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Saturday November 8 2020

Saturday night hunt with Marcus

Got out in the woods a little later than I like

Lazy Saturday I suppose.

We are the King/Queen of random ground hunting

After all,  I  did shoot my bow buck last Friday from the ground with less than a 10 yard shoot.

Marcus has a bad knee and had surgery to repair it,

However, he needs the knee replaced and is too young according to the doctors to have it replaced

So, he can no longer climb a tree stand

Well the guy is pretty smart and he over thinks many of things, especially anything hunting

But he does know what he is doing

So, he picked out a really cool place to sit at the edge of the marsh

Oh, and if you read my blog from yesterday

I could handle this walk

Cut beans to my left, tall grass to my front, a tree to my back, and tall grass to my right

My front and right beyond is all marsh

It a small hidden field, well not really a field, I don’t know how to explain it.

Last year we cut it and made a food plot

This year time got the best of us.

We nestled into a bush and put up the good old Ghost Blind.

Using the blind has been by trial and error

Marcus kept eye to the right and I to the left

Those same flock of black birds from yesterday flew all around the sky

Here and there and everywhere

With all the tall grass around me

I had hoped I would look up and see a big rack appear above the grass,

Well no such luck.  Not a single deer was seen

A whole bunch of ducks flew out form the marsh at a few minutes before closing

For sure teal and wood ducks.

The weather again was beautiful

Marcus loves to hunt and he loves BIG BUCKS,

So, I said a little prayer the BIG BUCK makes an appearance.

Cuz my man needs to get a BIG BUCK

The day light is getting shorter and that makes me sad

Day light saving time is not my friend.

As I love to hunt in the evenings

Ahhh probably will go out tomorrow!

Shoot straight!

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The thrill was at the end!

Friday November 6 2020

I have been looking forward to this hunt all week

As it has been a whole week since I have been out hunting

Oh, wait I don’t need to hunt right now

I got me a big buck

However, going out hunting even if it’s not my hunt

Is as rewarding as if I were hunting myself

I love being outdoors

So, another Friday night hunt it is

This time Marcus had the bow in his hands

He said he had a new place to sit, I mean I trust him with my life 🙂

At 1st he just wanted to old school ground sit

But I said let’s take the Ghost Blind

Some cover is better than none

Well the walk in was horrendous

The field we thought was half plowed

Was fully plowed

You ever walk the edge of a farm field

Were the field meets the grass

Horrible especially for a girl that had ankle surgery this past year

I was carrying a hunting chair with no strap

I have carried this chair before and it sucks

I know my arm strength is weak

Thanks for the reminder that I am a wimp

So, the chair got the best  of me

Plus, I carried the Ghost Blind, I have not broken down and bought the backpack for it yet

But the thing is awkward to carry

Long walk over

I can’t even tell you how far that walk was

But I never wanted to walk it again

I thought of how I could get back with out going back the way I came

Marcus had picked a spot on the bottom of a huge bean field(that was tilled up already)

This bean field butts up to marsh and lots of cattails

Next to an ancient huge tree, which I have always been fond of

I knew this to be a promising spot

As over the years I have seen many a deer here

Once we got settled in it didn’t take long for a deer to be spotted in the field over to our left

Far away for sure

Then another comes out in front/left of us

From the cattails

100 yards would be my guess

I don’t know my yards from feet, so who knows

The weather was so nice 70 degrees for sure

It was nice to bask in the warm air

As I know soon it will be gone

I spot a flock of birds over head

This turned out to not be a normal flock

I am assuming they are blackbirds, red wing black birds, and grackles

Their flight in the sky went on for over 10 minutes

10 minutes of continuous flight of birds

Like I said I haven’t seen this type of migration for over 10 minutes ever.

I notice a doe cross the bean field diagonally

To our side of the field

They seem to be all congregating to the same area

There must be an area in the beans yet for them to eat

All does no bucks

Its closing now and we must pack up

A few does  are still down the tree line from us eating

Which leads to a tricky pack up

As I  am standing up now

And I see the deer(big deer)

To me left, over in the direction of the does, in the field beyond

Binoculars up

Big Buck

Marcus got a good look too

Big Buck

Its past dark but his rack is big enough to make out

We think it is BUD, he has a real tall rack

He slowly walks up the tree line at the end of the field

Of course, on the other property

He then turns around and walks back

He has his eyes on the does that have been in the field with us most of the night

It was a nice sit

Saw my biggest buck of the season so far

The walk back killed me and I had to draw inner strength

To keep my sanity on the way back

I really just wanted to scream and cry out loud

Instead I screamed and cried on the inside

And it was loud

About halfway back I had to dig deep

Mind over matter

Boots to the ground

Focus it will end and it did

I really liked the spot we sat in

It covered a lot of area and I could see lots of land

So much possibility in this spot.

Oh and I cant wait to see how sore my body is in the morning!

Shot straight! !