Well, while the rest of you guys are having fun sitting in your treestands, all of our deerseasons are now closed for this week and all of next week. Then, on Monday, 11-27, the Orange Army Marches in. It will sound like the Pearl Harbor Invasion, as 1,000,000 yayhoosbringcomplete devastationto fawns, does, buttonbucks, illegal bucks, legal bucks, and anything else that looks like it might need shot at. I'll be in the big woods, so I should find an isolated pocket to hide somewhere. Even despite the aggravation, I'll be happier than a pig in new mud to be back in the woods. I haven't had three full days in a row to hunt since... well... this time last year.

I'll be trying my hand at bear hunting on Monday, but I'm planning on putting 5-10 miles on my boots and still getting skunked. It would be cool to get one, but it's a crapshoot - tons of hunters, and only a few bear. Chances are that if we have a little snow, I'll cut a track and dog one right into somebody else's lap before I have time to close the gap on him.

No WV rifle hunting this year - still broke - paying off the wedding. Deer in Preston County, West Virginia are smiling right now. They're probably having little deer parties down there laughing at me.