Well as many of you know I take pride in my honey hole. I have taken a couple of our members along for a hunt or two...well yesterday I thought, I have not been there to shed hunt this year so I had to make the tough agonizing decision to stay at work or hit the woods and hitting the woods won. For the guys who have not seen pics of my hunting valley, it is one wooded thick and thin valley surrounded by a clover infested field and two other alfalfa fields, then the valley runs back into the woods and beyond....a couple of pics of the valley for your review. First two pics are half way through the valley on the top side, third pic is down in the bottom of the valley farthest point into the woods which is huntable....a rich doctor who would prefer to feed than kill wild animals which is fine with me...no hunters back in there behind my last pic here
Now that we have the view out of the way. There is one spot which is the furthest northern part (no pic) of the valley before it ends into the alfalfa fields and the last 150 yards, about half of that is THICK. This is the area where the deer love to bed. Well I searched the entire property on foot, even along the fences separating fields, everywhere and did not find one horn. I was ok with that but it was strange is when I worked my way through the thickest stuff to get down in the open area of the thicket I found a massacre, I do not know what hit these deer, bones everywhere I looked. I was distraught and terribly confused. I immediately began my own investigation within my mind....all the bodies were there, all the heads were there except for one. Some together, some apart. I was piecing together bones to figure out how many deer here. Well I found 5 total, dead deer within a 13 yard area, yes I ranged it. I was devastated to find this and I still am. I have in my mind what I believe happened but not sure......maybe a pack of yotes got them surrounded, I just do not know. Would love to hear from you guys on this. These deer were not here the first week of January. I walked through this same spot at that time.
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