Hunting has been a wash for me this year. I have killed a few but I have been unable to put my oldest son on a deer. My youngest, 8 years old, managed a yearling with a crossbow in September. It was his first ever. My oldest son passed on the same deer a week before.
My father was sick all Summer and passed away last Monday. The time I spent in the woods in the early season I spent it just pondering the situation. I did see a lot of deer early in the season but had so much to do and had so many things on my mind I just decided not to shoot them.
Now when I have time and want to kill one I am not seeing any. My oldest son did see 2 doe last Saturday evening but they were out of his shooting ability range. A guy I go to church with is a trophy hunter and owns his own land. My son is hunting with him the rest of the season so he can shoot a doe or small buck. I am grateful for him allowing him to hunt with him. Santa is bringing him a brand new Marlin XS7 .243 rifle. So I am sure he will spend some time in a tree with his new gun the last week of deer season.
We had a huge acorn crop this year making deer harder to locate. They can find acorns anywhere unlike in lighter acorn crop years.
Maybe next year will be a litle brighter and more productive.
I think I will start crappie fishing this Saturday if it don't rain or the wond isn't howling.
Darin
Two boys, One wife, 1 cat named Johnny Cash and 1 cat named Pepper Sprout, Black Lab named Polly and a Yellwo Lab named Connor. 16 Cornish X at the moment.
Two boys, One wife, 1 cat named Johnny Cash and 1 cat named Pepper Sprout, Black Lab named Polly and a Yellwo Lab named Connor. 16 Cornish X at the moment.
Its been a bad year for us on deer this year DH got nice buck and nice doe ,I have got 2 does so far 92lb and 112 lb. and 4 deer given to us so we have meat in the freezer. In the past years we get 12 to 14 deer not this year .We give some deer meat to people in need. It is short this year for everybody .The coyote are bad this yr. on the Ft. Jackson .I think they had killed over 50 at Ft. Jackson.They said they are killing more than 70 % of the baby deer that are born.
One deer is a huge blessing for us up here.
