Virginia Opening Day
10-04-2009, 12:50 PM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: VIRGINIA
Posts: 146
Took my youngest daughter to one of our best spots in between a bean field and a overgrown pasture that butts up to the swamp, about a football sized section of the beans look like someone cut the tops out of them, I mean i have never seen soybeans ate up like this, but we saw nothing
. Oh well I had a nice sit with one of my children and she had fun and no deer can replace that.
. Oh well I had a nice sit with one of my children and she had fun and no deer can replace that.
10-04-2009, 03:05 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Northern Neck VA
Posts: 465
I will have to say it was nice, that on opening day for a change we did not hear a single hound anywhere in the woods. Nice change of pace from the past years.
10-05-2009, 01:58 AM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: stafford virginia
Posts: 338
My opening day on Quantico went with two does passing by about 8:45 then nothing. I sat on stand till 11am and decided to move to a trail that might have a little more action thinking the deer just haven't been pushed this far back yet.Boy was that a big mistake with the temps close to 80 I was sweating to much to waste a spot.
So with that kind of temps I guess I made the right call. sometimes I think why not go hunt that spot -stinking , bad wind or what ever because on public land you don't know who might just be in that same area before. so what do you all think about that. would you hunt it just to beat someone to the deer. you can but a lot of time into scouting and come to find some else was in there the day before.its a hard call for me.Thanks
Good luck And have a safe season
So with that kind of temps I guess I made the right call. sometimes I think why not go hunt that spot -stinking , bad wind or what ever because on public land you don't know who might just be in that same area before. so what do you all think about that. would you hunt it just to beat someone to the deer. you can but a lot of time into scouting and come to find some else was in there the day before.its a hard call for me.Thanks
Good luck And have a safe season
10-05-2009, 06:58 AM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Northern Neck VA
Posts: 465
Rick,
When are you going to be hunting down in the 'Neck? The oaks are just starting to drop now down there in that area. It was not a rainfall of them yet, but enough to have the deer in them. I will probably be hunting in that tract that borders yours starting next week.
BY the way what do you drive? I saw a small car (not sure of the make beacuse I saw it at last minute) parked near the gate/chain a few weekends ago, thought maybe you were doing some scouting?
When are you going to be hunting down in the 'Neck? The oaks are just starting to drop now down there in that area. It was not a rainfall of them yet, but enough to have the deer in them. I will probably be hunting in that tract that borders yours starting next week.
BY the way what do you drive? I saw a small car (not sure of the make beacuse I saw it at last minute) parked near the gate/chain a few weekends ago, thought maybe you were doing some scouting?