Well boys the truck is loaded and we heading up in the morning. We’ve got a few days on a lottery hunt at Natchez state park then heading to the northern delta for another wma. Hoping to get some points for team 9!
I was looking for a great opening weekend,we had 7 stands in about a square mile. Today they started logging on the whole dang area. Oh well it is what it is,adapt and overcome. We will see what happens.
Don't let this scare you off - logging operations don't always scare deer away. I've actually seen deer while watching trees fall. Chainsaws, skitters and log trucks are sounds they are familiar with, and don't associate with danger. Find a thicket just outside of the immediate logging area and set up - curiosity also killed the deer....good luck!
Ummmm could I sneak in? I’ll ride in the trunk! I don’t eat much, talk very often, and won’t take much oxygen!! I just wanna kill some deer and wanna learn! LOL
Hunt starts tomorrow. We scouted all over the place today. Found some really good sign. Lots of oaks dropping here... we’re getting after it early in the morning. Got a few good spots set up, lots of rubs around and most of the woods look like they’re getting a lot of traffic at em. Hopefully I’ll have a kill report early!
They oughta be on their feet!! Getting pumped to head up next week, needing a little more motivation and you posting a pic of a hammer would put me over the edge! Lol
No joy yet. Buddy had two does sneak by out of range, heading my way, I never saw em. saw a small buck 4 pointer earlier, not legal size though. Set up on. Mew spot along a creek, looks like a deer highway due to all the tracks in it. Their scraping like crazy already here. Got two good ones in front of me at 40 yds and another behind me. The wind won't get right though, its swirling pretty bad.
Yeah man. Bow only for us up here. No luck today, we saw a total of 11 deer between us, nothing within 60 yards though. 2 bucks everything else was slick heads. Weather is supposed to get nasty tomorrow morning so we’ll see what happens.
Didn’t see a dang thing today. Been getting rained on since 9 am... buddy got walked in on by two guys walking through the woods blowing grunt calls... we sat the whole day though, this is a tough hunt, maybe the toughest I’ve ever done. Lots of hills, ravines and ridges and some thick woods with lots of holes that open up and damn near swallow you. Heading home tomorrow morning then up north Sunday, the rut should be starting up already up there...
Well we are off for round two of the delta trip. We’re up for the northern delta trip now. We’ve already seen close to 20 deer, three shooters and a bunch of does. We are in a cabin high and dry this go around. This state park we’re in is loaded with deer! Scouted this evening for only an hour and found some decent sign and saw a buck following a doe as well. They were moving like crazy all afternoon. We starting early in the morning, wish us luck!
Hope your day was better than mine, some cocksucker stole my lock on and climbing sticks outta Leaf river.... hope they fall out of it without a harness on.
Damn DD that freaking sucks man. I haven’t left anything up there for that reason. Didn’t kill anything today. So 6 does, and a shooter as I was walking out. Buddy saw a good one but no shot. Got some intel from the property manager tonight. Should see better stuff tomorrow. Sorry about your stand Brian, hopefully the dick head falls out of the stand!
It was a great trip, unfortunately the rut won’t kick off for another week or so up there so there wasn’t much rut activity. I saw a big un the first evening when walking back to the four wheeler. I didn’t see any good bucks (legal shooters are 15” spread or 18” mainbeam)from the stand, I did see probably 20 deer from the stand in a 2.5 day period. We both killed does last night and this morning. We put the miles in the last seven days per my watch I did 42.5 miles boot to ground carrying a pack, stand and gun. Needless to say I’m spent. We had the wma mostly figured out today, but unfortunately we had to get home and call the day a little early. As of 1000 this morning there hadn’t been a legal buck checked in. One guy did check a 6 pointer as we were leaving, it was a little shy of 15” spread so it’s gonna be expensive, he was ok with it as it was his first buck so he wasn’t upset. We got the place scouted out pretty well for the next trip.
We head to Phil Bryant in two weeks and then Yock sometime before Christmas.
You have that stand the thief got locked to the tree? I have several scattered all over the area and I only hunt each one occasionally so long gaps between checking on them. Some locked some not. All cheapo old stands but still rather not lose em
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