Opening Day!

[LoneWolf]

Glad to hear others are doing well so far.
We didn't have great luck so far. It started out bad when going to my stand opening morning, I found a campsite set up 75 yrds away from it. Thing that pissed me off the most was I knew the guy, and he had met the weekend before when we hanging stands and scouting. I told him where I had put up stands and he said he would hunt elsewhere. That worked out well

Between 5 of us, no one saw a deer opening day. Sunday, I had a took a shot on a small spike right after first light. I'm ashamed to say I rushed the shot. Didn't put a good hit on him, and after tracking it for over 2hours I lost him in the swamp. Never saw real good sign that he was hit hard, so I hope he made it. Nothing makes me feel worse than wounding and losing any animal.
Sunday afternoon, my buddie's son shot a spike for his first deer. Everyone was thrilled and exited for him.
My boy never saw a deer, and decided he was ready to head back to school by Weds. I hunted the rest of the week back here at home. Saw 2 deer in the whole time, and both were at the point of pitch dark.

I haven't given up yet, and hope to connect Thursday morning, or this weekend.
Good luck to everyone with tags to still fill.