Good to get back in the woods !!

[roundball]

Up at 4:30am, in the treestand at 6:00...at 6:15 a flock of turkeys started flying down from a roost tree close enough that I could here their wing beats as they flew down but the woods are too thick to see exactly where they had come from...they wandered all around for an hour cutting/yelping/purring...saw glimpses of a couple here & there 50-75yds away.

At 6:30 a lone doe came poking along the trail around a clearcut, 35yds away...at 7:00 another doe with a yearling came poking along the same trail...I don't shoot does until after the rut (keep them out there as live decoys :grin so I let them pass...was after horns but never saw a buck all morning.

Gorgeous fall morning, red sunrise, in the 40's...however, almost all the leaves are still on the trees still limiting visibility...colors barely starting to turn...running a few weeks late it seems...guess it's the drought.

At 9:00 I was fighting sleep so I climbed down out of the treestand, got comfortable on the ground leaning against the tree and promptly dozed off for 10 minutes...twice...beautiful woods, animals, sights, sounds, smells...when my time comes, I hope it's on a fall morning in the deer woods just like this morning, with a Flintlock across my lap !
:thumbsup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Good you got out.

We had a beautiful, sunny morning and, after some "honey-dos", I took my flinter up the hill this afternoon for what may be the last practice before our season starts on the 19th. Sure nuff, just as I set my target box up it started to rain. So, darned it, I stood and practiced from assorted positions in the light rain. Only one flash and failure to fire in 30 shots, which ain't too bad.