I got sick on the way back and have been slow to post. My experiences were like many others, some days covered up with deer, a few hunts just had a couple come in.
First afternoon our guide Robert dropped me off only about 100 yards inside the gate way up in a double high ladder stand. The feeders were set to daylight savings time and went off at 3 and 3:30. I wish they all were as it seems the deer don't care about the time, just feed. If I have my days right I had a few does and fawns come in and although I'd forgotten about it I ended up having a shot at a mature doe standing broadside to me in front of the feeder. I've been there before so I drew back as slowly and noiselessly as I could, however on the subatomic level there must have been a slight amount of friction between some quarks and a Higgs-boson as the matriarch blew up at the minimal transfer of energy and ruined my shot opportunity. They milled around and left but right at dark a spotted hog came in to vacuum up the remnants of corn. Just as it edged into the moonlight lit shooting lane Robert showed up. The hog darted to the left giving me an outline shot but I had lost depth perception and loosed a hail mary over its head.
Next morning had me in the same stand with the feeders off at 6 and 6:30 with deer coming in before light. Eventually had 4-6 does and then a nice mature 9-10 pointer (5 on one side and four on the other with a split main beam at the end, probably count as 10). Then a mature 8 came in about as the 10 was moving into range. The 10 ran him off several times and almost offered me a shot. At about 9 AM a chain saw lit up about 150 yards away, they all looked in that direction and took off, end of hunt.
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