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The end of all deer
seasons
Deer season officially ended with our annual winter
muzzleloader hunt at camp last weekend. We had a record
NINE attendees, including one newbie and one
second-timer, and we hunted hard all day Saturday (at
three different locations in the game lands) and saw
some deer but got little shooting, mostly because some
of the boys’ guns didn’t go off. We were also hampered
by a lack of snow, always a disappointment during any
January hunt. I went along as “camp cook” and “deer
dogger,” because I had no deer tags left. I had already
filled my buck tag on a snowy December 6th morning with
a nice 5-point and my “doe” tag December 7th with a
mature buck that sported half-inch antlers and inferior
genes.
Today there’s snow on the ground, and I took a long
drive this morning through the Mercer County countryside
and spotted two deer near my old house on Clay Furnace
Road, but it just wasn’t the same. Gazing into the woods
and spotting deer from September through early January
is exciting, because any deer you see then might be
“game.” But now that all deer seasons are over, those
animals are just “wildlife,” and deer-spotting has lost
its edge.
Good luck out there. And have a great week outdoors.
~ Don Feigert, 1-16-08
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