Took my son out Sunday up to camp. We got there and unloaded. Nothing special. Firearms season officially started on Monday. But we had a tradition of sitting in the stand the night before just to see what might show up. He didn't want to do that so we made some dinner and watched some Band Of Brothers.
We got up early Monday morning, ate breakfast. Got ready to head to the stand. We brought his .270, .243, my .308, Sar 1, K98. After some discussion the night before, he decided that he wanted to hunt with the Sar 1. I thought that I would hunt with the K98 just for giggles. Where we hunt there is rarely a shot over 80 yards so open sights are just as good as a scoped rifle.
At about 6:15 we heard something moving. Still kind of dark, turns out it was a possum underneath the stand. First shot we heard was about 6:45. We sat in the stand till about 11. Didn't see anything except a turkey and I saw a white tail off in the distance. So, we decided to break for lunch. We head down the hill to the front of the property get to the road, and then walk the half mile back to the cabin on our private road which is gated and posted at the front.
We eat, he wants to nap, the wind picks up and it gets really warm. While my son is taking a nap. I decide to walk around to see what I can see. I head to the back of the property and notice that someone had put up green marking tape/ribbon from the property line all the way up the hill. Now recently we had been contacted about a gas line that is proposed in the state and the company asked if I would mind them walking my property. I said, that they could walk it. Nothing else. So, I took the tape down.
I get back to the cabin around 2 pm. Son is up. So we sit on the front porch talking and just looking for deer. I told him, hey why not walk around and see what we can see? So we decide to walk the road up to the gate. We get about half way there. I was just about to tell him to stop looking at the ground and look into the woods when he stoops down, picks something up and asks me Dad, is this your flashlight?
I looked at it and said, well it is now! We get to the gate and some jerk wad left a 3/4 full root beer can at the gate. It had rained pretty good the night before and we could tell that some one had parked at the gate off the main road, then backed out onto the road.
Now when we had walked the road earlier in the day, we didn't see the flashlight. Plus where it was in our road, if it were there the night before we would have run it over. So we surmised that the trespassers must have parked at the gate, started walking in and when they reached the end of the road leading up to the cabin saw our truck there and then decided to leave. We were going to stay another night, but he had a Civil Air Patrol meeting last night that he wanted to go to. Plus my Daughter is in town from school, and I wanted to spend some time with her.
Turns out, Daughter had some friends over, and then son was too tired to go to the meeting. I am off today so I am going to head back up there and put some more no hunting signs up.
Well, yesterday as we were leaving camp. We get about 100 yards down the main road, and have to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a doe. Sure enough about a 1/4 mile later. 4 more does in the road. Halfway home we see a deer run out in front of the car that is ahead of us. He hits it. We both stop, the deer was stunned and ran off. The guy was from California and was a little shaken up about hitting the deer, and didn't know what to do. As we watched the deer stumble off. I was prepared to take care of the deer if it were seriously hurt.
Now I told my son, you know what is going to happen. When we get home there are going to be plenty of deer on our front lawn. We live in a residential neighborhood that you can't hunt on. Sure as sh*t. There is a really nice 4 point right off of our driveway.
Now had I known that he wasn't going to go to his meeting and that my daughter had friends over. I would have pushed for staying another night and trying to hunt this morning. Oh well. We counted over 140 shots yesterday. Some close to us, but not on our property. I just find it really irritating that someone would have the balls to park at my gate, walk on my posted property then leave their trash at the gate. Oh well, rant off. At least there was no confrontation, plus now I have a new really nice flashlight.
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