I’ve always loved fall. Wife said she needed to go back inside for a jacket this morning so maybe we’re getting close.
This year is my first fall retired so it’s my first since 1989 I don’t have to leave home for a month or three if a hurricane hits select portions of the southeastern U.S. We actually have the option to plan an activity or two. While I much appreciate what Mike Borland has done, it’s kind of nice to not be keeping up with
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It is a bit disappointing we haven’t seen a deer worth harvesting in the game cams this year. 6 does, 5 fawns, and a yearling pronghorn that’s still hanging with the mommy group. The ones down in the woods are the same ones that hang out around the houses most of the day. They hardly pay any attention to people they’re around them so much. Harvesting one of them feels kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.
Up until last year, when the clearing started on our south and west, we always had at least 3 or 4 good sized bucks. Seeing one in a rifle scope, of course, was harder than getting a pic with a game cam, but at least we knew they were there and usually harvested enough to keep everyone in the family in meat for the coming year. Now that I have the time to do more than a few days hunting, the development, destruction of forest, and destruction of farmland all around our little 70 acres seems to have significantly disrupted the deer. Of course breeding size bucks are around somewhere, but it definitely isn’t what it used to be.
Maybe I should take up turkey hunting. Still have an enough of them it’s advisable to drive at a reasonable speed on the sewer line to not hit one.
