The weather man was just alittle off with the rain predictions yesterday. The forecast was for .5-.75” of rain.
We started the morning at a different farm than we hunted the evening before, a 160 acre farm that has just had 2 fields of beans cut and a field of corn that had been cut for a few weeks and a cattle pasture. We spent most of the morning scouting around and found some really nice areas and a few old stand sites.
It was getting to be about lunch time so we headed into town for a quick lunch and to get ready for the afternoon hunt and a quick check of the weather forecast. News said that that rain would be moving in about 3:00 and would be a steady rain for the rest of the afternoon and throughout the night. Well they were right. We headed back to the same stand we hunted the evening before. We had seen a few does and couple spikes and one very large bodied deer that I assumed was a buck but it was well over 500 yards away so no way I could tell what it really was through my cheap binos.
We climbed up into the stand about 3 and got settled in. We had been there for about 15 mins and we started to hear thunder and the wind picked up and about 10 mins later it started raining. What a truely relaxing sound to listen to the rain on the blind while out hunting with your kid. I spent the next 2 hours reading over the Illinois rules and regs book while my son played on his phone with few long talks about how deer don’t mind the rain. Daylight is starting to fade away and the rain is really coming down and big puddles are forming in the field.
I got to thinking that it’s just about the time that the deer were hitting the fields yesterday and I looked out way across and sure enough there were 2 deer out feeding about 500 yards away. I grabbed the binos and whispered to Travis “Hey look deer in the field.” About that time Travis says “Dad! Look Look Look, right in front of us! It’s a Buck!!!!!