5 Pines Farm Whitetails 2014

[Huntrdfk]

Nice job Jim, and great recovery too. It always amazes me too when I go back to a blood trail in the day time, always something to learn doing that.

David

[Greg Szalewski]

Nice doe Jim. Good shooting. Hope you can get back to using the Little Tree.

[Possum Head]

Good job and hope your pond gets wet.

[CoachBGriff]

Nice work Jim!  

I hope this cool, wet weather brings some antlered deer your (and therefore ours too) way soon!

[doubleo]

Congrats Jim! Beautiful doe!  

[Chuck Janssen]

Congrats Jim. What a great suprise.Just home from work and had to check and see how you did. Very nice doe. Very cool tonight here. Hope it gets your deer moving.

[JLeMieux]

Congrats on the first of hopefully many!

[South MS Bowhunter]

[Whip]

Cool!  Beautiful doe and very effective shot.  Blood trailing can sometimes be a challenge, but that girl was yours from the moment you drew back.
Good job!

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

outing #20 Back to the Homestead stand.

I last hunted this stand on 9/20 and got rained out. Same thing happen this am.

Since I have to drive the 4 wheeler, I left exceptionally early and was in the tree by 5:45. Started raining by 6 am. I hung in there and the rain stopped after about an hour. But at 8 am it started to pour so I headed to the yurt to hang wet clothes and drink hot coffee.

While visibility has improved here , I am still uncertain if this spot will work. Once again the wind seemed to change directions every few minutes. There is deer sign everywhere, so I will probably sit here one more time on a day with no rain in the forecast!

[tracker1]

Congrats Jim, I look forward to reading your hunting adventures everyday.  I can't wait to you see you holding a good buck next.  Shoot Straight and be Safe

Burton

[Hopewell Tom]

Does Jayne know you called her old...?

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

outing #21 logging road ladder

Tom perhaps I'd better edit that last post !

I got up early today with every intention of heading way up and over the top. I wanted to hunt near a bedding area on the East facing slope above the tarred county road. But I could feel something starting in the base of my throat and a cough coming on.

So I quickly changed plans and decided to hunt close to home in the event I couldn't stay quiet.

Last winter I noticed how heavy this trail was used by deer coming up from the food plot behind the farm house. So A ladder that I was unhappy with was relocated here.
 
 red arrow wind, blue is normal deer movement and star is deer sighted.

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

The deer trail crosses the logging road and then runs parallel to it just 12 yards N of the stand.

It is hard to see in this photo due to all of the newly fallen leaf clutter. The photo also doesn't show the steepness of the hill either. See how those oaks bend due to the ridge? It is hard to find a tree that will grow straight when the hill is this steep.
 

This morning was a lesson in bird sounds. It was very foggy and all around me the birds were very noisy. Crows near and far trashed talked one another. Two cock pheasants were crowing challenges. Roosted turkeys some where up the ridge, made soft tree yelps and rustling feather noises. Cardinals, Blue jays and Hawks cried out as well. An occasional distant moo cow sounded off too. It would have made a great audio recording.

Since this was the 1st time this stand was ever sat, I had concerns as to how the wind would behave here . I am happy to report that as long as there is some wind, my scent seems to travel up the bluff behind me. As soon as the wind would quit, my scent indicators would drift directly down onto the trail.

At 8 am I heard Jayne rattle the garbage cans and say something to one of our cats. It was then I picked up a little movement down on the logging road. A doe stood there listening to Jayne. The house is a short 300 or 400 yards below.

After a few minutes the doe went back to foraging for Acorns as there are lots of nice oaks on this hill side. Soon a 2nd doe appeared as well. I watched them feed and then they turned and walked up off the logging road and onto to the trail I am sitting over. They headed away from me to bed.

I stayed another hour but did not see any more deer.

So, I think this stand is going to work as is. I may carry up a portable hang on and place it slightly above the ladder. This ladder is an old one with a narrow foot grate which makes it difficult to shoot from. The portable with it's wide platform will allow me to shoot in a safer and more comfortable stance.

Here is the stand set up
 

The short walk home
 

[ron w]

Sounds like Jayne should rattle the cans on cue to get deer moving.......lol!

[bowhunterfrompast]

Congrats      Great thread          

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

It rained on and off through out the day, and it is just pouring now. Wind is to switch to the NW and increase to 15 to 20 by dawn. The forecast high for tomorrow is just 49!

What rotten timing. I have to leave for an out of state wedding Saturday morning. Who in their right mind gets married during bow season!

I skipped his sisters wedding last October and paid the price. So off I go. If the weather is too nasty to hunt tomorrow, I will at least get up and get some photos of the new swimming hole.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I hear its supposed to be crummy all weekend. hope that makes the wedding more tolerable.

Looking forward to your gator pond pics.

[Chuck Janssen]

Never get tired with seeing pictures of your land, Jim..So did you sit tonight? raining hard here. Had to come past you. At least you are seeing deer. half the battle won.

[Tater John]

"Who in their right mind gets married during bow season!" My son!!?? Oct. 27th