Post by: steeliedrew on December 16, 2012, 08:13:40 PM
This morning I went in at first light to where I had jumped the doe's last night. My plan was to find an ambush spot where they were in the clear cut. I got to where they were and something about 100 yards to my left caught my eye. it was a doe's tail flipping around. She was shaking last nights rain off and eating. I stayed still and watched while trying to plan how I would get in bow range. Then I saw she was with two other doe's. they must have seen me lift my rangefinder cause they turned and made a run for it into a swampy alder stand.
I started heading down the road that splits the clear cut. My plan was to still hunt through an old growth timber stand a ways down the road that has 10' reprod bordering one side of it. I ended up bumping two more doe's in the cut to my right as I was walking in. so that was five deer in the first half hour or so of hunting!
After not seeing anything in the old growth stand I went back to the truck and drove down some logging roads in the snow to see if I could find a player. I had two doe's run across the road in front of me. They came out of one reprod patch and went into another. I jumped out of the truck and pursued into the reprod patch but it was thick and they were gone.
So I figured since I had seen so many deer in one small area where I was this morning and last night, I should head back and just sit and wait. along the road opposite of where I jumped the two does last night at my truck there are a few fir trees. I found one with really low hanging branches and sat under it. It was a perfect, natural ground blind and I was set up with killer shooting lanes where I thought the deer would come. I sat from 3:30pm to 4:45pm. at 4:45 I watched a single doe cross into the clear cut just like I had planned. Except she had other plans and went away from where I figured she'd come to. I know she didn't see me which was a huge rush because I finally had the upper hand. Too bad she didn't come in closer. When I saw she was heading away I crept out of the blind in pursuit. I saw her go behind a little knob in the cut and then I lost her.
moral of the story is that still hunting is tough! I'm getting a tree stand for sure! I'm pretty stealthy and literally take a couple steps every minute most of the time but every deer I have seen this year while still hunting has seen me before I've seen them. And the only reason I see them is because they bust out of where they were watching me from. Deer would be phenomenal people hunters if they had weapons. Haha. ;)
Thanks for listening to my sob story. I'm glad I saw so many deer this weekend but I'm open to suggestions on how to up my still hunt game.
Thanks,
Drew
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