'12 Muzzy White tail season opener...

[VaRedneck]

The day started off right at 41* and calm...after the wind from the day before...couldn't ask for better....except for the almost full and uncovered moon. Got my gear on...still working out kinks re these boots or those foot warmers....ect...ect.

I got to the stand quiet as could be...thought that this was a first..heh. 10min of just letting the surrounding ease to normal...I hear the unmistakeable sound of dog tags jingling on my back trail. I saw the black dog and was just getting ready to start cussing my Rott when i noticed the tail...hmph....not my dog.

That dog cut every trail...found every scent dripper on both side of the pasture then on his way out...found my ladder and I'm sure he pissed on it...then went on his way back the way he came...@#$%^&*. Only saving grace to all that?....the dipsht of a lousy neighbor I got arrived next door a few min later....I'm sure that dog run all over his hunt cause he left at 10am and didn't come back.

I had fawns, button bucks and lil does feeding all around and under me all day. Then a coupla spikes came out and had a bit of a go for 15min. I saw 2 mature does all day...both had bucks with'm or chasen'm. First had a 6pt playin shadow the second had a small 8 about a min behind her. The last came directly to the stand before cutting to the right and gone.

That was about it for the entire day...the lil ones came out and kept me companyfor the rest of the day...but nuthin bigger came out to check on them.

I know where the cold air from the West Virginia snows went this mornin.....that's right...right after sunrise I had a cold 10-20mph breeze blowin all day....talk about freezin the entire day...sucked...had to pss so bad when I got home I could almost taste it.

One thing today occured to me...wanted to run it by you guys....

A few years back...I had a bunch of does hangin around my place...and I saw a few good bucks...very few lil bucks. Now it seems I got a bunch of lil bucks around and very few does....wonder how many mature bucks I'll see this year?