Hunting Days are Few and Far Between

This hunting season has been fairly meager as far as hunting opportunities go.  Since the twins came at the beginning of September, I have only been able to get out 3 times.  Once for doves, and twice for deer.  Thankfully, each day of deer hunting has been good.  I've had plenty of deer around me each time.  This last trip was almost ruined by some local dogs as they were running in the woods I was hunting.  I had to chase them off before getting in the tree last Saturday morning and wasn't settled in until sunrise.  With my opportunites being so infrequent, I was none too pleased when this happend. 

The week before I was slam covered in deer all morning.  All does, yearlings, and spikes, but still a lot of action to keep me alert.  The only downside was I was going to try and get out of the stand early and head back as soon as I could so my wife wasn't alone with the babies for too long.  Unfortunately, I had deer under me until 9:30am and didn't get down until 10am.  Add that to dragging out, field dressing, and dropping off the doe I shot at the donation site, it was after noon before getting home. 

Both morning were gorgeous.  Acorns were dropping like rain in the white oak stand of woods and deer deer were taking full advantage.  I was able to seal the deal on a healthy doe.

Pre Rut November bow hunting in Tennessee

This is a video of a couple early weekends worth of hunts I had last season.  I passed on a bunch of smaller bucks and eventually took a healthy mature doe for the freezer.  With the cooler air in the mornings, the deer were certainly moving more.  I couple weeks after this, I spotted the buck I had been after.  There were rubs and scraps all over this hill side I'd been hunting, and I knew there was at least one good mature deer working the area.  Unfortunately I didn't catch him on film, much less shoot him, as he was chasing does through thick brush.

Here's the result for the freezer