Haven't been out much the past two months and our season is winding down with only about two weeks left to go. No luck for me this year, had a few shots in November but as was the case last year I put myself in position to get deer but failed to make the shots.
My best chance for a kill came in October when I had a buck broadside at about 5yds for several minutes but couldn't shoot him because I was on a public land site that doesn't allow you to shoot a buck until Nov. 1st.
I did get out this past Monday for a morning hunt, found lots of sign in the area I hunt which means that there are some deer that survived the gun seasons. Hung my stand after arriving an hour after first light, sat in it for about 2.5 hours then got nervous because it got windy and there were a few dead ash trees around me that had recently fallen and a few more standing dead ones real close to the oak tree I was in that looked like they could topple at any time. Got down and took a walk to explore a large area of cedars and Russian olives so thick you have to crawl and fight though the tangled mess for a few hundred yards. Man was it loaded with deer sign, no way to hunt in there and the deer sure know it.
Anyway I took a few pics going into the stand, from the stand and of what was left of a deer the coyotes had clean up real well in that tangled thicket.
My new phone is now my camera and I haven't tried posting pics from it yet, we'll see if this works.
