I got a few pictures of this buck in velvet at a mineral site and occasional pictures on a community scrape. This was one I was hoping to run into this season.
Took my 12 year old on her first hunt in late December. No deer but we saw a NICE bear at ~30 yards one morning. We were in a ground blind and I couldn’t get her on it fast enough. She’s an archery girl at heart and not really comfortable with a rifle yet.
She opted out after the bear encounter. I shot this doe with my 7 year old son watching. My first deer with a gun since 2006.
Winter habitat trips.
Turkey season prep.
We only managed one three day trip and didn’t get a bird but had fun!
Two years later my son has killed his first 7 deer and two turkeys on the property. His older sister hasn’t shown much interest in the rifle but wants to archery hunt this year.
From a management perspective we’ve been hard on the antlerless harvest with six killed this last season.
I burned my first two units this year totaling ~8.5 acres.
