Not so good right now - anyway nothing like I would expect it to be this time of the year.
We are really warm and really dry. It is like walking on pop corn and the streams and water draws that you would expect to be moist are a dry. Then to make matters a little bit worse because of the lack of a freezing temperatures and the lack of wide spread water sources 'Blue Tongue" disease is attacking the whitetail causing a die off. And of course the area I am in is one of the hardest hit.
The rifle season opened 10/10 around here but I still use a ML during this season. But because of the weather and the fact that I can not hunt elk until December I did not start the season on the 10th. Finally on Thursday 10-22 I decided I might take a small walking trip to the woods in search of a whitetail with 'headgear'.
I went to an area that I have hunted for many years and normally has a good supply of whitetail along wit a few elk. Walked out my normal path along a ridge top then back under the ridge on the north side and along a normally wet draw below me. I thought for sure that I might jump something or bust something especially with the noise I was making walking.
But, it was an afternoon hunt so the walk really was nothing more than to get me to a saddle where I could sit and wait for the setting sun and hope that the deer might move across the ridge top in front of me or the open CRP field behind me. This is or their normal pattern.
Here is a couple pics showing the ambush point with the open ridge top in front of me. Plus my view of the CRP field.
In the normal situation animals cross these two area to access water - without water it isn't happening. But at least I got out for awhile and really enjoyed the time in the woods...
