What you seeing?

[Lon371]

  What are you seeing while scouting? or bow hunting?

  I can see part of our areas from the roads. I dont bow hunt so my scouting I do from a distance, or I ask people that hunt around our areas.

 We have a few bucks running the areas. A couple days ago, we spotted 3 bucks cornering a field next to the house. Night before last about 930pm I spotted a nice buck with 3 other deer grazing, about 1/2 mile from where we hunt. We have a couple does we see frequently in the woods behind the house. Compared to last year it is looking pretty good.

Lonny

[Old Syko]

Looks about the same as always around here with the only real exception being, very few of the fields have been picked due to all the rain.  The alfalfa field behind the house is the only thing that is very open right now and there are deer and turkeys out there both early in the morning and late in the evening.  Corn will start getting picked this coming week along with the beans down the road and that will help visibility.  One thing I have noticed for the last 3 or 4 weeks is a large grey buck that comes out about mid morning every 2 or 3 days.  Most of the deer in this area are either brown or a reddish brown.  This ole boy is almost as grey as I am and he's sportin a sizable rack.  He runs with a large doe, 2 smaller does and a little bitty feller that could be either.  Now I don't mean this little feller is funny or nuthin.  It's just that with 20X optics I just can't tell which brand he is.   

Rode the 4 wheeler back through a neighbors pasture the other morning and cut through some heavy brush to check on some persimmons and scared up about 5 out of the brush that almost let me run over them before they shifted into a forward gear.  They were so quick and I was caught so off guard I only counted 5 and don't even know which brand they were.  I'd say if a feller likes to deer hunt and can't fill his tags this year, maybe he ought to take up a new sport.  Then again I feel the same way about the turkey hunters that claim that is so hard every time I shoo those things off the back porch and out of the yard. 

[Lon371]

Old Syko

Then again I feel the same way about the turkey hunters that claim that is so hard every time I shoo those things off the back porch and out of the yard.

LOL,  Maybe you should quit feeding them so close to the house

I did forget to mention, we do have a flock of Turkey that lives out back. We see them everyday, about 15 of them cruise the the cut bean field next door. They roost up on the hill out behind the house.

Lonny

[LaOtto222]

I worked second shift last Friday. When I pulled into the drive about 10:15, 2 deer went from under my apple tree and ran into the brush right straight back. I did not get a good look at them to see if either carried a rack.