RE: Best openning day ever but then bad luck.
MJL, sounds like a pretty good day in the woods to me <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>. I wasn't able to go out this week at all due to work, but plan on going down to Bath, NY tonight to hunt tomorrow and Sunday. I was pretty pumped up about bowhunting until I saw the weather report for tomorrow. Though the weatherman was talking about Rochester, where I live, I'm sure I'll get the same windy conditions (gusts to 45mph all day tomorrow)in Bath. Looks like the weather will be the spoiler for me, but I guess I'll go anyway. I doubt I'll gun hunt this year after getting shot in the back last year on opening day from a stray shotgun slug. Luckily it didn't kill me but I still have that slug in my shoulder and the pain to remind me every day of it. Maybe if I find a place that is safer with fewer hunters, I might venture out during the gun season but I haven't found any other place to go. The place I hunt in the Bath area is private land but they always get a lot of trespassers there and I'm very leery of hunting around anyone I don't know or that wanders all the time with a gun. Hope you get that buck you're looking for.
Vinny