Look for blood. Find blood. Follow blood. Doesn't seem too hard!
Yep, seems easy, but you just don’t know my friend.Look for blood. Find blood. Follow blood. Doesn't seem too hard!
Haven't drawn blood yet so I'm just arm chair quarterbacking here! It's cool enough for you to be outside working though.Yep, seems easy, but you just don’t know my friend.
I still went today, knowing the wind was too much. Saw nothing. That wind started swirling really good in the little canyon I was sitting in. Won't get to go again until next weekend.
Good luck to everyone out there.
Good luck to everyone out there.
If you had asked, I would’ve told you this weekend would more than likely be a bust. That’s why I’m still in TX. 
I did get a couple of the big mature bucks with crappy racks on camera this morning in the daylight. I really think with the weather change and the new moon that the first part of the week should have them moving more. I’m looking for some new bucks to show up any day.
I did get a couple of the big mature bucks with crappy racks on camera this morning in the daylight. I really think with the weather change and the new moon that the first part of the week should have them moving more. I’m looking for some new bucks to show up any day.
I may know of one……
And CRP grass can be effing tall. I’ve dealt with that kind of tracking before and it sucks.
This story will be long and pic heavy.
Made it to the stand at 6 am. My target buck has been hitting the feeder around 7am. Legal shooting time this morning was 7:20am.
It was starting to get light enough to see the 78 yards to the feeder at 7:00. I could see him so the excitement started building.
At 7:09 my cam got a pic of him.
At 7:10 he turned and walked back into the woods. 10 minutes early.
About 20 more minutes later he walked back out of the woods!
Wind was howling with the 20’ tall blind shaking like crazy.
Finally decided to take a high shoulder shot with the Hornady SST 250 grain sabot bullet. He never took a step. Fell in his tracks. Cam actually got a pic of him falling.
Mike Miller blade getting ready to do the dirty work.
So, as an experiment, I left the gut pile in view of the camera for two reasons.
One to see if it deterred other deer from coming to the feeder, and the second to see what critters were going to feed on it.
Apparently it doesn’t deter them.
Made it to the stand at 6 am. My target buck has been hitting the feeder around 7am. Legal shooting time this morning was 7:20am.
It was starting to get light enough to see the 78 yards to the feeder at 7:00. I could see him so the excitement started building.
At 7:09 my cam got a pic of him.
At 7:10 he turned and walked back into the woods. 10 minutes early.
About 20 more minutes later he walked back out of the woods!
Wind was howling with the 20’ tall blind shaking like crazy.
Finally decided to take a high shoulder shot with the Hornady SST 250 grain sabot bullet. He never took a step. Fell in his tracks. Cam actually got a pic of him falling.
Mike Miller blade getting ready to do the dirty work.
So, as an experiment, I left the gut pile in view of the camera for two reasons.
One to see if it deterred other deer from coming to the feeder, and the second to see what critters were going to feed on it.
Apparently it doesn’t deter them.
Sit back and watch for birds to locate the animal. Found a couple like that in Johnson grass that I had walked within 5’ of and never saw.
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