Well this hunter is beat, but what a great day in the woods. I got into my ground blind early as always. I didn't see much till about 7:30am. I had a Blacktail buck chase a doe around me four times. Each time they were in shotoing range (20 yards or less) but they were moving at breeding speed.
That calmed down after awhile. I had another doe come running some time later. She went by me at about 5 yards. I got all ready for the buck I just Knew was going to be hounding her. Instead of the buck I got two stray dogs! I went and scared them off home, but not before I had a serious stand off with one of the dogs. It had it's hackles up, tail down and growling some thing fierce. I was ready to shoot if it took even one step closer to me. I think it was scared cause I had my ASAT leafy suit on and didn't know what the heck I was. It choose to run, wich was a good idea. I never saw any deer after the dogs came through. Toward the evening at around 4:20, a fox came by. I had read either here or some where that you can call them in by "kissing" the back of your thumb knuckle. I thought "what the heck" and gave it a try when the Fox was about 20 yards away. I figured he'd stop, look, and take off. He stopped allright. then he want into total stalking mode and quickly came right at me and closed the gap to about 8 yards! I was pretty suprised it worked. He stood there and checked me out for a good 30 seconeds and then dodge back into the blackberries. It was beautiful and certainly that's the closest I have ever been to a wild fox. I think it was still young, as I have seen bigger ones. It's fur was gorgous.
Oh and earlier in the day I had a immature Redtail fly right over me and I got a good view of it. I got to watch it fly around and make it's call for the rest of the afternoon. To top it all off it was a beautiful sunny day for once.
I took some pictures and I put them together in a slide show on photobucket. Hope this works...
Topic: A magic day in the deer woods (Read 563 times)
