This weekend started the Tennessee Unit L muzzleloader season. It was about 80 degrees here in Pulaski so, best I can tell, the deer weren’t moving during the day. Went yesterday morning and didn’t even see the first doe. Now, where I live, they are usually doing a Conga line through the edge of my yard on a daily basis but, this weekend, nada… Yesterday I stopped in at Richland Trace market on the highway not far from home. This is usually a hotspot for deer checking with plenty loaded in trucks out in the parking lot. Ghost town while I was there. Today too. They do have great food though…
I’ve only heard three muzzle blasts all weekend, which is also unusual. I’m surrounded by good deer woods, most of which I don’t own, so opening day of ML or rifle season usually sounds like a hot war earlier in the morning. Well, make that four muzzle blasts. Just heard one across the road while typing this. Pitch black outside, but none of my business I guess… Oops, five. Just heard another one… My point is, how is everybody else’s opening weekend shaping up?
I went to my spot for just a few minutes with my New Englander right before dark this afternoon and finally did see one doe, about ten yards away from me with the road as her back drop, and, what I believe to be, a large buck that showed up about thirty yards in front of me in one of my shooting lanes. Too dark by then to take an ethical shot as all I could make out was a huge body but couldn’t tell anything else about it. Either way, deer or no deer, I enjoyed my therapy sessions in the woods this weekend and look forward to slipping out of the shop and hitting the woods again in the morning. Any of you guys make meat this weekend?
I’ve only heard three muzzle blasts all weekend, which is also unusual. I’m surrounded by good deer woods, most of which I don’t own, so opening day of ML or rifle season usually sounds like a hot war earlier in the morning. Well, make that four muzzle blasts. Just heard one across the road while typing this. Pitch black outside, but none of my business I guess… Oops, five. Just heard another one… My point is, how is everybody else’s opening weekend shaping up?
I went to my spot for just a few minutes with my New Englander right before dark this afternoon and finally did see one doe, about ten yards away from me with the road as her back drop, and, what I believe to be, a large buck that showed up about thirty yards in front of me in one of my shooting lanes. Too dark by then to take an ethical shot as all I could make out was a huge body but couldn’t tell anything else about it. Either way, deer or no deer, I enjoyed my therapy sessions in the woods this weekend and look forward to slipping out of the shop and hitting the woods again in the morning. Any of you guys make meat this weekend?
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