Share a story!!! Ripjack (and Oli) have a couple sweet turkey stories and I'd like to hear other stories too!
I was with my brother in law in the woods. I knew there were deer and its a great spot. Fresh water runs through the creek, lots of brush and trees, and a couple corn fields up on the opposite side of the creek with some high grass and wild flowers between them.
I started at the creek, at the shallow spots. It was easy picking out tracks in the steep bank, as well as lookin for holes in the low brush from commonly used places for crossing. We started there, checked the direction of what we believed to be the most recent tracks and scanned the other side of the creek. I found a nearly identical hole in the brush.
Through the brush and into the woods, we followed tracks here and there in soft till we made it to the field full of high grass. That was pretty easy too. The deer tend to use the same path and only here and there travel away from it, but its still not incredibly difficult to find those places. We traced the deer through the grass and found one of those split off trails that looped back around to the woods.
Into the woods, we got into a small clearing and lost the identifyable trail. We split up and looked around the edges trying to find disturbed brush, low branches, tracks or anything. I found what I thought may have been the way and called my brother in law over. He came over and stopped quickly when he reached me. We thought we made out a horizontal outline in a forest full of otherwise verticle objects.
A couple of cautious steps forward and we made out for sure the outline of a deer. The doe looked at from about 15 yards away and bolted, crossing a path less than 5 yards from us!
I had my 500 but didnt even raise it. Dont know why, I just didnt. I was just lookin at the thing.
I know, pics or it didnt happen... but hunting for me like fishing, I dont care if I get anything. The hunting part is at least as much fun as getting something.
I was with my brother in law in the woods. I knew there were deer and its a great spot. Fresh water runs through the creek, lots of brush and trees, and a couple corn fields up on the opposite side of the creek with some high grass and wild flowers between them.
I started at the creek, at the shallow spots. It was easy picking out tracks in the steep bank, as well as lookin for holes in the low brush from commonly used places for crossing. We started there, checked the direction of what we believed to be the most recent tracks and scanned the other side of the creek. I found a nearly identical hole in the brush.
Through the brush and into the woods, we followed tracks here and there in soft till we made it to the field full of high grass. That was pretty easy too. The deer tend to use the same path and only here and there travel away from it, but its still not incredibly difficult to find those places. We traced the deer through the grass and found one of those split off trails that looped back around to the woods.
Into the woods, we got into a small clearing and lost the identifyable trail. We split up and looked around the edges trying to find disturbed brush, low branches, tracks or anything. I found what I thought may have been the way and called my brother in law over. He came over and stopped quickly when he reached me. We thought we made out a horizontal outline in a forest full of otherwise verticle objects.
A couple of cautious steps forward and we made out for sure the outline of a deer. The doe looked at from about 15 yards away and bolted, crossing a path less than 5 yards from us!
I had my 500 but didnt even raise it. Dont know why, I just didnt. I was just lookin at the thing.
I know, pics or it didnt happen... but hunting for me like fishing, I dont care if I get anything. The hunting part is at least as much fun as getting something.
