Saturday November 6, 2010

It was 25 degrees when we headed out this morning with a west wind.

I saw a nice 10-pointer following 2 does this morning. He was a few minutes behind them and made his way to within 20 yards of my stand. I was going to shoot if a shot presented itself. As he was getting closer he bolted forward to chase one of the does. He never offered a shot and eventually wandered off after he pestered the does. The rest of the morning I only saw one button-horn. I saw the 10-pointer at 9:30am.

Dad didn’t see anything this morning. This evening he saw a spike, three does and a button-horn. Doug saw a good buck chasing a doe tonight but it was too far away for a shot. Brett saw a 4-pointer and six does this morning. Tonight he saw a 6-pointer and a doe.

One of the guys from my hometown shot an 11-pointer last night a few miles down the road and another one of them wounded a buck. In the last few days they’ve killed 2 bucks and wounded one…….that I know of.

One of the local guys that we know stopped to see us. From what he says many local people are not happy at all. They couldn’t figure out why a few of them were in an area next to the highway (as they call it, a main road back home). They later determined that a deer was in the small piece of land and a few guys from my hometown were trying to chase it out onto some land they could hunt on. Of course I’m hearing this third-hand so I really have no idea what really happened. Some other locals are ticked off because they’ve had permission to hunt a few pieces of land and the person granting permission also granted it to these guys.  From what I gather there’s some tension floating around town, but it’s quiet tension. I can fully understand it and as sad as it is I feel somewhat responsible. At least the gang is leaving tomorrow so it should clear the air.

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