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Deer Hunt - A Bowhunt In Progress
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2004 Bow Season - December
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Dec
17 - The Broken Tine Buck
AM - 7:33
Freak Buck | 8:10 Broken Tine Buck | 8:41
Broken Tine Again | 8:52 And Again
Dec 17 - Morning
Back Again
Three does browsed in the
food plot a while when I noticed a deer on the edge of the woods. I glassed
it. Now it was 8:52.
 The
Broken Tine buck again. The time on the picture was 8:52. He moved to the
edge of the field.
And approached the does.
The does ignored him. He
looked toward the hill.
 
I couldn't tell what they
were looking at but the deer watched something fort a minute. Then I zoomed
in for a little larger picture of Broken tine. Then he looked toward the
woods and his posture looked like he was interested in what he saw.
  
Woops, he was. A doe was
watching him and he raced over to her and they ran around and disappeared
from my view.
8:41am: Two deer
came to the food plot at 8:19, a yearling doe and button buck. A minute
later sunlight glinted on antlers.
  
He moved to the edge of
the field, the Broken Tine, and seeing the button head and young doe he
turned and went back into the draw.
 
8:10am: Movement
along the edge of the woods. The Broken Tine buck. 7:56, I got a pic. He
turned east 50 yards from the NorthStarr tree.
7:33am: Freak Scrape
- I hunted the hill in the NorthStarr Treestand I just put up. Before sunrise
a shadow moved under my tree and a buck rubbed some low branches and pawed
the ground. The Freak. Then he left.
Once it was light I glassed
him and a young buck in the food plot. When they left I waited 15 minutes
and hurried over to the blind. I didn't want to hunting in a tree they
were making scrape under.
Food
Plot
With the coming of the killing
frost much of the lush vegetation and huge crop of acorns on the ground
have died or gone bad. My green food plot really stands out now in Early
December. I worked with Mike Massey of PlotSpike
Seed to be sure I planted what would grow well in our area. Mike
suggested PlotSpike Forage Oats and Premium Mix. We planted the oars first
and then made 3 small sections of the Premium Mix. The Premium Mix started
growing in 3 days. The oats, however, didn't come up until we had a real
gully washer rain. Then it leaped out of the ground.
Wild Turkeys covered the
plot from the get go. Deer came intermittently. Until now. The joint is
jumping. Here is the page for the Food Plot plans, planting and progress.
2004
Food Plot Project.
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