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My winless streak here finally ended this morning. I saw a deer.
Actually, I saw six.
Five were does and one was a small seven-pointer that was grunting and chasing a doe (that wasn’t interested).
It was again a mixed bag for the five of us hunting this morning. A couple of us saw deer, a couple of us didn’t.
We’re in for a short break and will be back at it this evening.
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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.
Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.
After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.
I had a pretty good morning myself….. finally saw some “rut action”! A doe came trotting by at around 8:00 AM….. over the next two hours three different bucks came through trailing the doe! Unfortunately none were a buck I was looking to shoot today but I still took them home on my video camera!
I got my son Chris out of school 2 hours early today for an evening hunt with him. It was funny…. I picked himn up and I asked what he put on his early dismissal sign out….. he said “hunting of course”. I was going to put down something like “an appointment”….. but I guess I should be happy he was honest! We din’t see anything in the evening….. guess that’s what we get for playing hookie!