November 26th
On Sunday morning I was in the stand very early because the temperature was about 45 degrees at 6:00 A.M. I thought the deer would only be moving early if at all. I was very wrong about the last statement. I could here deer moving all around before it got light. At 8:00 a large doe with 2 fawns came in from the southwest. The 2 fawns came within 15 yards on the base of the tree stand. The doe on the other hand would not cross my boot tracks even though they where in 6 inches of muck. I know she could not smell me because I had walked through foot deep water with rubber boots on for the last 100 yards. I also know that she could see my boot tracks in the mud and I have seen deer run off at the sight of human tracks in the snow before. She picked her head up truned around and made one quit grunt and the 2 fawns came running. All 3 deer slowly walked out to the south about 75 yards in the woods and made a giant circle around me. At 8:30 a single large doe came in from the northeast within 30 yards but I decided to let her go hoping for a buck. About an hour after that I could here all kinds of racket to my south so I scanned the woods with my binoculars and I spotted a spike buck waking my way. He walked right in and stood broadside at 20 yards for 10 minutes. I let him go and he worked his way east very slowly for the next 45 minutes. At 10:15 a small doe fawn came in from the north and feed at the base of my tree stand for 10 minutes. She trotted off and headed to the south west. It was a very active morning sit.
In the evening my wife joined me as we sat behind my uncle’s house and got comfortable in our blind at 3:00 P.M. Not 5 minutes later a small button buck came into the food plot 80 yards to the west. He feed for an hour and then walked off to the north. At 4:15 another button buck came into the food plot from the south and began feeding. 15 minutes later a second fawn came out of the woods from the same run. The next half an hour we just watched the 2 fawns feed. At 5:00 2 more button bucks came into the food plot from the north to make it a total of 4 fawns, 3 button bucks and 1 doe. The fawns all milled around in the clover and feed till dark. The bad part about the sit was that mature deer never bothered to show themselves, but it was still nice to see deer during the entire afternoon hunt.