http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog Southern hospitality guide service provides guided deer hunts, guided turkey hunts, virginia deer hunting guides in Virginia. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:17:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are ending our first week of Archery. We have had some great hunts with plenty of deer movements. Last Saturday, we had 3 hunters in the woods and along the field edges. Everybody seeing deer, and two of the three took shots that did not connect or were not ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/deer-hunts/archery-season.html We have been in the woods since mid August ..... getting ready for the fall/winter hunting season. We placed another dozen+ of the "Big Dog" ladder stands in strategic areas across our farms. Very nice stands with plenty of wiggle room and floor space. These stands were placed in areas that have ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/welcome/get-n-ready.html The month of July is ending. The crops are doing very well with the weekly rains. We have been scouting our soybean fields and the woods leading to and from bedding areas. We have our "deer cams" in various spots in the woods, gathering tons of information from the pictures. ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/deer-management/summer-scouting.html Spent some quality time w/ my Mother over the weekend. We were back out Tuesday, guiding Mark and Steve from Stafford, Va.. The day was long ..... Turkeys were very tight lipped. Never heard a gobble. We made many sets - worked every call we owned. Changed up on our ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/spring-turkeys.html Ahhh - was it cool yesterday morning. Temperture was at 41 deg. and the Turkey's had lock jaw. Had a few gobble early .... then the morning was silent. Set up in a high populated Turkey spot .... but nobody was interested in our clucks and yelps. Moved by 9:00am ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/coooool-morning.html Up early to the sounds of rain. Out to hunt by 5:45am with my two guest; Mike from Winchester and John from Stafford Va. Rain tappered off around 6:00am. By 6:15am the Turkeys were getting a little vocal. John did the call'n for his friend Mike ..... togeather, they had a ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/early-morning-gobbler.html We were back out Saturday morning (26th) ..... bumped two Turkeys off the roost before 5:30 am. Worked the area ... no responce .... moved up to the back of the farm ...... worked the box call  .... no luck. Moved into a pine ridge .... worked both the box call ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/spring-gobbler-action.html Two for two ... that's what my guest; Fred did .... took a big Tom on Monday ..... and Tuesday - took his second big Tom. Tuesday started off great - The Toms were rattling the tree tops, but could not get anybody to dance w/ us ..... we moved ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/spring-gobblers-3.html WOW!!!!!!!! Dogwoods are flowering, shad and herring are running, and the Tom Turkeys are shaking the tree tops. Saturday showed great success for my Nephew. He took his first - 20 1/2 lbs. 11 in. beard, one spur. Monday (today) success came again for my guest, who worked a Tom w/ ... http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/spring-gobblers-2.html It's almost time .... We have been scouting our fields and wood lines for Turkeys. This past week we have spotted several flocks w/ Toms strutt'n. Not much gobblin going on in the morning .... the temperature is still cool.    http://www.vaguideservice.com/blog/spring-gobblers/spring-gobblers.html