Bowhntr6pt
Master
Got to finally spend some hunting time with my son... he leaves for the Air Force December 12th. When he was younger we used to make the trip up to Aucilla, FL to hunt property I own with my brothers. As he got older, other things attracted his interest, such as cars and girls... for a while there, I lost my hunting buddy.
This weekend we got a chance to go reconnect with deer hunting... I tried to put him in the best possible spots but the deer did not cooperate for him but they did for me.
He got to see lots of doe and some other bucks, just not something he wanted to shoot. Sunday evening he hunted his favorite spot and had several does come to the feeder... he could hear steps running up and down the fence line between the food plot and pines... he could hear grunts... but when it got too dark to see good enough for a clean shot, the buck came out and walked within 10 or so feet of my sons stand, all he could do was see the outline of big antlers.
I saw a 5-pt sticking to a doe but she didn't seem to interested really, based on that and what my son observed, along with TONS of fresh scrapes and rubs, I think the rut is about to happen... so we are headed back this weekend and I sure hope he gets to take a nice one.
As for me, my brother is on a limited income and expressed a STRONG desire to have some meat so I took these two bucks, one Friday am and one the next am on Saturday. Both shot with a .243 at about 30 or so yards... DRT.
Once he leaves, it's back to smashing hogs and coyote for fun. I'm sure going to miss him.
This weekend we got a chance to go reconnect with deer hunting... I tried to put him in the best possible spots but the deer did not cooperate for him but they did for me.
He got to see lots of doe and some other bucks, just not something he wanted to shoot. Sunday evening he hunted his favorite spot and had several does come to the feeder... he could hear steps running up and down the fence line between the food plot and pines... he could hear grunts... but when it got too dark to see good enough for a clean shot, the buck came out and walked within 10 or so feet of my sons stand, all he could do was see the outline of big antlers.
I saw a 5-pt sticking to a doe but she didn't seem to interested really, based on that and what my son observed, along with TONS of fresh scrapes and rubs, I think the rut is about to happen... so we are headed back this weekend and I sure hope he gets to take a nice one.
As for me, my brother is on a limited income and expressed a STRONG desire to have some meat so I took these two bucks, one Friday am and one the next am on Saturday. Both shot with a .243 at about 30 or so yards... DRT.
Once he leaves, it's back to smashing hogs and coyote for fun. I'm sure going to miss him.