I went out again this afternoon. Pretty cool this evening. I went into a spot not too far out that I slapped a camera up on the 16th, over a couple of scrapes. I was bored and wanted to see what was making them. After pulling the camera and checking it I decided since it was getting late and the scrape had activity that I would just set up over it. It was only about 200 yards from the road. The tree I 2TC up into is a good one. At about 20 feet there is awesome cover from a little white oak growing just beside the tree I am in.
I got set at 2pm and about 2:30 I heard a deer blowing about 350 to 400 yards to my North, across the road. The wind was from the North so she could not be smelling me, but there were a fair number of folks out. I think she may have been bumped by somebody. About half an hour later I hear her blowing again but now she is closer, maybe 200 yards. Pretty soon I hear her coming through the woods. She's headed right to me. In fact, she gets so close to the base of the tree I have no options to shoot her if I want to.
Let me say, there were some folks out today whose cartridges were burning a hole in their pocket. Some dude (I'm assuming) could not stand it anymore and about 3:30 proceeded to methodically fired off 20 cartridges from a high-powered rifle and then left a little while later. Maybe he was going to buy more shells. Anyway, there was a lot of shooting that just didn't sound like anyone was actually shooting deer and were just blasting away at stuff.
Here is a picture of the little buck that made the scrape. He's got a lot of mass for his age and is tall and tight. He's a cool deer.
It was a fun hunt. I've got stuff to take care of for the wife tomorrow, but I will hopefully be out Sunday.
