Stay Positive!

New Years Day, 2009, I hunted all day! I hadn't been on a morning hunt for a while so I checked a website for the daylight/sunrise times and planed accordingly.

I must have read the time wrong! I drove way too fast the last 15 miles. I planned to bow-hunt a spot almost in the back yard of the old house-place on our farm.

I'd discovered some terrific deer sign there on my last hunt. I'd been driving right by what looked like deer central station.

Excited, but disappointed at being a little late as I slid to a stop that New Year's morning; I hurried to get the bow strung... dropped the quiver in the pickup bed. I was making slightly less noise than the high school marching band.

A little mad at myself; I almost ran to my perfect blind with the light growing rapidly. My natural blind! The cedars were all laying on the ground!

My father-in-law had told me he was going to have someone begin cutting some of the cedars. They evidently started with my great little natural blind.

Now it was really hard to stay positive! Almost no wind; not good for stalking, still-hunting... I should have know better; I had been so excited about this new hunt; I didn't have a backup plan.

I went back to the pickup, and drove around to what we call the staging area. I wasted more time, spread my scent around, just finding a place to sit.

I sat for about an hour; mostly thinking I was not in a good place. Finally I went back to the truck, to settle-down, and to have some coffee. On the way back I found a more promising location. I spent a little time, moving and cutting a few limbs, to make it a very simple natural blind.

After some coffee, and a short nap at the truck, I went back to my new blind. Now, maybe things will get better... I sat there for about half an hour. Two squirrels were almost in my lap, fun to watch, but distracting.

Then I could feel something on the back of my neck... the wind!
Not good! Again it was hard to stay positive. I knew the wind was predicted to shift around and come from the north, but not until late in the day.

A light north wind really limits my hunting options. I ended up sitting near the bedding area for the rest of the day. I didn't see a deer all day.

Still... when the hunt was over, as I put my gear back in the pickup, the sun already down, I looked across the canyon bathed in late amber light; Beautiful! What a great day to be here!

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