first day out?

[buckhunter]

well i do not know about you but i got skunkd!and as if not seeing a deer all day was not bad enough i had a couple kinda rub my nose in it and make funny at me!#1=walked out of the stand yesterday morning at about 9am and noticed an old rub on a ceder tree,returned at 4pm for the evening hunt and don't you know the cedar tree was tore all to pieces!!!sometime between 9am-4pm he stood there and just done his thing!#2=decided to shoot my pistol yesterday afternoon and just kinda wondered in the woods,b boppin around between 1pm-2pm i happened to walk upon a fresh scrape jus made!!!!!!how do i know it was fresh you ask?the dirt was still on top of the grass and the urine was still in a puddle on top of the dirt!!!! 1 day in and they are already playing mind games with me!

[alien319]

That stinks. I probably wouldn't shoot to many guns in the area I am hunting, unless I was shooting at deer or other game available. Just a thought. Deer are smart, they will become even more skittish if they start hearing gunshots popping off all around them. Especially around eastern NC, it isn't like up north where the deer move around a lot. Down here it does seem like they are more nocturnal than up north. Just my .02 cents worth. Thanks for the story though and I hope you get the guy that tore that tree up.

[buckhunter]

well i sat in a stand the other evening and never seen a deer,left out going home and damn near run over a monster on the highway with my truck!just after dark,i seen him coming up out of the ditch,hit the high beams,stood on the brakes and just did miss him by about half a truck lenghth[and i was in the other lane as i was skidding by!good thing there was nobody behind me!]anyway he had 5 on his right side,not sure about the left but there was at least 4,he was a big 9 or possibly a 10pointer!and when he was hitting the ditch on the right side,i was looking as i skidded by and his horns were out past his ears!dang that was a big ole buck!big body deer too,i am so glad i didn't hit him with my truck and maybe someone will be fortunate enough to take him this winter.he's definetly worthy of the wall!