Not the way to end October. What an evening. As I sip on my scotch trying to calm down, let me explain. Hunted the small private lease. Was stood up by 3pm. The woods is now flooded timber because the farmer to the east has allowed the beavers to damn the field drainage so they can duck hunt it. It has drawn Wood Ducks to the area. Anyhow 5pm, POW! I mean close to my stand. Thought some was shooting deer on the other farm to the West but then the steel rain falls all around me. I'm thinking "Great, now the other farm is shooting it up, no wonder there's been no deer sign" Well I wait 20 mins and I here wood breaking behind me, to the east where I havethe old wooden deer stand up. I'm thinking, if its those duck hunters, they are now trespassing and could be F'ing with the stand. So I get down and head over. Stand is fine. Its now 20 mins AFTER sunset. POW! right across from me. I yell in "Hey!" Someone yells back "YEAH!" I yell "Nice spray job a$$hole!". I hear them paddling around in there.

The hell with this. I pull out my wallet looking for theGame Theft #. I find it and as I'm calling, POW POW!!. Now these shots didn't rain on me, they whistled over my head. Are they shooting at me or low flying ducks?!? The first time the line was busy, the redial someone picks up and I explain my situation. POW POW POW!! I'm like "You hear that!" The operator is like "Yes, where are you?" I give the best detail I can and he said someone else just called as well and an officer was on his way. I give my name and cell number and bail out. They shot at least 10 more rounds as I was heading back to the truck. I mean its 535 now!

As I get to the truck the Game Officer called. Explained where I was and he pulled up. I pointed where they were, explained it was flooded woods, they are in a boat, and I wasn't accusing anyone, but farm to east hunts it often, can pull right up to the woods and uses a boat. He said he'd try and down there and see if he could catch them coming out of the woods. He asked if I was sprayed with shot and I said yes, twice. We'll see what, if anything happens.

What a sucky way to end the Month. And I take time off from work for this! Why the hell bother!