Thanks all ....
I had my wife drop me off tonight so as not to draw any attention with my truck parked there ... ( brought my good camera along )
I used the wind and scouted the entired property ( approx 500 acres of beans )
Found the mature bucks tracks and followed at a snails pace to scope out where they might be bedded ..
The main trail skirted the field ... some corn still coming up along the edges of the fields ...
The heavy buck track followed a tractor path , and wove in and out obviously randomly feeding on beans ...
Heavy trails in the tractor path leading to what I thought was the bedding area ( a shaded , treed low area ) .. just over the rise , so I stayed out and observed at a distance ( wind was perfect for me ) .
I had about an hour and a half to kill before I thought they would show , so I backed off and walked to the river ... got a nice close up of two geese preening with one lifting his leg to show off his leg band ...
Some geese flew out to feed ... so I hiked to the road and my wife picked me up after dropping my daughter at soccer ... headed in the direction of the last flight and found a field they were landing in ... that general area shows good promise for next weeks early opener ...
My wife drove me back and I slowly snuck back in for the last 1/2 hour of good sunlight .... sat down wind in some cover and watched the beans ... The bachelor group came out as the sun was going down and where too far off for a decent picture .... at least I know the bedding area now ...
Going to keep my eye on that group into September ...
See Ya. ... R.J. > " Remember , Trophies are measured by the time and energy expended to get them , not the size or quantity of the quarry "
