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Morning Hunt
The weather forecast was grim. It was going to be warm again today, highs in
the low sixties and very windy. I decided to hunt the same stand as the first
morning. But due to the heat, and the high winds I saw very little. Two bucks
chased a doe out of the prairie and into the woods next to my stand. The buck
was a small 6 pt and the other buck was a forky. This was at 8:10 AM and I saw
them again at 10:30 AM, but those were the only deer seen this morning. The
weather was against us.
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Buck 1 - 10:30 AM
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This buck was seen earlier in
the morning, he was a dink. Here he is again at 10:30 but due to the high
winds he was extremely nervous and never got much closer than 40 yards.
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My wind detector says it all.
Hunting was going to suck today. |
Afternoon Hunt
The forecast called for winds to diminish in the afternoon. This was good to
hear, but by the conditions at 2:30 PM, it was hard to believe. I climbed into
my afternoon stand, which was a cottonwood tree in the middle of a long strip
of Tamaracks. When Kent and I were walking to the stand, we could have sworn
we heard a buck grunt. We shrugged it off. As he drove away a small forky got
up and slowly walked by my stand. I had the video camera ready and captured
him slinking through the trees - right under my stand. Just further proof that
the wind had them hunkered down. I had a doe and a spike buck show up at last
light, but other than that the day was slow.
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Buck 2 - 3:00 PM
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This small forky waited for
Kent's truck to drive by, then he got up and sneaked through the trees
past me. Seeing these forkies and small-racked bucks today made me homesick. |
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