Live from the Stand 2018

Live from the stand Friday edition...

About midweek I saw today was going to be an E wind. I have 1 stand I have been waiting on a wind like this here at home because it blows my scent off over a big hollow so I took today off. 5:15 AM I started toward my stand moving as slowly and silently as I could. The first half of the walk went without issue. I could hear a buck fight going on about 100 yards to the east and they were getting after it...I hoped one would come my way... About the midway point I heard a deer bouncing on my left to the west. It seems it stayed with me most of the rest of the walk.

I finally got to my point I leave the interior road and have a 75 yard straight walk to my stand...mind you everything here is solid woods so the leaves are noisy and I haven’t been to this stand in over ba month. I move as silently as I can but the leaves are unforgiving. With 20 yards to go I hear something running in the leaves just past my stand. I assume a deer so I carry on. As I get to my stand I realize I have walked into a pack of coyotes as they turn on with barking and yipping from less than 30 yards. I can hear them running around and they just will not leave. I make note that if any are in sight when it gets light enough to see that I will shoot it/them.

With coyotes at less than 50 yards carrying on I figure they will have to leave before any deer may show up. Well behind my stand is SE and I hear a deer plodding my way headed toward the coyotes. The deer walks directly under me and pops out in front of me and it is the youngest of my hit list bucks at 4.5 yrs old. He is a solid 10 point and I put the scope on him at 10 yards...and then I let him walk slowly away stopping every few steps browsing with coyotes 40 yards from him carrying on...I figured a buck like that with no fear earned another year here on our place...
 
Live from the stand Friday edition...

About midweek I saw today was going to be an E wind. I have 1 stand I have been waiting on a wind like this here at home because it blows my scent off over a big hollow so I took today off. 5:15 AM I started toward my stand moving as slowly and silently as I could. The first half of the walk went without issue. I could hear a buck fight going on about 100 yards to the east and they were getting after it...I hoped one would come my way... About the midway point I heard a deer bouncing on my left to the west. It seems it stayed with me most of the rest of the walk.

I finally got to my point I leave the interior road and have a 75 yard straight walk to my stand...mind you everything here is solid woods so the leaves are noisy and I haven’t been to this stand in over ba month. I move as silently as I can but the leaves are unforgiving. With 20 yards to go I hear something running in the leaves just past my stand. I assume a deer so I carry on. As I get to my stand I realize I have walked into a pack of coyotes as they turn on with barking and yipping from less than 30 yards. I can hear them running around and they just will not leave. I make note that if any are in sight when it gets light enough to see that I will shoot it/them.

With coyotes at less than 50 yards carrying on I figure they will have to leave before any deer may show up. Well behind my stand is SE and I hear a deer plodding my way headed toward the coyotes. The deer walks directly under me and pops out in front of me and it is the youngest of my hit list bucks at 4.5 yrs old. He is a solid 10 point and I put the scope on him at 10 yards...and then I let him walk slowly away stopping every few steps browsing with coyotes 40 yards from him carrying on...I figured a buck like that with no fear earned another year here on our place...
You're having some action-packed sits this year Okie! If it was me I think i'd be a little nervous with a pack of yotes circling me while on the ground. After I got in the stand though I'd be looking to do some serious pest control!!

I also am looking forward to an E wind tomorrow morning. Gives me a chance to hunt the pasture side of the farm. Good luck today!
 
Wind, wind, wind ! At least for three months out of the year everything hangs on wind direction. Even more so if you coyote and hog hunt during the "off season". (What off season ?:)) Most of my stands are set up for SE winds, N or NW winds and it's extremely disappointing to have to stay home with all the SW winds we've been getting the last few weeks. I looked at the forecast for next week though, and Monday and Tuesday are gonna make me happy if they know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, I'm working around the house and moving stuff (from the place I sold) back home. :(
 
Wind, wind, wind ! At least for three months out of the year everything hangs on wind direction. Even more so if you coyote and hog hunt during the "off season". (What off season ?:)) Most of my stands are set up for SE winds, N or NW winds and it's extremely disappointing to have to stay home with all the SW winds we've been getting the last few weeks. I looked at the forecast for next week though, and Monday and Tuesday are gonna make me happy if they know what they're talking about. Meanwhile, I'm working around the house and moving stuff (from the place I sold) back home. :(
I am making due with SE wind right now...someone once said “the best wind is the one that is just **almost** wrong”...
 
I love my neighbors...when they drive through the county road section that runs through part of our land they like to lay on the horn the whole way...nice folks...
 
Are you sure you havent accidentally wondered over to my place?

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Nah, the deer will just look up for a moment and go back to what they were doing...silly people always think they have it figured out...lol
 
Doing it again now...3rd time in 20 minutes...
Does Oklahoma have a law about hunter harassment? I know Texas and Mississippi have it. It is YOUR RIGHT to hunt!!! I had a similar situation. It only took a couple times filming what and when they would do it. Turned it over to the GW and pestered the snot out of him to do his job. It took one trip and telling them its against the law and the next time would result in a fine for them to stop. It was more of an annoyance on my part then the deer actually caring about it.

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Busted a few on the walk in this morning right at shooting light. I was about 40 yards from the stand. I'm trying to look at the positive side of it because that is the first time I've busted deer at any of my setups, so at least they're staying on the property.

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Final day of general firearm either sex season not to be confused with the “Holiday antlerless season” coming up that for some reason is usually worse in our remaining bucks than the 2 weeks we just came off of... they give the woods 2 weeks off from gun hunting which is just enough to relax the bucks and then an “antlerless” hunter sees one and shoots it “because I didn’t get a buck during rifle season so they owe me one”...

I sat on our deer lease yesterday and saw 6 does. That was the only day I hunted this season that I did not see an antlered buck. A large tornado just missed our camp down there Friday night and it was a wild ride in the camper that night...google Nov 30th Tenkiller Tornado...

I came home and sat middle of our property this morning and saw 3 bucks and 5 does here in the woods. Still some half hearted chasing going on but what I found really interesting was a cam card pull showing all of the top bucks using our place are still alive and kicking!!! Woot-woot! I did hear a fairly close “pop” from a gun this morning and afterwards some hollering that I couldn’t make out between a couple guys that sounded like they were looking for it...

I’m back on the same stand 10-15 MPH West wind which is not ideal but is what I have to work with...closing out 2018 rifle season...
 
Glad you survived the tornado, drove through proctor and there were dead cows everywhere, looked like a movie.

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This morning I’m behind my house on a not-so-great wheat plot. I had two does and a fawn enter the far end and feed across quickly, followed by a decent buck. He only paused at the edge and was behind some limbs. Gotta go.
 
I spent the best 5 weeks of the 2018 deer season doing volunteer work in Texas, fixing houses that were flooded from hurricane Harvey. So when I finally got back to PA to do some serious hunting I settled for the first nice buck that I saw, this 140" nine point. I was totally surprised that he was only 3 1/2 years old, what would he have looked like with another year...
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