Well boys been washing cloths, puttin away gear, visiting with family and cuttin up deer all day.
Here is how our hunt went.
Last November I informed my son and son-in-law that with or without them I wanted to go somewhere other than Arkansas on a bowhunting trip. So, if they wanted to go they had better get their wives used to the idea a little ahead of time. We started looking at places to go and critters to hunt. I had been odering lams from Kenny for a while and had never paid any attention to his lease property on his website but now it clicked. I asked if he had any spots open and he put me in line for one of the lease weeks and when the dates were determined we chose our week.
It was all we could think or talk about all winter, spring and summer. Just the three of us hunting for a week. Well, as things happen, my son took a new job teaching school in Hot Springs and could not go. Darrell and I almost canceled the trip. We decided to go anyway and hope my son could go on another trip with us next year.
We arrived at Kenny's and after unpacking and getting the grand tour. We put on our camo and went to the stands that Kenny had already set up for us. He called them "observation" stands but both stands we sat in were on active deer runs.
Darrell hunted a stand that afternoon Kenny called the shakey stand because the tree was a small tree and shook a little. He saw two doe but could not get a shot. I think he was a litle surprised to see deer this quickly. I sat in a stand on the east side of the property in a small draw between a bean field and an old grown up grass field. I didn't see anything that afternooon.
The plan for Saturday was to hunt the same stands we sat in Friday afternoon in the morning and do some scouting and put up some stands of our own to hunt Sat. evening. I saw two doe moving across the grass field about 50-60 yards away. No shot for me but they gave me ideas about where I might move for the next day.
Darrells morning was a little more exciting then mine. I am goig to let him chime in and tell his side of the "close encounter"
By the way, my son-in-law is a recent convert to traditional bowhunting. He had his first traditional kill last fall on his property in Paragould. He,like many others, can't believe how much more enjoyable hunting with trad equipment can be.
I'll be back tomorrow with some pictures. Our excitment is just about to start.
Topic: kennym Lease Hunt 2011 (4 DEER TOTAL DOWN) (Read 2663 times)
