MISSOURI LEASE HUNT 2010

[Terry Green]

No worries Charlie...the zip line was great, but lead to horseback riding...got home late....

Now after a bit longer here comes another doe and a fawn up the right side woodline just out into the beans....we also have doe tags BTW....and the lead doe turned in right on que.  Once in range but quartering to me, she senced something amiss...and her and the little one backed out of the gap and continued up the right side woodline in the beans.

Cool...6 deer, and all in bow range....great stand I'd say....but there were more on the way....

[Shaun]

Too funny Charlie waiting for the slow tellers. Great read so far, keep it coming guys.

[Terry Green]

OK...now back behind me again, I hear yet another deer,...this one pausing for long periods before slow one step advances......once again, he's in bow range but I can't see squat for that thick cedar...which is probably a good thing...keeps me from giving myself away.

I'm set up for him to walk out of the woods on my right and cross the gap and into the woods on the other side via a trail by two cedars....yet he pops out on my left and comes trotting...and my stand is on the left side as well....so this 8 pointer just trots by me at 4 yards and continues north only to pause for 30 seconds about 45 yards away from me as he searched left of him across the beans for something.....then onward north to dive into the wooded bay in the beans...

That makes 7, and all in bow range....but wait!...

A few minutes later I see two more bucks on the hill crest to my left working their way up to the bay.  One goes in and one cut across the bay into the upper strip I'm on the edge of.  It was now 9:16....and I'd been on point since before the sun popped over the horizon....5 bucks and 4 doe all spread out over the morning....what a great start!!!

   

[FerretWYO]

Thanks for putting up the yote pics Charlie.

[Mudd]

Is this gonna take long?....lol

It's really hard to get away from the computer just knowing the rest of the story might come at any time but I got some hunting to get done since no one else in my house will do it for me...lol

God bless,Mudd

[DRR324]

Ditto that Mudd.... I only work 8 hours a day- can't sit here waiting any longer!  Headed home to grab the bow and my 12yo son- he needs to have something walk into one of his arrows....
I'll have to check back in on this NOVEL after the hunt.....  

[Terry Green]

Sorry guys....was gone 5 days, and got back to family outings...Charlie stayed two more days and I'm sure he's honey doing as well.....

The 1st evening Charlie and I set up a lock on in a favorable area.  Randy and I went and scouted it and jumped 2 bedded bucks in the area, and found tons of fresh tracks and acorn hulls along with a intersection of well used trails.  This this would be Charlies stand for the evening, and I'm sure he's got pics of those beautiful views.

Randy went back to the huge cottonwood stand and I went to the 'pallet' stand which was a pallet set on top of a big brushpile at an open gate to the neighbor's property that was a bedding area.  I bet this stand was real busy a week prior for some time back when the beans were still green.  The trail coming out of the bedding area was like an interstate....

[Terry Green]

Views from the pallet stand.....
   

   

   

[Terry Green]

I saw nothing...as I almost figured as the beans were all dried up and the deer were on acorns, but I figured I'd have a great place to glass the hardwood edges for future hunts.....

I hunted the salt stand the next morn......    

   

After I felt like the morning movement was drawing to a close, I went for a stalk/scouting venture....many beautiful pics to follow...

[Terry Green]

   

   

   

   

   

[Charlie Lamb]

Good pics T and the pallet stand pics bring back some memories.

As mentioned I finally got a stand set up in a nice area with all kinds of sign showing. Trails, and poo, and worked over acorns and rubs... lots of rubs.
   

I watched a very small spike buck make this rub one evening. It was a little surprising as I doubted he had enough "rough" to his tiny spikes to make a rub. He must have been at it for 10 minutes.
   
     

This rub kept me coming back to the stand at the far end of the property.
   

Actually it was tough for my old bones to make it back to that stand location and at first I didn't very much.
My knees are cursed by arthritis and the long walk in wasn't pleasant at all.
I made one trip in on a four wheeler that Kenny loaned us to get the stand put up and one more trip to hunt.

After that I laid off for a day or two because I felt that the noise of the four wheeler coming and going might bugger things.

In time, though, the beans were harvested and that made getting in with my truck an option and it's much quieter.

[K.S.TRAPPER]

This is great!!        

Tracy  

[Charlie Lamb]

Here are a few pics taken from the stand I hung in the back corner.

Looking up the "ditch"...  

This trail came in from my left and intersected two other trails that passed on either side of my stand tree.
   

Here's one of the trails that ran the length of the timber.
   

[Charlie Lamb]

The first time I sat that stand I had two bucks approach from way up in the upper left hand corner of the first picture.
They split before getting halfway to me and one came right down the ditch (right where the green arrow in the picture is) while the other came straight down the trail in the last picture.

They fiddled around the area feeding for the longest time, but were too small to be of any interest and not even close to being legal.

In time they alerted me to the presence of 3 does which had slipped in behind me while I was watching the show.
Unfortunately as I was preparing to shoot the closest doe the young boys got froggy and ran them off.

I would see deer each time I sat that stand with only one evening when I didn't. I never did see a big buck there, but was sure one was around.

[kennym]

Charlie, that looks like a main beam in the bottom of the next to last pic!  

[Charlie Lamb]

I wish!!!!!!!

[doug77]

more please

[BMN]

Great story guys. Really enjoying it!

[Terry Green]

The next morning I hunted Charlie's Lock on....he wanted to try something different.  That stand we set is a really cool set up and the anticipation runs high with the beauty of the terrain and the scattering of trails, rubs and missing acorns along with new freshly fell ones.

I had a little forky come in and bed down just out of bow range after grazing on sapling leaves.  Still was a great morning hunt besides that only sighting.

[Gatekeeper]

I wish Paul Harvey had gone on this hunt then we could get the rest of the story...but he's dead isn't he?