Williamsburg Bow Hunter

Turkey season is off to a fast start. Opening day was on 3/22 but I didn’t hunt since that was a Sunday. Monday came soon enough as I picked up the preacher at 6:00AM and headed to the woods. Didn’t take long before we had ourselves a “double”! Had two come running into my jake decoy and the preacher tagged one and I tagged the other. His was the bigger bird at 18.75 lbs and mine was 16.25 lbs. The only downside to the hunt was my failure to get it on video- a rookie mistake on my part. Nevertheless we’ll take em!

Well, I was done until April 1st so I had two good friends down on the 27th & 28th, Jantzen and Jay Childers from Union. Jantzen killed his on Friday morning and Jay got his on Saturday morning. Two great hunts AND I did get some great video! You can check them out in the ‘Thunder Chickens” gallery.

Congrats to my three turkey hunting buddies.

Well the 2019 deer season is a wrap. I guess I’d have to say it was a mixed bag for me, but overall down considerably from recent years. In fact I’d say it was probably the worst in 20 years as far as seeing good bucks and getting shots at ’em. I mean I had trouble even getting trail cam pics of good deer. I ended the season with three bucks and four does. However, two of the better bucks that I got shots at I didn’t recover. One I had a terrible hit on and one I had a really good hit on. I will say I closed out the season down at Indian Mound Plantation in Alabama in grand fashion- basically shot all my “bullets”. Killed a good cull buck and three does. I’m working on video editing and should be uploading all the footage soon. Just waiting for turkey season ! Later…

To say the season is practically over is an understatement. However, my experience yesterday morning says otherwise. I had an awesome hunt even though I didn’t fling an arrow. I had a one and a half hour encounter with a buck dogging a hot doe. My intention was to shoot a doe but I never shot her ( even though I could have a number of times ) because the buck was always close by, watching her every move. I managed to edit all that video down to about 10 minutes and you can check it out in the Deer 2019 video gallery. There’s still hope! Later…

The blind hog finally found another acorn! Got lucky on a good buck last Friday. I don’t know who was the most surprised, him or me. Based on the way my season had gone I surely wasn’t expecting to see much, just hoping. However, my hope was rewarded when this nice buck slipped in on me and ultimately gave me a perfect shot opportunity. You can see it all in the video gallery. Who knows, maybe the season will end quite differently from the way it started. Later…