thank god
 

its been windy and in the single digits here in new york gusts up to 40 mph the past few days, supposed to get a break in the weather tomorrow hoping theyll be out moving again its gonna be high 20s only 5 mph winds

Yeah. ?!?

But did you hunt?

Or did the couch potato thing?

iSnipe

I went out today and yesterday, yesterday went to farm saw nothing feet got wet walking in to my stand cause the riverbed is overflowing. Today I went to my bowhunting spot nice and early and saw, heard absolutely nothing. Conveniently theres tracks walking thru my footsteps from 2 days ago lol nice big ones

The deer since changed pattern, because we're talking a few individual deer, but several years ago I was hunting a cutover... for about anything of body size. Could have been a mature doe to younger buck. On my way to the cut-over in the early morning, I would come out of some thick pines into some taller thinned Norway pines. The two formed an obvious terrain feature.

Well, each time I was done hunting this cut-over, a deer or a group of deer, about 3-4 of them would cross right on top of my tracks at the edge of where the two types of pine would come together. In fact, now thinking about it, often.... too often, LOL!, deer would be blowing right when I came out of the thicker smaller pines when I got there too late in the morning. I kept telling myself I'll get up early and hunt this area and ambush these deer.

I never did! Even then I knew when something happens with does one time, it usually repeats itself because they are on a pattern. To this day I wish I would have set up that spot for the ambush, but never did!

Moral of the story?... Don't let deer cross your tracks 5-6 times in the SAME SPOT about the SAME TIME and NOT set a spot there to hunt!

Keep on keeping on. We'll see the post we're waiting from you real quick here!

iSnipe

sat tonight moved up on the ridge more and saw 12 does about 60 yards out they started walking through my footprints the just ran off left instead of coming within bow range :( still got till the 22nd so well see