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

Hogs!

If you have land that you hunt own and you do not have hogs on it just be ready because with the exploding population of hogs today they will be there sooner or later.  On your property on the Big Black River in Attala County we have hogs.  We have had the place for 5 years now and at first the hog population was not high at all.  We hardly ever got trail camera pictures of them and much less even saw one.  Well that has changed a lot over the last few years.  They have exploded in population numbers.  So far this deer season, which has been open for 16 days, we have seen more hogs than we have in the past 4 years.  Every chance we get we shoot one.  I killed a pretty big sow the other day with my bow.  She weighed 160 pounds.  Our biologist told me that a hog population can increase by 80% in just one year.  That is insane!!  So if you start to see them do not hesitate on shooting.  They cause millions of dollars in crop damage each year and do a lot of damage to your deer food plots.  Shoot them when you get the chance.

Andrew Marsh

Deer Season Update.

Well this past weekend was not a very good weekend for me.  The weather was perfect and deer movement was great.  It could not have been any better conditions.  The problem was me.  I was doing terrible at shooting.  I shot at 4 does this weekend, yes I said 4, and I did not get a single one of them.  I don't know what the deal is but I am not very happy about it because now I have to go buy more arrows and broadheads and those things are not cheap.  O well maybe this weekend will be better.  On a good note some of my friends killed really good bucks so overall the season has started out pretty good.  Hopefully it will get better for me.

Andrew Marsh

Deer Season Has Begun!

Yesterday October 1st started the 2012-2013 deer season.  I killed a doe yesterday afternoon which is only 1 of the 30 does that we are supposed to take off of that piece of property this year.  We also timed it perfect for food plot planting.  This past weekend we planted our food plots.  It was perfect timing because we finished them just in time on saturday before the rain.  With all that rain and the forecasted sunshine for this week, the plots just come up pretty quick.

Andrew Marsh