I was beginning to think I’d forgotten how to hunt. <\/p>\n
I had given up on hunting at Kingsbury, and Jasper-Pulaski was just too damned far away. I had ridden out the rifle season, no luck at either place OR at the slough. <\/p>\n
And then, at a dinner given for the wife and her bingo-operationg cohorts, I talk to one of our parishioners that I see every weekend but rarely speak with, and he tells me his nephiew has a small piece of land he leases. <\/p>\n
I can afford the lease, and I go talk to the guy. We make arrangements, and I’ve been there every spare minute for a week. <\/p>\n
It’s very nice, because nobody ios shooting at me, nobody else is around, in fact, and there are a powerful lot of deer. <\/p>\n
Weather is nasty, so they seem to be staying where I can’t shoot at them, of course until Wednesday when the frontstuffer failed on me. <\/p>\n
This morning,I was backing out of the driveway when the power went out. So I stuck around until it went back on, just in case I needed to load up the fireplace. By the time power went back on, it was too late to do a morning hunt. <\/p>\n
So I went out this afternoon, and sat in the blind, mostly thinking about tomorrow, and a little bachelor herd wandered out of the treeline. <\/p>\n
In the last several days, the deer have stayed close to the treeline, but tonight they practically ran into my line of fire. I sighted in on the first one, which was also about the biggest one, and dropped it.<\/p>\n
I didn’t kill it instantly, which upset me, but it was dead very quickly. And the White Hunter made short work of it. <\/p>\n
So now I have a deer, which has broken my couple years of bad luck. And I have a place to go back next year and hunt all three or four seasons. <\/p>\n
Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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