I'm playing with posting another picture. Think I'll make it ok this time. At least I got it hanging out there in cyber space, now all I have to do is get the address right. Out here in Oregon they have ML only hunts for deer and elk. I'm one of the guys that testified so's it would be illegal for them inliners to hunt the ML season, and by golly, we won. Us traditional round ball types get us about a week of prime hunting time though. That takes place about Thanksgiving every year, and the bucks are in rut and plumb stupid, so the hunting is good, but it's a hard tag to get on account of it's a draw tag now days, and you just don't get it every year. Too many people and not enough deers. The Fish and Wildlife guys don't open the entire state either, but one of the open areas is close to home for me. It's in the Cascade mountains, along the northern drainage of the Umpqua River. The mountains in the area of the hunt tend to be about 4000 feet, and some years there's a little snow to contend with. If there isn't snow you can figure on it being really wet and sometimes it can be quite a trick to get an exposed ignition traditional muzzle loader to go off, but to me that's a lot of the fun of hunting with primitive arms. Anyhow, we were up there hunting one time, had the truck parked and hunted a clear cut (yeah, this is Oregon and in them days we actually cut trees down) coming in from below the landing. If you hunt from the landing down the deer are pretty wise to that because that's how they are approached most of the time. That's because it's easy to drive to the landing and glass the openings. I've found that coming from the bottom the deer aren't as wary. Anyhow, we didn't see any deer in that logging unit, and on the way back to the truck we found out why. We came out on the road about a half mile from the truck, and walking back there in the mud of the road was this set of lion tracks. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm? Makes you wonder who was hunting whom.
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