We're hoping that once gun passes we can fill some tags, but we're not giving up on rifle just yet. Just frustrated. We tweaked a few things today rather than hunting. For some reason this year our traffic patterns appear to have changed drastically in a matter of about a week. We're wondering if we have a poacher or a neighbor that is bumping our residents.
Just not sure, but we're not doing well at all.
Don't you just love that warm fuzzy feeling of having someone look at you with their rifle scope, lol. Just happaned, 4 teens, 3 boys 1 girl, walking around the field over 325 yards away. They didn't see me at first but looked like they were scanning the field I'm hunting. Guess they spotted my blind and decide to take a better look with their scope. I was watching them with my binoculars. Waved my hat out the blind and then they went on the other direction. Was going to blaze over to another spot, but kinda late for that, guess I'll stick it out here.
A cull buck bit the bullet tonight. One down and one to go.
Sick to my stomach! Went out this afternoon for my final rifle hunt (work and family will keep me from going again for the remainder of the season). Sat down at 3:45 and got set up. Lull in the wind at 4 and I hit my bleat can followed up with grunt call. 2 min later and I look up a shooting lane about 75 yards away and see a monster 10. Probably a 170. He was coming my way but moved into some thick stuff. He stepped out into the edge but the wind shifted and I was afraid I was going to get scented. I thought he was clear enough from the brush and I fired. He whirled into the thick stuff but I was confident in the shot. Get up to find him and no blood! Looked for an hour and never found a drop. I went back to where he had been standing and discovered more brush/limbs than I first thought. I must have clipped a branch. Really excited at the chance to shoot at such a nice buck but disgusted if this is how my season ends! Oh well, this will make the waiting and anticipation even greater going into next season. Man I love hunting!!!
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