BerwindaleBoy shot our first one last year. He took a velvet muley on opening day in Montana. Then it was like it is now until the weather started to cool down in October. I think BB has a buck down and he is just unable to get on to the site for one reason or another. They have been having all those problems and so who knows... I wouldn't sweat it yet.

I slipped out last night with the north wind and cool weather for an evening hunt. I got to my stand and tied the bow to the string then climbed the stand to only find out that I left the other end of the string on the ground. Climb down and grab the string and head back up. Get settled in and wait and wait until about 7:00 and the cloud cover was making it hard to see and I hadn't seen anything yet nor did I hear anything either. So I start to pack things up. Put the quiver on the bow and tie her up to the string let the bow down on the ground. Then I got the seat off the tree stand and put the backpack on and then unstrapped the harness when I hear a twig snap!

Look to the west and there is a buck not 10 yards from my stand. He came from the west where I have limited visability. He was right behind a branch of a tree right next to the one I am in. He was probably a 110" buck but it was fairly dark so I could be off either way. It looked to be at least a 4X4 anyway. So I just sat there and watched him unitl he finally got downwind of me and new something was up and went the other way. A second deer came out from the same spot a few minutes after the first but I couldn't see that one very well.

It was a great night to get out though. Nice and cool and I even got rained on for a couple minutes.

4 days and counting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wheatley my man!! You have got to sit out every last minute! That is when they are the most likely to be moving throughout the entire evening. I cannot even begin to tell you how many evenings I have sat and seen nothing until the last 5 mintues of light. Those last 5 minutes are what I sit the entire evening for. The good news is you are going to shoot a bigger one later... MUCH BIGGER!!!

Yeah, I wanted to smack myself after that but I thought about if I would have had my bow would I have shot this one? Probably not because I made that 125" minimum bet so at this point in the game he needed to be a little bigger. Now the second one that came out I am not sure what that was since it got to dark to see. He was probably that monster. Doooh!

Just checking in, I havent been out lately due to work and the hot weather. Havent been posting much due to the cookie problems etc. Hopefully they have that all fixed. the weather has finally broke and Ill be in the woods on Monday and Tuesday.

Good luck everybody whose seasons open on Monday!

opens Saturday for me

I hope you get the chance to get out there on Sat. Ron. Get them jitters out of ya and maybe score.

Where I am heading it looks like we will be freezing everynight and probably have some snow dumped on us two of the 4 days. Makes me excited and I can not wait any longer for this trip. I wish we could just that weather down here to make the hunting more enjoyable.

Hey champs good luck

Thanks Germ.

I am leaving here at 11:00 today to head for the lease....Man I thought today would never get here. Good luck to everyone while I'm gone. I hope to be calling saying I nailed the big one.

-john