Saturday, November 27, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
November 13, 2010 Rifle Hunt
An earlier shot of the alfalfa field as I saw it this Saturday afternoon. I was on the ground as the wind was blowing hard and it was sleeting/snowing along with it.
About 5 p.m. a deer was all of a sudden in the middle of the field right behind me. I was facing the woods, looking down the ravine, where I was expecting deer to be moving. I had been looking over the field, glassing all afternoon so the deer was a big surprise! He smelled me as soon as he got directly south of me. Starting slow he made his way to the wood line that you see facing in the picture above. I had been arguing with myself the entire time about whether to take a shot or not. It was a seven that I had seen during archery season earlier. At that point he was running along the field edge to the north. I had powered down the scope from 8 to 5.5 and evened the cross-hairs just in front of his chest an inch or so. All this happened in less than one minute, from first seeing him to squeezing a shot.
Immediately I was beating myself up for making a shot at a running deer. He just kept running until he went out of sight in the northeast corner of the field(far to the upper left corner of picture above). I slowly picked up my stuff and made my way to the hill he was on when I made the shot. At first it looked like there was not blood, but then I saw a small speck. I was mad at this point, thinking I made a bad shot and not looking forward to a tough recovery. I called Chris and asked him to come around when he got down to assist in tracking.
I followed tracks and some blood until I realized he was piled up in the corner of the field. He had gone just out of view when he went down.
He's either a 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 year old. Best deer I've taken!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
November 11, 2010 Rifle Hunt
Second week of rifle season. Didn't see any bucks the first weekend.
Out at the "carpet stand" for an early-out from work after a morning meeting in St. Paul. Didn't see a thing until walking out into the alfalfa field, where it looked like to fawns eating.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
October 31, 2010 Bowhunt
Halloween afternoon. Made shot at adult doe but never recovered her.
Looked like I hit her low in the brisket area. Arrow passed clean through her, but the blood was sparse. We did track blood for about 300 yards, but then it stopped. Hoping it was a non fatal shot, but it's hard to say.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
October 30, 2010 Bowhunt
Got out to the same stand a little latter in the day. The wind was blowing the opposite direction, but still at an angle. Didn't seem to matter as within 15 minutes this little guy was the first of about seven deer I saw tonight. He is at 20 yards in this photo. I had several lanes and chances, but I didn't even pick up the bow.
Fun night as this guy and then another seven pointer were chasing does all over the place. The seven had two does running all around the field and eventually into the woods. Ten or fifteen minutes later they came into the field on the north west end after running behind me through the swampy grass.
Friday, October 29, 2010
October 29, 2010 Bowhunt
Finally got back out in the woods after a couple weeks of travel, warm weather and then a full weekend of rain and drizzle. Probably best as it gave me and the lease land a break from plodding around. It also allowed me to bitch about the neighbor's dogs that keep chasing me out of the lease coming out of the woods! Joe must have talked to them because the neighbors at least tried to keep them in their little section and out of the lease!
About a half hour after I took this photo I saw two does come out of the east pretty much at the top and right part of the photo above. The neighbor's dog yipped eventually and those does scrammed. Pretty sure those damn dogs have been running roughshod all over the land all summer and most of the fall.
Around 5:30 does kept filtering in out of the north east corner of the alfalfa field. I counted 12 before it got dark. A young doe got as close as 47 yards about 6:20. Too far and too dark!
Best hunt of the year so far. Very promising; especially rifle season.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
October 7, 2010 Bow hunt
Wind wasn't right tonight so ended up in back of the house again. Hope to start seeing some more movement as we get deeper into October.
I've got tomorrow off as well and it's going to be pretty warm; they're calling for mid 70's! Should be a great day, just not that good for deer hunting.
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
October 3, 2010 Bowhunt
***Update***
Ended up seeing "Onie", a one antlered one year old that has been bedding by the pole barn all summer. Also saw three doe come in from the neighbor's place north of me. They all scampered when they heard the neighbor's dogs barking. I think one of them ended up coming back behind me or it was another deer that came in from the west. She took off when coming upon an owl that was just behind me. Best night of hunting this year! Going to see about taking a couple of days of this week and try some morning hunts.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
October 1, 2010 Bowhunt
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
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