Freezing cold is all I can say. This guy is not used to wind chills bottoming out in the low teens – 11 degrees to be exact. Had so many clothes on I could barely walk to the stand, let alone climb into it.
Freezing cold aside though, the deer did move a little bit.
I had a yearling buck cross the CRP field a little after 7 followed by a doe and her 2 fawns that I watched for about 10 minutes before they slipped off into some thicker bedding cover to lay up out of the wind.
Not a ton of movement, but still saw some deer. Just thinking that any day now a good shooter buck will magically appear. Also getting the itch to shoot a doe or two and try to stock the freezer. I’ve got to put at least 2, if not 3, in the deep freeze to last me until next October and 2 of my buddies are also wanting venison so we’ll see if I get a chance the next couple days to sling some lead bullets or some carbon arrows.
No video camera on this hunt because it doesn’t operate in temperatures lower than about 25 degrees. Keeps giving an error message about being too cold and keeping it warm in a pocket and then trying to dig it out with numb fingers is a good recipe to drop the little camcorder out of the stand and I don’t want to do that.
