Glad that you guys had a chance to enjoy the opener.
Mine was not so good, but it was not too bad either. I did see a few deer just not like I would have liked to see them.
I started the day by working with some concrete at my uncles. Saw a nice 8 pt still partialy in velvet in his front yard when my father and I pulled in his driveway at 7:00 AM. What of his antlers was not velvet was a nice shiney blood red so I know that he just started rubbing this morning. All I could think after that was how bad I wished that I was in the woods somewhere.
After we finished the concrete I came home got cleaned up and headed for a plot of woods that I wanted to scout/hunt, and maybe put up a stand. Unknown to me this land had been sold recently and I was escorted off the land at gunpoint by the new owner. I guess thats sometimes happens when you just assume that you still have permission to hunt an area, and do not at least speak to the landowner for a few years. I was not too upset about being escorted off of the land however I was mad at myself for not at least calling Gerald and telling him I was going out there. He would have told me that he sold the place 3 months ago if I had just called.
It was approx 4:00 PM when I got back to my truck, so I drove a few miles up the road to some state land that I thaught I would scout/hunt since I was in the area anyway. There was a guy from Indy attempting to load a spike into his truck at the parking area. I've never seen anyboy struggle with loading a 110lb-115lb deer the way this guy was struggling, so I was nice and helped him get the little thing loaded. When I asked where he killed the deer he told me that it was drinking water from the pond 300 yards down the fire lane. :x :x That was the main area that I wanted to check out, so I decided that since he had been in there all day, taken that small buck, and left a gut pile in that area that I would just stay out of that area until at least some evening mid week after the bobcats and coyotes have the gut pile cleaned up.
After that I just drove to my parents farm. It was exactly 5:00PM when I arrived there. I walked to my feed plot and just sat in a brush pile not seeing or hearing anything. I expected to at least get a shot at a turkey. Not seeing a deer was no surprise since I know how few deer are in the area, but I expected to bag me a bird sitting there on the opening day of the 1st ever fall turkey season we have had in Indiana.
With any luck things will go better for me tomorrow. Actualy I know that they will as log as I crawl out of bed in the morning early enough to go to the woods. Weather or not I see any animals makes no difference as long as I get to the woods early enough to watch a sunrise it will make it a better day than today was.
