Deer Season 2012 part 1

This weekend we headed down for deer season. A tragedy in our family made a fewchanges in our usual schedule. Instead of staying at the farm we decided to come home every night. We awoke every morning at 5:30am and made the 45 minute drive to the farm. I got down to the stand just after sunup and settled in for a long set. After about an hour I had a couple of does slip by me on the other side of the large ditch. The day ended early as back spasms drove me out of the stand before sunset. The next morning we arrived alittle earlier than the previous morning. I made it to the stande before the sun was all the way up due to some cloud cover in the east. About an hour into the set I had a couple of coyotes walk by without detecting me. I thought that they may keep the deer out of the area but ended up with seeing 8 does from the stand. I made my way back to the house just before sundown. This morning we again arrived at the farm and on my way down to my stand I heard a shot from where Uncle B was setting. As I made my way closer I saw B walking around looking for the deer. I left him to his hunt while I made my way back to my stand. I should have just went back to the house because I ended up with spotting 1 doe about 60 yards into the thick woods. Since the morning was so slow and the afternoon would be warm I decided to call it done for first season. The deer would probably bed down and with few hunters in the area to push them, it would be a waste of time. B found his deer. It was a young button buck.  I hope second season will be better.