Saturday, December 13, 2009 p.m.

Saturday, December 13, 2009 p.m., 28 degrees, cold, wind S at 10-15 mph, sunset 4:32 p.m. (Hunting closes 5:02 p.m). After check the camera this morning I decided to get out. Nothing big, but a couple of smaller bucks did survive. I decided to brave the cold and went out to the ladder stand. I got in at 3:15 p.m. All I can say is it was cold. We have about 10-12" of snow on the ground and the wind just cut through your skin. I didn't see anything while I was in the stand, even as Arlie fired up the combine to cut his corn field. My corn is still standing. It works as a great wind block for my driveway, but it is also a great hiding place for the deer. I did have a deer (doe) come out of the corn and run past where the pole shed is being built. That was it. Totals: Bob - 0 deer.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sunday, November 22, 2009 a.m., 45 degrees, mostly cloudy, light rain, wind NE at 5-10 mph, sunrise 7:08 a.m. (Hunting opens 6:38 a.m). I decided to go back to Octopussy at Romance. Mike sat in tower at Romance. Dan went to hog back. Steve on new 20 acres. Jon went to tower on the north. Lon went to 3rd point. Riley and Chris went to Gasoline Alley. At 7:05 a.m., I had a doe and two fawns sneak through to the east of me. They were 100 yards away and in the brush. They went up the hill behind me to the south and took the old logging road back to the west. That was it for me in the am. We did the creek bottom drive and we ended up kicking up 3 does in the corn/valleys but no bucks. In the afternoon, I went to the gun fort on the north side of 171 north of Gasoline Alley. At 4:40 p.m., I had a nice 2 1/2 year old 8-10 pointer cross the field 175+ yards to the north of me. I thought seriously about taking the shot, but since it was on the neighbors I elected to let him go. Lon later told me that I would have been fine, but I just don't feel comfortable doing that. Nevertheless, it was fun to see. Everyone saw deer today, just nothing worth shooting. Mike Halder pasted up a small 6 pointer at 15 yards from the dance floor on the north side of 171. Totals: Bob - 4 deer, 1 buck. 2 more does during the drive.

New Toy

I decided to buck up and get myself a good camcorder! I tried three different camcorders this year and didn't like any of them. I guess shooting a nice buck really gets you excited and wanting more. Here is the camera that I bought.

I bought it from Best Buy and it is a Panasonic Digital Camcorder with 60GB hard drive.

The best part about this camcorder is that it has 70x optical and 3500x digital zoom. This is going to give me the opportunity to pretty much tell you whether or not the buck has a booger hanging out of its nose or not. It also has advance optical image stabilization which will help the video from shaking so much like it was in my last video when I shot the last buck.

I can't wait to use it so I just might have to head out in the freezing cold this weekend and try to get some video of some bucks and if not I can try to get some video of a shot at a doe to see the stabilization at work!

Good luck to all you late season hunters and if you are done then I hope that your offseason of finding sheds and trail cam pics will be a good one! Oh yeah, and happy holidays!

Fawnslayer Out!