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Dec
22 (Last Update 10:46am)
Early
| 8:22 | 9:01 | 10:46
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Afternoon:
4:55 - I saw a bomber
buck at 2:30. He ran down the hill and into the brush. Otherwise it's been
uneventful, in deer terms. It's been gusting hard and windy. Weather.com
says it's 24 degrees and feels like 13 because of the 15 mph wind. It's
got that right. Also, it should snow tonight.
So there is less than an
hour of hunting light left. I'm shutting the computer down now and we will
see what happens.
Morning:
 10:46am
- Another Buck, can you see it?
The wind just laid and now
only gusts occasionally. I saw a deer on the edge of the woods and as I
checked it out I had a thought. Lots of people are telling me they are
following this online hunt and log on several times a day. So if you are
one of those folks see if you can find the buck that I just saw. I made
it in sizes 1024x768
or 800x600
or 640x480.
Before Daylight -
Half way to the NorthStarr stand on the hill it started raining. So I changed
plans and went to the blind, that's another advantage of the Double
Bull, you're out of the weather, 34 degrees when I left the house.
Because I had intended to
hunt the hill I was extra early and had a half hour wait until I could
make out my surroundings. I binoculared up the white on the back of a deer's
tail. When I finally could see what was attached to the tail it was a buck.
He was in the food plot, browsing and watching the hill and woods edge,
from 8:49 until 7:34 -- in the rain.
The temperature is dropping
and at 8:22 I was considering going to the house to get wham. No deer
would be out in this rain and cold. At 8:23 two bucks walked out of the
draw and came to the food plot, the part that's bow range close to me.
 
The early morning buck
(L) and on e of the later young bucks.
The two bucks browsed until
8:52 -- which is when the rain turned into hail. The bucks shot out of
here like they were rockets.
9:01am - Time to
break out the HotHands and warm up my mouse fingers. Cold toes are in the
making too and I slid some Foot Warm-up packets in by boots. It is frosty
out. Still raining. Still hailing.
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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