| I returned again to
the Gametamer, while Glenn chose to hunt is ICE
Blind and Casey opted for the tripod on the
high-fence. It was fairly late in the
morning before I finally saw deer, six does, but
they were again a couple hundred yards away
working parallel to the creek. I grunted a
couple of times, but they never paid any attention
to it.
Glenn and Casey had both exited their
stands. Glenn walked around still hunting,
and I could hear Casey riding around on the four
wheeler. I sat for a little while longer
before descending. I walked slowly along the
creek bottom back toward the pickup, hoping to
stumble across a deer in the creek before it
spotted me. I followed a trail exited the
creek through the brush toward the fence, and as I
reached the fence, I spotted the group of six does
walking back south, toward my stand, about 50
yards from the fence. I waited for them to
clear behind the brush and decided to walk quickly
back through the creek to my stand in hopes that
the deer would work their way to the
area. I waited an additional 30 minutes, but
saw no further sign of the deer. I climbed
back down and walked along the fence to the
truck. I did see a couple of the six does
crossing the fence, still well north of my stand
area. I also saw a coyote, and though
I saw him before he saw me, he did see me before I
could begin a stalk and left the area.
I returned to camp where Glenn and Casey were
ready to go out and make additional stand
adjustments. Casey had found a large live
oak tree in the corner from where the big eight
pointer had entered the flat the previous evening
and decided he would erect a Swivel Limb for the
evening hunt. It looked to be a great spot,
with a well traveled trail coming out of the creek
and paralleling the fence line, with a crossing 15
yards from the tree.
Glenn took down his ICE Blind from the corner,
and while Casey and I searched the hill above the
pear flat for a good place to set up my new ICE
Blind with Brush Country Camouflage pattern, Glenn
set up a tripod just inside the fence at another
crossing about 200 yards north of Casey's new
location.
After walking the entire area above the flat, I
didn't find enough sign to overwhelm me, and
decided that instead of hunting the new ICE Blind
just so I could hunt from the ICE Blind, I should
return to the Gametamer and continue my pursuit of
the buck that made the monster rubs in that
area. Before we left, I did see a bobcat
that walked up the high fence before crossing just
in front of the tripod stand. |
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