Good morning every one. A nice pleasant 50 degrees right now. It's cooled off a bit since we left this morning to go hunting. We miscalculated our departure time and got out to the hunting spot right at first legal light. I like to be there about half an hour early to let things quiet down. About half a mile from where we parked on the way in we saw 2 young bucks and a doe---Whitetails. We parked and I got right out started my walk down the weed line. The temperature was 54 degrees according to the thermometer in the truck. The wind was blowing about 25 MPH putting a bit of a chill in the air.
I walked about 4 maybe 500 yards and spotted something laying in the lee of a small hill in the stubblefield downwind. Now I use my binoculars a lot when I hunt. I look at a lot rocks, weeds and fence posts. I looked at this something laying out there and could tell it was no fence post it was animal of some sort. I backed up a ways and put a small rise between me and it. I sneak out in the field and move out about 300 yards and crawled over the rise to see a coyote all curled up asleep. The coyotes was about 150 yards away and totally unaware of me until I stood up...then it exploded and and hightailed south bound as fast as it could. Could have shot it but that would have alerted every deer within miles. I just wander back to my fence line and continued my slow stalk.
I walked about half mile glassing all along the way. I looked out across the prairie and about a mile and half a way I spotted movement. I looked really hard at the movement and it turned into 7 deer, couldn't tell if they were mulies or whitetail. They were feeding across the wind and moving towards me. I continued working down the fence line towards them.
After about 45 minutes and a mile I got in a good position to look them over good. I could see them about half a mile off laying in the fallow. I could see that they were Whitetails and I could tell one of the wore something on his head but that was was all. The animals were not going anywhere and there was no way I was going to get close enough to take one. I sat there and watched them a bit to see if they were going to move. After about 10 minutes they all stood up and started running. I knew what it was. I looked at my watch and knew it was time for my wife to drive down off the hill and pick me up. I looked back over my shoulder and up on the Hill a good mile away and there was my wife in our pickup. Those deer have been chased a bit before--spooking at a truck 1 1/2 miles aways.
If this was easy they would call it deer killing not deer hunting. Ain't retirement grand.
