Buckrub
10-21-2013, 05:02 PM
First time I've hunted at the wife's family farm since I was 28 or 29. First time to seriously hunt it at all.
Very impressed. 80 acres of prime hardwood, 3/4 of a mile behind the farmhouse. Other areas of trees bordered by fields. Rice, corn, and soybeans abound, by about 14 Gazillion Acres, all around me. I always thought there were not many deer there. Wrongamundo. Deer were there, and sign of many deer. I didn't really hunt hard, just wanted to get a lay of the land for a few days, see what's there, and hunt the spot I worked so hard on, in my new stand.
I saw 2 Sat morning, 4 Sat afternoon, and about 8 on Sunday. Deer were more skittish than I would have thought they'd be in a patch of hardwoods, and were NOT 'slipping' along. I coulda shot a doe, but didn't want to. I THINK I saw two bucks, but WHOOSH they went across my lane about 85 yards down, in a fast gait. Nothing behind them. Running quartering TO me so it wasn't me that spooked them. Dunno. No headgear jumped out at me, so no monsters, but I thought they were bucks. Big deer anyway.
So very upbeat about this spot. I need 4 more stands, and have 3 ladder stands that will work just fine. I am bordered by fields and by other areas that is hunted.......by folks I don't know. Last year I stayed in deer camp for the whole 5 week season, and I ain't doing that again. Bored with no deer, and Mama wasn't happy. So now I can leave camp, go to the farm, see Mama AND hunt........off and on. Best of all worlds.
Oh....on the way down there, I had a blowout on the trailer. US 63, about 4 miles north of Stuttgart. Barely enough room on shoulder to work, 2 lane road. Big trucks (it's harvest time) whooshing by. My leg would stick out into the highway if I wasn't careful. Lug nuts were put on by an Ape. A BIG Ape. I finally broke 'em loose, and the only jack was that sorry crap in the truck. I finally got it off, and the spare was on the carrier with a LOCK. I thought that key was in the truck but nothing worked. I looked and the lock was jimmied, or screwed up inside somehow. I did have a hammer (proving in one blow that the lock was worthless, and only slowed down and ticked off both me and some thief). Bam, and the spare is off. One old geezer stopped to help me, that's all. He was great. THANKS SIR!! But the spare wouldn't fit. Wheel not same??? I think in retrospect that we didn't have it jacked up enough, but maybe it doesn't fit. Anyway, I called 2 places (all that there are in Stuttgart) and neither had a truck available. So I took one spare with the blowed up tire (man, was it blown up, tread falling off of it, etc. LOOKED fine treadwear wise. But old and a 4 ply cheapo tire. Lasted a LONG time though) and went in, bought two tires, had one put on the rim...........went back out to where I had dropped the trailer, and put it on. Hooked up trailer, went back to the store, and had the 2nd one put on. 8 ply good trailer tires. So I'm fine, but that was a heck of an ordeal for an old man.
I DO need a 6X16 trailer, though. I have too much b/s to carry to get it all in my little 5X10.
I take Mama to the airport very early Wed morning.........and then come home and repack and head to camp for rest of the week's ML season. Ends 10/27.....
Modern gun opens 11/09 for five weeks.
But now, I have two nice places to hunt. One of 'em even has a few deer!!!!:bj:bj
Very impressed. 80 acres of prime hardwood, 3/4 of a mile behind the farmhouse. Other areas of trees bordered by fields. Rice, corn, and soybeans abound, by about 14 Gazillion Acres, all around me. I always thought there were not many deer there. Wrongamundo. Deer were there, and sign of many deer. I didn't really hunt hard, just wanted to get a lay of the land for a few days, see what's there, and hunt the spot I worked so hard on, in my new stand.
I saw 2 Sat morning, 4 Sat afternoon, and about 8 on Sunday. Deer were more skittish than I would have thought they'd be in a patch of hardwoods, and were NOT 'slipping' along. I coulda shot a doe, but didn't want to. I THINK I saw two bucks, but WHOOSH they went across my lane about 85 yards down, in a fast gait. Nothing behind them. Running quartering TO me so it wasn't me that spooked them. Dunno. No headgear jumped out at me, so no monsters, but I thought they were bucks. Big deer anyway.
So very upbeat about this spot. I need 4 more stands, and have 3 ladder stands that will work just fine. I am bordered by fields and by other areas that is hunted.......by folks I don't know. Last year I stayed in deer camp for the whole 5 week season, and I ain't doing that again. Bored with no deer, and Mama wasn't happy. So now I can leave camp, go to the farm, see Mama AND hunt........off and on. Best of all worlds.
Oh....on the way down there, I had a blowout on the trailer. US 63, about 4 miles north of Stuttgart. Barely enough room on shoulder to work, 2 lane road. Big trucks (it's harvest time) whooshing by. My leg would stick out into the highway if I wasn't careful. Lug nuts were put on by an Ape. A BIG Ape. I finally broke 'em loose, and the only jack was that sorry crap in the truck. I finally got it off, and the spare was on the carrier with a LOCK. I thought that key was in the truck but nothing worked. I looked and the lock was jimmied, or screwed up inside somehow. I did have a hammer (proving in one blow that the lock was worthless, and only slowed down and ticked off both me and some thief). Bam, and the spare is off. One old geezer stopped to help me, that's all. He was great. THANKS SIR!! But the spare wouldn't fit. Wheel not same??? I think in retrospect that we didn't have it jacked up enough, but maybe it doesn't fit. Anyway, I called 2 places (all that there are in Stuttgart) and neither had a truck available. So I took one spare with the blowed up tire (man, was it blown up, tread falling off of it, etc. LOOKED fine treadwear wise. But old and a 4 ply cheapo tire. Lasted a LONG time though) and went in, bought two tires, had one put on the rim...........went back out to where I had dropped the trailer, and put it on. Hooked up trailer, went back to the store, and had the 2nd one put on. 8 ply good trailer tires. So I'm fine, but that was a heck of an ordeal for an old man.
I DO need a 6X16 trailer, though. I have too much b/s to carry to get it all in my little 5X10.
I take Mama to the airport very early Wed morning.........and then come home and repack and head to camp for rest of the week's ML season. Ends 10/27.....
Modern gun opens 11/09 for five weeks.
But now, I have two nice places to hunt. One of 'em even has a few deer!!!!:bj:bj