| Thank you to Matthew, daughter and sons for practicing quality
deer management on their self guided hunts. |
Hello John and Jon...here are a few photos from our youth deer weekend. My
oldest had decided he was only going to shoot a doe or a buck if it was bigger
than last year's. He ended up with a nice doe Sunday morning. My youngest just
wanted to tag a deer. He ended up with a small racked 8 - his first racked buck.
We didn't see many deer Saturday...only 4...but three were bucks including one
nice racked buck that I only glimpsed for a couple of seconds. Neither of the
two kids with me saw him though.


We saw plenty of deer Sunday...the weather turned out overcast with a light
drizzle and the wind finally settled down some...it seemed to have them moving
about better that morning. My two youngest and I were hunting from a natural
ground blind and saw 10 deer Sunday morning, 6 of which were bucks...no big ones
though. My youngest made a nice shot at about 60 yards after the buck finished
working a scrape along the field edge and, along with a small racked 6, wandered
out into the field. We had numerous close encounters with turkeys too. One flock
worked it's way down the edge of the corn field we were hunting Saturday evening
and passed less then 20 feet behind us going to roost. Nice weekend.
I
picked out photos that showed the whole crew with each deer. I also picked out
one photo of my kids goofing off (I'm certain it will embarrass them) only
because I think it shows why and how I choose the properties I do for
hunting...the view. It helps that the properties have plenty of game, but if all
I had was a great view, I'd be content. Talk to you guys later.
Matt
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