Did pretty good over here in Indiana. I picked up a new .22 and put a scope on it and sighted it in myself. Then I laid the smack down on some squirrels. I got alot of squirrels this year and perfected my fried squirrel recipe. I also finally figured out how to skin a squirrel. I had alot to practice on
. I love my new .22! fun to shoot whether it be squirrels or old tomatos.
Oh and did quite good during deer season. I did alot of firsts this year. First time I have ever filled all my tags(two bonus antler-less and one antlered) and I shot my first buck this year.
I got my buck when I decided to go for a walk after an exciting but fruitless morning hunt....
(I saw a buck pass right infront of me but when I pulled the trigger nothing happened. so I pumped the gun and out falls an unused cartrage . the buck runs away in the meantime. 1/2 hour later and I see a large herd of does in opposite wheat field to far away to shoot, jumping around and acting skittish. They weren't winding me so I don't know what their problem was.)
So I get up to investigate noises in a ravine next to me. UP pops a buck and runs deeper into ravine and stops on other side of small hill. I go into sneak mode and follow, cause I know he is there. step on a twig and up pops the buck but this time he turns and starts to run my way on other side of ravine bottom. I get my gun to the ready and wait to see if he stops. He does stop in a perfect broadside 30 maybe 40 yards in a break in the trees and looks at me. I take the shoot and he runs up a cliff and outa site. HaHa got him! my first buck ever! Oddly, I find another blood trail on the property(this is opening day for firearms BTW) I follow it a bit but find nothing. It started near the road so I think someones else's deer ran onto the property I was hunting but the deer didn't start to bleed yet so they didn't come looking for it.
I shot my other two deer two days later and 5 mins from each other. I was watching the far wheat field to see where the large herd was coming out of the woods(been seeing them for last 2 days) with plans to move my stand when two does pop into my view. I shoot the larger one. So I come out of my blind and start to shed some layers for the work ahead when I look up and see the other doe watching me from the woods edge. I try to be sneaky and quietly pump my shotgun. I pumped it too gentle and it jams up. UGH! it felt like an hour to get the gun unjamed. But the doe was still there! So I settle into a shooting position and the doe makes a run for it-- kinda, she prances farther into the field and closer to me. I try a holler but it only makes her go faster so I put a lead on her and shoot. Aha! she falls in her tracks... Deer number 3 and my season is over in 3 days. I didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Shotgun season lasts 2 weeks over here. ( BTW, the first doe was actually a button buck, but still legal in Indiana)
So too cheep to buy more tags for another county but still having the hunting fever I go squirrel hunting on public land that gets NOOOO pressure during the weekdays. I didn't get anymore squirrels ( can squirrels see hunter orange? cause those little buggers where picking me out left and right) but I did see a few more deer.
I would like to dedicate this post to the landowner who allows me to hunt his land. A great guy and member of thr. He helped me this season when I shot my buck. Not only to give advice and help hoist buck into the back of my truck and lend me his knife when I discovered I couldn't find mine to gut the buck(turns out the knife fell out of my hunting pack). but, he didn't yell at me too much when in my nervous and excited state, I became plagued by Murphy's law and made mistake after mistake after mistake in front of him. I was acting like a real knucklehead.
So, yeah. It was a great season. Its gonna take alot to top this year.
