land in southern Michigan...so he usually gets a 120" or higher bucks year in and year out either there or here in Indiana...sometimes both. In '05 he shot a 225#doe in Michigan! I never got to see it...but everyone who has gives the "OMFG" face when they talk about it.




I went out last night trying to get another doe to donate. Got in stand at 230pm....around 4pm some weirdo walks past to my left...who never knew I was there (he was walking through a picked corn field next to our property).He got about ½ way to another woods...when he turned left and walked into a thicket in the middle of his corn field. As he approached it..he pulled some Navy Seal type maneuvers trying to creep up on a deer...bending...sitting..crouching...you name it! I chucked knowing there was no way in hell he would be doing that stuff if he knew I was in my stand. So he sat down against a tree in thicket....did a bunch of weird calling like he thought we have Moose in our area.

45 minutes later....I look over and saw some deer to the east of him a ways acrossed the road. They ran about 100' behind him acrossed open fields...to the tiny thicket he was in...sat there for about 5 minutes...and then ran acrossed more open fields to our property. After they were 100+ yards from him running through picked corn fields away from him...he finally noticed them. At this time it's fairly dark.....but I hear "BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM".....dirt and snow kicking up everywhere. It was classic.


I tried to take a few pics...but the camera didn't have a good enough zoom to get the good stuff. But I'll attempt to post a few....


The tard after he walked past me...

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As he approaches part of the thicket (it's only a 3x zoom..bah)

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Andenclosed picis sort of an overview of what went down for pure entertainment value. The red blob is where I was. The black blob is where he was sitting in the thicket.The brown stick figure (with a white tail..lol) is where I first saw the deer. They ran right behind him...sat there for a few minutes without him knowing...and then trotted off towards our property.

The white blob in the woods is where I shot my buck and doe, and also where that buck on the previous page was taken. That's "Death Valley."

Was out this evening and finally seen a buck. Had a wide racked 6 point come in about an hour before dark. He was crusing for does it appeared. That was all i seen though. Seen a lot in the fields on the way home though. Tomorrow morning may be a good time.

I've seen a lot of deerin winter wheat fields in groups of 15+ already as I'm driving around. This year has surely been odd...

Sure was cold this morning. But, it was by far the best weather of the season for me so far. Nice frost and no winds.

We saw 5 doe. That may not sound like much but when you have a had a season like me, thats encouraging. I simply have not been on does at all this year. I had the bigger one come in behind me but on the wrong side of the tree. As i turned to get into position she busted me and took off back across the fence. I watched them as they went on toward the back of the neighbors property and they just started scaterring in different directions and running in circles, etc. I'm almost positive a buck was on them back there, but never could find him.

Going back tonight. My wifes friends husband wants me to come to Akron and hunt, but says they are doing a deer drive. Thats not really my style so i don't know what i will do. I'd like to just go and find a spot on the ground to sit by myself.

I've never been into drives either.



A friend went out this morning...said he heard 100+ shots...half of which were before legal hours (people getting desparate b/c of the bad weather?). He kicked up a bunch of deer getting into his blind. The only deer he saw were a group of doesin a full out run.


I wanted to go out, but went to my old High School's football game last night and got trashed afterwards(Bellmont!!!!!!!!! Playing at Lucas Oil Stadium next week!!!).

Yeah, i guess the guy usually hunts out of stands, but said something about huntin riverbottoms and i guess they just walk it when they hunt there. I'm gonna go and least check it out, maybe make a friend in the process and who knows, maybe get invited back to hunt another time. He has access to almost a thousand acres he said.

Just got back in, stayed in my blind until around 11:15.....awesome morning weatherwise and good for deer but no shooters again. I had 9 does at different times throughout the morning, then around 10:15 a small 6 pushed 5 does by me, and then about 15min later a small spike pushed 4 does past me the other way. All in all I saw 21 deer, but so far I have only seen bucks either around 10-12 or late around 5-5:30. Thinking about hunting from 9am to 2pm tomorrow.