I waited all year for this???
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
Posts: 4,668
I waited all year for this???
Went out for opening day this morning........all excited and couldn't wait to get up a tree. Had scouted this area for 2 months and was VERY optimistic about my chances. Got setup with little trouble and settled in to wait for the woods to light up.
Not long after light peaked in I heard it...........the sound that goes right to my spine and instantly ruins my day.
The bell on the collar of a bird dog..........then it gets better. I would say over the next hour I heard 75 shots and some were so close I could hear the shot raining down through the leaves nearby. Since I know I have NO chance of even seeing a deer I plan to leave early........then I hear the thunder rolling in.......FAST. I don't want to but I start climbing down at 8:40.........I should have started sooner. By the time I reach the bottom of the tree it is a full monsoon........I get back to the truck and I am soaked and more then a little disappointed
I don't know what it is about opening day in NY for me......last year it rained so hard I could barely see [:@]
Gotta love public land...........2 months of scouting down the drain. Pretty hard to predict a deer's pattern in that situation.
Going back out in about an hour and the sun is shining right now.........and I am going somewhere else.
Not exactly the stuff of dreams
#4
RE: I waited all year for this???
Hang in there, atlas. I've only been out once this year. Opening morning. Got busted before daylight and never heard a sound the rest of the day. Then my mother-in-law, who was sick with cancer but doing fair, took a turn for the worse and died within a week. So I haven't been much for hunting til now. Then I got a hair brained idea to go buy a new bow. I had my old one shooting darts. Bought a new one, stripped off the gear and put on the new one and now I've got to start all over again. [8D] Oh well. I'll get motivated here real quick. I was laughing reading your post but at the same time almost wished I had been in your shoes. Almost.
#6
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 276
RE: I waited all year for this???
ORIGINAL: atlasman
Gotta love public land...........2 months of scouting down the drain.
Gotta love public land...........2 months of scouting down the drain.