Just a quick posting

I went out for MY opening of waterfowl season, just like last year it was almost like a ghost town. This guy didn't get the memo thank goodness.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Still hunting

I've been out 6 times this year for deer and have seen deer all but one time. I would like to say that they were all out of range but I can't. This morning I had a buck follow me to my stand. He hung out at 10 feet for at least 10 minutes. Why didn't I shoot? Well I had just got to my stand and shooting time wasn't for another 15 minutes, so I didn't even have an arrow nocked. So, sadly all I could do was watch him. He eventually meandered across the field, none the wiser of how close to supper he was.
Anyway here's a couple videos of some deer just out of range.
p.s.- the first buck went in exactly where these two did.

 I only have 3 more days before deer season starts to infringe on waterfowl season, wish me luck.
apparently I really need it.

Deer season has begun

Ok, so I have to admit that I haven't been keeping ya'll up to date on what's been going on, so here's the lowdown.
I went dove hunting a couple times in the beginning of Sept. also did some goose hunting in the first two weeks. The dove hunting was better than last year, however the goose hunting was a little slow.

Here's the pics

second day out, limit by myself

finally got lucky, not limit

Weed and I after the first yearly Poo Pond hunt

 

 

The third week of Sept. I mowed  lawns even though Sears didn't want me to.
Long story short, I sent my lawnmower in for service and it took them 3 weeks to get it right. The last week in Sept. I went fishing for the last time this year and again left the water frustrated and confused.
So now were back to where we started, deer season has begun. My opener was on Tues. afternoon I could've closed the deal on a decent doe if the wind was a different direction. Wed. morning I didn't see anything but geese in my field, last nite I saw a doe and a buck, both out of range. This morning I saw 5 bucks and 2 doe's none of which did I have a shot at. Should've been in my other stand, two of the bucks would've ran right underneath it.
My deer season is officially on hold until next week. I only have 6 more days to get a deer before the waterfowl opener so wish me luck.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I have alot of footage from the start of season that I am going to wait to put together until I have a better movie program. Right now I record in quicktime and avi and in order to use my movie maker I have to change all the quicktime files to avi. This takes alot of time to do so I am on the hunt for a new movie program that will support both files thus shortening my editing process. So that being said the video is on hold for right now.

First missed goose this year

I went out this morning to try to get a couple geese. I had some problems, I was late (but it was foggy), the geese weren't around, and I dropped my gun in the water.
I don't even know what happened other than a miss communication between my hands and my brain. When I picked it up I drained the water out of it and hoped it would fire. Well it did fire however if you notice in the video I wanted to squeeze off a third round but couldn't cause the gun jammed.

 So right now I'm drying out my gun to oil it back up and hopefully go out again tomorrow. By the way all the sqawkin' in the video is 2 egrets, one blue heron and I even had a couple ducks take off.

Where's Losthunter1?

It has been quite a while since I have posted anything here. The reason is that I haven't had anything to report.  Well to be 100% honest I have to say that I have had 2 fishing trips that I haven't posted here because they were both poor fishing days. Both trips were on small lakes and the fish just weren't cooperating.
Even though I have no excuses I do have reasons for my hiatus. Work .... yes work, since April we have been on mandatory overtime, picking up one day every other week. Yeah I know that doesn't sound like much, but it has effectively shut down my fishing, since I don't fish on my extra day weeks. Now the other dilemma is my mother in law had 2 trees that needed to come down. That job alone took me 3 weeks to complete. One was a huge ash tree that was dying in the front yard and the other was a pine tree in the back yard. The huge job coupled with the warm weather limited the work days to about 2 or 2:30.

Most of the work was done on the first couple days, then the clean up and removal took at least a couple days and 3 trips to the compost site. At one point I was strapped into the top part of the tree and some guy stopped and asked my buddy Jeff if he needed any help. Jeff told him no and pointed to me and said," he watches AX Men." The guy laughed and drove away. 

My 18" Poulan did all the work.

The pine tree I took down by myself in one day. I had to cut it into 3 sections to make sure I wouldn't take the fence down or any of the phone lines.








Now on the bright side since it has snuck into Sept. I did get drawn for the dove hunt in Huntington this year. I asked Brian if he wanted to go, he said he would as long as it wasn't going to rain the whole time, like they were predicting.
Well it didn't and we went and wow were the birds flying. I got a second day draw and got to choose 17th which with all the no shows turned out to be closer to 6th or 7th. I gotta tell ya the doves were everywhere this year, the numbers we saw would've been great for a first day hunt let alone the second day. So we definitely had our chances to get limit. The only thing stopping us was our ability to shoot better. As it turns out we shot right at the average (1 bird for 4 shots). I ended up with 12 and Brian did one better with the bakers doz. I did get some ok video however I haven't put it together yet so for now just a pic.

Lesson # 38: Always check the pic to make sure you get all the players.