| After our arrival at
10 pm on Friday night, we stopped at the Country
Store in Cotulla to register for the Los Cazadores
contest, hoping to at the very least shoot a doe
that might qualify for a jacket, as up until then,
there had been no doe weighed in the archery
division. We drove to the farm and dropped
off the trailer at the barn and then out to set up
Casey's Swivel Limb, which was already buckled to
the tree, but not set up, and then to the edge of
the pear flat to set up a tripod for Glenn to hunt
on Saturday morning. There was a heavy mist
in the air, and by the time we finished we were
all soaked and cold. It was 12:30 before we
finally made it to the Motel LaSalle, where we
were "camping." The warm shower
alone was worth the $30 night!
The alarm sounded early this morning after a
late night. It is only about a five minute
drive to the farm from the motel. We
unloaded the four wheeler and dressed in our Brush
Country camouflage at the portable building at the
barn, then headed out to our stands.
Glenn and Casey too the four wheeler to their
stands, as the road was too muddy to drive the
pickup. I took the pickup to the edge of the
fence north of the Finger and walked the rest of
the way, probably close to a half mile. I
attached my Sky Hook treesteps to the lag bolts
that I had previously screwed into the tree as I
ascended to the Gametamer. I settled in and
waited anxiously for daylight to arrive, knowing
that this would be a hotbed of deer activity.
By 9:00, I had still seen nothing other than a
pair of doe over a hundred yards away.
Talking to Casey and Glenn on my FRS radio, I
found out that action was slow for them as well,
other than a few does and a small buck that Casey
mangaed to walk to within 75 yards before they
disappeared.
We met back up at the barn. We grabbed a
bite to eat, then drove back out to find a couple
of new locations. We drove over to the pear
flat along the high fence and found a place to set
Casey's 7' tripod 20 yards off the road.
There was alos a heavily used trail behind where
the deer walked to and from the pear flat.
Casey had found a well used crossing under an
interior fence near the corner where the high
fence turns back south and meets up with our fence
line and a neighboring property. Glenn decided to
set us his PT200 ICE blind just across the
interior fence overlooking the crossing, hoping to
ambush a deer as it came off the pear flat.
Casey decided that he wanted to hunt the point
for the evening hunt, but since there was a heavy
mist in the air, he preferred to do so from the
comfort of an ICE Blind. We drove out to the
point and set up Kevin Johnson's GH500 in the
middle of a thick yaupon thicket.
The blind
was very well concealed, and offered good shots to
the areas from where all of the animals seen from
the point on our last trip had walked.
We were set for the evening hunt. The
light mist was not heavy enough to keep deer
movement down, and we anticipate more action on
the evening hunt as the deer begin to locate the
corn that has been scattered since the previous
evening. |
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