Lil Bluff Creek Road 2-5-06

Today was for exploring a new road. Not for hunting. The shotgun, of course, comes along for the ride. Koko and Daisy were also along. Daisy did very well coming when I called her. For the most part she hunted and hung with Koko. Koko is a good influence on her.



The road was Lil Bluff Creek Road. It heads north off of Wiley Pardue road. It was closed with a cable gate and locked. I can't remember if the cable was down during deer season. The road is 17.1 miles from the house.



The plan was to follow this road to its end, which appeared to be about two miles on the map. At the end of the road, I would go about a tenth of a mile cross country to a creek, which according to the map, would be a straight shot south to were the truck was.

I saw no game animals and very few signs of live game. I did see three turkey droppings. I also saw the bones of deer scattered at the beginning of the road. I couldn't tell if it was a buck or doe, the top of the skull was missing. The lower jaw had six fully developed teeth on each side.

The road had several vantage points from which you could see for miles.

I saw two pairs of blue birds.

About 1.23 miles into the road, is a food plot. It looks to be planted with a wheat type grass - not the turnip type in Turkey field. All around the field were well worn paths, entrance ways for game. This is definitely a place to hunt during deer season. Probably, best during the late season when the crowd dies down.
At the end of the road, there were remnants of a campfire. Although, camping is not allowed here. I also found this skull, which is clearly from a buck. You can see where the antlers were sawed off. There were still hair mattings and skin - probably shot this year. It had six fully developed teeth.

I followed the decline of the ridge to what should have been the stream that would lead south back to the truck.


I followed this stream for a mile and ultimately met back with the road. Along the way I came across another deer skeleton. It was in the stream. I wonder if the skeleton belonged to the skull pictured. It is possible the hunter killed the deer at the bottom of the ridge and couldn't get it out, so he only took the head for the antlers. Probably not - hopefully not, but I hear a lot of stories about people wasting what the kill.

Apparently, I didn't get to the right stream. It must be a bigger stream I am looking for, because the stream I followed is not big enough to be on the map.

The entire hike was 3.66 miles, 2 hours 20 minutes. It stared out at 37 degrees and ended at 48 degrees.