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November 3 am 33 degrees S wind 5 mph Partly sunny skies Textbook perfect bow hunting morning weather wise. Tons of does/fawns on their feet in the first hour. Probably the most I have seen all year. I did see a handful of bucks also doing buck things. Cameras were busy with Nick movement most of the morning.

Busy morning this morning! 33 degrees and the deer are moving!

November 2 pm 44 degrees NW wind 10 mph Cloudy skies Long quiet sit this afternoon until and hour before dark and things got crazy. Handful of bucks chasing and bumping does. I noticed a lot of button bucks by themselves in the past couple of days. Scrape activity seems to have slowed a bit. The primary scrapes are getting hit but no doubt a lot less secondary scraping happening.

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Back in a tree since about 2 for the afternoon sir. Sitting on the edge of a green field...

November 2 am 44 degrees NW wind 9 mph Cloudy skies As I mentioned in the previous post cameras were on fir in the overnight hours. Lots of different bucks on their feet and the cams caught some chasing also. This morning was full of action. Lots of bucks. Some chasing. Lots of does on edge. I had an encounter with 2 of my shooters this am also. Big 8 pt came in to scent check the does in front of me before running them off. And my giant 6pt was out cruising and walked by me about 40 yards or so. It seems like someone clicked a switch at 930 and activity came to a screeching halt. Cams went quiet also.

November 1 pm West wind 10-20 Cloudy skies I figured with the cold front settling in yesterday that the afternoon would be good. I did have an encounter with a new shooter buck that worked a scrape about 80 yards from me before continuing on. Minus that it was a quiet sit. However the cameras lit up once it was dark and all through the night.

Dead ash trees and high winds don't mix. What a mess they are making in the woods!

Damn weather sucks but it looks like i will be back at it tomorrow! 77 degrees today and 25 degree drop in daytime temps coming for Friday. Looks like the wind will be intense making the morning impossible but fingers crossed the afternoon things should settle in nice.

October 29 pm 59 degrees high cloudy skies se wind 10-15 Like I had said... i had no plan to hunt today but I got rained out at work and saw the rain should quit about 230ish. Which it did. At 245 i had 3 different bucks take selfies on my cams (including a shooter) and figured i needed to get out there asap. with the south wind, I sat in a entirely new set. Fairly boring sit overall until the last hour. About 530 does began showing up and I figured it was just a matter of time before i would see horns. I did end up seeing 3 bucks including 1 shooter. At 630ish I had a small buck walk out of the woods into the field with a the shooter in tow about 2 minutes behind him. He hung on the edge of the woods and i just couldnt make out how big he was. It was just too damn dark. It wasnt until he starting walking that i noticed he had a limp and confirmed it was one of my shooters. By then it was just too late to make things happen as he walked through my shooting window at 20 yards. Saved by the bell... I have seen this deer probably close to 10 times this season and I have had this deer just slip by me 3 times in less then a week. (Once at 40 (at dusk), once at 55, and again last evening). Hes gonna make a fatal mistake.

Well I wasn't planning to hunt today but the weather changed my mind. The rain quit here about 245 and at 247 one of my shooters was on cam. So he I am on the West end of a scrape line. The last time I counted there were 18 scrapes (plus 3 mock scrapes). along this 250 yard stretch.

If everyone else understood how funny that comment is...

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Late report October 27 am 35 degrees low Clear skies Light w wind Crazy morning in the woods! Lots of deer on their feet throughout the morning until about 930ish. Tons of does and fawns and more importantly 9 different bucks. Today I had 3 of my shooters within 50-70 yards and all at different times this morning. Unfortunately no shot opportunities.

Late report October 26 pm 55 degrees high Clear skies Light nw wind I had high expectations of an amazing sit this this afternoon after a fairly slow morning. I saw more does and fawns then i have all year and only a few bucks. One of those bucks was one of my shooters. He snuck by me about 635ish at about 45 yards.

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Cameras have been pretty quiet since midnight until about 4pm today.

October 25 am 37 degrees Frosty Clear skies Light s wind Not as active this morning as I would have expected with Frosty cold start. I did see 4 year and half old bucks and handful of flatheads between 8-9. The highlight of the am sit was getting a glimpse of one of my shooter 9pts cutting through the golden rod about 930ish. My kid missed a big 10pt this am. He saw 2 deer and both were bucks. He said they both worked passed his stand and worked a nearby scrape.

October 24 pm Light w wind 59 degrees Sunny Late report but the afternoon sir was stellar. Lots and lots of deer on their feet and Early. Saw 1 of my target bucks and saw a new buck. Big 9 pt point with a heavy limp. I didn't see anything visibly wrong with him but he had a pimp walk.

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