Folks, plenty of deer....

Might want to hang out till a little later than 730

I know; thanks for advice. First time out in blind with my boys. We got some patience muscles to build up...

It’s quite alright, Beadles prolly don’t know the struggles of hunting with multiple youguns on public land....

I had my 4 and 9 year old with me this morning on Lowndes wma. We will be back this evening, they played and talked but is ok, they think we just hunting

That's good stuff DK! That Trace Adkins song can make your allergies act up when you least expect it.

I was set up at 0530 this morning on Redstone Arsenal off a firebreak, about 150 yards from my truck/road. At 0555 an idiot pulls up and parks right beside my truck. 5 minutes later here he comes down the firebreak. I strobed him with my flashlight when he was still 100 yards away. He kept coming. When he was 40 yards away he says "I'm going past you." I reply with "You're cutting me off" and "Find another spot." Stupid thing is if he went past me he would have been in a restricted area, cause I was already close to the corner of the area. So he talks loudly for a minute, none of which I could understand, then goes back halfway to the truck and climbs about 45 yards away.


Then the idiot starts climbing down at 0700 and blows out a doe in my direction. She RAN right under my stand, and I never had a shot.

Oh the joys of public land hunting.

Trust me I know better than most. We went hog hunting in tnf last weekend and I had to make my son leave at 10

Congrats cgardner!

Lowndes WMA is north of 80 isn’t it?

North zone = bucks in

Lowndes wma is in zone B
Bucks only for the first 10 days.

You must have had someone report you or they spotted a feeder from the air. That's almost always the case if the game warden already has you on his list for opening morning. They don't usually walk all the way to your stand just to do a license check. Good thing the GW was wrong.

Set up here in a hardwood bottom, behind me 150 yards is a established food plot on a power line and a nasty thicket area in front of me where I believe their bedding. Only about 10-12 white oaks dropping in here and it is tore up with sign and deer chit. Good luck to all

No deer, but several turkeys (ironic given my stuggles at killing one). First a lone mature gobbler, then later a group of 3 or 4 including 1 jake that was [attempting to] gobble his head off. Also found another, much better, spot and put another stand up (see the other thread I posted about it).

Settled in for the afternoon, despite my complaining about the heat. Thermacell is the only way I'm even here. Skeeters are terrible.

I got settled in about 3. Hoping they move early with it being overcast

Imma hafta high tail it back out to the woods.

A few of these skeeters don't know what a thermacell is apparently.

Back for round 2. Good luck guys.

Had no service this morning, but didn’t see nary ‘a deers anyway. Bunches of turkeys, jakes gobbling and sparring. Saw 3 coons and a bunch of fox squirrels. Drove about 40 miles south to private land this pm, just chillin in the tree right now. Hardwood ridge in the middle of head high cutover. Wind is VERY marginal.