Afternoon of Scouting

[bigskyscott]

This afternoon I went scouting for deer on the ranch that I'll be hunting on . The firearms deer season opens on Sunday. I left the house at noon and got to the area 10 minutes later. I took these pic's 15 minutes into my scouting walk.No Mulie bucks have shown themselves yet, but lots of does.

[bigskyscott]

The temps. warmed up a bit and the snow was starting to melt. At a distance I spyed an old tree stand on the strip I'm thinking about hunting on. While walking up to it I spooked this young lady bedded down below the stand.

[bigskyscott]

The stand looks a little ragged, but it is still solid. I decided to take a chance and climb up into it and was really surprised how stable it still is. Across the Jefferson river about 700-800 yards away from the stand is a pivot field. This field was loaded with whitetails !
I took a mess of pic's of them . There were about 6 or 7 bucks in this herd. A couple were real dandys ! I was able to catch two of them pushing themselves around the field. Looks to me that the Pre-rut has finally started out here. After being in this stand for a couple of hours, I think at this point, I'll make this my #1 hunting spot. Here are some more pic's. Sorry bout the quality... they were pretty far away... a much better "show" through my binocs. !! ;D

[admin]

It will be like being in a shooting gallery. Great pics, good luck to ya.

[4pointer]

Good Luck,, Take the Air out of one of them BUCKS..
Great Pic's,,,,,,, KEEP UP THE GREAT CAMERA WORK..
WE REALLY ENJOY THEM PIC'S ;D