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2004 Bow Season - December
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Morning - Alex's Road
Revisited
Weather: 54, cloudy,
and light wind.
MORNING HUNT - When
I woke up I was in a treestand frame of mind. Back a few years ago I had
a booming area that I called Alex's Road. The stand was in a long, 100
yard wide finger of woods with a large coastal field on two sides. It was
a great deer funnel and I did real well there. At the moment I don't have
a stand there. Lately I've been seeing deer here almost every time I drive
out to hunt so I decided to check it out.
 So,
in the dark, I went to the same cedar tree I used to be in and got to work.
First I screwed in
EZY Tree Steps in the tree. That went real fast
because Cranford makes the screw end of these steps so it catches right
away and goes in fast. Then I pulled up the treestand (a NorthStarr
Treestands Boss Starr) and fastened it to the tree.
Bingo, I was ready in minutes
and quietly waited half an hour until hunting time. My set up is right
by the main farm road and I saw several deer cross the road on the far
right edge of the finger, about 60 yards away.
I did have a group of young
wild hogs come across the road and walk almost under my tree. Two adult
does crossed an hour later and I wanted to shoot so I didn't take their
pictures. But they didn't give me a good enough shot opportunity.
People always ask me if I
can give them a better idea of what the hunt areas and set ups are,
So here goes. In the picture below we are looking down Alex's Road. The
pic is being taken from a 40 acre coastal field. The far end u is a 100
acre coastal field. Both sides of the road are wooded so this is a classic
deer funnel situation.
Two thirds of the way down
the road, on the left side, there is a major deer crossing in a narrow
opening. I put the NorthStarr Boss Starr in the tree on the right.
 
I really like the Boss Starr
model treestand. The seat turns and in this particular situation that is
a definite asset. Shots can be made on the far side of the road, in the
road, and in the narrow opening. To cover the narrow opening you have to
turn and the seat is perfect for that. Also the narrow opening is close
quarters and deer are only a few yards away so no noise can be made, which
is another strong point of the Boss Starr, it does not squeak or creak
like the other stands I've hunted that have turning seats.
 
One of the reasons I got
up the tree so fast was the EZY Climb Folding Tree Step (from Cranford
Mfg.). These steps screw in so easy that setting 8 or 10 of them
doesn't even make you break a sweat.
(I set the steps and treestand
in the dark but took the pictures after the morning hunt.)
 
AFTERNOON:
A 4 hour sit in the Double Bull blind at the Point boiled down to one group
of wild turkeys. The birds did not talk today and suddenly a big jake appeared
near the gate. It came closer.
 
There were three if them
and they all walked though the gate and along the woods road.
I purred at them and they
stopped for a short while and then walked on. Tomorrow I am putting a second
Double Bull on the far side of the road where my chances of a bow range
shot are better.
 
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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