Narrative Essay About Hunting

Well the season is underway. I have spent a few evenings working out the kinks in my system and getting in hunting mode. I haven't seen a single deer on stand but I did spook one in the dark making my way back to the boat and I will set up on it tomorrow evening just to see what it might be. I know you can never be sure but its hoof beats were heavy and it was alone. That always peaks my interest when I am hunting a known big buck area so we will see tomorrow.

My wife came down and we spent our 10 year anniversary together here in camp today and I cooked Pigs In The Cornfield in the Dutch oven for dinner and served it up on my anniversary gift, a set of awesome deer print dishes. I have to say I have the best wife on the planet and do not take her for granted.

The weather has been warm until today and tomorrow is going to be a chilly evening as well and will help with deer movement. The leaves are still hanging in there but this cold weather should get them falling soon and it already has the acorns dropping like crazy. This should pull those mature bucks off the fields and back into the timber even though the corn was picked not too long ago mature bucks will start to get up a little earlier when there is acorns throughout their route to the picked corn. I think the acorn drop is the end of the October lull especially when it coincides with …show more content…
I will get a photo of the gauntlet so you can see what I go through to get away from the crowds on public land. Idle speed doubles my trip time getting to my hunting area turning a thirty minute boat ride into an hour and a couple of my stand locations/areas are another thirty minute walk. This is going to mean rising at 3:30am and hoofing it to make the twenty minute drive to where I launch my