[SEATJERKER]

...the days fell strange this year, opening day on a Monday sucks as it would be nice to have a few more hunters to move them, and the weather has been way too warm, but my wife's project kind of caught it self up, and she didn't have to put in this weekend on the computer, so she started the decoration bit for the "holidays, spent the last two days completely in the woods with envy of the little creatures, dressed too light the first day, too heavy yesterday,...

...needed the peace, and solitude, the worldly magic changes when your so far out in the woods, The stillness of it all, watching the small winged, and furry skurry about preparing for winter's white blanket to cover again, dropping accorns, and an occasional whipping gust,...

...Then it's the stalk, the actual hunt, the outwitting of the wild as your every step is marked in silience, step after step as any twig snapped leaves you seeing a white flag bounding away,...

...had a "Tom" 6' away yesterday as we pushed, and the flap of the wings and the powerful takeoff assending away was tremendous, the other of the party of three, who's 18, but proficient, says pheasant, and I said Turkey, He says Turkeys can't fly that high, only this one had JATO's attached, He went up at 30 degrees towards a tall pine without looking back, beautiful sight as your heart jumps from the sudden "frump, frump, frump, of his wings,...

...But alas, back to Monday morning,...

...."carp deim",...

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