Zim, those rains last year washed my bowhunting out, I hunted just 1 day. I did have a 125" 8 pointer come in with a doe, he was chasing/grunting at her, they stayed under me for 45 mins. Then the rains came, and the rest is history. The day before opening day of the 1st gun season the rains stopped, I went to the creek that I cross to get to my spot, well it was way to deep and the current was to strong, so I went to another farm 1.5 miles away, made a ground blind overlooking a large corn field, with woods and draws behind me, the next morning it was nice but foggy, but I had deer near me at first light, and two coyotes came in. About 9am I hear walking coming from behind me, I see 7 large does, the last one stops looks behind herself and I see the buck, he stops in the only opening at 80 yards and I fired hitting him in the neck which was the only vital area I had, he ran about 15 yards and dropped.
LadyForge, how are you? I was all set to come out there, I went as far as applying for both the archery & firearm tags, but then some family issues came up and the spot I love to hunt was sold last week. We also looking into leasing some farms in Ohio and now we are also thinking of Indiana. I will miss hunting out there, and the people are so nice. So for 2010 I will hunt my home state of New Jersey, and I'm also looking towards our first black bear hunt since 2005, we have some truly large bears, it will be the week of December 6th which is our annual shotgun buck week. I'm hoping to be out there for the 2011 season, if that is the case this time next year I will be out there hanging stands, I know we will have about 850 acres of more land some in Brown and some in Pike.
I wish you the very best this coming season and be safe !!!!
Joe