Tough Day

[SAXIS ISLANDER]

Headed out to the Pocomoke Sound at ODARKEARLY with Lil Red. Cold...Real Cold.

Set up nice spread..no wind...no ducks...seven forty five we packed it in. Did have some fun working geese with my new call...If the season were in they would have paid us no mind, but as it was we toyed with them for ten or so minutes.

Picked up a few oysters from a local waterman on the way in.
Steamed them up for lunch prior to heading out the ground blind next to the bedding area for the pm deer hunt.

I've gotten rather personal with this particular deer. I know more about his lifestyle than I do about most of my friends. I know where he eats. I know where he sleeps.. I know where he rests during the midday hours. I've got a good idea which does he's bred and yet he finds a way to kick my ass each time I go after him.

Today was no different. Settled in just after three fifteen. At 4:47 I hear him get up from the bedding area. At 4:54 the first doe steps int the shooting lane. Let her pass. It's getting hard to see. Crank scope down. 4:59 the 8 point follows. Let him walk. He's young. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy should be coming soon. 5:11 he could have flipped me the bird as he strolled by at 120 yards, I certainly couldn't see him clearly enough through the scope to take a responsible shot at this point.

Ok. I still had options. Slid out of the back of the blind and double timed it out of the woodsl across the pasture trying to beat him to a five acre field behind a chicken house. He failed to appear.

This is getting personal.

[Buckeye]

I love it. That's my game. Can you out smart him or will he always be one step ahead of you? I could play that game everyday. Win or Lose.

[cravertosu]

At least you're getting out and seeing em'!! You'll get him before too long!

[weekender]

good read, hope you get him soon, most times the chase is as good as the catch

[Anders]

can you give him something for his nose to maybe pull him out a little early. Set up up wind from him, make sure your scent is right, and either some buck stuff to challenge him or some doe stuff to excite him. I have more luck with the buck stuff.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

"Tough Day"? A belly full of seasides for lunch more than makes up for the tough hunting. Cool story. How big is the big one?
Holwachagot

[seapower]

The ones that I miss or the ones that keep out smarting you are the one's I remember the most. Seems the one's you get "blend" in with the rest some how. I really don't mind getting beat. They're some slick critter's.Frank,Seapower

[SAXIS ISLANDER]

"Tough Day"? A belly full of seasides for lunch more than makes up for the tough hunting. Cool story. How big is the big one?
Holwachagot

to post his picture in the back of the Blazer on Sunday morning. We've aged him at five or so, giving him a 160-165 of thick bony mass. Prime breedin machine. He looks like a friggin hippo moving thorough the woods. Thick necked rascal.

The oysters were captured, after one helluva fight, from near the Black Narrows bridge just west of Chincoteague.

[esangler]

to post his picture in the back of the Blazer on Sunday morning. We've aged him at five or so, giving him a 160-165 of thick bony mass. Prime breedin machine. He looks like a friggin hippo moving thorough the woods. Thick necked rascal.

The oysters were captured, after one helluva fight, from near the Black Narrows bridge just west of Chincoteague.

Saxis Isl. took me to the farm on Sunday morning, I can vouch for the saltiness of those Black Narrow dwellers. They were well worth wrestling from that seaside mudflat!

[SAXIS ISLANDER]

His little brother wasn't paying attention this morning and paid the ultimate price.

Armed with a new supply of oysters from Tom's Cove and a fresh bottle of Makers Mark, Lil' Red and I are going in again on Saturday morning. Ducks be damned. We need antlered mass to satisfy this hunger.

The countdown begins....who will win the battle? Will it be won in gun season or will he get pierced with graphite??

Damn I like this.