Wgoodrich
November 15th, 2004, 01:14 PM
Yesterday after many of us have been chasing this bugger at least 3 years the farm owner John Fox that hunts with us invited me to hunt at daybreak yesterday. He said I got to hunt ! HE MADE ME GO YA KNOW ?
I hunted on one farms where we know of a nice buck, we also have been chasing, was being seen. John, yesterday, on a hunch, considering what hunting pressure would do in the nearby larger woods and river basins in the area, decided to hunt a small patch of his own woods behind his house.
I got a call about midmorning that he wanted me at his house right away, he just shot the biggest buck he ever shot and he has a wall full of trophy mounts he has been succesful of eating and mounting over the years. He gets just as excited now as in past decades of hunting when successful in a hunt. I got there and wow yes he got a nice buck.
He got both a buck and doe which is allowed in this area and had the buck hanging from his tractor. Below is a picture of his prize buck. His excited comment was that he would enjoy this buck three ways. First he harvested such a nice buck, second this buck was harvesting his corn, and third he gets some of his investment back from his crop loss when eating what ate his crops !
The woods is about 4 acres in size without another wooded area around for about a mile. This is what we are finding. Deer adapt to almost anything even hiding in plain sight in a huge open field. They are able to run any direction away from danger without danger being able to approach them. This is one way they adapt to hunting pressure. Now it seems that as soon as they hear the many hunter's truck doors closing when arriving opening day of the season they are leaving their normal large wooded areas going to obscure small patches of woods, or island in open fields, even hiding behind that little reseraunt in a small pond or wooded area within the city limits.
John's hunch paid off.
Yesterday at daybreak I was in a large woods along a river and saw not a creature stirring but three red squirrels and a field mouse. John was in his woods about 20 minutes total got his limit of deer for the season and was back at the house with a buck and a doe. He harvested this buck in his own 4 acre woods behind the barn that was enjoying the corn he planted this spring. By the way 6 does and one 6 point buck ran out into an open field from the same woods where they were originally bedded down with this big buck when his gun sounded off. They stayed in that open field for safety.
John's wife said she was helping him load his buck watching the smaller buck, being less dominate than the big bruser that normally bred the does, having the time of his life breeding one of those six does about 100 yards out in that open field while they were within sight of John and his wife loading that buck into his pickup truck. about 10 minutes after that buck was shot. Who said deer were not smart.
Smart thinking, John and Congrats !
Enjoy
Wg
http://www.selfhelpandmore.com/storage/sports/fox10pointer04.jpg
I hunted on one farms where we know of a nice buck, we also have been chasing, was being seen. John, yesterday, on a hunch, considering what hunting pressure would do in the nearby larger woods and river basins in the area, decided to hunt a small patch of his own woods behind his house.
I got a call about midmorning that he wanted me at his house right away, he just shot the biggest buck he ever shot and he has a wall full of trophy mounts he has been succesful of eating and mounting over the years. He gets just as excited now as in past decades of hunting when successful in a hunt. I got there and wow yes he got a nice buck.
He got both a buck and doe which is allowed in this area and had the buck hanging from his tractor. Below is a picture of his prize buck. His excited comment was that he would enjoy this buck three ways. First he harvested such a nice buck, second this buck was harvesting his corn, and third he gets some of his investment back from his crop loss when eating what ate his crops !
The woods is about 4 acres in size without another wooded area around for about a mile. This is what we are finding. Deer adapt to almost anything even hiding in plain sight in a huge open field. They are able to run any direction away from danger without danger being able to approach them. This is one way they adapt to hunting pressure. Now it seems that as soon as they hear the many hunter's truck doors closing when arriving opening day of the season they are leaving their normal large wooded areas going to obscure small patches of woods, or island in open fields, even hiding behind that little reseraunt in a small pond or wooded area within the city limits.
John's hunch paid off.
Yesterday at daybreak I was in a large woods along a river and saw not a creature stirring but three red squirrels and a field mouse. John was in his woods about 20 minutes total got his limit of deer for the season and was back at the house with a buck and a doe. He harvested this buck in his own 4 acre woods behind the barn that was enjoying the corn he planted this spring. By the way 6 does and one 6 point buck ran out into an open field from the same woods where they were originally bedded down with this big buck when his gun sounded off. They stayed in that open field for safety.
John's wife said she was helping him load his buck watching the smaller buck, being less dominate than the big bruser that normally bred the does, having the time of his life breeding one of those six does about 100 yards out in that open field while they were within sight of John and his wife loading that buck into his pickup truck. about 10 minutes after that buck was shot. Who said deer were not smart.
Smart thinking, John and Congrats !
Enjoy
Wg
http://www.selfhelpandmore.com/storage/sports/fox10pointer04.jpg
