NMPaul
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This is the 3rd time I have visited my brother in MS and he has taken me hunting. This is a completely different type of hunting to what I am used to.
I read all the time how some people look down their noses at hunting out of stands. It shows how little they know. It is hard to sit in a stand, be alert, glassing, and deal with the cold and hours of watching.
Sitting there for 4-7 hours at a time glassing deep into the woods and sometimes seeing nothing it is hard to stay focused and alert.
Over the 3 trips to MS I have most likely logged over 100 hours in a stand in a quality area to finally get a good buck.
He is not he oldest or the biggest, but, he is a very unique buck. He was still rubbing velvet which is very unusual for that time of the year. In the walk in cooler there was a buck that scored 160+ the largest ever taken off of the property taken the day before.
The river it was on was flooding and that moved some of the deer to some higher ground.
It was on private property, but, there were no high fences and there was plenty of other properties in the area that are not managed as well.
Zach sat with me in the stand, but, never got a shot. He could have taken a smaller buck but we never saw another one. We hunted 3 solid days.
I read all the time how some people look down their noses at hunting out of stands. It shows how little they know. It is hard to sit in a stand, be alert, glassing, and deal with the cold and hours of watching.
Sitting there for 4-7 hours at a time glassing deep into the woods and sometimes seeing nothing it is hard to stay focused and alert.
Over the 3 trips to MS I have most likely logged over 100 hours in a stand in a quality area to finally get a good buck.
He is not he oldest or the biggest, but, he is a very unique buck. He was still rubbing velvet which is very unusual for that time of the year. In the walk in cooler there was a buck that scored 160+ the largest ever taken off of the property taken the day before.
The river it was on was flooding and that moved some of the deer to some higher ground.
It was on private property, but, there were no high fences and there was plenty of other properties in the area that are not managed as well.
Zach sat with me in the stand, but, never got a shot. He could have taken a smaller buck but we never saw another one. We hunted 3 solid days.
