Miss Hope and Faith are sporting endless loop strings and this is my first time ever using them. NO STRETCH ! I am now wondering why everyone inlcuding me has used flemish twist ? Can an endless be twisted some to adjsut brace ? Looks as is you could ? Some of the flemish strings I had in the past required almost constant attention for brace height changes.
Wed we are headin to one of Mason's favorite trees..... " The Toothpick ", as it is known. He calls it the toothpick because even with his Summit Viper adjusted as small as it will go he can still only climb about 12 feet up before the tree tapers off even smaller. . We even took Uncle Robbie Tattoo to that hollow last year but wouldn't dare let him climb it, haha ! Had to find a oak about 100yds away as big as a washtub around to get his Summit Titan in. The, " Toothpick", has been a great producer in the past especially during good acorn years. This hollow is what forest managers call a , "SMZ " or streamside management zone where the loggers cannot log within 50 yds of a creek. All around the, " Toothpick " is a jungle of a 10 yr old clearcut where the deer bed. The hollow that was not touched is now the deer interstate !
Last season we waited about 10 days after season was open before attempting to hunt the, " Toothpick " , waiting on temp drop and correct W or SW wind. We slipped in for a evening hunt and heard deer blowing as we hooked up our Vipers to our North ? We had a SSW wind and the deer we not supposed to be to our North ? Oh well, deer don't read or watch the weather channel.... In year's past the deer always came from the S or W to us. After only being settled in for about 10 minutes here comes a NICE 9 point, looking for the source of the scent ! I could not believe what I was seeing ! He was creeping along, looking all over for us. By the time I got stood and ready he was directly under me and all the small maple saplings around my tree. RATS, I knew we should have done more lane trimming ! I was worried about getting only 1 lung with the straight down shot angle and was also thinking about him presenting Mason a better shot, who was only 40 yds away in the direction this 9 point was heading. Should have seen the look on Mason's face when he happen to look my way and I was standing at about 1/4 draw only 10 minutes after we climbed the tree, PRICELESS ! He was facing his tree to look my way and was looking around the wrong side when the 9 point finally got a good whiff of me and trotted straight to Mason. By the time Mason swapped sides of the tree and started to get to half draw the 9 point smelled him too and bolted about 40 yds to safety..... He stood there for a while deciding what had happened, then dropped his head to the white oak acorns under him and slowly fed off. So close, yet so far ! Never saw him the rest of the season and the deer developed the exact opposite travel pattern as year's past. We might hunt it Wed on North winds instead of South since that was what they were doing last year ? Wouldn't it be nice if deer always followed the script we have laid out in our pea brains !
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