Through wind and rain.....

I shall not be kept home wishing I was hunting. I was really apprehensive about going out coon hunting last night since the weather was suppose to be rain with thunderstorms. I actually only had to deal with the wind, which blew hard all night. The wind was predicted to blow at 15-25 mph with gusts of 35, and it blew all night. I also saw lightning all night but didn't hear any thunder.
My first spot was a long stretch of power lines that went down to the river. I heard some coons fighting or something else when I was walking in, but couldn't get them to come in to the call. So I moved on down the power line only to find out I could only go half the way I wanted to, because the rest was flooded.
While I was walking back I noticed a set of eyes about 20 yrds from me on the ground. Since there was no huff like a deer would do I figured it was either a fox or a coyote. I set up a quick stand and started with a cottontail in distress, after only a couple minutes I saw the eyes again, but before I could get on them they were gone.
That was just a bonus encounter cause I was after coons. I made a couple more stands on the way back to the car, nothing showed. I went to another spot and called with goose egg results. Then I started for a spot I usually do pretty good at, I walked in made a quick set at another spot then on to "the hot spot".
Today it did not disappoint, I set up started the caller and had a set of eyes appear in a tree. I eased up for the shot and put some fur on the ground. After I laid him on the trail and grabbed my caller I went about a block and was getting ready to make another stand when I looked up and had 2 sets of eyes lookin at me. A couple shots later I had 2 more on the ground. I left them on the trail and was going to go in a half a block and set up for my stand, when I saw another set of eyes watching me. One shot, one kill, one more pelt on the ground. One stop 4 coons on the ground, with the temps at 50+ this is better than I thought I would do.

With coon season ending Thursday and these four coons I now have 13 coons to bring into the furrier. I have trapped 9 coon in back of my house, this paycheck will be sweet.....I have my eye on some new goose decoys.

So sad

I got home from work yesterday with the intentions of eating, taking a nap and going out coon hunting. Well I managed the first two but when it got down to the third it was a no go. I went out with the hopes the fog was not as bad where I was going to be hunting. I was wrong, the fog started out bad and ended bad so it was a nice 11pm car ride, only to end sad and sleeping on the couch (I didn't want to wake Sarah).
With a bunch of luck I will be going out tonight, if the rain doesn't come in the way they're predicting.

Last day for regular season geese

I went out yesterday and stayed in the field from sunup til sundown without firing a shot. It was soo cold that my Mountain dew and the water I had with, froze solid in the blind.
Today was slightly better, I woke up around 6am had some coffee and breakfast. When I finally decided to go out it was around 9am, by this time I'm usually set up and have been in the blind for 3 hours. So it was a little weird getting to the field so late and setting up in the daylight; I almost liked it. Today sure seemed just as cold as yesterday, but since I only had 7 hours afield I figured I could handle it.
It was very cloudy and windy but I managed to get a couple hours of sleep waiting for the birds to fly. Finally around 5pm I had a pair coming in from my left. I gave them a couple clucks and double clucks, they started to drop but not where I wanted them to. So I got a little pushy on my call and they started to turn and come to me. When they got to my kill hole I opened up, 2 shots later I had 2 geese on the ground. I held out and tried to get that magical third goose to round out my limit but it just wasn't in the cards. So I took the pics and packed her in for the day. It was nice to set up in the daytime but once again I was breaking it down by the light of the moon.

2 weeks of walking

As you may already know I have been coon hunting the last couple of weeks. I have also been trying to get some video of the calling; mission accomplished. So you may think because I got the shot that I am having a great year, well actually I have yet to pull a coon out of the tree. They will look out the tree but will not commit to coming out. So since I have 3 days at the end of the month, I am going to hope for warmer nights and start whackin' and stackin' 'em.  Giving up on the coon video this year.
That being said this is the video I got the last couple weeks.

Goose is out for a couple weeks

So I've been doing some coon hunting the last couple days. I would be out right now but it was suppose to rain today. This is just a quick post to let'cha know that I am still hunting just haven't been lucky this week. So check back next week I hope to have pics and video.

Happy New Year

I was able to get out on the 31st and the 2nd for deer, I did see 3 on Wednesday but they were pretty far. Deer season for me is now over, we had a late doe only season. I tried to get one more but it just wasn't in the cards for me.
So I did what I love to do, I went goose hunting. The sad news is today was the last day of goose season for me. Now I have to wait 2 weeks before I can go out again.

That being said I did get out today at a field that I just got permission to hunt. I have been seeing geese in this field for the last couple days, so I asked last night to hunt it today. They normally don't let people hunt, but I got the OK and thanks to them it was a short day for me.                                                                           More of the Highlights:

 Here's the pic

After I got my limit and started to break down my gear. I walked to the truck to get my sled and my bags, and when I came back out this is what I saw.

 This first bunch (top) took off then the rest left out (bottom).

Yep geese dropped into my spread when I walked out to get my stuff....... Man if I was a criminal I could have filled my truck bed today.
Awesome last day