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 Finding The Last Hay Barn Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 2 - Looking Around To decide where to scout I used the information I had from the CamTrakker and the BuckEye Cam pictures, as well as personal sightings before and during the season. Also past hunting seasons played a part too. Things stacked up like this (before looking around). In October and November I played musical chairs with both cameras, moving them around to watch the food plot and its approach areas. You've seen the CamTrakker pictures and a variety of bucks in both day and night pictures taken in different places around the food plot area. Beginning in October I used the BuckEye Cam to check some remote areas. It has been a record low rain fall year and to help the wildlife out I fixed up an old concrete drinking tank that the former rancher used for his cattle. So in early October I put the wireless camera by it.. It didn't take a single picture! From hunting the main food plot blind and the 3 treestands on trails to the plot I've seen bucks check the plot over from the north -- near the North East corner of the fence around the corals, outbuildings and large lots that were once used for livestock. The furthest outbuilding, a small tin hay barn is a few yards inside the fence by the corner.  Before leaving for Illinois in October I put on the Elimitrax over boots and scentlessly moved the BuckEye Cam to watch a fence crossing in that area. Then I returned home, went to Illinois, and on the 17th I checked the pictures. The first pictures were of night time deer a good ways from the camera. The first close picture was at 6:15 on October 14. The BuckEye cam shows the date, time, temperature and moon phase. (Date is 24 hour time.) On the 15th the camera continued to transmit wireless pictures of bucks crossing the fence at two different distances. One at 6:39am.  The pictures continued and I've picked the highlights. Another buck came at 7:56am. This is good news. It means bucks are using this crossing during daylight -- as in hunting time daylight. A young buck comes through at 9:10am. More good news. I moved the BuckEye Cam a few yards to the East. You can still see the other side of the same fence posts. These bucks came through at 6:51pm. The broken horn buck looks at the camera as it takes his picture. He looks lean here but will buff up quickly. Two bucks lock antlers for the camera on the 19th. It was waiting on my laptop when I checked it before leaving to hunt. Another daytime buck on October 22. And on October 23 I found what I'm looking for, Big Boy 10. NEXT: Keeping Up With Big Boy 10 ... With Pictures 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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