Iowa Deer Blog

It's the best part in my opinion..well I like to put'em down too. Going over all of the last minute details. If you can imagine the amount of time required to just get yourself ready for a hunt and the quadruple it. A few years ago Brian and I purchase a Cannon XL1S. Awesome camera. We realized real fast how difficult it can be to get setup. Now that we are going to live stream hunts it is just as cumbersome. Brian has worked his rear off to get the equipment needed tp do a test run. When we are up and streaming you will see what I am talking about but that's the way it goes when you decide to do something that noone else is doing....YET!

Brian and I sat down to look at the topo maps and determine how to set up with the best chances. We decided to run a ground blind and decoy setup on the center hub of a wagon wheel. With the south to southeast wind expected tomorrow this should be reeeeaall nice. Brian is going to run/monitor the equipment while I try to connect on the Ghost of the Woods out there. We are going to use a Buck decoy for this hunt. We debated on the choice but after some scenerio talk thrus we decided at this time of the year we would do it this way. I think on this farm that the Does were locked down by the more mature deer last weekend. I think the big dogs will be back out there looking for the last of the hot does. I think a doe decoy would possibly pull a buck sniffing another doe trail and it could either be a giant or an imature buck where the buck decoy I hope will challenge only the kings of the timber whether on a doe trail or not.....hope my hunch is right.

We are set up in a nice open bowl at the bottome of a giant hill of CRP on the north side of the hub of a big wagon wheel. Anyway I could go on and on you get the idea..it's sweet.

It is going on 6pm the night before the first live stream and Sykes is still make last minute adjustments to the equipment. Where we are hunting it is remote and off the beaten path. We are using equipment that needs to pick up cell towers and so forth so it may not work out like intended but like I said this is a trial run. We are working on a shoestring budget.

Anyway it will be hard to sleep tonight but need to get some shut eye sometime. Stay Tuned!

John Sable / Iowa Deer