Different Deer Opener This Year

[ACP230]

Tomorrow is the Opening Day of Michigan's Gun Deer Season.

It's the first time in four years that I haven't opened the season hunting with my youngest son. This fall's small game opener was the first time in six years I haven't opened that season with my son.

He's downstate at college and also having a bad week due to exams, professors, and food he dislikes in the dorm cafeteria. They also had a fire drill last night at around four a.m. He went out without shoes and wrapped in a blanket and found it raining cats and dogs. (I remember most of that stuff from a long time ago). I think he'd like to be home hunting with his old man too.

I have somebody to go with tomorrow but it won't be the same, eh?

 

[jrd1976]

No, it just is not the same. My son moved away after college and I sure miss having him around.

The good news is the gun season opens this weekend. He and his family should be here Friday night.

I have a stand reserved for him and my grandson for Saturday.

Hang in there.

 

[Jst1mr]

Good luck, ACP! Although I am a northern Wisconsinite now, I spent a few years in the UP and loved it. I suppose every radio station is playing "Da Turdy Point Buck" nonstop about now, eh?

 

[Xfuzz]

Unless someone else happens to be in camp I've been hunting by myself the last few seasons. I run a 2500 ac lease with only 8 hunters and half seldom show except opening weekend and Thanksgiving.
Of the afternoon I have a nice little crossing area and just park
my mule and cover up and keep it simple.
Good luck to you boys up north....
My view...

Mule parked in the "hole"..

Doe out feedin...

 

[Class III]

I took two does last Saturday during the TN muzzleloader season (three does per day in my county, three bucks per season statewide). One of the guy's that works for me took a nice, REALLY nice, eight pointer and my brother took a doe and an 4 x 5 buck. I'm still looking for the 14 pointer that keeps putting his face in front of one of my trail cams about twice a week. The only problem with shooting the 14 pointer is the only place/time I have seen him is on camera and between 12:00 AM and 2:00 AM. Good luck to all that partake in the "Sport of Kings".

Class III

 

[mhakel]

My son is buried at Arlington Nat'l cemetary along with thousands of others that would welcome "standing out in the rain without shoes" for a 0400hrs fire drill.
Please.....................

 

[ACP230]

I am sorry about your son and the others who have been lost.

(But reserve the right to miss my living sons during hunting season).

 

[mhakel]

Sorry you didn't need my comments. My bad.

 

[ACP230]

The new guy and I did OK yesterday. Both of us were safe with guns. Some new snow showed us there were deer around. He went into the thick stuff on some fresh tracks and jumped one. The new growth in the logging slash was so thick, and so full of snow from overnight, that he never saw it.

I was out on the logging road looking both ways. I heard the crashing noise but the deer didn't come out past me and give me a look. The road is blocked off so no one can just drive in. We didn't see another hunter in there all morning.
A good day and we'll probably go out again sometime.

I didn't make it out today, due to fatigue, just did a little writing and took a nap. Days like this I miss my younger self too. When my late Dad and my brother were here we were up at five, in the woods at six, or six thirty, and didn't get back till dark. Mom would have the sauna ready and we'd pile in and warm up, then eat a big supper and conk out in front of the TV. Up again early the next day and do the same.

Along about the middle of the season though there'd come a day when Dad would "oversleep." Then we wouldn't make the woods till noon. Saw one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen on a day like that. (Didn't get it, unfortunately).

 

[Snowbandit]

It's been over thirty years since I left Michigan and opening day of deer season is the only thing I miss about that state. I always did enjoy that though.