not much goin on from ole mauser....gotta head home wed night to get the Jimmy inspected Thursday...then head back to school for class friday.

found out that the weekends i will have to stay at school for LE training will be the days of october 16-19 and the following weekend, october 25th and 26th...all in all i couldnt asked for much more than that...that gives me the last 3 weekends to atleast spend saturdays in stand all day need be. also believe i have the first 3 days to hunt...oct 4th, 6 and 7th....should beable to get out tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays (all day if nothing if i dont need to be doing work or studying..) saturdays are pretty much set for a morning and evening sit...got sundays to do work and such need be...pretty pumped...

studied google earth for a while trying to find overlooked funnels in my home area...and boy did i find one that might pay big...its got it all...and its a good pinch point..oaks, thickets, old fields, currently farmed fields, oaks, a old crab apple thicket and a small creek...i dont know HOW i overlooked it thus far...i know theres other stands in the "area" but its a BIG forested hill and the other stands ive never seen another hunter in and are far enough i wont harm them...and if they do show up, well, it aughta HELP. also its created by 2 inside field edge corners....got alot of lead way with the wind being i can hunt either side of the small ditch and probably beable to setup to shoot the whole section of woods to the field edges...i feel like i just struck gold....i know yearly theres always 1 or 2 pretty good bucks in the area...the forested hill always has a couple nice ones on it too....remember a couple buddies jumped a monster a few years ago small game hunting and he ran right through that funnel....probably hunt it once or twice early and let it sit till november...i got 3 days to kill at home and all my spots double as "rut" locations...only really got now 3 stand locations at home...figure i can hunt each spot a morning and evening during the first 3 days im off school....rotate them so im keeping them as "fresh" as possible during those 3 days...likely be way too warm for an all day sit so hunt a morning then hunt somewhere else the evening...