Hi I'm celticknot.Im 27 and this is my third season hunting with trad bows. This is my season. (a work in progress)
Today was the second day of deer season in Ohio. My first time out because I let the season sneak up on me and wasn't ready. I was up till 1am sharpening broadheads and mounting them.
Well to start the day off good I shut off my alarm at 5am and fell back to sleep.
So i woke up an hour late. 6am jump out of bed, shower, stretch (back issues}, check the gear, grab a cup of coffee and I'm out the door. Swing by Tim's Aka Tim Hortons, grab a Bagel B.E.L.T. and head for deer ground. Well I show up an hour late, grab my gear and start walking the 7 acres to my spot. As always when Im running behind during deer season I spook a decent 2 year old 8 point as I'm going in. Well i get to my spot and its already daylight. I set up. It has been misting on and off all morning. It is 61degrees the wind is coming in from the west south west(completely not what I wanted). Well I sit for a while and there is nothing going on except for a buzzard circling around me. Well I have been sitting for about an hour and have seen nothing so far, so I stand up and look over the field and there is nothing, so I sneak around the tree line to see if there is anything going on in the other field. Well I look around the brush and about 150-180 yards out there is a doe creeping around the coner of some woods. Well it has been sprinkling on and off for a while now, so I decide that I will see if I can sneak up wind of her. Well long stalk short, she dissapeared before I ever got close. So i go back to my setup and sit. Well it starts to spit rain and I decide I'll wait 5 more minutes and I'm done. 5 minutes later I'm taking a few quick pictures and I'm headed to a few spots to glass with my eyes and then since it's ranning I'm headed to church. I am going back out tonight.
This is my little spot. It is in a cemetery from the early to mid 1800s.
This is some of my gear a badlands 2200 pack and a shane hyme longbow 45#@28 64" 700gr Ash shafts with modified grizzly 190gr-160gr El Grande broadheads. Three fluflus with 160gr hex blunts. I'll shoot anything while I'm hunting as long as its legal and edible. That includes garden grizzlies.
This is my new hunting buddy even though I really hate him. But as long as he leaves me alone I'll leave him alone.
And last but not least, this is me cold wet and dead tired. Usually my eye doesn't look that weird. But I guess thats what 4.5 hours of sleep will do to a fellow.
Let me know if I should keep this going.?