September 2012

Trophy farms  Blog post

Im BACK!

  Well as you already surmised I have been on an extended hiatus. I am back just in time for one of nature’s most important transitions from summer to  spectacular fall.  WHY you ask do I think it is spectacular, well for me it’s the cool autumn air. The brilliant color change that occurs magically during the gradual shorting of daylight along with the sharpening of the Virginia white tail bucks horns and senses.

  I started chasing white tailed bucks at the age of  17. I graduated from the rank of expert eastern squirrel hunter into a whole new world and I loved it! I loved it then and I love it even more today. I had my first experience with the canny white tail and the results were not so impressive. Back in those days the White Tail deer was not so numerous and seemed to me to be more of a ghost than a real creature. The occasional deer tract and other sign testified of an animal that proved to be much more of a challenge than the numerous loud squirrels I had cut my teeth on.

    I was hooked more by the challenge of outsmarting the Buck than the actual kill. I loved then as I do now watching all of Our Father in Heavens creatures in their natural habitat and trying to blend into the background so that I was “invisible” to the creatures of the forest. I was the first of all my friends to use camouflage and scents to hide my presence way back then. I remember climbing trees and building “tree stands” to hunt out of, I was also the first of my hunting buddies to utilize the advantage of being out of the deer’s natural line of sight and his unbelievable sense of smell. I learned real quick that it was his nose that got me detected 9 times out of  10.

 We will talk more of the buck and his natural affection for the does and how that plays into the “hunters” plans on later posts!

 I invite all of you to report your sightings of deer activity and RUT sign as we progress into the fall and the peak of the rut!

Until next time this is Big Daddy saying I hope your tonight and tomorrow are  “JUST RIGHT!!”