Jim, please give my congratulations to Emily!  Very nice buck!  I’m always glad to see the young ones get into the sport.  My granddaughter got her first deer this season as well.  After she made the shot she said "Granddaddy, I’m shivering but I’m not cold"; I told her that we all shiver like that occasionally!

Will do,  the rain is suppose to clear Friday evening, so they should be up and moving saturday morning...... If they get something I sure will post a picture.

Have a great weekend

Can you believe another hunting season is upon us!!!!  Hey it sure sounds like you had a nice buck.  We get some real nice bucks from time to time in our area but the pressure is on em.  If I see a nice buck and I like the way the horns look and I need meat in the freezer  I will take em....  Sorry you didn’t get the big one this past year, but we have a fresh season ahead of us....  Be safe and let me know how your doing’

Jim

Well Jim, I didn’t get the big one this past season; if he doesn’t die of old age I’m going to try some new strategies this next year; my last years strategies sure didn’t work!  I did get back my last buck from the taxidermy and it looks real nice.  This deer is about a 130 B&C and I should have let him walk, but he had such a nice tall and symmetric rack I just couldn’t help myself!

George, I wish you luck out there and get that big one!!!!!  of course now that season is over, we have seen some deer running around.  I saw one small buck.  We finally got some cold weather, little bit of snow so I guess it got them moving but it was a little to late.

We will hit em hard again next year Lord willing.

Let me know how your season ends.

Jim

Our bow season is still open and it goes through the end of February.  The big bucks where I hunt still have their antlers but they are really hard to hunt!  I passed on one 10 pointer that has been under my stand both last year and this year (he doesn’t know my lock on stand is there, it is hid so well it is hard for me to find) and I hope to take him next year; he should be in the 5.5+ year old class and be a record book trophy.  I hope I don’t regret the pass, it was sure hard to let him walk!  I have one old buck that I’m still trying to get before he drops his horns. Other than a management deer or two, we didn’t take anything worth mentioning.  Jim, like your weather, ours has been wet and windy, especially windy this season.  But like always, it was still fun! 

Best regards to all!

George

Well the last day of season has come and gone here in southern maryland.  It was a good year.  We had a lot of fun, didn’t see a whole lot of deer but we did manage to get a couple.  Our hunting season was mainly wet and windy this year not to many GREAT hunting days, but any day in the deer woods is better than anything at work.

I hope everone had a safe year and we will hit em hard again next time...  now its time to get ready for a little fishing and give them bucks a rest.....  Looing forward to a great 2009 season....

God bless

Jim

Well it sounds like you all had a good time despite the rain and wind.  That’s what it’s all about, getting those boys outdoors so they can have a good time and create some good memories!  Sure glad the oldest boy got a shot, that is good experience for him.  It sounds like your neighbor needs to make a change, either re-site in his gun or bow and for sure not to make a shot unless he has a good shot to take.  Good luck on your 29th hunt!

Early muzzlerloader season is in full swing,  I haven’t had much luck yet but have seen a lot of deer.  We are the doe’s only portion of the season,  it’s been very windy but hopfully this weekend will end with some meat in the freezer.  Hope everyone is having a great season so far.

Be Safe out there,  we have already had one fatality this year where a hunter fell out of his stand, not wearing a harness.