make it easy for em, ask em to put the deer in front of you, then you put it in the cooler. Of course it would be easier to track.

Looks like the weather is going to be awesome. Just makes it that much harder to wait.

where you hunting? east texas?

Yeah, we hunt about 20 miles SE of Carthage. You?

central texas outside of Coleman and another outside of Brownwood. I used to hunt near Jacksonville-Rusk

This is my first year in East Texas. I was on an awesome lease in the hill country in Lampasas county near Evant. The head guy and I just didn' t see eye to eye. I was there to hunt and tag out and they were there to shoot the first buck they saw and drink beer the rest of the season. I should have known it couldn' t be good when the guy' s nephew and sister told me he was an a#$hole. The amount of deer in that part of the country is almost beyond belief. It was common to see 30-40 deer in a weekend, as a matter of fact, if I saw less than that it was a bad weekend. Buck/doe ratio was whacked because of the guys not caring about shooting them, but I did my part to bring it back in line.

I would really like to get back to that part of the country. I' ve been spoiled over the last three years and I' m afraid I' ll be disappointed with the lease I' m on now. You got any connections? I have myself and at least two others that are interested.

One week from this minute I' ll be in stand! I can' t wait, my wife thinks I' m insane...maybe I am? I just tell her that I need this. It keeps me sane!

Well, I' m not going to be hunting openning weekend
Starting on the second weekend though, I' ll have the whole week to hunt
I almost ruined my bow season, perhaps hunting altogether last Thursday!
I' ve been doing a few projects around the house, and was in a hurry to get things done before hunting season. I was building a patio cover in my back yard and slipped and fell off the roof!
The Lord was watching out for me though! No broken bones, just strained and pulled muscles in my left leg and back, and a badly bruised left heel.
Thankfully, I should be ready for the second weekend of bow season!

Jagmagman, don' t feel lonely on that one. ~ 3 weeks ago I flipped,cartwheeled and bounced my 4 wheeler. I somehow landed on my back face up and the 4wheeler landed smack dab on top of me (straddled me). I buggered up my leg pretty good and just knew it was broken= no bow season for me. But the x-rays showed only swollen muscles and perfect bones!!
I' m just now getting the bills in for e-room vist[:@]. But at least I' m gonna get to hunt!!

I will only be able to hunt opening morning for the first ~3 hours and then I have to head in to work graveyards[&o] that night.

I think my neck is starting to swell up. Six days to go.