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Live From the Stand / Woods 2014!


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Well I went out and sat in the rifle stand...at 4:00pm a flock of turkey came in and hung out in front of the blind I was in the other morning,,,they hung around in the soybeans for 30 or so minutes and I think they roosted on the ridge they flew down to the other morning...thats when a 6 pointer came in and freshed and overhang branch over a scrape..I doe bleated to get him to turn my way ...he was 45 yrds out...I know I'm dead on with the xbow at 40 but I just wasn't comfortable on a live shot at 45 and so close to close....he walked under one stand 7 yrds and rounded the garden and went right to the apple tree stand and stayed until 5:15 then I lost tack of him...as I was climbing down I heard racks smack together......Oh well he would have given about as much meat as an adult doe...I would have taken him...glad I wasn't in those other two stands or the blind for the wind would have blown right to him....busting that area for a while...been a while since I've seen a day light buck,,,feeling better...still have enough snow on ground to make things really visable...COLD!!!...today was a good day all in all...

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Phone died out at the stand today, had plans for dinner tonight and they cancelled so I hurried home to find out we weren't going. While I was out this afternoon something kicked 4 deer up and I heard crashing. I hoped it was a buck chasing and all of a sudden I see a rabbit running to my stand. I thought maybe coyote chasing and come to find out it was a bobcat chasing for the rabbit. Pretty fun to watch.

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Interesting day... So after my morning I decided to move my stand and scout around on my half mile walk towards the new spot I had in mind. About half way there I notice two crows take off. I set my stand down and walk over and find a TINY doe head... very fresh. The ear was about the size of a beach leaf... thinking it could be either coyotes or human. Definately brought there by a critter as it is a ways from the road. Fast forward to later when I am walking to my stand after running errands. .. I was walking by a standing rotten wind sheared pine trunk and I hear a "plop" about two feet from my boot. It was a bloodied mouse! I looked up the trunk and at the top is a chipmunk with a bloody face... I guess the mouse got evicted.

As for deer in the afternoon I had two doe come in that had the heads of yearlings but big bodies, kinda strange... very skittish and nervous acting. Hopefully I'll get a shot at something tomorrow.

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Sat in my swamp stand this afternoon. Haven't seen but two deer in there all year. One was big doe I lost last weekend. Saw one squirrel all day and at 445 was getting ready to call it a day when I hear some crashing. Look up into pine lot and out comes a six point I got on camera a bunch of times. Nose to ground and movin quick. Grabbed the bow, Drew and let out a bleat. Stopped at 4 yards slight quartering away. He didn't make it 40 yards before he pilled up. Someone had grazed him in the neck in last couple weeks scabbed up and got a little infection goin on. Still not a bad buck for a crazy over pressures area.

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