With the low deer population levels, I have been wanting to make a scouting trip for the past month to decide whether or not it would be worth taking some vacation time for a hunt. When I applied for the tag last winter, my old job had a schedule where I would get 8 strait days off once a month and I had 2 weeks vacation on top of that to use up. So finding time to go on a hunt wasn't going to be a problem. As luck would have it, the opportunity to make more money and work closer to home came along and it was too good to turn down. The only down side was that was going to give up my 8 off and no vacation to start out. Work has been really busy this whole month, every time I planed a couple days to go scouting I ended up being switched to a different crew. On Wednesday my following weeks schedule came out and I finally had a few days off and with the season starting in a week it was now or never. I got off of night shift, drove 2.5 hours home, took a half hour nap then packed my stuff and left for my 7 hour drive to my hunting area.
From previous scouting 2 years ago I wanted to first look at my #1 area. After a while of glassing from different vantage points and no deer spotted. I had 20 minutes of daylight left and drove 10 miles away to my #2 area and got lucky with a nice group of batchler bucks.
Picture quality is poor, camera ran out of battery juice and no spares so some of the pics are with my phone.
From previous scouting 2 years ago I wanted to first look at my #1 area. After a while of glassing from different vantage points and no deer spotted. I had 20 minutes of daylight left and drove 10 miles away to my #2 area and got lucky with a nice group of batchler bucks.
Picture quality is poor, camera ran out of battery juice and no spares so some of the pics are with my phone.