Category: Hunting Journal

  • May 8, Hunting Journal

    Back to the ravine today, there has been a fair amount of activity here the past few times we have been out. It’s crazy loud in the woods tonight the birds are chirping like crazy. It was a fairly uneventful night. Watched a Mouse buzzard stare at the field for a while looking for a… Read more

  • May 5 – Hunting Journal

    It’s Football season again. We (My son as player and I as staff) had our 2nd gameday of the season. We were about 2 hours away with kickoff at 6pm. So Hunting was not an option. It was my son’s first time as a starter! Mama is super proud. We also won the game so… Read more

  • May 3 – Hunting Journal

    So we had a minor crisis in the house and missed Germany’s opening day for the buck season. Plumber was out yesterday and we were able to get out to the woods today. Sitting at the bottom of a valley today. The view was great and it was a pleasant evening to sit in the… Read more

  • April 28 – Hunting Journal

    Yesterday was not a hunting day. This week was the kick off of my son’s football season. Yesterday was an away game, so I was out with my Son’s team at the first game of the season. Yes, My favorite football player calls me Mom! Anyway today I really wanted to get out and see… Read more

  • April 24 Hunting Journal

    We’ve has some sketchy weather the last few days. Last weekend in the 70s F, now back down to freezing. It’s a little bit crazy. This morning it was raining and even hail for a while but things have settled a bit and Hubby and I went out to hunt. We cooked up some venison… Read more

  • April 17 – hunting Journal

    Today started out as a fairly normal hunting day. I was a little late getting done with work, but hubby had everything packed and ready to go, so once I logged off my computer all I needed to do was change clothes and get in the car. We were in the hunting area around 4:00.… Read more

  • April 14 – Hunting Journal

    I didn’t make it to the woods yesterday, Home ownership sometimes means that household repairs come as priority. Today however we were able to get out to the woods. Today I went out to another stand. It was a buitiful night and the view was glorious… but alas no animals wanted to be seen. As… Read more

  • April 10 – Hunting Journal

    Had to go back to work this week. My vacation was over so not able to get to the woods as often. The wind today wasn’t great for the zoo, so I picked a different stand. Today I went to the Coordinate Stand. I named it coordinates because we found the stand in the area… Read more

  • April 7 – Hunting Journal

    Hunting is of course not exclusively sitting in a stand or stalking an animal to harvest. There is so much more that goes along with that. Hunting is a great deal about natural preservation. 1 role of a hunter is to help maintain the balance of animals in an area so the wildlife and the… Read more

  • April 5 – Hunting Journal

    Late start today, Didn’t make it to my stand until almost 4:30pm. Shortly after I got seated I heard some Roe deer barking. They really do sound like a dog to an untrained ear. Hubby said as he was heading to his stand he noticed the deer get startled by some mountain bikers and take… Read more