Tree stands going up. The younger hunter on the right has already gotten the family "on the board" with a nice deer during the special youth hunt weekend. He may be the best shot in the crew, as one might expect from a kid who can make a soccer ball, baseball or hockey puck go where ever he directs it.
That stand is for the gun season that starts 8 days from now. After my misadventures with getting deer tags I had to switch tactics this year. I've been down on The Homestead with a crossbow. It is a different sort of hunting. It takes time and patience. You see deer that you can't reach, given the roughly 40 yard range of my bow. Well, 30 given my skill level. And....when a deer unexpectedly steps out from behind a bush and walks directly UNDER your tree stand, well, that's an impossible shot, leaning over the railing and twisting up and over. I think the grand kids will have some new works of taunting art for the fridge over that one.
Eventually a deer did turn up in the right spot, and I will have venison for the year ahead.
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