September 27, 2006
A good clue
During a recent scouting trip to one of my deer hunting areas I confirmed that a big white oak that's always seemed to be a deer magnet was loaded with acorns.
Tuesday evening I headed back there to hang a stand. I hauled along my two "helpers," my 4-year-old twin girls, who really just ran around and mucked the place up with human scent. I didn't really mind because it's a working farm so, a: The deer are used to human scent and, b: It will have some time to cool off.
It was dusk by the time I got the stand in the tree and we jumped in the truck to head home. As we were pulling away two small does came running across a field, making a beeline for the tree. The front deer didn't even seem to notice us, running within 20 yards of my by-then stopped truck.
The girls may be just 4, but they knew what that meant.
"That's a pretty good clue," one of them said.
I'll be hunting that stand in less than two weeks.
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