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Morning - The 10 Returns
Weather: 29, some
cloud cover, and calm.
After daylight, first up
were a doe and a lightweight yearling doe. They browsed around and a longhead
doe joined them. Then they left in opposite directions.
An hour passed and I got
out my laptop and started on the morning hunt and some other stuff. Movement
in my peripheral vision caught my attention. I looked up as a young doe
came from behind the blind and stopped aa few yards in front of the Double
Bull. A solo doe this time of year, even a young one, could have a buck
traveling with her, or attract one.
Seconds later a buck came
from behind the blind. This time I reached for the BowTech instead of the
Sony.
It was the 10 point.
He started eating in the
food
plot. With his butt facing directly at me. I waited.
The 10 made small shifts
in his positioning but nothing with enough of a broadside angle for a shot.
Suddenly the doe bolted and
ran to my right. The buck charged after her. They stopped in about 40 yards
and watched the area. Then the doe came back. Whatever had spooked her
forgotten.
Not so with the buck, it
stood watching, more cautious than the doe. I really wanted to take the
10's picture, the sun was shinning on it's antlers and he was looking big.
But he made the decision
for me and returned to the food plot. This time he was 40 plus yards away
and he moved to several spots and really got with the eating program. He
was hungry and he really liked this PlotSpike stuff.
I felt my skin tingle when
the doe walked off toward the hill. I needed him 20 more yards closer and
once he went on the move there would only be one opportunity.
The green food plot goodies
must have tasted good because when the 10 noticed the doe leaving he kept
biting off the greenery and swallowing it.
Until he decided to follow
the doe.
This was it, if a shot opportunity
happened it would be now. And it did ... broadside ... 40 yards, maybe
more.
Wow ...
I know friend ... but 40
yards isn't my shot.
MID DAY - I drove
to the Point and hunted the Double Bull blind there. I planned to leave
at 3:50 so I would be back at the food plot before anything happened. At
3:40 I heard wild turkeys in the area so I got out a mouth call and yelped
softly several times. Before long a group came to the road and looked around.
This is some of the wild
turkey group, I took the picture through the mesh.
I expected them to come to
water but they didn't. They were all hens and one of the largest looked
into the field to the left and did soft yelps and whistles. Turkeys answered
and she went toward them and the rest followed.
I wanted to get going and
unzipped the blind's door and set my backpack and camera outside. Woops,
more turkeys were coming. Quickly I zipped the door up enough to keep light
out of the inside. Thirty plus birds came under the fence and walked by
me. Mostly hens but a few were very young jakes. When the flock were gone
I bailed out and snuck back to my truck and drove to the food plot.
There was no deer activity
at the food plot.
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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