Is anyone else wondering how Killdeer's hunt is going??

[LazerRay]

yippppeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[bentpole]

Welcome home KILLY hope you had the good old tree bark on.

[Dano]

I wish you were still in the woods too  :rolleyes:   Deer Killie    Now I wanna see some pictures and hear how yer side of the story.

[ber643]

I also am glad you are back, my friend. Somehow it just didn't seem right, with no updates from Clark - Kinda scary, for some of us who will admitt it. We mostly played Ostrich though, and "assurred" each other all was probably OK. Now we can relax and just pick on you again - that's more fun! Hope you at least "renewed" yourself again this year, Lady.

[Dano]

As usual my older brother has all the right words. What Bernie said!! Now where are the pictures???  

[Killdeer]

Dano...you're such a guy. I will tell you, though, that I carried a certain snakeskin-trimmed cane arrow with trade point on all my bow hunts.

Bernie, I was waiting for a new truck to display this on.
 First sticker on the vehicle:
   

We all know what sticker comes next! (TG, of course!!)

Part of the disorganizational trend of this hunt was due to the fact that I took possession of the truck on the second of November, got the cap put on it on the third, and left on the fourth. There was a lot of wild scurrying about that Saturday morning, throwing stuff in the truck and hoping I had left it reasonably packed and complete last year, notwithstanding the minor camping that I did during the summer.

Oh..hunting! So there I was on Thursday, November the ninth, having gotten to the Pawnshop around 3:30. Late, but that was because of the turkeys. Oh, hadn't I mentioned them yet? Sorry. Well, there were these turkeys, like they usually do during the week of bow season, feeding at the top of the logging skid behind camp. I go up this skid to get to the ridge that leads to the Pawnshop and a couple other favorite spots. Anyway, the turkeys were there, surruptitiously making their way across the ridgeline to feed in the top of the bowl under the little knob at the top of the skid. I caught the movement of the two glossy backs and stayed ducked, using my binoculars to look for the rest of them. It was a gang of hens and youngsters, and bronzed hope spread wide its wings in my beating hunter's heart.

Ooops. It is nine o'clock, and I have to go to bed. Gotta work in the morning, and the alarm goes off at 4:45.

Oh, here is a picture of Motormouth, as he shows me the ol' swimming hole at his grandparents' farm. I didn't bring my swimming trunks, so we went hunting instead.

   

Killdeer~Oh for crying out loud! Where is my snoozing gremlin? I am about to go beddy-bye, and the gremlin I use the most is GONE!! Will y'all just cut it OUT??    

[LazerRay]

You have fun

[Dano]

A fine first chapter, I carry gifted arras too, way better than buyin them  :D  And yes I'm being a guy.

[Killdeer]

Dano..forgiven.
Just.
I had the hardest time figuring out what that noise was this morning.
Oh. Alarm.
Gotta go work.    

Killdeer

[Linc]

Sure glad you are back Killie. I was getting mighty noyvous (nervous)  

[adkmountainken]

welcome back Killy!!! we missed ya!

[arraflipper]

Killy,

I see you are still being a silly filly, and doing a great job of teasing Dano.  Sounds like a good time or course never had a real bad time away from work.

[ber643]

I can vouch for the fact that Linc was getting nervouse too. Glad you got to use the decal on the new truck, Killie and neat to see Motor Mouth smiling again. Of course I am aware it may just be at seeing you again - I know how he looks up to you (pun not intended). Speaking of that - would y'all believe good ol' Bunny Hunter (Micah Adams) stopped in at my website and left his "tracks" on my guest book - bless his heart. I hear from him about once a year - LOL. He also left a link there for his "My Space" as an update. He is in Madison WI now, still with WalMart (pics and other good stuff there too).  When you get time, Killie, stop in to my "new' TBD section and see all the new Full Draw additions that came in while you were gone.

[Dano]

I sure hope the ol'girl    :rolleyes:   has not forgotten us, one little installment of pictures and story tellin just ain't gonna get it. Bein patient ain't one of my better traits  

BTW Bernie, where the heck has Bunny Hunter been?? he take up needle point?

[arraflipper]

Dano,

Not sure but calling her an ol'girl may not speed things along, other than her temper might flare!!!  Oh well you can take a little heat, right.

[Killdeer]

So, the innocent, defenseless foraging birdies were scratching and purring just out of sight, and being the savvy hunter that I am, I crept directly into the sun. I have hunted that ridge since the beginning, and on that bright glaring day I groped my way surely and blindly toward an intercept point. The familiar crackle of dry white oak and cherry leaves reassured me of the correctness of every step.

I paused in a dip just shy of the knob. They would pass within sight soon. I craned my neck like my hunting mentor, the great blue heron, and waited. I was soon rewarded by the sight of fifteen or so feathered periscopes, all miraculously looking the other way. The bowl was full of their contented purrs as acorns, crawlies and stray earthworms filled their crops. They had rounded the knob, and were sauntering back down into the bowl at about thirty yards, and getting further away by the second. Flopping square on my butt, I waited as they fed away, and then preened and fussed at each other. A button buck followed them out. When at last they faded from view, I snuck down out of sight below ridgeline and scuttled toward the Pawnshop. The wind carried my scent down the bowl, I heard a snort,and the button buck appeared as he fled up and over the side of the bowl into the red spruces a hundred-fifty yards down the side of the bowl. This was indeed an auspicious beginning!    

Killdeer  

[Killdeer]

Impatient, impertinent imp! Some of us have to REALLY work for a living! I went in, and they had cut a full stacker plus six tubs of mail yesterday! I am gonna get screwed out of the time it will take to absorb THAT into the delivery, had to put in five bid requests and an employee survey, and I got a migraine, so I couldn't see what I was casing up. I got back home at dark, which meant I couldn't take the dog to the doggy park and sit, I hadda walk her for an hour, feed her, play with her, feed myself...I sit down and the phone starts ringing.

Can I go back out to the woods? Will somebody foot my truck payments for a few years?        

You will get what I dole out and be happy, you inflammatory ingrates!    :mad:    (JK)(I love you guys!)(BIG HUG NOW!!) (I feel  so  much better.)

Killdeer    

[snakewood3]

My how I've missed this verbal abuse !!!!

[Dano]

Love you too, sorry you had such a bad day.  

[Killdeer]

So I round the top of the horseshoe, and arrive at the dropoff to the Pawnshop. The wind here is coming out of the bowl, directly to me. To my right, along the topline, I have passed the laurel-lined escape route to the bedding area to my left. I creep down to the fallen cherry pit, and get comfy, facing the chute. I dig a couple of offending rocks out of the face of the rootball, which makes my back a bit less kinky. I must sit perfectly still here, as cover is mostly the pit that I sit, and my head and shoulders are above that level. The rootball is taller than I, even when standing. I am fortunate in my ability to sit and do nothing. I watch the shadows lengthen and deepen.

Then I hear them.

Killdeer~bedtime.