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Ok, I'll have a little fun with this.
This is written from a buck's point of view in early October...not rut, not late Winter, but this time of year.
I don't like to lay on the hard ground for more than 4 hours at a time. I usually get up between 10:00 and 11:00 AM. ,stretch my legs, walk a few yards from my bed and take a healthy squirt, mill around and eat some White Oak acorns for lunch, and head to my favorite bed for an afternoon nap. Around 3:00 PM. I get up again to stretch my legs, scratch my nuts, and head down to the creek for a big drink of water, and return to my bed for the rest of the afternoon. Close to sundown I slowly make my way through the thicket and wait in the Cedars until dark to enter the open alfalfa field.
I then enjoy feeding in the alfalfa field, checking out the new does, and doing a little sparring with the other boys. Then I lay down to rest, puke up some fresh alfalfa and chew my cud for a couple of hours. After midnight, I like to get up and stretch again, lay down some fresh buck droppings, and head over to the freshly picked cornfield for some corn. Around 2:30 AM., with a belly full or corn, I have a favorite nighttime resting spot in the tall soft grass in the water way of the cornfield. There I sleep again for a couple of hours. Around 5:00 A.M., still under the cover of darkness, I head back to my morning bedding area grabbing a drink of water along my way. My morning bedding area is on a high ridge with thick cover, facing the East with a Northwest wind at my back, with the warm morning sun taking the chill off. All I really have to do is watch the entire creek bottom from here, raise my nose to check the wind behind me, and rest in the sun.
It has actually been really easy to live to 7 years old. I have most of the bow hunters in the area pretty well patterned.
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