Bowhunting.Net 3rd Annual Bowhunt - 2006

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Online Whitetail Bowhunts - 2006 Bowhunts and on the spot pictures -- by Robert Hoague | Sponsors of 2006 Whitetail Bowhunts | Bowhunting.net Annual Bowhunt |  | Wade Nolan Writers Camp Hunt - October | Wade Nolan Writers Camp Hunt - November | Bowhunting Deer At Home - 2006 HOME PAGE For All 2006 Deerhunts What To Do Now?  Search For Wide 8: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | In case you haven't noticed, the deer movement has gone to heck. Yesterday (Dec 21) and this morning (Dec 22) I did not see a single buck, or doe, or wild turkey. After I took the 78 yard pic of Wide-8 things have been hard pickings.  Yesterday I cut some cedar limbs and pulled them up to the treestand at Alex's Road (I saw 12 does here on the 18th but couldn't get a shot). Then I trimmed a few limbs so I can get an arrow out of the treestand when I see deer here. On the 18th I moved the CamTrakker to the Point, and area that has been a producer for over 20 years. I checked it every day and had no pictures. However, on my way in from yesterday afternoons hunt at the river ridge I stopped and checked it. There were recent pictures. I swapped the disk and brought it back to see it on my laptop. There were pic s of a spike and a small 8-point before 5:00. A solo doe was next. Then the 7-point buck below triggered the CamTrakker for one picture when the sun was low and above the treetops.  This is good news. Deer should be moving through the Point and big bucks have showed up here plenty of times over the years. Also... Traffic through my Food Plot area went to zilch, even at night for a few days in a row. The last pictures my BuckEye Cam took were of a handful of few deer on the 17th, one of which was this late night long tined 8-point that is new to our mix. After a two deer picture-less dry spell, finally on the 20th the buck below walked by the BuckEye Cam and got his infrared picture taken.  But he was the only picture taken until the 21st at 7:30 when the Broken Horn buck and an 8-point stopped by the food plot.  The 8-point poses for an infrared digital photo. Two more bucks just before midnight. Another buck a few minutes later at 12:43. A buck runs in front of the camera. After midnight there were over 40 pictures of does. After I got out of the shower this morning I checked the BuckEye Cam pics on my laptop and saw that it had received 5 new pictures. This buck was on his way to the food plot area in the pre dawn at 5:38.  I'm sure you noticed the same thing I noticed. We have no pictures of either Big Boy 10 or Wide 8. Not a one. The season has 16 days left. I think it's time to look around in some other areas and let the CamTrakker and BuckEye Cam keep me up to date on activity at the Point and the Food Plot. 2006 Deer Hunt Sponsors BOWTECH GRIM REAPER Broadheads Arizona E-Z FLETCH CAM TRAKKER Game Cameras MyTopo Aerial & Topo Maps WILDLIFE Research Center ELIMITRAX TROPHYSCORE WOLVERINE Boots Sticks N Limbs Camouflage GATEWAY FEATHERS ROPE RATCHET HOT TRAILS Scented Hunting Candles Jim Fletcher Archery Essential Gea r CARBON EXPRESS Arrows NIKON Optics To The Home Page For This Bowhunt

Billy Don Van Cleave Wild Horse Prairie Ranch P.O. Box 199 Satin, TX 76685 Call: 254-749-6119 Fax: 254-546-2709 Email:  BillyDon@hughes.net Web: WildHorsePrairie.com Dream Woods Adventures 2501 Ridge ST Eldorado, IL 62930 For information call: Doug or Greg at 618-926-1481 Email: dougandgreg@dreamwoodsadventures.com Web Site www.dreamwoodsadventures.com

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