After scouting my best spot last Wednesday on the way home from Wister, I had high hopes for Stefanie's hunt on Friday.....Saw 7 bucks, of which, 2 were real shooters....All in her range.....The 2 biggest put on quite a show fighting too.....Not a morning person, we headed up Friday at about 1:00 pm.....We no sooner get into our stand and a single doe appears. Soon there after a doe and a fawn. Another 15 minutes and a doe with 2 fawns.....What was interesting was just 2 days previous, I didn't see this bunch with all the bucks around.....They finally move off and we sit there till about 5:00 pm. Finally Stef says there's a deer. It's a doe, then another, then another, then another, then another....5 does total and I have her on the sticks.....I'm betting the ranch the next deer is a buck.....Nope.....That was it.....I have no idea what happened, but we went from 7 bucks to 0.....Did see a spike with a doe on the drive out.
Saturday, I decided to hunt MCC and Jacob & Cody (Jacob's neighbor and new hunting partner) were going to some public land that I had shown them both.....I start walking to my spot and instantly I see deer, but it's barely shoot time and they're in the dark shade of oaks. They finally move up to skyline it's a doe and a spike....His nose is right up her tail and off they finally go. I get to the top and start glassing the area.....Nothing....After about 2 hours, my cell phone starts ringing.....It's Jacob.....I can hear him talking, but can't understand a word he's saying. Finally I said, slow down. He's yelling, we got one, we got one!.....Mind you these two have hunted their butts off on public land (even the death walk of Barker).....I think I was excited as they were.....I know where they're at and I say I'll be over as fast as I can get there.....I find their truck and up the mountain I go.....A little over a mile up, I find them.....These boys were pumped.....Jacob had spotted the buck about 800 yds up by himself. They then stayed there for 1 1/2 hours without seeing him again. Finally they said, let's start moving up his way.....They hadn't gone 30 yds when Cody says, I see legs under that mesquite.....Sure enough, it's the buck....Cody gets down in a shooting position with the sticks.....A few seconds later, Jacob says, he's to your left on the ridge (80 yds). Cody readjusts and lets loose.....Down goes Frazier!.....Just rewriting the story makes me feel good about these kids.....One other note, It's nice dragging down hill.....lol
Yesterday, it was Jacob and I on MCC again, but a different area.....From the minute it got light, till it was dark. We had deer (also saw 2 bobcats and 2 coyotes).....2 forkies (not legal on MCC) and 5 spikes were seen.....Talk about a healthy deer herd.....What was really strange about this hunt was when we see a pretty nice forky just feeding along. Then right behind him come 3 spikes together (I've never seen this before). One of the spikes is chasing a doe and they go right passed us.
3 really fun days of hunting D-16 deer in 3 totally different kinds of habitat...... 8)
ps.....Actually saw some nice gobblers too.......
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Saturday, I decided to hunt MCC and Jacob & Cody (Jacob's neighbor and new hunting partner) were going to some public land that I had shown them both.....I start walking to my spot and instantly I see deer, but it's barely shoot time and they're in the dark shade of oaks. They finally move up to skyline it's a doe and a spike....His nose is right up her tail and off they finally go. I get to the top and start glassing the area.....Nothing....After about 2 hours, my cell phone starts ringing.....It's Jacob.....I can hear him talking, but can't understand a word he's saying. Finally I said, slow down. He's yelling, we got one, we got one!.....Mind you these two have hunted their butts off on public land (even the death walk of Barker).....I think I was excited as they were.....I know where they're at and I say I'll be over as fast as I can get there.....I find their truck and up the mountain I go.....A little over a mile up, I find them.....These boys were pumped.....Jacob had spotted the buck about 800 yds up by himself. They then stayed there for 1 1/2 hours without seeing him again. Finally they said, let's start moving up his way.....They hadn't gone 30 yds when Cody says, I see legs under that mesquite.....Sure enough, it's the buck....Cody gets down in a shooting position with the sticks.....A few seconds later, Jacob says, he's to your left on the ridge (80 yds). Cody readjusts and lets loose.....Down goes Frazier!.....Just rewriting the story makes me feel good about these kids.....One other note, It's nice dragging down hill.....lol
Yesterday, it was Jacob and I on MCC again, but a different area.....From the minute it got light, till it was dark. We had deer (also saw 2 bobcats and 2 coyotes).....2 forkies (not legal on MCC) and 5 spikes were seen.....Talk about a healthy deer herd.....What was really strange about this hunt was when we see a pretty nice forky just feeding along. Then right behind him come 3 spikes together (I've never seen this before). One of the spikes is chasing a doe and they go right passed us.
3 really fun days of hunting D-16 deer in 3 totally different kinds of habitat...... 8)
ps.....Actually saw some nice gobblers too.......
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