Come on guys, lets hear those opening week success stories, and heartbreaks.
Friday afternoon me and my old man made it up to the state land in Rosscommon that we would be hunting. With only a few hours to scout, I found some fresh scrapes complete with licking branches. I hung a stand ,and poured some buck pee into a few of the scrapes hoping to rile up the old boy who had made them in the first place. Next we found dad a spot in kind of an open field. The area had lots of tall grass and hilly terrain. One corner of this field had been destroyed by a big buck, almost every tree had a rub on it. I hunted from sun up to sun down on Saturday and didn't see one deer. Dad got a visit from his spots local buck - a tall tined 10 pointer, Unfortunately he never offered a shot to my old man, and was shot by another hunter about 70 yards from him (sucky part about hunting state land - you are usually not the only one who finds a sweet spot). We helped this guy look for this buck for about 2 hours before we lost the blood trail. Me and my dad were sick thinking about that big buck laying dead somewhere in the woods but you could tell it was just eating up the guy who shot it. Anyways Sunday we decided to try and fill his doe tag in the state land behind our property in Harrison. We sat about ten feet from each other with one guy looking one way and the other guy looking the other way. I was working a can call when we heard a crashing through the thicket behind my old man. As both of us tried to locate the source of the crashing I heard a twig snap directly behind me. I casually turned my head and came face to face with not one but 4 big does less then 5 feet from me! I started thinking "poor dad here he is less then 15' from punching out his doe tag and i gotta be playing defense" soon the does turned around and ran down a drainage ditch and out of sight, all's me and dad could do is laugh. We didn't get a deer but had a great time, and i think that's whats most important
Deer 1 VS. Me and Dad 0 .............but there's still a lot of season left.
So how did you do?
