I sat in the tube area this morning. It was 28 degrees with a south wind. At first light a big shooter buck crossed the trail in front of me and up the hill. He was hot on a doe’s trail. A little later I had a nice 7-pointer chase five does past me. He came in to 10 yards. Too bad he wasn’t wearing a little more for headgear.
A short time after the 7-pointer left I tried rattling. After I stopped a nice little 8-pointer snuck in and wandered around under my stand for a few minutes. I also saw a big buck chasing a doe out in the field behind me.
Dad saw four bucks today and got a shot at one that was trolling along the edge of a cornfield shortly after it got light. He believes he hit a twig or two which deflected the arrow. Tonight I saw only one doe. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. Dad saw two bucks chasing a doe at 2:30. With all of the chasing we’ve witnessed so far it seems like we should get lucky at some point in the near future, but you never know what will happen when you’re hunting. We’ll keep giving it everything we have until it’s time to go home.