Michigan Archery Season Update
The Michigan archery season is in full swing and opening day could not have come soon enough. At deer camp on Sunday afternoon the trash talking was abundant as slammy decided to start calling his shot for opening morning. Unfortunately the Michigan weather did not cooperate as a low pressure system brought unseasonably warm weather along with thunderstorms that quickly reduced the overall confidence level at camp. Despite the the poor weather conditions we didn't manage to harvest an animal although it wasn't the buck that we were looking for. CB375HH managed to hang a 15 pound whistle pig (see: woodchuck, rockchuck, hoary marmot, and yellow bellied marmot) from the buck pole. Apparently after feasting in a food plot for the majority of opening morning the marmot fell victim to carbon poisoning delivered at 305 FPS from a BowTech. CB should have pictures of his trophy in the next day or so. I guess all we can hope for is better weather for the evening hunt. More to come ...
[Update]
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - I managed to sneak away for a day to get in a only my second sit of the season. At this rate I am not even going to come close to the number of sits I got in last year. Oh well things are starting to look up. The morning hunt proved to be successful as I managed to slam a doe at around 9:00am. I also saw nine deer in the morning and two more in the afternoon. Unforutnately I ran out of light during the evening sit as it was windy right up until 30 minutes before legal shooting ended. The deer promptly started to move when the wind died down but i only saw two does despite the having quite a bit of activity in the woods around me. One in the bag is not bad at this point but I can't wait until the pre-rut begins.