Arcade Hunter's Journal 2018

[Arcade Hunter]

OCT 5th

Hunted the lease in Mansfield this morning.  Saw a large buck with a very small rack.  He did not get in close enough to even think about shooting...  I would have taken him for the freezer.  My guess is he was 3.5 YO.       Was in the stand and 20 yds to my left could hear something milling around... I then see a does head sticking out from some leaved out thick stuff.  I looked down very briefly to clip on the release then looked back and she was gone.  I could hear her milling around still and over the coarse of 40 minutes or so, she worked her way around to the back of the stand.  My guess is she winded me and I never got another look at her.  Temp was in the upper 40's with 7-9mph wind out of the ENE.

OCT 7th

Visited the same stand for the morning hunt.  Saw nothing, not even a chipmonk.  Temp was 68 and winds were 0 .  Very quiet morning.

 

[Arcade Hunter]

OCT 11th

Left work at 3:00 PM and headed out to state land just outside Attica.   I was planning on hunting a bean field but someone else had the same idea also.  I chose to go just inside the woodline at the corner of a hayfield .. runs all through this funnel area.  I saw one doe hauling butt, I'm guessing the wind spooked her.   Temp was 63 with 10 to 20 MPH winds out of the west.

Edited October 12, 2018 by Arcade Hunter
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[Arcade Hunter]

Oct 14, 2018

Headed out to Mansfield for a four-hour sit.    As I was approaching the gate, I saw a deer with it's head in an apple tree.  It was a big bodied deer but I do not know if it was a buck or doe.  Got the juices flowing for sure.  I actually arrived on time to get in the stand early.  Light wind, 0-2mph from the north NE, temp of 38.

Super quiet morning, lots of birds and woodpeckers.  No other deer were seen except the one at the gate