Weekend Before Rifle Season

Hunted with the decoy this weekend. Sadly not much showed up.

 

Archery season continues

Ill be heading up north again this weekend to try to get my first deer with the bow. This year ive been using a PSE Chaos set at 50 lbs.

1951 Chevy Deluxe

This is the amazing Autumn view from our tree stand. The car in the brush is 1951 Chevy Deluxe. Sitting in this stand is worth it even just to look at the car and to also watch the squirrels jump onto it and make a very loud metallic noise.

My Aunt and Uncle got me this dinosaur archery target. Its pretty cool. There are vitals shown in the front and both sides. it makes it pretty fun to shoot in the backyard. Thank you Chad and Cyndie.

Sighting in the Remington

Sighted in the deer rifle at 100 yards, within a 4 inch spread

First Deer of the Year

After the first night in the stand ,papa, shot this spike. The next morning we went into the swamp were we knew it had gone. after an hour or so of looking in the water and mud ,papa yeld to me "john will you come help me with this log i think Nana would like it" in my head i thought he must be nuts im not dragging a log out of the swamp. As i got closer i saw there was the deer.Right in the middle of a swamp with 2 feet of water and then 8 inches of mud underneath.        Maybe the log would have been easier to take out.                                      from left to right(David/brother,me,papa)

Does Corn Down Mean Deer Levels Down?

 

 

 

Last year there was soy bean planted  on the side of our property in South Eastern Minnesota. We got quite a few deer pictures up until late October when the deer where there every day for about 2 weeks. They then almost completely disapeared for the most part.

 

This year we have gotten many pictures of deer and gotten my hopes have sky rocketed. I am thinking that now that the corn is down the deer will soon disappear. I havent found any other main food sources on the property. And I am deffinatly not a professional, does anyone no if the deer will be less active in the area and if so where to hunt them?

Trail Camera Check

 i havent checked the cameras for about 2 weeks. so i checked the cameras today got these in a bunch of trees and the field side were we have one stand.

 This is from the the same buch of trees but on the end. It is a small buck but it is a really cool shot with the sun beating down on him as he looks around.

 Again there are deer licking the camera and this is even a different one than usually.

The same small buck as above but a cool shot because you can see the house and sheds in the background.

Pellet Gun-35 yards

Sighted in the pellet gun today at about 35 yards. As you can see im not a great shot but i do enjoy just shooting the gun with no kick and little noise.

Archery season in full swing

Now that archery season has opened up. Ive been out hunting as often as I can. (which isnt as often as I would like) and there have already been close encounters ranging from a nice buck at 45 yds to a button buck at about 3 yds. This week I will be heading north to hunt with papa. Hopefully ill be able to capitalize on one of these close encounters.