Early Antlerless Season (Gun before Bow)

[wolc123]

This is the one I am after on the 10th.  Check out those back straps.  Her fawn looks to be plenty big to make it on it’s own after she makes the trip to deer Heaven (my family’s food supply).  

 

That would be a 20 yard shot from the blind I moved yesterday.

 

[wolc123]

My primary target doe was in the corn plot two days ago, 3 hours before sunset, along with her half-grown fawn.  I brushed in my pop-up blind, 20 yards off the corner of that, a few days prior.  Hopefully, we will have an east wind after September 9, so I can hunt from that.

If the adjacent ground is dry enough this weekend, I am going to try to plant a couple acres of wheat/clover by that 2 acres of corn.  There is no doubt that the corn is the preferred browse right now though.  
 

The only thing that might top that, is if I can find about 10 pounds of soybean to throw in with that wheat/clover mix.  Hopefully, I can find some between Tarrytown and Wolcottsburg, on my drive home across the state today.  Deer will walk thru white oak acorns to get at fresh sprouting soybeans.  
 

My plan is to stay out of that area completely after planting that, until we get an east wind, between September 10 and 18.  

Edited August 26, 2022 by wolc123