Southern Indiana Whitetail: Warm Weather, Aggressive Tactics Tomorrow

Monday, November 8, 2010

Warm Weather, Aggressive Tactics Tomorrow

Last week gave us some pretty cold weather. I wasn't able to hunt over the weekend due to some ministry duties, but I did see some chasing in the fields at night. This week may not be so entertaining. Temperatures are predicted around 70 degrees all week. The nights will still be right around 40 and still dropping to 36 tonight, so the mornings should still offer a good amount of deer and rut movement. But, as I've said all season, this has the potential to be a very inconsistent rut. I would expect this to be a downswing until we get temperatures back down around freezing at night and 50s during the day.

On that note, I'm going to do something tomorrow morning that I very rarely do. With this warm front moving in, the wind is out of the South which leaves me with no stand options. Considering, I am going to sit on the North side of the property and rattle. I almost never rattle, because my success in doing so has never been that great. But tomorrow I'm going to give it another shot. Stay tuned and I'll let you know what happens.

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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.