Well if the modern season was an indication of how the muzzle loader season is going to be.. I might just stay home and punch holes in targets. At least I will get some shooting and hear some gun fire. I never saw a deer!!! Now granted I did not hunt every day or all day. There was nothing moving in the woods, no shots, no nothing. I walked the fresh snow falls and found two small deer tracks that I walk out to the neighbors property. I, being an honest man stopped and went home. Although seeing foot prints coming off their land on to mine made me a little curious. But you have to understand their mentality. They live in the southern end of the State, own land here and think their 20 acres and cabin entitle them to everyone's land. After all, as they love to tell you.. we're neighbors.

I've heard of Wings over Wisconsin. They claim they are making habitat for the upland game birds. But you never hear of them letting hunters on the property. I think you have to be a member to even go on their land. At least my neighbors on all but one side are the Chequamegon Nicole National Forest.

Maybe the deer will calm down by Thursday and start to move back into the area. After muzzle loader season they are going to have another four day anterless hunt. Just what we need, more does killed around here. That should just about do the herd in.

Better luck in the muzzleloader season.