- Fort Knox is a beautiful place to hunt, as always. There is little to no activity in a lot of the areas except for Army training, so it’s not a park.
- Having limited access to your hunting area before the day of the hunt means lots of work done with maps and satellite images.
- Pro-tip – Maps and satellite images are not a substitute for good scouting. What looked like a hay field in 2006 turned into 6 foot high brambles and brush by 2011.
- Driving into your hunting area and seeing “Impact Area” signs off the side of the road gives you a good excuse to have the “If you didn’t drop it, leave it alone” discussion with the kids.
- A friend goes hunting with you. A good friend changes his plans to come and pick you and Girlie Bear up when your truck refuses to start two days before the hunt.
- It’s called hunting, not harvesting. I saw precisely one deer all day, and that was a buck that was too small to shoot. Hunting Buddy’s daughter saw a doe, but her dad didn’t get a shot off. All of us still had a good time.
- Animal count for the day: 1 buck, 27 bluejays, 4 cardinals, and 27 squirrels the size of a Yorkshire terrier.
- Sitting in the woods and listening to an armor unit go through a tank range a couple of miles away is pretty cool, actually.
- Doing a full day at the urban warfare center followed by a full day of walking up and down hills then sitting still for several hours at a stretch makes for a very sore DaddyBear come Sunday morning.
- Getting your daughter away from the TV, radio, little brother, older brother, friends, and homework for a day to just sit in the woods and talk quietly is worth more than any amount of meat in the freezer.
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Thoughts on the Hunt
Posted by daddybear71 on November 21, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/11/21/thoughts-on-the-hunt/
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/ November 21, 2011Look on the bright side, no skunks 🙂
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