I’m not sure what kind of wild hair I got up my ass today, but I chose to chase it. Brian called me in the morning to tell me that he got sent home from work for the day because he didn’t have any work. I asked him if he wanted to hunt in the afternoon, and he told me he was up for it.
I had already planned on going because I had been watching the weather and saw that the rain was supposed to stop in the early afternoon. After having rained the night before and all through the morning, I thought some bucks might be clearing the scrapes they had already made. I was almost certain I could get a look at something.
So I headed to the woods at 1:00 p.m. Working from home definitely has some advantages when it comes to hunting. We were in the woods and sitting by 3:30. We had just shy of three hours to wait a few bucks out.
At 5:15, I heard a deer blow. It was directly downwind of the scrape I was watching, but I didn’t think it could’ve gotten my wind. I never saw it, and I knew that was probably the end of my night. It’s never good when a deer is blowing in the area you’re hunting. The noise deflated me, and I sat there wondering what the heck was going on this year. Nothing I’ve done yet seems to be working out, including while I was elk hunting.
Here’s a picture of a rub I found tonight. It must’ve been a good deer to have rubbed this tree.
