I put a camera on a gut pile to see what I could catch. So far only crows, buzzards & Coyotes.

08 hunting

So far the 08 hunting season has been good for Willene & I. I got a doe 2nd day of black powder season. Opening day of gun season Willene got a nice doe 110 lbs. On the second day of gun season I got a 105 lb doe. All together there has been 12 deer taken. 6 bucks & 6 does. The bucks just started making rubs & scraps last week so looks like the rut is about to get started. I havent seen much deer sign down in the bottoms like I did last year so I might have to start looking fot the hogs. I know where they are roaming.I have some corn all ready to go for them. It has been working for about a month now. I will put it out when I go back down Thanksgiving week. Here is a picture of a little spike I got with one of my trail camera.

1st day of gun season

My wife got her first deer on opening day of modern gun season. A 110 lb doe. She said that when it stepped out she calmly picked up the gun and put the cross hairs on the deer pulled the trigger just like you told me. I was up in a tree when she shot so I sat there about 5 minutes before I got down to see if she needed any help!!! When she seen me coming down the trail she climbed down from the tower stand she was in and started waving & jumping up & down. She told me when I got up to her that Quote: I think I got one. I started to get down to look when I heard it run out in the woods and started thrashing around so I got back up in the stand just in case it came back out in the trail. As we were walking down the trail I ask her how far down the trail it was and she turned around and looked at the stand and told me that it should be right around here. I was looking all around for a blood trail & nothing.I ask her if she was sure it was right here and she said well maybe it was a little farther down the trail. As I was looking down the trail a little father I said well there it is. She had dropped it in its tracks. The one she heard thrashing around was another one that was with the one she shot. It was running away. If she would have stayed in her stand she might have gotten another one. The first thing she said to me was Quote: Is it legal??? When I told her it was legal she told me I can't stop shaking!!! It will be a hunt that she will never forget and me too!!!

Still looking

I am still looking for that big sow down in the bottoms. You should see the place I put the fermented corn now. Looks like a backhoe was in there digging. Will take some pictures next time I go back in there. Will have to get a camera back in there to get some more pictures.

1st black powder season

First black powder season ended Sunday with only 3 deer taken. 2 six point bucks & the 1 doe that I got. Saturday when coming back to camp after the morning hunt there was a pickup truck sitting in the road going to came. When I got closer I could see it was a game warden. He stopped me and wanted to see my hunting license. 1st game warden I had seen in camp since I have been hunting down there in 7 years. Come to find out he seen a hunter coming out of the woods with his son and the guys son did not have his orange vest on. (Was one of our new members) Well the game warden wrote the dad a ticket for no vest (He knew better $205.00 fine.) and wanted to know where he was camped. The new member told him and the game warden came to camp & checked everyone in camp. Wanted to know where we cleaned deer, if we checked our own deer, if there was any meat in camp. He was just leaving when he stopped me. These pictures are from the area that I shot the little doe on the 2nd day of black powder season 08. As you can see it is kind of thick. I put out a 2 litter plastic bottle filled with corn for all the critters to play with. I have watched deer kick a bottle around the woods for 20 minutes trying to get all the corn out of the bottle. :>)

Critters in the bottoms

These are a few of the critters that roam my hunting area. I would like to come across the big sow during gun season.

Camp

Aaron & Robert & Willene came with me to set up the camper and spent the night. The boys mostly came for the 4-wheeler rides.

2008 Hunting season

The 2008 hunting season started for me just after the 07 season ended. With the help from my friend Dennis we got a couple food plots plowed & planted in the spring of 08. The food plots did really well but the deer did not seem to like mine and was hitting the one of Dennis' by the condo stand really hard. After the weather warmed up they finally got around to mine and stripped it bare. I hunted the stand by the food plot when black powder season opened but did not see any thing. So I started to hunt my stand down in the bottoms. Got me a little doe on the 2nd day of black powder season down in the bottoms. We have more than just deer in the bottoms.

I fermented some corn and went and found me some hog sign & dug a hole with a post hole digger down to about 3 ft deep filled it with the fermented corn and topped it off with some strawberry jello. The hogs just loved it. The deer kind of like it too!!! More later!