I am still alive...barely. Well the temps in Illinois are on the rise AGAIN!!!! Got to 66 today and supposed to be 73 tomorrow. THEN the bottom falls out, and snow on Turkey Day, no wonder I am sick. Our first gun season was this past Fri-Sun. I decided to take a decent 8pt about 5 min. after sunrise, he came in with a smaller 8 at about 45 yards....raised my gun, pulled the trigger BOOMMMMMMMM...he stands there for about 4 sec. looking at me like I am retarted (which I felt like) after seeing him run away. Mind all of you that at 6:10 in the morning it's pretty dark still in the woods. So at about 6:45, it's pretty much light,light, so I start trying to figure out what happened. Then I see it....a tree about the size of a 20oz Coke bottle blew all to heck....it's just not my year, that makes me 2/8 this year, after going 5/5 last year.[&o]