bears and deer

I saw a sow bear today with four cubs. all seem to be health now but I do not think she can raise all of them. I have never seen one sow with four cubs before. new record for me.

The bachelor group is back! I have a group of bucks that spend their summer's in the field and swamp behind my house. There is always at least one nice one in the bunch and this year is no exception. He already has six and the antlers and not even close to being done growing yet. I seldom hunt these deer due to access problems. I have made one kill out of the group before. I took a nice eight point a couple years back.

scouting

I have been doing some scouting. well truth be told I am always scouting. But I did have an encounter with a small buck today that was worth noting. I was walking on an old road that my crew is brushing when I saw the deer about 45 yards up in front of me. I kept moving until he noticed me. i expected him to run but he was just not sure what I was. I let go a number of fawn bleats and that seen to confuse the buck even more. He started to come to me, at about 20 yard he stopped and just looked at me. I kept bleating but he would not move. I finally got bored with just standing there and I walked toward the deer. I got about 10 yard from him before he decided to run. Then when he tried to jump off the road the brush piled up seem to be in his way. I just kept coming and he stayed about 15 yard ahead of me looking for a place to get off the road. when he finally found one he ran off three of four jumps then stopped to see if I was going to follow. It was a younger deer, maybe last years fawn. Those few minutes made my whole week!

food plots?

Well I finally got them done. Never again will I try to do food plots by hand. It is just to much work!!

I see and hear from the Dem. debates the Capital Hillery has her entire campaign strategy planed out. "Its Bush's war, Its Bush's war, Its Bush's war." But then that is the perfect liberal strategy, Don't have any real ideas to help the country, just blame the President.

Have you seen anything in the news about the shootings at V.T. lately. No and I think I know why. Instead of passing all kinds of new restrictive gun laws there was a push in that State to make it easier to get a concealed carry permit. This is so that possible, some armed citizen, could have stopped that deranged bastard before he killed all those people. As soon as the liberal news media found that out, they dropped the whole story like a hot potato. Selective reporting, that is the way the Press has been trying to rule this country from the get go.

The Barber is gone

I am here to report the closing of a local institution. The Barber in my area has closed down her shop for good. Now this may not seem like a big deal to those of you who live in populated areas, but up her in the woods it is a big deal. Our nearest Barber is now about 20+ miles away. we can't just go down the block to the next shop. Yea I am whining a little, but I still would not want to live in the city.

The food plots are coming along, got three more in the other night. Still slow going with a walk behind tiller and a rake. I am getting the job done. The first ones I planted are starting to come up. If the critters don't eat all the plants now, there will be corn for them to eat this fall.

Of food plots and ticks

Food Plots, another thing the Hunters do in the off season to improved their hunting experience. This is my first real try at it. I put in two small plots today one in Bio-logic and the other in corn. Now I have no tractor or other large machinery to help so I am doing this with a small walk behind tiller and a rake. slow going so far. I figure I need to put in another six plots and that this will take me the rest of the week.

When i got home tonight I looked down at my jeans and they were crawling with ticks. By the time I got done picking I must of had 30 or more for my tick jar (see earlier post). Only eight of them were bit in. that's not bad!!!!!! I pity the hunters who are trying to turkey hunt now.

bears

Another sign of spring here in the north land. The Black bear are out. I have seen two of them in the past week. Also two people at work have had problems with bears one took out a bird feeder and the other took all the siding off the side of a house. life in the wilderness, never boring.

Fishing opener

This weekend was the fishing opener here in the State of Confusion. I did not fish, seldom do on the opener, just to many people out there. Also I have yet to get into town and pick up my licence for the year. When you live off the beaten path everything you need to buy means a trip. With gas prices to day ( I blame Bush) (see earlier post) you don't make any more than you have to.

The turkey are still displaying in the fields. They are just teasing me.

The Sucker run has come and gone. I missed it again. ( I blame Bush) Oh well I never keep them anyway, just catch them for fun.