Early Bow Season

Okay so most of the time when the temperature is in the upper eighty's you don't deer hunt. However, when you hunt in south Alabama you kind of expect that in the early part of bow season. When it's hot outside the deer are less likely to get up and move around which makes the hunting much harder and I have had a really tough season until yesterday afternoon when I decided to hang my climber off the back side of a cow pasture in some hardwoods with plenty of oaks that are dropping acorns. It's a spot that I have hunted in years past but haven't hunted it in a couple of years and considering the fact that I have seen eighteen deer combined between yesterday afternoon, this morning, and this afternoon. With the amount deer activity in this area even with the weather being as bad as it is for hunting this will be a spot that I will hunt very hard for the next few days with a cold front that is supposed to be blowing in tonight. 

This afternoon I actually got in the stand a little late but still managed to see six deer. I had only been sitting there about fifteen minutes when I took the picture you see above. It's kind of hard to tell but there in this picture it is a mature doe along with her three spotted fawns. 

Around an hour later I had two other mature does come passing through and it is almost impossible to see them in the picture but if you look very closely there are both pretty close to the center of the frame. I enjoy hunting whether I see any deer or not but it definitely helps getting to see a hand full deer. Hopefully this cold front will get some bucks moving in the day light hours over the next couple days so I might have the opportunity to take a crack at one of them.