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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…
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Earth Day and Hunting Therapy
Today is Earthday and is celebrated across the world. It was a rather stressful, got up in the morning find that the heavy rain from the days past had flooded the basement, so instead of starting work right away we ended up dealing with that for while. We are also in the process of doing…
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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.…
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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…
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It’s not all about venison – hunting for wild herbs
Sunday was a glorious day to be out in the woods. When you spend as much time in the woods as I do, other things in nature tend to spark your interest too. Today another huntress took me out to on of the open fields in our hunting area for an all together different type…
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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…
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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…
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Kicking off the 2024 Hunting Season
Here in Germany the hunting year starts April first and in Hessen where we live and usually hunt it’s also the start of the buck season. Other parts of Germany don’t start till May 1st. We’ve been out in the reviver a lot in the past weeks. We have permission to hunt on some state…
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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…
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April 4 – Hunting Journal
Didn’t head to the woods yesterday even though I am still on vacation. There was a lot of rain and it was fairly windy. So I let my favorite hunting companion take me out to dinner and a movie. We saw Dune 2 and had Mexican. A perfectly awesome alternative to hunting, Again it was…