I think I may have mentioned that I had a bear or bears damage one of my trail cams.I will be putting them out again with an improvised strap on one of them (thanks yogi!).I have been shooting a couple times a week and will try to get a third practice session in.I have a 16 year old nephew who would like to get in to bow hunting.I am pretty enthused about having him practice with me and set stands.I am intending to set a number of stands where I have two stands in the same tree,so we can both be up in the tree.I will have to preach about scent control.I would like to take him into area's where errors aren't as critical.I definitely don't want to blow a big buck out of an area by having twice the intrusion in their area.We will see how that unfolds,he is a good kid though and I like the thought of spending the time with him.
My wife and daughter are keeping me updated on the deer that they are seeing in the fields on the road by the house.No "good" bucks have been seen in the vicinity,plenty of doe's and fawns.Most of our area is just not that open so it is really hard to tell what bucks are in the area.
I will be covering a lot of ground from now until the opener (10/15) scouting old and new area's, moving trail camera's around,setting some stands now and waiting for pictures or rubs and scrapes to set up others.