Post by buckbuck1 on Jan 2, 2006 9:48:31 GMT -6
I hope everyone had a good Christmas and this will be a good year.
I got that Barnett Wildcat crossbow. It is pretty cool. I may use it next bow season. Even though I suck with a bow, I just can't retire the Myles Keller Lengend antique.
I finally got with the farmer with all of the land. There is so much land it is overwhelming. The problem is that it is almost all field.
Both fields are rectangles. One is, I'm guessing, about 50 acres. It has narrow tree lines on two sides and some deep woods on the back side. The woods belong to someone else. That is a tobacco base and it is covered up with tracks. Some of those tracks are huge. Looks like a moose or a caribou ran far away from home.
The other field is about a mile wide and about three deep. This filed has one small tobacco base and the rest was soy beans and corn. It has treelines on one side and the back and the treeline on one side and it runs from about 100 to 150 yards wide and has all kinds of ridges, dry creeks, depressions and trailsl I would think this would be deer heaven. This place has all kinds of choke points.
The problem is, I have seen very few signs of deer here. I saw a doe I jumped with my 4-wheeler, while I was scouting it. I have hunted both of the locations and the one doe is all I have seen. The tobacco base doesn't seem to have any heavily traveled routes. Just random crossings, and lots of them.
Why would the deer prefer the tobacco base over the field with the beans and corn? What about all the tracks and I still haven't seen boo? Some of those tracks were splayed like the deer was running. Do you all think they have just all gone on the night shift?
I was hoping to get a doe with a bow and see a nice buck. I am not going to give up until Saturday when it is so dark, I have to feel my way out of the woods. Good luck to every one and I hope you are seeing more than I am.
I got that Barnett Wildcat crossbow. It is pretty cool. I may use it next bow season. Even though I suck with a bow, I just can't retire the Myles Keller Lengend antique.
I finally got with the farmer with all of the land. There is so much land it is overwhelming. The problem is that it is almost all field.
Both fields are rectangles. One is, I'm guessing, about 50 acres. It has narrow tree lines on two sides and some deep woods on the back side. The woods belong to someone else. That is a tobacco base and it is covered up with tracks. Some of those tracks are huge. Looks like a moose or a caribou ran far away from home.
The other field is about a mile wide and about three deep. This filed has one small tobacco base and the rest was soy beans and corn. It has treelines on one side and the back and the treeline on one side and it runs from about 100 to 150 yards wide and has all kinds of ridges, dry creeks, depressions and trailsl I would think this would be deer heaven. This place has all kinds of choke points.
The problem is, I have seen very few signs of deer here. I saw a doe I jumped with my 4-wheeler, while I was scouting it. I have hunted both of the locations and the one doe is all I have seen. The tobacco base doesn't seem to have any heavily traveled routes. Just random crossings, and lots of them.
Why would the deer prefer the tobacco base over the field with the beans and corn? What about all the tracks and I still haven't seen boo? Some of those tracks were splayed like the deer was running. Do you all think they have just all gone on the night shift?
I was hoping to get a doe with a bow and see a nice buck. I am not going to give up until Saturday when it is so dark, I have to feel my way out of the woods. Good luck to every one and I hope you are seeing more than I am.
