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Author Topic: Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains  (Read 817 times)

Offline Soonerlongbow

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Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains
« on: September 30, 2020, 09:00:04 PM »
Good luck ladies and gentlemen! Looking forward to lots of Sooner deer in the coming months, hopefully even some Boomer Booners!
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Re: Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2020, 11:42:18 AM »
Seen two good bucks, and several does. Unfortunately they were all through some  wild plum scrub brush.the smaller of the two bucks I was able to get a picture of after he bounced off back onto private land, standing on the wheat field. Seen him work his way off the wheat, then down towards the fence row and disappeared on me for 20min or so. He kept working his way towards me but wouldn’t commit to continuing down the fence line. Instead he turn towards the lake behind me, taking him towards my entry trail. He stopped short of my tracks but as I was trying to find a hole in the brush to snake an arrow through, I felt the wind hit the back of my neck and the jig was up. He was 8/9pts and probably 19” spread with long spiky G2s, 3.5yo or so & around 140# on the hoof.

As I was thinking about how to get to the are he crossed the fence the reeds along the dried up lake shore began to shimmy and shake. I had scared up a decent pig out there just feet away from where they are, and thought it might have been him. (Luckily this place isn’t under the hog hunting ban.  :goldtooth: ) To my surprise an old gray doe and a yearling busted out behind me and up the small hill behind me. I knew they didn’t smell me, so what scared them? It was Spiky’s dad! Mirror image of his rack except BIGGER! Everything was BIGGER! 175# deer in Oklahoma are not uncommon, but they are not predominant either. I’d estimate a couple inches outside his ears and thiccc. He was quartering to me staring behind me/through me in my ghillie suit and the rising sun behind me at around 7yds with his vitals covered in plum twigs. Lost this staring contest as well.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2020, 02:41:27 PM by Soonerlongbow »
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Re: Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2020, 11:44:21 AM »
Plums

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Re: Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2020, 12:05:22 PM »
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Re: Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2020, 01:47:52 PM »
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Re: Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plains
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2020, 02:36:02 PM »
So the plan is to go back out to the same place this afternoon, but to sit on the opposite side of the plum thicket & to bring my Ghost Blind out with me. I’ve also been watching a doe and yearling on the opposite bank that comes out to feed on the new grasses from the lake drying up. The reeds along that side are a little thicker and have nooks that would be perfect for setting up the Ghost Blind in, and put the sun behind trees and not shining onto the mirror. Guess I’ll play the wind and see how it goes.

Tentative plan is for my hunting partner with his recurve and I to both take our canoe/yak’s out Monday morning and try to box them in on the direction off the wheat field.
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