Failed Coues Deer Hunt :(

Well, just like many other hunters this early archery season i was unable to score my big buck “Widey” we had been watching for 2 months.

I had a few opertunities to harvest smallers bucks two of which would have made pope and young but i had my heart set on “Widey”.

My gut feeling was the presence of a full moon and really hot days cuased the deer to move more at dark and off peak hours. My trail cameras confimred my assumption he was coming through at night.

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It was very fustrating because he had been coming every other day religiously for two months between 5:30am -7:30am or 6pm-7pm and never once did i have a pic of him at night. And now those five days I was there I had him come through 3 nights out of the 5.

I started to think maybe I was busting him out of his bed in the mornings when i was entering my blind at 3:30am and considered changing tactics and hunting 8am-2pm I have had success on midwest bucks this way durring full moons. But i talked myself out of it and stuck to my game plan, i pulled out after 5 days and decide to try my luck on muleys and came up short as well only finding small forkeys and imature bucks. Oh well theres allway late season.