A New Beginning

This weekend I wasn’t feeling the best so I didn’t want to go all the way to the ranch and spend the weekend in the back of a truck and everything that goes with it. Fortunately I have another option. Hunting just outside of town is a great way to keep you out and actively hunting and pursuing when you don’t feel the best. This also allows you to go home and eat good hot meals and sleep in your own bed to recover quicker. Also it provides you with a prime opportunity to meet new land owners and hunt smaller select herds of goats. Smaller herds of goats are more venerable to stalking and decoying. Large groups make things harder, harder to hide behind a decoy, harder to keep your sent controlled. Also when one doe decides something isn’t quite rite they all run. Sr. Isack Newton wrote laws of physics and one of his laws was that an object in motion wants to stay in motion. Goats are no different once they start moving they keep moving.  Unless something gets in the way, that something is a fence. Goats are not like deer they hate to cross fences and when they do, they go through them not over them like a deer. This means that goats would rather walk along side a fence than cross.

When hunting in town fences gives you an advantage when hunting as a team. You and your partner can “bounce” goats from one another giving you both several opportunities. My antelope season came and went with several opportunities and I failed to close the deal. That’s just how it goes when you’re bow hunting, if everything isn’t perfect it’s not going to happen when it comes to goats. This Saturday is the marking of my favorite season, archery deer.
Now I can get down to business and apply everything I’ve learned over the last few weeks of goat hunting and stick a deer. I personally can’t set in a blind all day over a waterhole and twiddle my thumbs, however on the flip side I can spend all day on the river just watching and listing. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that there’s always something happing on the river, not just deer but turkeys and coons and skunks and rabbets and ducks and geese. This makes every trip to the river an interesting experience.

With all of this going on carrying a pistol for pretention and extermination is always a good idea. Tonight I shot 5 coons one after the other these rodents need taken care of whenever possible they spread disease and can be very dangerous. These aren’t even the worst thing you can run into on the river though, last year I got busted by a doe and she ran right to a mountain lion, that will get your attention! So when it comes to picking a pistol bring something that will kill a lion.
Good luck and good hunting.