Well Thanksgiving morning is here and we are ready to HUNT!
Brock, Bryson and myself are settled in our redneck blind about 6:20am. We were a tad behind Randy and Jake who arrived at about 6:02am.
The weather couldn't be better for sitting in a blind, but it could be better for deer hunting. There is a slight wind and the mercury hovers at about 60 degrees. Like I said, it is very comfortable in the blind, but it needs to be about 25 degrees cooler for perfect deer hunting. There is NO frost and NO dew. Dry is an understatement!
At about 7:10 a lone doe strolled across in front of the B set from the south. She paid us no attention and I thought it was a good sign for deer activity. The Atchley's had only sen Lynlee's crow at 8am and the boys in both sets were getting antsy. My boys are good as long as they are seeing game, when nothing is moving, they are ready to go. I'm sure all boys are the same because Randy said Jake was hounding him to leave as well. I'm sure when we were little we got anxious too.
Randy text me and said he was shooting for a 9am departure...I agreed.
By 8:30 my inner youth came out and I was ready for mom's turkey and dressing. I told randy we were finished with the moring hunt and I would text him when we settle in for our evening hunt.
We climbed out and the boys were headed across the meadow when I spot BigBoy walking the south boundary by the cedar thicket. I whispered as loudly as possible for the boys to "Get over here!!" I got the boys behind the blind, but we were still on the ground. I watched the buck as he eased down the tree line about 200yrd from us. I turned to get Brock's gun loaded but when I looked back the buck had disappeared. I put Brock back in the blind and I attempted to grunt the buck back into view. It is safe to say, no shots were fired! The big bucks don't get big by being seen a lot.
We headed home and then to Mom's house for Thanksgiving dinner! If we can, we will be back this evening...
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