Well, my friend and I didn’t kill anything on camera over the last two days, and he headed back home this morning with an empty cooler… the weather just did not cooperate. Monday afternoon we had to bail out of our metal tower stand about 7pm when a huge storm complete with lots of lightening came by. And a similar storm came by last night too; Fortunately, it just happened to hold off until after it got dark.

We saw lots of young deer and a few does, just no big bucks or hogs. However we had a great time in the lowcountry woods, and Will was just greatful to get out of town after enduring a week of rain from Tropical Storm Fay -he lives in Melbourne where they received over 25 inches from it!

However we did pick up a nice set of antlers off of a good buck that was hit just down the road from my house on Monday. (My wife not only was nice enough to call and tell us about the deer, but to stay with him to make sure no one else picked him up.) He was a beautiful 3.5 year old buck that had already shed his velvet as well as his summer coat. And a car must have just grazed him because he didn’t have any marks on him, just one dangling antler… That is Bo proudly showing the two sides off, and please note his “toy” gun. It is a Knight and Hale muzzleloader stock with a dowel for a barrel, topped by my dad’s old Redfield wideview 4x scope. I see a lot of toy guns at Walmart, but I have yet to see one like that!

As for the hunting this week, Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge has 5 hog hunters in for two days of hunting starting this afternoon and a film crew from Hunting the World… Southern Style trying to get a monster velvet buck. So hopefully I will have some new kill shots and a story or two tomorrow.

Jeff

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