Even though trapping season started last Sunday, still did not have my traps ready. So, today I boiled my traps in Black Walnut hull juice (to dye them black) then waxed them (to keep rust away). Hopefully some day next week I will get out and get some set. There is field of standing corn [...]
Browsing Posts published in October, 2009
I took my dog out rabbit hunting, she jumped out a rabbit two different times for me to shoot. I carried a Remington 870 16 gauge shot gun. The smaller rabbit I actually did not think I hit, but my dog found it partially hidden under the leaves for me. That is one aspect of [...]
Today I went to a State Game Land to hunt. However, I did not see anything, but one grey squirrel. I spoke with three different groups of hunters and mostly people were saying that they did not see anything today, but one hunter did say that they saw an eight point on the game land [...]
I watched a small section of a field this evening for a couple of hours before dusk with my flintlock. However, I did not see anything.
This evening I took my flintlock out to watch a field, I spooked about a 4-point buck, then towards at 6:30 I saw two antlerless deer come out. I guessed them to be at a long 100yard. Being greedy I aimed for the bigger of the two deer which was also about 10yards farther away. [...]
