Welcome back Nubo,
Glad to hear you had a good time despite no moose steaks.
Today was our opening day in PA and I ahve decided to share it with all of you.
At the end of this morning's hunt I scanned my surrondings before lowering my equipment. I saw nothing all morning, even no other hunters, which quite frankly surprised me. I just dropped the free end of my lift rope and took a step off the platform when I saw movement in the distance. It was a small deer walking right to me.
I was trapped with my bow on the ground, one foot on the platform and all my weight on my first step from the platform.
Anyway this button buck walks right beneath me and does everything but look up. He even bumped his nose to my fletchings on the arrows in my quiver. To make matters worse his mama enters the picture and they both hang around for 25 minutes. My right foot seemed as if it was starting to curl around the screw in step.
I couldn't take the pain any more so when she wasn't lookig I was able to get back up on my platform.
Mom looked up a few times but never did spook. She eventuall walked away but junior liked it by my tree and wasn't in any hurry to leave.
After what seemed like forever he walked in the general direction of his mamma.
I waited 5 more minutes before climbing down and as soon as my one foot stepped onto the ground I heard her snort form quite a distance away.
She must have known something wasnt right and decided to watch the area from a distance. What surprised me was that she made no attempt to call her BB fawn from out of harm's way.

I went back out at 3:00 and didnt see anything. At about 6:30 the rain started so I decided to haul out.
And that my friends, was my opening day.