Posted By: Wacm
The big old grey doe - 01/18/17 10:25 PM
This season I didn't hunt deer much. I spent it mostly bird hunting. I have access to about 5000 acres here in Wimberley and keep 8 feeders running year round. So most of the season I just let friends hunt my stands here and there.
There is stand near a huge clearing. It's a 16ft tripod in a tree line facing North west. Typically your high enough that when deer walk in the tress behind you you scent is to high for them. It's a sweet setup they don't have a chance on a north wind. This year I had some guys from Colorado hunt and a guy sat there. I knew it wasn't good when this guy brought his huge backpack with him to the blind. I explained he wouldn't need it and how you can't move enough to use it anyway. He just had to have it.
When I picked him up he said the does came in and winded him. Then they kept coming back and blowing at him. From that day nobody killed anything there. They lol said a big doe would wind them and stand in the trees and blow at them till they left.
I decided to hunt it. I noticed the guys from Colorado cut down all the brush around the top of the tripod. The bow hanger was broke...I guess from his huge backpack he had to have. I hunted anyway. Around prime time I saw a good group of does in the trees behind me. One huge doe stood up on her back legs and then sounded the alarm. Then she left and returned a few times till I got down. I tried to sit in the cedar off to one side and catch her trying to wind me. She caught me though. I was so mad at those guys from CO after that. I have a buddy who brags about his scent loc gear and how they can't bust him. He hunted there and she caught him too. A few people hunted her and failed. Then I got busy and forgot all about it.
Then last Sunday the last day of season I really wanted to get one more deer before season closed. I had to guide quail hunters all morning in Round Mountain. Then I hurried home to try to deer hunt. I showered with scent free soap cause I had to. They hit the closest blind to the house..turns out it was this blind with the big grey doe. I had not even thought about wind till I got there. It was South South East so basically blowing right to the feeder. I decided I'd sit anyway cause I didn't have by time to go anywhere. Then I remembered the doe and was so bummed out. I thought maybe she's moved on by now or maybe a different deer would show up first. I went ahead and hunted there.
On my way in I was plucking cedar off the trees and rolling it between my hands and rubbing my clothes and boots. I could smell the cedar just standing there.
There is stand near a huge clearing. It's a 16ft tripod in a tree line facing North west. Typically your high enough that when deer walk in the tress behind you you scent is to high for them. It's a sweet setup they don't have a chance on a north wind. This year I had some guys from Colorado hunt and a guy sat there. I knew it wasn't good when this guy brought his huge backpack with him to the blind. I explained he wouldn't need it and how you can't move enough to use it anyway. He just had to have it.
When I picked him up he said the does came in and winded him. Then they kept coming back and blowing at him. From that day nobody killed anything there. They lol said a big doe would wind them and stand in the trees and blow at them till they left.
I decided to hunt it. I noticed the guys from Colorado cut down all the brush around the top of the tripod. The bow hanger was broke...I guess from his huge backpack he had to have. I hunted anyway. Around prime time I saw a good group of does in the trees behind me. One huge doe stood up on her back legs and then sounded the alarm. Then she left and returned a few times till I got down. I tried to sit in the cedar off to one side and catch her trying to wind me. She caught me though. I was so mad at those guys from CO after that. I have a buddy who brags about his scent loc gear and how they can't bust him. He hunted there and she caught him too. A few people hunted her and failed. Then I got busy and forgot all about it.
Then last Sunday the last day of season I really wanted to get one more deer before season closed. I had to guide quail hunters all morning in Round Mountain. Then I hurried home to try to deer hunt. I showered with scent free soap cause I had to. They hit the closest blind to the house..turns out it was this blind with the big grey doe. I had not even thought about wind till I got there. It was South South East so basically blowing right to the feeder. I decided I'd sit anyway cause I didn't have by time to go anywhere. Then I remembered the doe and was so bummed out. I thought maybe she's moved on by now or maybe a different deer would show up first. I went ahead and hunted there.
On my way in I was plucking cedar off the trees and rolling it between my hands and rubbing my clothes and boots. I could smell the cedar just standing there.
