Frank's outdoors...

As the season on does in the county where I hunt ends, I took one this Saturday.  It was a nice big doe with a pair of 2 yr olds with it.  They came out at 8am with the sun RIGHT in my eyes... it was 30 degrees.  A beautiful morning.  When I brought my gun up, the sun right in my face made it look like I was in a fog!  Brutal.  Anyway, I shot at her, and the heat made a steam cloud that lasted for a few seconds so I had no idea which direction she went or if I even hit her!  I waited about 15 minutes before going after her.  Found her about 15 yds in the woods.  Thank God for my buddy Mark who hunts the lease as well, as we used his 4 wheeler to tote her back to camp to be cleaned/quartered. Sorry for the quality of the photos, all done with my iPhone... This photo was me just messing around with my iPhone from the blind a few days before.

We had another great hunt with Butch Waggoner (actually his son Ryan) of Butch's Guide Service.  It was damn cold, and it was steady raining all morning.  We took 16 geese (9 specks, 4 snows, 2 ross, and 1 blue) and 4 ducks (1 spoony, 1 mallard, and 2 green teal). Me acting like a fool: Picture of some of the gang (me, Kevin, Mike, Dad B, and Dad F).

Hadn't been to the lease in over a week, and went to get the SD card, install a solar panel on the feeder, and put up new blind material.  Hoping to hunt tomorrow evening. Check out what turned up on the camera! After I installed my blind material, took a few photos of that and my solar panel.   Also got a picture of the green haze showing up in my food plot...  rye grass, rape, and clovers.

Saw 3 does this weekend, didn't pull the trigger.  Wish I had.  After the morning rain, I mean sit, haha, I went and got the SD card from my camera.  When I got home, saw this buck on the camera.  Not a shooter this year (Montgomery County, TX has antler restrictions 13" or better OR a spike), but in a year or two, he could be a nice buck!  Out in the middle of the day, which is what the moon phased application are saying the deer would be doing...  And the hogs are back... a big fat one:

Opening weekend has been great so far, seen several bucks.  Unfortunately, I haven't seen a shooter yet.  I did however have that photo on the camera.  I switched the camera to video mode, and caught this fella...  Sooo, I know there is a shooter out there!!!

Went to check on my camera this pas weekend in anticipation of opening day Nov 6th!  Well, it appears there MIGHT be a decent buck out there other than the young narrow spike/4pt below.  We'll see, but the camera is taking less than desirable photos, and since the activity is always in the dark, I am getting mainly infrared photos... might be time to switch to a flash camera.  I used Paint.NET to enhance the contrast around the deer and noticed it might be a 6 pt or even a small 8pt.