Late update from last night.
First sit of the season for me, too busy to get out until now.
Sat on the edge of my biggest soybean plot. The soybean crop was poor this year because of the drought and what was left has been hit hard, but the deer are still all over it.
My stand was a hang on and it’s only about 5 feet off the ground. I’m just abloe to look over the underbrush at the edge of the field. I was on the east edge facing west and dang it was hot when I got there just before 3:00.
The deer agreed that it was too hot, so they didn’t show up until 5:30. 3 does and 2 fawns turned up and, of course, spent all their time over in the Deadly Dozen strip on the edge of the beans, about 75 yards away.
Eventually, 2 bucks joined the does. 1 was a small 6 pointer, the other was a very big deer with just a long forkhorn rack. Interesting, the bigger rack doesn’t always belong to the bigger deer.
No Mr. Big. He didn’t turn up.
My father was sitting in another field just deer watching in a ground blind, and he had 14 deer including 4 bucks in the field in front of him. And, of course, The Infamous Nervous Nelly walked out into the plot and then stood sqarely in front of the blind and stared and blew at him for about 20 minutes, generally throwing a fit and making sure every deer in the plot knew that somebody was sitting in that blind.
We gotta make sausage out of Nelly, we really do.
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