Sat night crawled up into the stand around 5 30ish….little behind the eight ball… 15 Min later doe and two fawns came by heading towards the beans. This pretty muched proved to be the story of the rest of the night. I was hoping to use this funnel as an observation stand, with the outside chance of having a big boy come around. Ended the evening with 15 different does and fawns meander into the field. I could have shot 8 different ones it just seemed like to much work. Oh ya, not a single mosquito.
While in stand my dad txted me and wanted to know if i wanted to meet him at mille lacs for a couple hours. Well why not..so i jumped otta the hunting clothes, swung in and told my grandparents to keep the door unlocked and ran to the lake. Fishing was slow, with weed growth still very high, imo.. just a matter of time till they start to lay down a bit with water temps at 60.9. Dad and i fished till 11:00 with him catching the only fish at 27.75″ walter. Great fish and hopefully a sign of the many more to come this fall.
Sun morning it was up at 5:00 and in the stand at 5:20.I sat in a funnel leading to a bedding area. It was pretty slow for me with only 2 does and a fawn coming through. Also the blackbirds are really flocked up, and the red squirrel by this stand is going to have to die in that he has supernatural lung capacity and i swear he went 2 full min without taking a breath. Pulled cameras and finally started getting shooters to show themselves so i was jacked for sunday night.
Sunday night i was in the stand at 4 on another funnel leading to a different bean field. “I love hunting early season beans”. 5:50 was the first deer showed up and by 6:00 there were 6 that came past with on little six -pointer…i was happy to finally get first antlers of the season otta the way. They worked around in the beans from what i could see, then worked there way to a different woods. 7:05 is when the next deer came out, and once again it was a corrulated effort on their part. By 7:10 i had four does/fawns come past, and saw 4 others hit the field from a differnet spot. By 7:30 something had spooked every deer otta there and i was not sure what the heck was going on. Now the question was do i get otta there with shooting light left, cuz i know there werent deer in the field or do i stick it out…Well i stuck it out cause it was gorgeous out and i knew there were some big boys in the area…Anyways right at last light i see a buck about 60 yards away. I quick throw up the binocs and dont have a clue who this deer is…wide tall rack with short tines…id say right around 115 to 120 2.5 year old…he had a young looking face, but boy was a i jazzed to see him, and now he just has to live one more year….
All in all it was great opening weekend for me. Usually see a few more little bucks, but oh well. I think its gonna be time to whack a doe for the freezer soon….
Goodluck to all still out there
I ended up seeing 2 bucks at 6:30 spar at 165 in front of me. I forgot my binocs and had to rely on my range finder to see what they were 
A total of 10 deer were seen in the first hour and 15 minutes 
I watched a convoy of 9 does enter the field 
on my face. Too bad they were 150 yrds away. All in all I saw between 27-30 deer but just lost count as some had left and came back to my area. An awesome opener for me and really helped to get me back in the game. Cannot wait for tomorrow. 
