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Dec
24 (Last Update 4:42pm)
Morning
| Food Plot |
7:12 - JimboTx
saw 2 young bucks and several does at the NOrthStarr ladder stand. I saw
5 does.
5:42 - Deer Thirty
JimboTx is hunting on The
NorthStarr ladder stand on the river. I'm in the Food
Plot blind. So far nothing is moving. But this is the time for deer
to move.
10::30 - JimboTX
I'm getting out of the blind
early this morning. After seeing that 10-point this morning it's hard to
do but it's gotta be done. JimboTX is meeting me at Fulton Arms in Hamilton.
We'll eat something and get
in the woods asap. I'm gonna start him out in the newest stand the Duck
set up, a Traveling Starr ladder stand by NorthStarr Treestands.
It is on a heavily traffic fence crossing that wild turkey deer and wild
hogs are using right now.
Morning: A Bomber 10 -
It's A Shoot Day
Weather: Overcast,
22 degrees, occasional bone chilling gusts of wind.
Before Daylight -
Barely distinguishable in the dark, a shadow approached the tree with the
Power
Wick (WildlifeResearchCenter.com)
and I binoculared it. Until it moved it's head I couldn't ID it as a buck.
A young one with a thin, high rack sporting long points. He smelled the
ground right under the wick and looked all around the area. Something caught
his attention on the hill and he disappeared in the darkness.
Minutes later a 2nd shadow
came along my rusty fence to the right of the blind. The binoculars were
already in focus and I didn't have to look again to tell three things:
First, this was what Dennis Crabtree calls a "dandy" buck. Second, it was
a new buck that I haven't taken a picture of. And Third, that it was time
to get my hand on the BowTech and give this big 10-point an introduction
to modern archery.
He went straight to the tree
with the Power Wick. He too smelled the ground where the wick drips scent.
I raised my pins up to the
blind's shooting window to see if there was enough light to shoot.
Not quite yet.
Unlike the other buck who
had made a quick exit this buck struck a pose and waited.
A perfect 15-16 yard broadside
pose with a little quartering away on it. The seconds crawled by and my
pins became distinguishable.
I drew and moved the top
pin into the bucks silhouette and searched for the tip of the pin. I couldn't
see it yet. Another minute would probably do it.
Another minute and the 10
was circling the edge of the food plot. He walked to the edge of the woods
by the draw. He stood still with his head high, looking very tall.
A doe walked past him. That
was a good thing, she might bring him back. I picked up my camera and turned
it on. Both deer were gone.
It was his 5 minutes but
he got here 2 minutes early.
That's were we are at 8:31
on another chilly, wonderful, morning in the deer woods.
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 with both bucks and does. Here is the page for the Food Plot plans,
planting and progress.
2004
Food Plot Project.
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