same thought as last week

 I would love to say that I went duck hunting this week but that would only be wishful thinking. What I did do was.....

Wait a minute... just 1 question.....

What is the definition of insanity????

Yep, doing the same thing again and again, and hoping for a different result..... Deer hunting.

Need I say more? 

And to top it off, I'm going again next week. But, I got a secret....

My buddy loaned me his 243, shhhh don't tell the deer. 

Puttin' brown down next week.

This week, the weather didn't help as much as I hoped it would but I did have some encouragement.

New on Friday 4 rubs 80 yards from my stand, on the trail to my stand.

New on Friday 60 yards from my stand on the trail to my stand

Saturday 80 yards from my stand, culprit spotted... nice little 2 year old 8, if he stays away from me and everyone else he will be really nice next year.

I went out to Jake's last night and sat the evening there were a couple deer that came out but nothing was in range. 

Next week they're calling for rain on Tues and Wed and I hope they're wrong I really want to put 2 deer down and get on with duck season.

I shoulda went duck hunting

 Well lets see...

Monday it rained, so I did my Monday things.... Moe's, shopping, and a nap.

Tuesday was really windy, so I did Tuesday things..... clean gutters, get everything loaded into the decoy trailer, and a nap.

Wednesday was the first non wet, non windy day so I did deer watching things. I was in my stand and decided to try some calling. So I got on the grunt tube and grunted then I picked up my black rack to do some rattling, and scared the crap out of a deer that was 30 yards behind me. I don't know if I would've shot him if he didn't haul out, but I surely would've taken the safety off... After I got home, I got all my Thursday things done so I could go out today.

Thursday morning was the coldest morning this week, so I did Thursday things and went deer hunting. The only deer I saw a a 1yr old spike that showed up at 8ish and didn't leave until 12:18. 

That was the extent of my hunting this week, next week however is suppose to be awesome from the 11th to the 13th.

Hopefully I'll be able to put a deer down. 

To everyone else going out to try and put some meat in the freezer..... Good Luck! 👍

🎶 Havin' a heat wave.... a tropical heat wave..... 🎶

Yep, with the high heat last week until today I mostly just got some projects taken care of. I had to align my headlights and replace my seat covers in the car. I put a onboard a noco genius battery maintainer on the truck that mounts under the hood to try and extend the life of my battery.... (I've been through 2 already.) And then for the big project that didn't turn out to be a big project, I replaced the taillights on my decoy trailer. 

The reason I said the "big project" is I didn't know how to change out the taillights so I watched a YouTube and he went in from the back of the light. Which meant taking out 7 screws that didn't want to come out. Then bending back the aluminum to expose the back of the light and pulling it and putting the new one in.... 

I put this project off for 2 years. My neighbor Bill came over to see what I was up to and told me all I have to do is pull the old seal and the old light will come out. Damn if that didn't work, we had both of them changed out in around 10 minutes. 

So now that I had that "big project" done I went for a ride with my buddy while he was discing a field. It was pretty fun but after and hour my ass got pretty sore from the little jump seat in the tractor. Anyway he invited my out this morning to sit in his blind with him. He was itching to put his new doe decoy to use and see what he could call in. We only had a fawn and a buck respond but he hung out for at least 15 minutes.

 If he would've been a year or 2 older he would've been given a ride in the back of my truck...

With wind hitting the low 30mph and rain moving in we only stayed until 9:30ish which was fine with me.

We really only went out to use the decoy and because it is Halloween, which has usually been the start of the rut around here.

So with that being said I will probably be deer hunting next week and on and off until gun season when I'll hit it hard again.

First two days of waterfowl season

Day one of waterfowl found me on a field I know all too well. I got set up way before daylight, with only 4 dozen decoys, 3 doz of them being silhouettes. With the first flock flying so low they passed only 10' overhead, and I missed all three shots. The next had 5 geese land just outside of my decoys. So, I had to change out choke tubes from Mod to Full. I snuck up on them best I could and when I was close enough I let 3 shots go. I hit one of the geese so I put the 2 back up shots into the gun. I walked up within range and fired the first miss, then the second. Then the race was on and here comes old guy after the goose. After 75 yards I dropped my gun, not needing the extra weight, and I knew it would be easy to find. After 100 yards of chasing this goose we were both really tired and slowed to a fast walk, I made one more push and was able to tackle, and dispatch him. Whew was I tired. So now all I had to do was find my gun in a cut corn field, laid cross-ways to the rows. I had geese flying over, around and landing in my decoys and all I could do was laugh and keep walking the 75 yards back and forth then moving West 5 yards and walking it again. After 21 minutes of looking for my shotgun I finally found it, (I'm a really good rattlecaner) I camoed it. I snuck around the back of where I was hunting, with the sun in the gooses eyes I reloaded waited for a flock and dropped 3. That is the start of the video.

The birds flew like crazy Monday, not as many on Wednesday but I should've had limit. There's always room for improvement.

Deer season on break

 Well, I hunted Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, Wednesday I didn't even see a deer, which was odd. I've seen deer on every hunt so far this season, which is awesome, but with the open of duck and Goose this weekend my deer season is on hold until the week of Halloween. When I will go back out and try and get a deer.