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    10/03/11 (Mon) PM report- 55 degrees with N/NW light, consistent breeze. Nice evening. I hunted the oak grove I hunted on Saturday. At 6:15 I kept seeing a deer's tail wagging in front of me about 45 yards through the brush. Finally a branch fell out of the tree and scared the yearling away. Then at 6:45 a BB followed by a 5-6 pt came out into an opening at 50 yds and ate acorns until dark. That was it. Beautiful evening to be in the woods though, squirrels were going nuts.

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    10/03/11
    no am hunting, had things to do, but at 6 am it was raining and only 33 degree's in my back yard, cold and wet!

    this eveneing, got on stand at about 3;45, had deer already out in my foodplots, they busted me trying to get to a stand!

    was 45 degrees, little to no wind, and a light rain!, and loioked like it was going to pour any time
    so i decide to sit in my one stand i have with a roof over it

    at 4;30 had a small 6 ptr come by at 35 yrds, then follweed by another 6ptr, 10 minutes later
    they decided to do some friendly sparring for about 15 minutes, then went back to feeding
    5;10 pm, had a big Great blue heron land just above me on a branch say 3 ft above me, and take a huge crap, thank god I had that roof or i would have been pissed about being crapped on by that huge critter!
    5;45, had one of my best bucks come out 80 yrds from me, he is not huge by any means, but veru above average for my area
    he is a 18" wide 8 pointer, with about 6" bases, but thin and short tined, maybe in the 130's, he fed for over 20 minutes at 80 yrds then went back into the timber, he came back out same place with one of the other better 8's i have again in the 130's but heavier and only about 15 inches wide

    they are going to be very tempting, as i really only have one deer I have seen this yr bigger than these, but they really need one more yr
    but with all the poaching i have and hunting pressue next to me, if i pass it could very easily be for nothing ,

    then I had a few more smaller bucks, and a few does come out, only a few came into range though, but was an active evening

    sad part is with all the flooded woods near me, all my normal hot spots are off, as deer are now entering food plots in wierd places due to water effecting how they can get about, and i guess where there bedding now as to before the flood!
    so most of my sets are not like they should be, now most deer seem out of range from them, will be hitting the climber i think!

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    10/05/11 evening hunt
    warm today 68 when I went in at 4 pm, steady 10 mph winds

    didn't see a deer till 6;10pm, had a gropu of doe and yearlyings show up right under me and feed in the plot a totale of 10 deer all females, even the fawns were all doe, no buttons at all

    then at last light had mroe deer pour out, but too dark to tell what they were

    was 50 degrees when i left, and calling for a drop to low 30's tonight

    but a high of close to 70 tomorrow, so a swing in temps now
    hope it dry up some of this flood water!

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    10-4-11

    Light NW wind. Does seem to be moving really early adjacent to the crop fields browsing for acorns. Bucks seem to be coming out into the fields at last light.

    Forgot to post 9-25-11 had 2 of shooters come out right at last light. One was the buck thats #1 on my hitlist, 170" 10 point I call "Kicker 10" because of his kickers off his G2's. I haven't been able to get back in that stand yet because of classes and no south wind. Once I get a south wind I will be right back in that spot. He seemed to be up early browsing for acorns in his staging area, then right at last light moving to the alfalfa field. Will keep everyone updated....

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    10/06/11
    didn't hunt this morning
    went to Cabela's
    BUt had a heavy frost this morning in my yard!

    evening hunt, 63 degrees at 4 pm,
    didn't see a deer moving till about 6 pm, then they started to hit my corn, comng out of the woods in about 20 different spots
    tried to keep a count but too many mixingg in with each other
    I would say about 28-30 doe and yearlings and 3 small 6 pointers, that I could see, 2 of them walked past me at 10 yrds,and so did a few of the doe, but 80% of the deer were 60+ yrds from me in and out of the corn

    was 42 degree's when i hit my truck at about 7;30 pm
    and calling for low 30's for tonight

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    Keep the reports coming guys, this is the best thread on this forum, really gives us all an idea of what deer are doing.

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    Went out on my first hunt for this year this evening. Wearing shorts to stand a nice 80 degrees! Went to new location on property that looks promising that was located last year. Had tagged tree but I didn't remember poison oak on tree. Had to cut my way up the tree while climbing. Was in tree from 4:30 until 7:45 and did not see a thing. First time in a long time being skunked, deer hunting. I guess blame it on the heat. Still like location for November hunt.
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    10/07/11
    evening hunt, had a late start didn't get on stand till 4;55 pm

    was hot, like 75 degree's and very sunny, and little to no wind

    had first deer show up at 5:30 a medium sized doe, fed all about me for 30 minutes then started to go back into the timber, not sure why, normally deer feed and stay out till midnight or later(trail cams say anyways)

    she went into the timber then came back out 30 minutes later and beded under me.
    at 6;15, I had three 6 pointers walk up to that doe eyeballing her like a piece of candy!
    they poked at her trying to get under her tail for a sniff. she got up, sorta played with them and then they pestered her to no end, till she out ran them in the corn, and made it back to the timber without them on her tail
    they were looking for her for about ten minuts before they decided to feed
    then even they decied to go back into the timber after eating just a little
    didn't see any more deer

    this is very odd for me, I normally have deer in my food plots EVERY evening! at least a few

    might have had a bunch of guys hunting my border, as weather was nice, and its that time of yr!

    try again tomorrow!

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    I'm beginning to think I'm the only one hunting here

    any ways
    10/08/11
    no morning hunting again, too many odds and ends to do

    evening
    75 degree's
    going in, 5 mph wind
    56 degrees leaving, warm nite for sure, neds to cool off I think
    had a friend come to hunt this evening
    set him up in a stand of his choice, since he doen't get much time, he picked a stand, so I planned about him

    we went to our stands at 4 pm(or so i thought)
    I got set up, and within 15 minutes had a doe and 2 yearlings show up, then at 5:30 had a small 6 pointer show up, then another doe and yearling
    and then another 6 pointer
    then deer can from way out of range and feed into the food plot i was sitting over, about 20-30 deer in all, no shooters

    my friend was suposed to be in a stand 500 yards below me on the same field edge, with the idea that when dark came he would walk towards me, and thus bust the deer out of the plot in front of me, so they didn't know I ws there and I could climb down and leave never being seen, keeping the stand good!

    well dark came, and deer all over in front of me
    so I waited, figured he had deer in front of him, and he was waiting for them to move off!

    well half hr goes by!

    deer still in front of me
    but plenty dark, so i figure maybe he shot something
    so I climb down
    sneek to the tree line, thinking how i am going to scare the deer without SCARING them

    I am standing on a corner of a treeline 500 yrds of open filed between me and my truck!

    I am standing there when I hear something coming towards me
    up out of my beans and brassicia plot, a yote comes up to where I am standing
    and stops like 5 feet from me!
    he then see's me, and see's the deer at same time
    he looks at me, then look's at the deer, then , me, then the deer
    and he is like an honest 5 ft from me
    then he runs out towards the deer, more to eat corn, than them

    deer run off, solved my problem
    get back to my truck, find my friend waiting there, tells em half way to the stand, he changed his mind, and wanted to hunt a different one

    Got to love when they do that!
    you think you had a plan to find out they changed it with telling you!

    he saw several doe, no bucks

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