11-25-2011 Fri

11-25-2011 Fri
9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Weather: S20, cloudy, 45˚ (1200)
Location: De Soto, WI
Bagged: nothing
Partners: Tom Weber

Comments

It was the seventh day of deer season and I was hunting with Tom Weber just north of De Soto. It was more or less an exploratory trip than anything else. Tom’s brother’s mother in law lives down by Battle Hollow and she has forty acres that butts up to some public land. I had ridden past this area many times while riding the school bus back and forth to school for about five years, but I had never hunted it.
The terrain was very steep and rugged; it reminded me of some of the mountains I had hunted out in Colorado. One of the hillsides on the south side of the road was particularly nasty; it was steep, rocky and was very hard going on account of all the blow downs that littered the hillside. It was definitely apparent that a tornado or straight line winds had been through the area a couple years earlier.
We never did see any deer, but we did see a few turkeys and the area did look like it held some deer.

Observations:

The area is very steep and rugged and I may hunt it again in the future.