Hey all! Anyone have any luck with opening day of muzzleloader? We got to our stand late, right at shooting time, and it was 20 mph winds BLECH. The wind was in our favor, but it was whippin' pretty darn good. After seeing nearly 60 deer in the first two days of shotgun, we didn't see anything until 10am today. We were planning on getting out of the stand at 9:30, since the winds were so brisk, and we did, took the long way through the woods, looking for scrapes, rubs, and tracks, also thought they might be hidin' out in there until the winds died, but nothing. We saw a couple of new scrapes, no rubs and a couple LARGE tracks!

We got to the truck about 10 or so and drove down the side road that borders the neighboring fields... we turned around in someones driveway to head towards breakfast and we saw two does running through this guy's back yard, headed right towards the set aside field our stand borders.... well, we drove back up the field and grabbed the gun and booked it BACK to our stand LOL... We were going to stalk 'em from across the set aside, but decided to sit in the stand instead. About 3 minutes after getting into our stand, I looked at the neighboring field (about 150yds) and there was one of the does standing in the clearing. I saw her right away, but I wasn't going to take the 150yd. shot, decided to wait to see if she would come in, but she didn't, she must have headed up the treeline away from us in the deep grass. [:-]

Oh well, better luck next time... we should have stalked, I would have had her.

We wanted to go out tonight, but the winds haven't subsided so we are going to wait it out until tomorrow. Wish me luck!

How'd you guys do?