Final Exam Entry

I really enjoyed Will Gilmer coming and speaking to us.  He has to keep up with a lot of social media sites, which at first seems hard, but he made it look fun.  What I learned most was how much social media actually reaches the public.  The stats he gave us on the views on some of his post was a lot more than I had expected.

Andrew Marsh

The Nearing Rut

The yearly rut for whitetail's in Mississippi is creeping closer and closer.  The rut here in central Mississippi is usually around the end of December.  Every deer hunter knows this is the time of year that your chances of killing the buck of a lifetime increase by a lot.  I can not wait for this semester to be over and be in full force hunting mode.  This time of year is my favorite and I have high hopes of getting my biggest buck yet.  On the other side, we are still putting the smack down on the does.  We killed 5 more does at out place on the big black river this past weekend.  That bumped  us up to 20 does so far.  We just need 10 more to meet our 30 doe quota for the year.  Hopefully we will reach the 30 before rut hits so we can focus strictly on buck hunting.  Best of luck to everyone! Go get in the stand whenever possible.

Andrew Marsh.

Opening Day Buck!

This past weekend was opening day of rifle season for the state of Mississippi.  I have never killed a buck on opening weekend of rifle season but that changed this year.  I killed a really good 8pt.  He weighed 230 pounds, which is the biggest deer body wise that I have ever killed.  Although score wise he is not my biggest I was still very excited about this deer.  He was 18 and 3/4 inches wide.  I scored him at 127 inches overall.  The best part about this was that I got the entire hunt on camera.  I filmed myself kill this buck.  Filming yourself kill anything is quite a task, it is extremely hard.  I was very excited and now I am going to try and top that weekend this coming weekend.  I doubt I will but I am sure going to try!

Andrew Marsh

Awesome Week of Hunting

This past week and weekend was great!  I took one of my good friends Kayla Cheatham hunting for her first time ever.  She killed a doe.  Thats some good luck, first time to hunt ever and she killed her first deer.  She was very excited.  I also had a good weekend.  I killed 4 more does at our camp, which bumped our doe total up to 14 does.  We have 16 more to go.  This week is perfect weather so the deer should be up and on the move.  I cant wait for this coming weekend because I am going to the Mississippi River to hunt on Davis Island.  There are a lot of huge bucks over there so I have my fingers crossed.  Im ready to put my hands on some horns!

Andrew Marsh

Bow Season Nearing The End

The end of bow season is just around the corner.  This past weekend was youth gun season.  We had a few kids come to our camp this weekend and take out a few does for us.  The kids are always down for shooting does.  Monday the 5th started the first primitive weapon season for adults 16 years of age and older, but during this primitive weapon season you can only shoot antlerless deer.  Our normal gun season opens the 17th.  I am ready for it to open because that means that rut is almost here!! Also that means I can shoot a whole lot farther than I can with my bow.  Not long until this semester of school is over and it will be full force hunting time!

Andrew Marsh

FINALLY some cold weather!

The weather this past weekend was PERFECT.  If it would not have been a full moon weekend then the deer hunting would have been exceptional.  I hardly saw anything this weekend and definitely did not kill anything.  I didn't mind though because we finally got some cold weather.  Gun season is just around the corner.  This coming weekend is youth weekend so we will have a few kids at our deer camp this weekend looking to kill some deer.  Hopefully they will help us put a dent in the doe population on our property.  According to the biologist we have to kill 30 does this year and we have only killed 7 so we have a long ways to go.

Andrew Marsh

Hot Weather

The weather lately has been unusually hot.  It is usually a lot cooler this time of year than it normally is.  It has been really hot in the stand, which makes it sort of miserable due to the mosquitos.  Thank the good lord for thermocells or I would not be able to sit in the stand in the heat.  Although it has been hot, I did have a good weekend of hunting.  I killed two does.  My lab puppy, Abby, bloodtrailed her first deer this weekend and she did very good.  There is a cold front moving in this coming saturday so hopefully it will get the deer up and moving.  I have not killed a buck so far this year so I am biting the bullet to get one.  Keeping my fingers crossed.

Andrew Marsh