I decided to sit in the stand right near where all camtracker photo's were taken. Bright moon out, no problem walking to the stands. Fairly quiet morning, light south breeze that fluttered around some. About 8:00 am I imagine, a fine young 8 point showed himself. As he came in I'd decided not to shoot. The stand is perfect, it placed his path of travel about 7-8 steps from the base of my tree, and he had to go in such a way as to place a huge cottonwood between us. Very nice in case a shooter buck follows the same path.
Anyway, he caught wind, but didn't spook and as he stalked away, I caught myself thinking "hey, that buck is a pretty nice buck!" Too late for second guessing!
This I think is the buck - hard to be sure though
It was terribly warm this afternoon, low 80 tems. I hunted a stand that sits to the far west of the farm we hunt. I've never had much luck in it, maybe tonight would be different? It has a better chance at a big muley coming through than any other stand we have up.
Even hunting with just a longsleeve T was hot but I had an entertaining afternoon. A group of 9-10 muley's came out way out on the fields early on. I was sitting on a nice bubbling/rolling/gurlging creek which gave me a bit of cool every now and again. A skunk came out, then another and they stayed the whole afternoon across the creek. Turkey's came flying in at maybe 4 pm, landing right across and near the skunks. They lit, and were absolutely motionless for maybe 3-4 minutes, then started talking to each other. A larger group came out later, where the muley's were.
At 5 pm or so, a buck came along the opposite creek. Not a big one, but for fun I grunted, got his attention and here he came.
He was 4 on one side, and the other side looked to be broken right past the eyegaurd. he was a 18-19" wide buck if he had a full side, no tine length, maybe a 3 1/2 year old, not a "steer" body of a mature whitetail. he came to the base of my tree, all around me ... pretty cool to be that close you know? He ever worked a scrape for me. Hawks came by frequently, another group of muley's way out in the fields and near dark 2 coyotes barked/howled to each other from one side of the creek to the other. I got to see a great horned owl light on a telephone pole as I walked out.
Lots of game saw, no shooter bucks. Activity for deer is just so slow with the warm temps :(
This photo was taken from the stand I hunted tonight a few days ago
I don't know where I'll hunt in the morning, the wind will dictate which I choose.
Topic: 2009 Kansas hunt - Sunday morning tag filled (page 3) (Read 1507 times)
