11/26/20 6th day of Wisconsin 2020 Gun Deer Season
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!
Different kind of thanksgiving here this year, as I am sure was all around the world
Due to the lack of people getting together for thanksgiving most of the hunting party was less busy,
As we don’t normally do much hunting on Thanksgiving.
I had ordered premade food from a local meat market, so I didn’t have to make a thing
just heat and go for supper
We usually don’t get together for thanksgiving as we traditionally do an evening hunt
Marcus shot a nice buck a few years ago on thanksgiving.
The hunting party did a drive through the pines over on the farm.
I was part of this drive and was posted on a hill across the road as this is a route the deer
Have fled to over the years.
That is exactly what happened this time as well
I could see them racing through a small woods, cross the highway and head straight for me
This is the part of the drives that don’t excite me very much, the hunting party is much more experienced and have been hunting longer than I.
They were running fast, technically I couldn’t make out what they were. Somene radio’d they were fawns.
I don’t make it a habit to shoot at random things.
I most certainly don’t shoot at running things, I am way to inexperienced shooting at running targets.
Much less the idea of injuring a deer and not finding it doesn’t fare well on my do to list.
Plus, there is a good chance I miss and the thought of a happily flying bullets to freedom is kind of scary and something I don’t want to be a part of.
I had 3 fawns or youngsters run right up by me.
They were so close that they were almost going to run me over.
I had to wave my arms and talk in order to deter them from running me over.
The guys did another drive and I went out for a solo sit.
I sat on Degners, which is basically a big plowed up field right now, the field butts up
to tall grass and willows with cattails all around.
I know there have been deer in this area for years, I have seen them in person and on camera
This was not a traditional hunt, as I have never sat in this spot during gun season.
I have a few sits in this area during bow season over the years.
I thought it might be a promising sit, as I had seen tracks in the fresh mud as I was walking in.
I nestled into some tall grass with my back up against a tree.
I don’t have much shooting here, to my back left beyond the field is a road, my straight left is a house, and to my front left is a tree line and field and factories/building beyond that.
But good shooting to my front and my right if they come out of the woods.
The only excitement I saw were the geese flying off of the sewer pond and want to land in the field right in front of me.
I saw nothing this night as well!
Happy Thanksgiving again!
*Sometimes in the business and chaos of this life, I often don’t concentrate on my blessing enough!*
Only 3 more days of hunting!