This is the 1st Friday I have sat out. I don’t normally sit out Friday night as I work until 4:15 pm and by the time I get home and ready it’s getting late.
I worked from home Friday and I just had the itch at the last moment.
My new enclosed blind!
It was a tad bit windy and cool, but the sun was out.
I sat in my new blind, so the wind didn’t blow my scent into the food plot.
The sit was nice and peaceful and of course, I was hungry because I had just got off of work, I was hoping the guys ran to get me a fish fry before I got home.
The hawk I was watching!
I had the privilege of watching a hawk of some sort fly from spot to spot looking for dinner.
I rarely have a night where I don’t see deer(in all the 6 yrs. I have hunted, I can count on less the one hand the times I have not seen a deer while out hunting).
Tonight…… would be one of those nights….not a deer in sight.
I was surprised, but not disappointed I love sitting outside in the fresh air, enjoying GOD’S beauty. Any day in the outdoors is a good day.
Of course, the fish fry was splendid.
Old Wind Mill I am fascinated with!Those are geese in the sky!
I got a late start to my hunt, the day got away from me as I was trying to conquer some projects before day’s end.
I remember I looked at the clock and it said 415 pm. I checked the closing time for the night and it said 641 pm….oh heck I gotta get going.
Of course, it’s youth hunt in our area, so I had to make sure I had some blaze orange on….so I had to go rummaging through hunting gear to find something. Time is ticking away!
Gotta love those moments flying around the house trying as fast as ever to get ready and sure as heck not forgetting anything…..like arrows.
I was a tad concerned about the weather as it had hit the high 70’s throughout the day. I figured it would be a warm sit so, I only wore a t-shirt, certainly not thinking about mosquitoes or getting colder out. I normally wouldn’t wear a t-shirt, but that was the only blaze orange I could find in a hurry.
I walked in from the back of the property to my blind, normally we have an ATV trail carved out that I would use to walk in, but we haven’t been back in the area with the ATV yet, due to having corn on both sides of the pathway. So, I had to follow the cow path the deer have made and it was quite an impressive trail.
As I am walking in I immediately question my wardrobe choice, as I now have bare skins showing and a few skeeters chomping at the bit. And….of course no thermal cell tonight! The walk-in is peaceful and tiring walking through such tall grass.
Once I get to the blind and settled in, I play around with my set-up adjusting windows. I have only had this enclosed blind for a year. I have not shot anything out of it. So, the windows are a work in progress for me. I am about 5 feet off the ground, so I worry about exposure.
I sat in this blind tonight due to the direction of the wind, I tried to avoid having any scent blowing into the big food plot.
About 5:36 pm I had a Momma and baby in the bean field about 125 yards from my blind. They hung out for a while and meandered on.
I was concerned about heat, but it was not warm and it was quite windy, windier than I expected or like for hunting. At one point I got a little chilly as the sun went down.
I loved the wind tonight…….as I sat enjoying the peace I thought about bottling the wind for another day, as I was enjoying it way too much. The cool breeze on my face and hair. I even caught myself a few times closing my eyes and embracing the feeling.
The large food plot! Look at how beautiful that field is.
I hear a lonely goose above, he is honking away as he flies through the sky all alone, I wonder why it is alone and what he is honking about???? Yes, strange things I ponder in my peace.
At approx. 6:32 pm, I lean forward to look around as it is getting close to quitting time and I spy out of the corner of my eye deer, I think 2 doe, they are far back to my right, like I said I had to lean forward and look almost directly back to see them. I just moved back to my position and let what be….be what it was going to be, never did see those deer again.
Well…my hunt is over, the wind had calmed down. Decide to check 2 trail cameras on the way out.
Of course, only fitting for my life, the SD card I put into the camera, yeah you know how they are spring-loaded, well it jumped out right into the tall grass. So, imagine this, it’s dark, I have my crossbow backpack on and I am down on all fours rummaging through the grass looking for an SD card. Very thankful it took me less than 5 minutes to find, with minimal bites and obscenities.
The walkout was brutal and exhausting. At least I had chicken wings waitin’ for me at home.
We got a new wooden platform for my birthday/engagement gift. The platform is about 5 feet tall.
I have a portable blind that I put on top of the platform. Instead of the normal spring steel blind frame, this frame is metal and folds out like an accordion, we have it drilled into the platform for now. It is a pretty cool blind. I like the magnetic window option as well as the camouflage screen window covering. In case you wanted to check out the blind, it is called the Hawk Down and Out Blind.
It tricky getting into the blind as we have a makeshift ladder set-up, so yeah proceed with caution.
I have the blind set along a tree line/cattail line, along the edge of the bean field. I have all cattails/marshy areas behind me. I have a bean field and food plot in front of me about 25 yards. To my right a long stretch of green grass with a bean field in front of that and then a ditch. To my left is a long stretch of green grass with a bean field in front of that, that then leads to a cattail patch.
View to my left! Old windmill!
Anyways, once I managed to get into the blind and settled, I noticed a friendly wasp walking about. Oh, no you don’t. You best be trying to find a hole to fly out of. So, mind you I have to keep an eye on this lovely wasp( I am not a fan and scared of these bad boys, bad experience) and get settled quietly in the new blind.
I open the smaller windows on all sides of me, meaning I also have the screens down. I left the screen up on the longer windows but it is hard to see out of. I never leave the screen all the way up, but these are different screens, I can kind of see out but it’s hard to see in. So, I was trying different setups.
I was excited to see what I might see from the blind. Kind of like Christmas morning opening presents. Sitting in this blind my 1st time, made me get those types of feelings like I couldn’t get the wrapping paper off the gift fast enough. An hour went by and I was thinking hey….maybe I won’t see anything tonight, maybe the present isn’t that exciting tonight!
But…..no, as I was looking to my right through my binocs, down toward the ditch, thought I saw something, a deer head pops into my lens around 5:49 pm, hey where did you come from? You scared me!
A little doe!
A little doe walked out from behind me, to my right. About 20 yards from me, it ate in the green grass before it headed into the bean field. It hung out in the bean field and did a complete half-circle in front of me for the next 45 minutes before it wandered out of my line of sight.
At around 6:50 pm about 50 yards from the blind, I see a small buck walkout from the right side of the blind. The same area the doe came from, the cattails to my right, from behind the blind. I have seen this buck on trail camera before, so I am familiar. Shortly after a large doe walks out from the same area right behind the buck. They both headed to the bean field in front of them and ate for a bit. They both then headed to the north and towards the ditch. I watched as they jumped the ditch, they outta here.
About 7 pm, I have a doe walk out into the food plot. It is just starting to get dark now. She meanders in the food plot along with her youngster. They are way out of shooting range, maybe 100 yards.
It was tough trying to be quiet as all heck, getting packed up and out of the blind without disturbing the deer.
All in all, it was a good sit….I have learned any sit is a good sit. But seeing deer while on a sit is an extra special bonus.
So far, I like the blind! Cant wait to get back out there!
