Just got back from the camp a couple of hours ago and am I beat. Chipper and I covered 3/4 of the 1000 acres of the lease trying to get a turkey to answer our calls. We got zip! I hunted an area with lots of turkey sign, but the turkeys were no where to be found. This happens to me every year. Turkeys all over us in the Fall, but come turkey season they are nowhere to be found. If they were around us, they were close mouthed. If may be early for them yet, so we will keep trying. If nothing…

I made a trip to the deer camp this morning to fetch some things that I forgot there the last week in January for the Wounded Warrior Hunt. My money clip with cash in it, debit cards, medicine, shoes with orthodontics in them, and my black powder rifle. I've been wanting to go get those things sooner, but I've been…

You know that old saying, "Life's a bitch and then you die", it's not far from wrong this year! All of this past Spring, I was sick with bronchitis and gastritis, my Mom has severe dementia, then she fell a few weeks ago and broke her hip. That was bad enough, but she fell the week before the deer season started! My brother Elbis and I also had to go to court to get curatorship over her and cancel the P.O.A. that my youngest brother had, what fun.

I have been lucky enough to get to…

October 1st was the first day of our Mississippi archery season. It was cool for a change, in the 50s, a record low for our area. There were only four of us there for the opener, but this is not uncommon for our small group. Rob, Zack, Chipper, and I were ready for our first day in the woods with some anger in our hearts, not really. We were just happy that the season had finally arrived, ready for some cool Fall air and some time in the woods. I think only Chipper actually saw a deer,…