Boring Post

Working has put a serious damper on my hunting. I really cant complain, Ive gotten to spend allot of time in the woods this year. I'm working on this new project on a dam, not sure how long its going to take but its looking like at least a couple more weeks. I haven't blogged much lately because there's really not all that much going on. Charlotte got a new job that about 5 mins from our house which is awesome. It really doesn't make much economic sense for me to drive the truck and hour each way to work when she works 5 mins away. Ill end up driving the car and she will take the truck, as I write this a tear is dripping down my face. I did tell her that she cant have it until Jan 15, which is when the archery season ends here in MD.

I really wish I had something more interesting to say. Ive actually written 2 posts recently only to end up erasing them because they were so boring. This one is also boring but is getting posted anyhow.

phychic?

Were those stripes supposed to be a premonition, or a really lame attempt at being cool?

I got one!!!

Two posts ago, I received a comment from Joe. It read:

d00d...you gotta be careful out there. I wanna see the post where your all "I got one!" not the post where you're all "uhhh...shit"

The post was regarding me shooting deer, or not shooting deer for that matter. Well Joe here is the post you've been waiting for. I got one!!!


Here's the story. I finally convinced Greerski to go out hunting with me after work. I left at like 2:45 ish and he was headed out at around 3. He called at around 3:30 (I was already up in my tree) and said that he was parked in the woods by my truck and that there was a deer that had been hit by a car and was crippled on the side of the road. He didn't want to shoot it with his bow because it was on the other side of the road and hunting is not allowed over there. We decided that the best bet was for him to call the DNR and they can put it down. About a half of an hour later I hear three loud gun shots (seriously who needs 3 shots to shoot a deer that is crippled and cant move with a gun that Greer later described as looking like an assault rifle). Anyhow Greer calls me a few minutes later and we decide that after dark we will get the deer, gut it and take it to the Butcher. I contemplated climbing down right away and going to get the deer right then, but its the peak of the rut and I was in a good spot so I thought Id sit tight and hunt for the last hour of light.

Well about twenty minutes after that 4 deer move through the woods around me. One deer got spooked and they all ran about 50 yards and started feeding. They didn't seem to concerned and I thought that they may come back into bow range which is about 35 yards. So Im standing up in my treestand looking behind me at these deer when I hear the crack of a stick. I turn around and there is doe right in front of me about 20-25 yards. Ill cut some of the gory details but I drew back my bow and nailed her. She ran about 35 yards away and fell over dead. I immediately called Greer and informed him that we would be taking two deer to the butcher not just one.

Anyhow I gutted her and got her back to the truck before we got Greers deer from across the road and drug it across and gut it as well. In an odd twist of fate, the buck that was hit by the car and Greer kept was the same buck I saw before falling out of the tree last week (jokes on him).

I once wrote a blog post when I was out in California that all I wanted in life was a dead deer in the back of a pick-up truck....
The deer that I shot was certainly not the biggest one that I have ever gotten but any deer taken with a bow is a trophy in my book.

In the pic of me you can see my snazzy new harness I wear when I'm up in the tree (looks like a camo vest almost but it also has straps that go under the legs and its reinforced for strapping yourself to a tree). I wear it under my camo coat which is not in the picture. I'm beat and going to bed, more deer blogging tomorrow.

PA is a blue state

Looking at political blogs while drinking beer during the elections tonight. Here us a quote from a conservative blog talking about why PA is a blue state:

To: thefrankbaum

Yeah, it’s turned blue with all the illegals, the blacks, and the stupid college kids.

23 posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:02:07 PM by amishman (Barack Obama=Jim Jones)

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Unbelievable!!! Some people are truly morons. That quote is from http://www.freerepublic.com/. You can check it out for more equally ridiculous commentary..

Flailing Wildly

Here is a picture of our Obama Pumpkin that I carved last night, I was a bit nervous about how it was going to turn out but I think it worked out well. We had about 20 trick-or-treaters last night, a descent turn out but nothing spectacular. None of the costumes were outstanding but we did get a kid who was dressed as Ben Roethlisberger from the Steelers, obviously he got a double ration of candy.

Speaking of the Steelers I got heckled the other day at the grocery store haveing my jersey on. I was walking down the produce isle and I hear a "Steelers Suck". There are two guys buying cheese who are the obvious culprit and they turn around quickly and act like it wasn't them. As I walk buy I asked "what was that", with a smile on my face and in a very non-confrontational tone. They said that I should not wear this jersey here because I was in Ravens country. I pointed out to them that there were probably more Steeler Jerseys in the grocery store at that very moment than there were Ravens. I then asked them were there Ravens Jersey was he kinda looked down and said, "oh, I'm gonna put that shit on when I get home". ha..

I had a very interesting day hunting the other day. I found a new spot and had two does come in to about 10 yards. They walked right into one of my shooting lanes and stopped broadside. I drew my bow and as I did one of the deer looked at me and they both took off, I was bummed. Then 25 min later a jogger strolls bye, one of the disadvantages of semi-urban hunting. I thought my spot was ruined but not 15 mins later here he comes, nose to the ground following the path the does were on, a buck. He goes past the shooting lane were the does stopped and stops behind a pile of brush, I reach over and grab my bow and then it happens. I fall out of the tree. I don't remember much but I lost my balance and remember falling and then it went black. I came to (what must have been a split second later) and I was still in the tree dangling from my tree stand. Its hard to explain the position I ended up in to someone who is not familiar with a Summit Climbing Tree stand but to make a long story short I had only fallen about 5 feet before the tree stand caught me. I was hanging by my arms with no platform underneath. I managed to right myself by some crazy gymnastics that would have made Nastia Lukin proud. It could have been really bad if I had fallen the whole way down (approx 25'). I didn't have a safety harness because I always thought that this particular tree stand would catch you if you fell, which it did, but I promptly went out and bought the best safety harness that money could buy that night. In Hindsight I think it was part tree stand failure, part human error and part bad conditions (wet). I am not the best hunter in the world by any means but I am very familiar with this stand, by my quick math I have spent no less than 200 hours sitting in it suspended in a tree. I really do not know what happened, but I think I'm gonna buy a new stand.

I think this is the best part. Your a buck chasing some does through the woods. You run into a clearing and stop to smell around where the does have gone. Then you hear a loud noise. You look over your shoulder to see a man with a bow who is trying to kill you and you have walked right into his trap. But wait, hes flailing wildly and items are falling from the tree (backpacks, grunt tubes, etc), then with a crash his tree stand swings 180 degrees, falls 5 feet and he is caught legs dangling 20 feet up in the air.

That must have been the happiest buck in the world. I actually saw the same buck the next day ( I was back up in a different tree). Perhaps Ill get a second chance at him one of these days..