Live from the Cutover -- The 2nd Annual Poor-Boys-Public-Land-Hunt-Club New Year's Day Deer Drive

[np307]

Last year, a buddy and I went on the last day of our season and did some deer driving. It was only the two of us, so we had pretty limited success but we did manage to jump a couple deer. No shots were fired though.

This year, we decided to give it another go but to invite more people so that we could better cover the areas we intend to drive. Initial invites of 8 resulted in 6 "yes"s and that dwindled to 4 who will be there today. Not as many as I'd like, but should be enough to have some better results.

I'll try to update this thread live as we go through the day. Rendezvous time is 0830 to give time for everyone to get childcare taken care of and so that we don't have to worry about someone showing up after we've walked in and started driving.

Right now, I'm making coffee and getting my stuff together. It's cool but warmer than yesterday, should be fine weather to beat through some briar patches.

 

[np307]

The shirttail boy is with Nani and Pops and I've got the wind behind me. Beautiful morning, seen quite a few deer in the fields. Hopefully they go to bed soon so we can jump them up.

 

[.270Rem]

Sounds like a solid plan. Fill some tags and have some fun.

 

[Gellar]

Good luck and stay safe!

 

[np307]

First setup of the day

 

[trackerbacker]

First setup of the dayView attachment 308656

Get down on the cones and a start crawling.

Good luck to yall!

 

[np307]

No deer jumped so far. One big rabbit was jumped. My turn to walk so I'm about to push through this:

 

[Gellar]

First setup of the dayView attachment 308656

That looks like a big chunk of woods! Did you just look at topo maps trying to figure natural travel corridors and funnels to decide where to put standers and drivers?

 

[np307]

That looks like a big chunk of woods! Did you just look at topo maps trying to figure natural travel corridors and funnels to decide where to put standers and drivers?

This is the south, where every tract of pines is gridded out with logging roads. Makes it pretty easy to set up.

 

[Gellar]

This is the south, where every tract of pines is gridded out with logging roads. Makes it pretty easy to set up.

Awesome! We have some old log roads that we use to mark our drives too. On another drive we use a power line clearing to mark the standers. Makes it a lot easier to get deer out too!

 

[np307]

Still no deer jumped. We moved to another area for a couple more drives. Finding some sign just no deer.

 

[np307]

Well, we ended the day with no deer jumped. Everybody got lunch on the way back and it was all a good time. That's the end of this deer season, looking forward to turkey season just around the corner.

 

[Browning Rifles]

Last day always was all dogs on the ground in eastern north carolina. You need dogs. Maybe you are in in the part that is no dogs but damn it is fun….

 

[np307]

Last day always was all dogs on the ground in eastern north carolina. You need dogs. Maybe you are in in the part that is no dogs but damn it is fun….

Yeah I'm central NC. No dogs allowed for deer.

 

[Wvhntr81]

Always a good time to get with buddies out on a deer drive. More about the time spent then the kill.

 

[Gellar]

Even though no deer were harvested it sounds like a successful day!

 

[np307]

Always a good time to get with buddies out on a deer drive. More about the time spent then the kill.

Even though no deer were harvested it sounds like a successful day!

For sure, it was a good time for everybody. We'll do the same thing next year. Probably pick a few different areas though.