Cedar Creek Plantation
Forestlands and Hunting Preserve

ALDeer On the Hunt at Cedar Creek Plantation   Page:  1  2 

I've often heard ol Boone talk of Cedar Creek Plantation; the beauty of the land and the hospitality of the guides, among other praiseworthy aspects, and having experienced it for myself, I can certainly agree with Boone...it's an incredible place! It was great to spend my first meeting with Dustin in such a place, and enjoy another great time with Skinny, and I'm proud that we got to hunt Cedar Creek together.
Cedar Creek, operated by John Boutwell and his sons, Andrew and Thomas (who are part of the Aldeer crew, of course) is roughly 2,000 acres of rolling hills of hardwoods, interspersed with flat fields, 75 year old pines, deep ravines and creek bottoms, and moss shaded oak groves. The entire area is covered with fossils from the prehistoric period when the ocean covered our land, and along the high buffs of the creek banks, marine fossils wait to be found in profusion. Cedar Creek is a wonderful hunting land, but offers so much more, at the same time.

Hunting luck wasn't with us this visit to Cedar Creek, no deer were harvested, and in general the deer weren't moving very much in the daylight hours, but the whole experience made for a truly great time. Andrew and Thomas have a deep passion for hunting and for Cedar Creek, and they tried their best to get us set up on the big bucks. We were all very surprised that we didn't see plenty of deer on our two day hunt, but the weather no doubt played a part in that, and traditionally a lot of hunters experience a lull in deer activity after Christmas and before the rut kicks in. All together, Dustin, Skinny, and I saw does and a few racked bucks, but mindful of the size restrictions for bucks, and the inherent difficulty in positively identifying does as does at a distance, not a shot was fired. Monday afternoon I was in a shooting house with the sound of the fast flowing creek just yards behind me. As the evening light began to fail, a six point emerged from the opposite side of the green field. He didn't meet the eight point requirement, so I watched him browse...as he left for the woodline, and I was fast losing the remaining light sensitivity of my binoculars, a much bigger buck appeared at the edge of the food plot, but the buck I think would've been the one to take home, faded into the darkness... that's the old huntin game! I saw glimpses of a racked buck this morning along with a doe, but just a few short pines blocked all but a fleeting glimpse as they passed close to the side of me. As huntin luck goes at times, a fine spike browsed around for the longest time, right in front of me!

I can only hope that those bucks will show up in better situations when I return to Cedar Creek next time... I've split the pics and report into two sections, as it will open faster for everyone...there are so many cool and differing areas within Cedar Creek, that just a few pics wouldn't do justice-you'll see a variety of habitat in just the four places I hunted....

 

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