Noland Outdoors

This morning was one of those mornings that only come along 3 or 4 times a year, if you're lucky.  An arctic blast shooting in from the north, accompanied by brief, pre-dawn snow showers, was sure to get the deer moving and it certainly did for us.  Jason "Goose" Eatman arrowed this nice doe shortly after daybreak.  As for myself, well, I missed a 5 step, almost straight down shot on a doe.  Bad angle, in a thicket, blah-blah-blah...no excuse.  Shouldn't have shot.  Anyway, had a buck come by before daybreak and work a scrape and jumped several deer walking out.  If only I'd stayed in my tree instead of getting down after my shot (I thought I might have hit her) I might would have gotten another chance because I jumped one up not 35 yards from my tree walking out.  That's the way it goes though.  Saw multiple fresh scrapes so the pre-rut is definitely in gear so maybe we'll have some bucks to display very soon.