I feel your pain David. Although our gun season is over we have a late season muzzleloader season that runs concurrent to bow season until the season ends for both on Jan. 10th.

When one of those .50 calibers go off close by it makes me glad I'm belted into the tree! It gets your attention in a hurry! <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

The bow hunters here don't have to wear hunter orange during Muz. season. The other day I had two guys walk right past me making all kinds of noise (they were driving the deer to standers). Of course they never knew I was there. Lucky for them they are on the right end of the food chain. <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

They ended up getting one, although I didn't see it. Taking a guess from what went by me I would say they shot a doe. There was a nice buck in the area, I saw him when I went to my stand that day. He was not in the bunch that ran past my stand. I know they didn't get him because I saw him day before yesterday again.

Because of the deer numbers I don't look for the gun seasons to get any shorter (unless there would be a disease problem where large populations are affected). It sure makes it hard to make a plan come together when natural movement is altered so much. I guess we will just have to grin and bear it.