Hunted for five sits in Rhinebeck last week. First night at about 5:30pm, a small six walked along stone wall making scrapes and tearing up saplings. He was about 45 yards from me. I was sitting on scrapes that I was thinking were made by him previously. Second night I got in the woods and saw 4 white flags waving to me as I arrived at the stand! Darn it, they were moving earlier than I thought. Third night the weirdest thing happened. A HUGE flock of Starlings decided it was time to get together in the trees and they were making a deafining sound that made turkeys run and squirrels hide. It was amazing on how many there were! All at once there was a giant swooshing of wings and they were gone, but so was everything else. Then came night four. I had twelve turks all around and making a racket. All became silent and that old familiar sound of crunch, crunch, crunch came to my ears. I look over my left shoulder and here comes a nice buck walking the scrapes I was set up on. As he walked torward me, I lifted my bow when his head was behind trees. Here he comes, closer, closer and I can see he is a nice 8 about ear wide. He gets 15 yards from me and I draw letting the cedar fly. WHACK... right into a maple sapling as thick as my pointer and middle finger! I never saw the darn thing. He didnt really run but never gave me another "ok to shoot" shot. Oh well, It was cool and saw some nice deer. Those deer were really out early and my buddy said he had that same buck chasing on two does a couple of days ago
Topic: NY southern zone (Read 13502 times)
