The 2019 Rifle Deer Season Starts

This years deer season has had controversy and firsts for me. The opening day on the Saturday after Thanksgiving has gotten mixed reviews. Hopefully it allowed more people a chance to get into the woods especially kids and college students. There is more of us over the 50 mark in the club than under it so hopefully there will be a younger group to keep our traditions going.
    The Saturday opener was a bit of a surprise. I did not hear a lot of shooting in our area. Rumor has it that the game commission leaked information to the deer on the early opening and the deer took evasive action. We did have two hunters score though.
     Donald took this nice 6 in the afternoon. Unfortunately upon skinning the deer it was discovered that the animal had been injured and the meat was unusable. The game commission took the deer and did issue a new tag at no cost but you do not get to keep the horns.

     Bill took this nice 8 late in the day Saturday. He spent a lot of time working on his stand this summer and it paid off.

     For the first time in my lifetime the traditional Sunday roast beef dinner was canceled do to weather conditions. A few of us kept the Sunday night tradition alive with pizza, a couple adult beverages and tall tales though.
    Mondays weather made the hunt tough. Visibility was at a minimum due to snow clinging to the trees. Fran did manage to take an 8 pointer on Wednesday though.