What a crazy last couple of weeks it has been. I've been having a lot of fun with 3 new trad shooters getting them ready for hunting season. Between making back quivers for target shooting and rabbit hunting, bow quivers for big game hunting, and side quivers to carry judo's and back up arrows the evenings have been busy. Throw in bow tuning sessions, making up 8 dozen new wood arrows for the guys and their kids, and now tuning a bow for one of the wives it has been a fun and busy time.
This weekend will be no different. Everyone is coming over on Saturday for final broadhead tuning and some late afternoon deer scouting. To make things even better I have a buddy from work who had decided he is interested in Trad. He plans to come over and shoot the different bows to see if he likes recurves or longbows better and then plans to buy a bow and get started.
Sunday is dedicated to visiting some of my prime elk spots to verify they are running those areas again this year and Sunday evening will be spent glassing a big blacktail buck I found two weeks ago. I am watching his patterns to see where to sit in ambush. He lives down by a local lake on public area and moves to private farm fields fields to feed at dark. I am going to get one or maybe two chances at him right as season starts and then he will go nocturnal. If I miss him then, I will get back on him in November during the rut.
It is going to be a great year and hunting camp is going to be a lot bigger than normal. Throw in the first full weekend of early elk Bjorn is coming up from Cali. and another trad ganger will be hunting there as well. This is going to be a great hunting season!