Southern Indiana Whitetail: October 1st hunt report

Friday, October 1, 2010

October 1st hunt report

I shot a bit of video today, but being that there was no action, I've chosen not to sharethe boring bits of me talking.

We had a low in the mid 40s this morning which made it feel like a good morning. I sat behind our old house at a place called "the point" which has a ton of big white oaks. The woods was alive all morning (I even heard a gobble!), but we didn't see a single deer.

As we were changing Dad's tire which was flat when we got out, another hunter came out of the woods and said that he had shot a nice buck. He had not yet recovered.

I won't be able to hunt again until at least Wednesday morning when I will hopefully head out the "the sanctuary."

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Properties

My only property in the Cincinnati area right now is a 50 acre tract on the Great Miami River that I call "The Sanctuary". 50 acres does not sound like much, but the setting of this property is what makes it great. Sitting adjacent to a park, it is protected from hunting pressure and receives deer traffic from the vast amoun of wildlife habitat in the park. The 50 acres is about 1/3 native grass field and 2/3 wooded area and thick burr patch. My first year hunting this property was 2008. Though I filled my tag on Thanksgiving morning on a different property, I saw a good amount of mature buck activity on this property that fall. Having worked hard all summer to get ready for the 2009 season, I was able to arrow a mature buck on Halloween.

The Dream 80 is an 80 acre tract in southern Orange county that is surrounded mostly by Hoosier National Forestry. We started our lease at the beginning of December, 2010. Dad had lusted after this property for many years, so it is now called The Dream 80 and referred to as TD-80. At this point (12/12/2010) we are just beginning to make plans for TD-80. We are beginning to map out sanctuaries and food plots that we will break ground on early in the spring (map seen here http://siwhitetail.blogspot.com/2010/12/preliminary-plans-for-td-80.html). The innitial goal for this property is to make it home to two mature bucks a year. That seems like a realistic goal that will push us to want more out of the property. If this property produces one mature buck (four of us will hunt it with bow only) per year, I will consider it a major success.