After a very slow opening day, today has been a wild one thus far. I'm hunting out of a ground blind that I built from down falls. I get to my blind shortly before light and put out my wicks with doe urine on them. Checked my alfalfa (crap bale from big r, 3/4 dried out when I bought it in the pitch dark) and apples, basically untouched. I sit down in my blind, let out a couple grunts and rattling thinking that might help
cover all the noise I just made. 5 minutes later here comes the dopey spike I passed up yesterday. We play around for 20 minutes or so, he circles,comes in, goes back out, stomps etc. Finally he walks 8 yards from my blind and figures something isn't right and trots off.
Not more than 2 minutes later a different spike trots in and heads straight to the apples 15 yards away. This spike is much bigger, broad shoulders, could be a future bruiser. He eats for about 10 minutes and here come a 2 point behind him. As the two point is coming in I start hearing sticks cracking behind me. Closer, closer, closer. Spike and two point are staring, wind is blowing directly in my face and I have no cover scent on. It sounds like they are only 7 or 8 yards behind me, but can't really move. Then I start thinking what if this isn't a deer? Should have winded me 40 yards ago. Maybe I spilled doe pee on me and I'm about to get mounted. closer closer now it's right next to me on the other side of my blind maybe 6 feet away. I can also here something moving behind me as well. I can see grey in my perfiferal but that's it. Finally I can't take anymore, I turn my head just enough to see what it is. It's a doe, she somehow had no clue I was there. She jumps, the two bucks spook, and two fawns take off behind me. The spike took off after the does and the two point hung around looking for the hot doe then walked off. Gotta love the rut, now I just need the big boys.
