Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries: Report from Deer Camp I

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Report from Deer Camp I

The past few years, I've been putting out a sort-of diary from turkey camp and deer camp on this forum or that. I figured this would be as good a place as any.

I arrived yesterday afternoon and filled the fridge and freezer out in the shed. That's a donation from Cousin Tim, he was moving back home and didn't have room for the fridge in the new place. I then took on a bunch of last minute projects like re-mounting the mail box and putting out the jagende gewehrständer

Mooseboy made it in shop for my Christmas present a couple of years ago.

At 1700 I retired to the Thoughtful Spot overlooking Pooh Corner and glassed the ridges, looking for deer. Just after sundown a nice young buck came out at 200 yards and started grazing. The dogs barked, but he didn't pay us any mind. Later, a herd came up through Skunk Hollow. I saw one set of antlers-- I think he was chasing some doe, but it was all just at the edge of what I could see. For those of you following the thread about getting a new guy started in deer hunting, the ground blind I pictured, the one at Faulty Towers overlooks Skunk Hollow.

Dinner was ribs from Corky's in Memphis . Krogers is now carrying frozen slabs.

This morning, I was back out at the Thoughtful Spot. It was colder than I expected-- about 31F. I went in to find another hat and when I got back, there were 3 doe out in the field. One was about 150 yards from where I was sitting. The dogs finally saw her and after some preliminary barking sent her and her buddies scurrying towards Skunk Hollow. I'm thawing some venison round steak. I'm going to grind it up this morning and then set to cooking some chili-- it'll be awesome by tomorrow Noon.

1 comment:

shaman said...: SuperCore, my buddy who's hunting for the first time, dropped down about 1600 LIMA. I took him for a ride around the area and then we went back to camp and glassed for deer-- nothing showed. The drive was fun; I swear this county's population must double the weekend of the Opener. Everyone was coming to camp-- lots of signs, lot's of trucks, lot's of 4-wheelers coming off trailers.

The ribs got eaten-- one of my better batches. The bones got thrown to the dogs, and the table cleared for the 'morrow.

KYHillChick and Angus showed up at sundown and after Angus gave us a bagpipe concert we toasted the hunt, ate dinner and we're hitting the rack now. 0430 comes mighty quick. I had to call back to town and have Angus go down to the reloading bench. I'd left my 308 WIN reloads at the house. I tell you, gentlemen, I am living the best of all possible lives. Who else can call back to town and have your wife and kid bring you your ammo?

Angus is not appreciative of the cold weather, so he'll sleep in. I told him he can go out and watch the show from the back of the house. I'll take him out in the afternoon and see what we can find.

They're saying partly cloudy and 41F for sunrise. I'm going to the killer stand and see what shows.

G'Night from deer camp.; Sat Nov 14, 01:59:00 PM 2009