As some of you know the last couple of years have been rough around here with my wife's illness. BTW, the prayers are definitely appreciated.
Between working, doing mom and dad stuff and 3 active teenage girls (softball and basketball etc...), I have come to cherish my alone time in a tree more and more. I was able to get down to our property in Jefferson County a few times, but could never really totally relax, mainly thinking I needed to be home in case something happened with Donna.
I bowhunted our Jefferson County property several times and had some good encounters with smaller bucks, plus a really nice mainframe 10 pointer in the 150 class. He was on a doe, and came no closer than 55 yards.
I was able to hunt on opening day of gun season and saw 18 different deer from the stand, with only one of them being a 2.5 year old 8 point. I decided not to shoot anything, since I just wasn't in the mood. The only other day I got out during gun season was at home in the backyard with my youngest daughter and we only saw a couple of yearlings.
Whenever I had time in the evening, I would go sit in a stand behind the house. I had been running a camera back there since early October, but hadn't seen any bucks that got me excited. We don't have a corn pile per say, either myself or one of the girls walks back in the afternoon with some corn and apples and throws it out in front of the camera. I was joking with my neighbor who also hunts that we must have a medical ward back there with all the injured bucks I had been getting on camera. As of right now, there are 4 gimped up bucks back there with 3 of them having already shed.
Between working, doing mom and dad stuff and 3 active teenage girls (softball and basketball etc...), I have come to cherish my alone time in a tree more and more. I was able to get down to our property in Jefferson County a few times, but could never really totally relax, mainly thinking I needed to be home in case something happened with Donna.
I bowhunted our Jefferson County property several times and had some good encounters with smaller bucks, plus a really nice mainframe 10 pointer in the 150 class. He was on a doe, and came no closer than 55 yards.
I was able to hunt on opening day of gun season and saw 18 different deer from the stand, with only one of them being a 2.5 year old 8 point. I decided not to shoot anything, since I just wasn't in the mood. The only other day I got out during gun season was at home in the backyard with my youngest daughter and we only saw a couple of yearlings.
Whenever I had time in the evening, I would go sit in a stand behind the house. I had been running a camera back there since early October, but hadn't seen any bucks that got me excited. We don't have a corn pile per say, either myself or one of the girls walks back in the afternoon with some corn and apples and throws it out in front of the camera. I was joking with my neighbor who also hunts that we must have a medical ward back there with all the injured bucks I had been getting on camera. As of right now, there are 4 gimped up bucks back there with 3 of them having already shed.