Heating Up

This week in during my hunts I was not as usual as the previous weeks.  During my adventures my bucks are starting to come alive and walk around a lot more frequent.  I was sitting out in my tree stand Tuesday afternoon and at about 4:30 I had a big six point.  His rack wasn’t huge but it was thick. I would say that he was about a two and a half year old buck.  I would have shot him with my bow but he was way too far away, about 80 yards.  I could have tried to shoot but I don’t shoot at deer that I am not comfortable with the range they are presenting themselves to me.  Plus, it is about a week away from what many would call a holiday here in Michigan, and yes I am talking about opening day for gun season.  I for one am really pumped about it. 

                I just put my blind up out at my sand pit last week and this was not an easy task.  The wind was just howling and it was a pain in the ass to get my blind up.  My buddy and I went out and set my blind up and laid sugar beets out Thursday after noon.  It is always better to get your stuff situated and aired out so that the deer can get used to it by the time the season opens up.  You don’t really want the deer to be scared of the new unfamiliar object that rests in their woods, it will spook them.

                During this afternoon I was also helping my friend site in his Savage for the season as well.  His luck just about disappeared while we were doing this.  We were shooting at his target and we couldn’t get it even close.  The patterns of the shot weren’t even tight, and if you know about Savage, that doesn’t happen.  Come to realize his scope was muffed up and something shifted inside his Nikon scope.  I also find this hard to believe because Nikon does produce some really nice products and these scopes are not cheap.  He was extremely bummed about this because he had just purchased this gun and when he thought he could count on his scope to be there for him, it wasn’t.  If I were in his shoes I would be pretty upset as well.

                My muzzleloader on the other hand is getting mounted with a scope and ready for use.  I am looking forward to shooting this gun and bore sighting it in because I have not yet been able to shoot it.  Hopefully all goes well with it and I don’t run into any problems, or else I’m right out of luck.