Last weekend of buck season

In an effort to try to get some more meat, Dave and I booked a hunting trip for ME in Pleasanton over the weekend. Dave did a lot of research on the land owner and read up on the previous hunts that were posted before we sent the guy $350 that was non-refundable. 

Sunset of Friday night. The property was pretty and set up well. 

Home for the weekend. Yep...we tent camped. 

And it was 39 degrees when we woke up at 5:30 AM Saturday morning!

But that little two person tent did well for us I must say.

Sunrise from blind 2...the blind we hunted from all day on Saturday

Sums up how our morning hunt went....happy to be in a blind but bummed because 

we didn't see a damn thing. At this point we were still optimistic that we would be able to 

get something before the weekend was over. 

Driving the property scouting for different blinds and looking for tracks

Saturday afternoon hunt. It warmed up quite well while we were out there so the afternoon wasn't 

as cold as the AM hunts. 

But if this doesn't tell you the activity level we had I don't know what does. 

There were some other guys hunting on the property while we were there. After talking to them and getting the scoop on their two days we were starting to realize that the land owner has really over hunted his property and any deer that may have been out here are pretty much all hanging out on the neighboring property. We were not the only people there who had not seen a single deer.  

Since we were all ready paid and camping we decided to stick it out and see what Sunday morning brought. Unfortunately it was nothing different than Saturday. 

The weekend was a bust. No meat. Dave and I had a good time together but we still are looking for a place to grab does/spikes so we have enough meat to make sausage for the next year.