I was out a few times over the past few weeks hunting both from a tree stand and from the ground.I love the sounds and smells of the Midwest woods in the Autumn. I took a few photos while I was there to share with you here.
Wednesday I was seated with my back to a tree when I suddenly realized something was sniffing my left shoulder. As I turned slowly to see I encountered a six point buck who had decided to smell me and see if I was edible!
When our eyes met, he puffed and blew some air out his nostrils and ran away into the woods.
I've got several spots that I have put out salt lick, I found that Deer Cane is an amazing product,
Deer Dynamite works equally as well. I have one spot where over the course of three years they have dug out a 5 foot wide circle of mud. They love the stuff, they paw at it and eat the earth with the minerals and salt in it. The spots usually have deer tracks over every square inch of them.
The picture is of a small one I started only a few months ago. You can see the multiple deer tracks in this small space. You can count on them to return frequently to work this scrape!
I love bow season because you have to get so close to your prey! I hate bow season, because I frequently lose a wounded deer in the thick underbrush where I hunt. I've spent many hours following a blood trail, only to wind up back where I started from. I much prefer the results I get from hunting with my 10" .44 magnum, one shot, one kill, no tracking them for miles.
For the last three years I've also been using a product called Buck Snort. Buck Snort is a gel
attractant the smells like food. I prefer the "sweet corn" I've had several deer walk right to me and sniff the Buck Snort paying little attention to me.
This stuff smells so much like fresh sweet corn you almost want to taste it.... Don't it's nasty!
Here is a little video I shot while sitting in a tree stand at a hunting club property near Jackson, Mo. Don't you wish you could just scratch and sniff! I love the woods when the leaves just start to turn and are just starting to come down, raining in colors of rust red, golden brown and burnt
orange.
I saw two deer that day, but that was when I was on my way back to the truck and I spooked them out from under a big oak tree. I did manage to catch up on some reading I was wanting to do. I read a paragraph or two then watch for movement, then go back to reading.
I saw a lot of squirrels, a raccoon and I watched the hawks soaring overhead, truly a marvelous
day in the Missouri woods. If you sit very still covered in camouflage the cardinals and blue jays
will come and roost nearby and sing to you.
At one of my favorite sites I came across a deer that had an unfortunate accident with a train. There wasn't much left, the poor thing never saw it coming.
Shame all that good venison wasted on a train! probably don't want to scratch and sniff that one!
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May your hunting be successful!
