Seasons approaching fast and just wanted to remind everybody of the most important thing we carry to the hunt, our common scense. Not trying to be a know it all but sometimes we that have hunted a long time can have or cause an accident, so just a friendly reminder to do what you teach others. I have ben guilty of doing some things while alone that as I think about could have ben done safer. So have a great season and make sure to come home healthy.
Around here on the other side of the woods you shot near last year has a house! That happened to me years ago even though the bird shot was raining down and quite frankly more annoying than anything else I never even suspected anyone would build any homes it what I believed was just a bunch of useless woods! I still cannot believe anyone would put any homes out there but they did! They will build anywhere and everywhere just to escape the high taxes and socialism from a neighboring state!
And don't think for one minute that neighboring state may have more constitutionally oriented gun laws(maybe even better than your own home state) that people won't move in next door either! I know two such states with great constitutional gun laws but the taxes are so high you have to use a telescope to see them!
See an old dirt road leading into the woods? Watch out for that mail box-sure bet people are living out there in the woods near that "old' sand pit you shot at for years! You won't believe the long winding old logging roads some people live way out on around here..I guess they don't believe in fires either? I can't imagine a fire truck rolling up that narrow lane! But so it goes...
I know of this one case where you'd never know anyone lived out there..there were branches hanging down over this grass road, and a little hike to get in there, must have been a summer home and you would never in a thousand years know any home was there without going in there first know anyone lived there!
I never knew until someone who knew the area said his "neighbor" lived in there! If I didn't know him I never would have believed him! So anyways you really got to be aware of where you shoot at least in this area . not at all like the plains where you can see that home 3 miles away!
Butch, great post!! In fact we hunted last Tuesday and had the managers son (16 year old) in the blind.. the kid was wound up so tight about getting to shoot.. When we got all settled in 15 mins before sun up. I reminded everyone.. of safety.. We had a great time and all went safely.. can never be too safe..
Good post on knowing your surroundings in urban and country settings, they can put up houses, trailers very quickly not to forget what may be hidden.
Mark,
You hit the nail on the head about being wound up, you handled it great reminding everyone of the safety aspect. Even at my age I can get cranked up a bit expecting good shooting. Congrats on the "great time" during the hunt, that's what it's all about.
The season is on but it is weird around here; to explain better September started a couple of weeks ago physically further north...by a couple hours or so...down here it is a normal August well not really-the heat and humidity for this time of year is impossible! ) Well anyways, , I will start my scouting soon as i can now. July used to be the dominant hot summer month but that has not been the case at all, one year in September a small EF-0 tornado briefly touched down somewhere in this state i understand, and for the record they don't stay on the ground long, maybe 100 feet..it is .rare they stick around any longer than that...and this year is supposed to be rather mild, maybe the crows will too. One year we had a weak winter and you could watch the 3,00-3,500 bird roost in this state at one location until March broke that wintering flock up....but let us say February had a lot of snow all of a sudden well those crows would roll on down a bit further south to find more suitable feeding grounds!