Hunted a small field in a 3-way funnel on Monday evening out of a ground blind that I packed in on my back.
Looking up a roadbed.
And looking over my shooting sticks into the 1-acre food plot.
It was almost dark before a group of does and fawns fed through. No antlers to be seen although my hunting buddy did see a shooter 8 pt. right as darkness fell all the way across a large cow pasture.
The next evening I sat on a different area of the property in a matrix of fencelines, small ditches, and cow pasture. You can hunt the area from a number of different vantage points because the fields are broken up just enough that moving a couple 100 yards in the same field can open up totally different views of different nooks and crannies of the woodline.
30 minutes before dark, a buck appeared on a distant fenceline. He was just a yearling 5 pt. but he beelined for the exact tree my climber was in and proceeded to take a few bites out of the apple core I had just tossed away. I captured him on my video camera for a couple minutes before he left for parts unknown. Slow evening, but good to see a buck beginning to cruise.
