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First "MISS" of the 2010 season

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Thwackaddict:
Saturday morning found me havin to find another spot to hunt as some dude was sittin three trees over from my stand stickin ou tlike a sore thumb :P so i eased on up the ridge and got around on the backside leadin into a flat filled with small brush and greenbrier.had a deer come in behind me at 9:00 am and bust me i think it caught me moving(Its thick with the leaves on and cant se more than 30 yds)so around 10:30 i decided i would ease into the wind and walk the flat which is the very top of the ridge and push something towards my cousin who is on a flat below the other end of the ridge.well i thought i was being a bit noisy and wasnt really trying to be quiet so to push the deer to him,when i came up on the thicket in the middle of the flat i decided instead of goin strait thru i would skirt the right hand edge as i had jumped deer there before.I only made it 10yds when Hey thet looks like an antler!Well jus so happened that antler turned to look at me and i thought Crap im busted!Beautiful 8pt buck bedded down not 25yds from me.I could see his throat and the very top of his shoulder but he was layin behind a bush which covered the vitals so i decided i would let him stand and shoot as he was gettin up! ::) Wrong he started gettin up and i let one fly and that dude was gone before the arrow even got there :'( I thought he would stand and at least gimme a better look to see what i was,Not he got up in third gear and was history.Later that evening he came in behnd me yet again and made a big 40yd circle around me!!Had a tree picked out to stick my climber in and he walked by it at 15yds >:( Durnit i gotta get in that tree.Maybe i can turn the odds next go round!!

Cacatch:
Thwack, I know exactly how you feel. This is about the same experience I had on opening morning. A dude in or near my spot, possibly trespassing, onto my dad's private property, then tried to get in the truck and go to another nearby property, when I got there realized I forgot the bow, went back for the bow, by the time I got back a nice 6 or 8pt and 2 does had beat me to the blind and busted me, disgusted, walked over to truck, put call back in truck, take bow and arrows over to locust grove and hope to see a squirrel or turkey, no quirrell , no turkey, laid on top of a roundy bale and was sunning myself thinking I should have just stayed in bed, WRONG, another 4 or 6 came by at about 80 yards, caught off guard sunning myself in plane view on top of roundy bale, sit up on roundy bale and hop off to hide behind and call, reach for call, yep - call was already put in truck thinking no more deer coming. Left this property and went back to the first one, thinking in the afternoon things will turn up and I can go out over by the pond, with the drought this year deer routinely come there for water, go set up blind near pond, to allow for a way-too-easy 5 yard shot, go back to the house to grab a bite and wait a bit for the late afternoon which is when these deer always come down to drink at this spot, just about ready to grab my stuff and go back out, open the door, door nearly breaks backwards, 30mph winds, colder than a dead witch's teet, think to myself Aw, who cares, I'll just tough it out, and the wind won't hurt me that much it's in my favor and it's only a 5 yard shot, won't blow my arrow to far off course, start walking out to the blind, hadn't had rain since early August, first rain in over 2 months starts, even colder than the wind, get halfway to the blind, already chilled and thoroughly disgusted. Went back to the house.

So let me say these heartfelt words - I FEEL YOUR PAIN.  :D   Don't worry though, we'll get 'em this weekend or next. It's still early.   ;)

CP

Thwackaddict:
Wow!! Thanks that made me feel so much better!!Lol But hey thats why they call it huntin and not killin right!!Gotta make the best of these curveballs and use em as learnin material!We'll get em!!Where ya huntin at?I'm in southwest va right above where corner of north carolina and va meet.We have had quite a dry spell here too!No water and more durned acorns than you could  shake a stick at!Gonna make for some tough huntin!Good luck on your next trip!!

Cacatch:
Yep, sounds exactly like us. I'm in southeastern Indiana, hunting over near the Millhoussen/Napoleon area which is where my family has land. For some reason the squirrels made a mass exodus this year and from August or maybe even a little before up until 3 weeks ago, you could absolutely go out in the woods and take a complete walk through it and not see a single squirrel, whereas in normal years you might see 5 or 6 every time. Like I said, we had drought since August or a little before and I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not. But these crazy danged squirrels let 90% of the hickory nuts just fall to the ground and rot as they were absent most of the summer. And in the woods I'm talking about, hickory nuts are their main staple. And like you said, acorns all over the place. I hated to move my blind from where that dude was, because it's acorn heaven right in there and it's also where 2 woods join, so deer cross in and out/fraternize/eat acorns/fight/scrape/hump in there all the time. I don't know if this guy was in our woods or on his side in the other woods. I didn't go back to find out, when I saw the light back there and heard him fumbling around it was still mostly dark and I didn't want to get shot. But that's the way it goes. There's always some duche moving in on your area.

Thwackaddict:
Amen brother that turd was only three trees over from my stand!!Uhhhhh duuuuhhhhhhhh ::) what would we do without morons??Its gettin harder to find a place to hunt,last year me and my cuz hiked 1.75 miles off the road strait up to the top of a mountain and thought we had found deer utopia.Got 347 pics of 5 different very large 8pts and assorted does.Had the place to ourselves all of bow season,come gun season i had 13 different hunters on my cam!!Crazy!!I did manage to get this dude tho!my best to date.We have alot of public land to hunt and some good places if you can get somewhere that people arent rootin you out or swarming it during rifle season!!

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