I hunted 5 mornings or evenings last week. Carried the bow 4 times and took my Grandpa’s old .30-06 Thursday evening before the big rain front moved through.
The green plots looked really good but all I saw was 2 does and a fawn slipping through over one hundred yards behind the stand. I wasn’t going [...]
Go to Hunts #34-38 – 12/16 DoeWednesday, I was down at my high-fenced research site doing radio telemetry on my collared bucks when a certain spot caught my eye. There were acorns everywhere still and the deer sign indicated they were being heavily used. Trying to capitalize on a smoking hot spot, I immediately hung a stand and planned to hunt [...]
Go to Hunt #33 – 12/10/09 P.M.I have acquired permission to hunt with a buddy on a large tract of private ground near where I live in Alabama. Last Saturday night I went on my first hunt out there and had an action packed sit.
I sat on the ground with my custom slug gun propped in a set of shooting sticks [...]
In between other posts (KS, GA deer hunting, dad’s NC buck, Todd’s NC bucks), I’ve been doing some hunting but haven’t been getting that news to you. So here we go.
Over Thanksgiving (I don’t think I said anything about this yet), I sat 2 different mornings but didn’t see the first deer. That’s not completely [...]
One of Colter’s buddies, Jeff, killed this deer during the first week of January. I believe it was his best deer to date. Beautiful 8 pointer with a 17.5″ inside spread.
Conner (left), Colter’s brother, connected on this awesome 9 pointer the same weekend just across the property line on another lease tract. He had seen [...]
Go to Deer keep falling…Colter, a familiar face here at The Outdoor Smorgasbord, had some success over the Thanksgiving holiday. He spent a full week at his family’s lease properties in Georgia chasing deer (and incidentally pigs) during the rut.
This big nanny fell on the next to last day of a hard week of hunting. Some good bucks were [...]
Go to Buddy’s GA SuccessDad’s hunting buddy Todd connected on his 2 best bucks of his hunting career.
First, on the evening after dad shot his great 8 pointer off the ground, dad returned the favor by helping him drag out this tall-tined 10 point. Rough scored right at 130.
Good thing about central NC is you have 2 buck tags.
On [...]
Sorry to drag this out. I wish it was because I was deciding how to tell you that I arrowed a book P&Y on the last evening of the hunt. Truth is - I didn’t. Didn’t even see one.
This was the biggest buck I saw all evening. Lol. You can barely make out a button [...]
Go to Last KS Hunt – 11/23 P.M.I don’t want to bypass the great hunting that was had in North Carolina by dad and his hunting buddy. Before the Kansas trip, I made reference to 2 bucks that they had shot the first couple days of rifle season.
Dad killed this buck while hunting off the ground. He was slipping from tree trunk [...]
For the last morning hunt of my 2009 Kansas hunt, I was back in the stand where I stuck my nice buck.
30 minutes after the sun came up, I had a doe enter the food plot behind me. She wandered around for 15 minutes before exiting diagonally through the CRP field behind me.
Not long after [...]
After tromping around all day looking for my not-so-dead buck, I decided to give a stand a try that we hung back in turkey season. Located in the middle of a dense cedar and osage orange thicket, it is the biggest chunk of cover within a long ways in its respective locale.
Not to mention we [...]
Set up on the north end of where I hunted the evening of 11/20 hoping for the high numbers of does to pull in a big buck.
You can see the deer trails cut into the grass in the lower half of the picture. Beautiful looking stand especially for deer to be chasing in and out [...]
Go to KS Hunt #5 – 11/21 A.M.Broke out the climber and found one of the scariest trees in Kansas to climb. I was looking across the creek at all the straight trees with some intense jealousy, but I didn’t have hip waders so I was kind of stuck.
Anyways, I was set up south of a food plot in a narrow 50-75 [...]
Go to KS Hunts #3 and #4 – 11/20Sometime Thursday afternoon we realized that we were going to be stuck with a stinky wind for practically the entire time we were going to be in Kansas – SE. Not only did that mean warm afternoons, it meant some of our best spots were going to be unhuntable.
By early afternoon we decided to chase [...]
Deer action was slow for dad this morning. He only saw 3 does.
To be honest, I felt a little guilty for having the kind of morning I had. Here were the cardinal direction views from my stand.
Hardwoods with a major creek 40 yards to my north.
Timber 300 yards to my west.
Corner of the beanfield with [...]
Go to KS Hunt #1 – 11/19 A.M.6 hunts in the books. 4 by me. 2 by dad. Let’s just say he didn’t not hunt the 2 other sits because he was sick. I’ll let you fill in the blanks on that one.
I’ve decided to recap the hunt live-hunt style, but not until I get back in Alabama. All I’ve got to [...]
…after a 14 hour drive that started at 1:45 a.m. this morning. Drive went smooth. Overcast and drizzly all day – what I wouldn’t have given to be sitting in a stand instead of in a truck.
Shot our bows when we arrived at my buddy’s place and even saw a few decent bucks in our [...]
Dad connected on his best rifle buck ever on Monday – second day of North Carolina’s firearms season. 8 pointer that scored 126.
Also, his hunting buddy Todd took a 130-ish class 10 pointer tonight.
As dad said on the phone yesterday – “hopefully just an appetizer for the rest of this week and next”
That’s right. I [...]
Wanted to post this picture of one of my dad’s good hunting buddy’s first archery buck ever. What a way to start with this fine Alamance County buck! He got it done on the last day of 2009 archery season. Congrats Jeremy!
Go to First Archery BuckGave Tuskegee NF one last hurrah before the legions invade with smoke poles then rifles for the next 2 months. I sat in the same white oak stand that I harvested my archery doe about a month earlier. I got skunked even with acorns still dropping around me. One of my other hunting buddies also [...]
Go to Hunt #16 – 11/14/09