Seasons closing, Hunting choices are getting limited

 For me two more seasons have now ended, duck season is done as well as deer season. 

Monday, I went out deer hunting and as has become the norm I saw nothing but squirrels and trees. Tuesday I was going to go duck hunting but ended up getting up late so I headed over to sit in my tree stand for one of the last times this year until this happened.

She weighed in at 127#'s and only went 10 yards from where I shot her. She came in with at least 8 or 9 other does and I took the first one big one that gave me a shot. 

Good way to end deer season.

Wednesday Cliff and I hunted a spot I've got in town. We got there with plenty of time to put out the 2 dozen decoys and set up a makeshift blind. Once we had that ready Cliff realized the cornstalk we put in the tube last year as a plug was still there. The bad news is with the rain and his buddy trying to jam more shells in the magazine the "plug" was no longer plugging. So we had to take the forearm cap of and pull the compression spacer out to get to the "plug" which was dissolved. We had to preform this with a knife, no light, in the rain, while watching for ducks and geese. It was as always when I take Cliff, take a kid hunting/fishing day, depending on the season. This sideshow finally ended up with a branch stuck in for the plug, and a whole cleaning session scheduled for today, after we install my stove. 

Back to the hunt...

The ducks and geese flew a little late but they finally did fly. We ended up way short of limit for a couple reasons, mainly spinner issues, gun jams, and generally just bad shooting. Now you can look at that list and figure out which way the finger points even though I would never point fingers. 👉

Yes we should've done better, but for a cold, wet, nasty day we had a pretty good time. We even left with some geese and the last duck of the year.

All I have left now is goose until the second week of Feb then yotes for a couple weeks. Then with the onset of March begins the garage and hunting gear clean up along with getting ready for fishing season.