outing #29 Sure thing.
I was unable to get out this am due to early morning commitments. We had one of those special fall days. With early morning cool temps followed by bright blue skies and a light breeze out of the NW. All though I had sat this stand two times this season I had not sat in it for an evening hunt. You need a NW wind to do that and I got just what the doctor ordered today.
In the stand by 4:15 and enjoying the nice weather it wasn't long and i looked down towards the hay bale and saw two fawns and their mom down in the beans. The fawns were racing around having a grand old time. At 6:05 just after checking my watch I looked across the valley just in time to see a big buck come out of the 23. It has to be every bit of 400 yards across and when I can head bones with the naked eye at that distance, its a good buck! Too bad I had neglected to bring the binos with!
He stood on the mowed fire break for a long time looking things over . Then once he was sure the coast was clear he trotted right down the mowed trail. I lost sight of him as he hit the road but it wasn't a minute later and he appeared in the beans. He immediately went over to check out the doe and she took off like a bullet. He wandered around the field for a bit then I lost sight of him as he rounded the corner . His travel path is the red line in picture below.
I left the hay bale marker on so you can see where he was in relation to the bale. I wish I had been in the bale tonight to see how good of a buck he is.
As the evening slowly faded I saw three more deer in the prairie grass across the valley. Then One appeared on the road and finally another one in the apple trees about 30 yards below my spot. But it drifted off and the day ended with nothing too close.