mdcrossbow
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I hunt this property where I dove hunt goose hunt and shotgun hunt deer season but I have never hunted the area durring bow season. Since I have a good understanding of the property and the time was right I took the bow out yesterday late with a good place in mind to set up.
The farmer cut a 600 acre corn field back to the power lines and left about 300 acres standing. there is a 1/2 mile 100 yard wide strip of hard woods jutting out into the field I'm hunting. The power line divides the woods with a 50 yards opening of heavy thickets.
I set my stand in a tree at the juncture of the power lines the cut and uncut field.
Perfect placement. I 1st saw a doe out in the middle of the cut corn about sunset and she entered it. The 2 more came ac cross and cut through the path going through the thickets of the power line about 30 yards. The I pick up a little noise from a squarrel about 50 yards down the wood line and 10 minutes later I have a big body corn and soy bean fed buck walk right behind me 10 yards with my wind in his face avg. size 8 point but I know there is a big rack here from the farmer seeing him the day befor while combining corn. as I turn back from watching the 8 point walk from the hard woods into the thicket I hear a noise beside the standing corn and the hard woods. Don't know what it was but I hope it wasn't the big guy.
I will get another hunt in on Saturday.
The farmer cut a 600 acre corn field back to the power lines and left about 300 acres standing. there is a 1/2 mile 100 yard wide strip of hard woods jutting out into the field I'm hunting. The power line divides the woods with a 50 yards opening of heavy thickets.
I set my stand in a tree at the juncture of the power lines the cut and uncut field.
Perfect placement. I 1st saw a doe out in the middle of the cut corn about sunset and she entered it. The 2 more came ac cross and cut through the path going through the thickets of the power line about 30 yards. The I pick up a little noise from a squarrel about 50 yards down the wood line and 10 minutes later I have a big body corn and soy bean fed buck walk right behind me 10 yards with my wind in his face avg. size 8 point but I know there is a big rack here from the farmer seeing him the day befor while combining corn. as I turn back from watching the 8 point walk from the hard woods into the thicket I hear a noise beside the standing corn and the hard woods. Don't know what it was but I hope it wasn't the big guy.
I will get another hunt in on Saturday.
