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bjrogg:
Well we finished harvesting sugarbeets the day before yesterday. Did tillage almost all night. Almost caught up now. Still have about three days left in the corn if all goes well. It was 17 degrees yesterday morning so we got the sugarbeets off just in time. I probably shouldn't have but I went out to my favorite stand last night. Sorry didn't take any pictures but if you just imagine the soybeans and sugarbeets gone and a thin coating of snow you'd get the picture. Was a bit on the chilly side and I was very tired but it still felt good to carry my bow out for another hunt. I didn't see nearly as many deer now and they were very nervous. Of course the coyote howling in the woods probably didn't help. I probably shouldn't have but I passed on a real nice shot at a button buck. I just couldn't make myself do it. Sorry guys it's just the way I've been raised I guess. I don't have any problems with someone else shooting them but I just can't seem to make myself do it. I was ready to shoot if it was a doe. It really was a very nice sized button buck. They must have had good eating this year. Maybe he'll give me that shot next year. The rutt was on heavy last week. Saw lots of bucks paired up with doe while we were digging sugarbeets. I haven't put the bow away yet but it's already feeling like gun season here and probably will be by the next time I get out.
Good Luck Everyone and Happy Hunting
Bjrogg

bradsmith2010:
I shot a button one time, ,I thought it was a doe,, but no regrets, it was very tasty,, thats my main incentive ,, I love to eat veneson,,
just shoot what feels right,, you are there to have fun,, so do so,,,,glad you had a close encounter

bjrogg:
Thanks Brad, I basically feel the same way about hunting as you described. I'm more of a meat hunter and certainly not a trophy hunter. I think part of my reason I'm passing on button bucks is that I've never even been a bow hunter of any kind until last year when I hunted bow for my first time ever. I grew up with one tag and it had to have antlers. It was that way for many years for me. Eventually we were allowed doe permits for a extra fee and now a buck combo also for a extra fee. It just seems to be harder than I thought for me to break this selective type of hunting. I doubt I'd have any regrets and I'm positive they would be very tasty. I am very much enjoying my close encounters and hunting this year. I really don't want it to end. I am really starting to crave some fresh venison though. It's hard to say for sure but the next button might not be so lucky. At any rate it's been fun and like you said that's what it suppose to be.
Bjrogg

PEARL DRUMS:
I'm no fawn killer myself, BJ. I have no issue with it whatsoever, I'm just not one.

Friday morning was the coldest bow hunt I've been on. My truck read 14 when I parked. Brrrr......no deer moved either.

bjrogg:
Well yesterday the wind finally died down and 17 degrees felt like we were living in the banana belt. The deer seemed to be out. About 3:00pm I couldn't take it any longer. The wind was still probably six mph but after a month of 15mph that seemed undetectable. I strung my new Osage bow. The first I've ever made. It's so new I don't even have it sealed. I bundled up good grabbed my mink quiver and backpack and headed for my west fencerow. I figured if I was going to sit in a tree it was going to be a pine tree. I drove across my worked field following the trail from before. It seems the deer are less afraid of a vehicle and I don't get sweated up and then cold getting a ride. I also don't spread near as much scent around. I noticed a half dozen deer in the nieghbors hay field and they ran to the woods. The plan was for me to get out and my wife to stealthy drive the pickup out of the field to the road home. She didn't really like this plan and claimed not to like driving across the field. After watching her drive past the end of the fence row half way across the nieghbors field then across the nieghbors field to the road end of the field but right past the drive into it. Then turned back south to our field stopping by our field drive she must have decided it was so much fun she continued across our field all the way back to the house. I told her she'd like it, I just didn't realize how much. So much for the stealthy exit. The deer probably got tired of watching her after awhile and I'm sure thought she was just having a good old time driving around in the worked field.
 It must have worked because within half an hour there where 11 deer in the nieghbors hay field grazing their way towards me. They crossed my fence row about 70 yards south of me and went to the sand ridge where the most sugarbeets had gotten knocked out of the rows by the topper. I watched them for about 20 minutes and then we all heard a muzzle loader blast that scared them and they ran back to the nieghbors hay field. As I watched them slowly graze towards me again my eyes caught movement further south down the fence row. A coyote was working his way across my field towards me. The wind was right I was hoping for a shot. When the coyote crossed the path the deer had just used he angled across my field to the road and hunted there for several minutes. Then he backtracked towards me again. He basically followed his earlier path and came about 50 yards from me. He got to the fence row and headed back south. Shorty after it was turning dark and fearing if I waited for my wife to find me in the dark I my freeze to death I decided to walk across the frozen field home. Once again no shots but still a very enjoyable hunt. the swans and geese flights were passing through low level in the falling snow. Even in the dark the fresh white snow brightened up the way home. My new Osage bow felt very good in my hand as I unbraced it and carried it home. Not sure if I'll get another hunt yet this year but they've all been enjoyable.
Happy Hunting and Merry Christmas everyone
Bjrogg

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