"Early" ML Season Opens Tomorrow Morning!

Well the 9 day early ML season opens tomorrow. Trudy and I will be out there, expecting great success.
I've been hiking each day over the past few weeks, as I've noticed I'm getting "winded" more often than the past, and what with my built like Santa Claus, I need some cardio to help with the weight reduction.

Have seen myself and had a few reports of several deer congregating at sunset in a small area on the farm, so I should get a shot. PLUS it's pouring rain all day today, and will be letting up before 22:00. Thus the leaves and twigs will not be so dry and crunchy, and the deer will be cold and wet for much of the night, and will need to eat, and move around.

LD

Good luck sir. Please remember to give us the story!!
Walk

Wish we had a early muzzleloader season. Good luck

That sure sounds nice, wish I could get in on that here. Bow season just opened yesterday.

Good luck, shoot straight, and keep us posted!!

Good luck Dave. Good hunting.

Our early muzzy season opens this sat. Ill be heading to camp for three days the next week.

Good luck Dave, wishing success for both you and Trudy.

Loyalist Dave said:

Well the 9 day early ML season opens tomorrow. Trudy and I will be out there, expecting great success.
I've been hiking each day over the past few weeks, as I've noticed I'm getting "winded" more often than the past, and what with my built like Santa Claus, I need some cardio to help with the weight reduction.

Have seen myself and had a few reports of several deer congregating at sunset in a small area on the farm, so I should get a shot. PLUS it's pouring rain all day today, and will be letting up before 22:00. Thus the leaves and twigs will not be so dry and crunchy, and the deer will be cold and wet for much of the night, and will need to eat, and move around.

LD

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Best of luck sir. Have a good time.

sb 54 cal. said:

Wish we had a early muzzleloader season. Good luck

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Ya. Wish we had one here too.

Best wishes Dave. Good smoke.

Here in the UK we can use muzzle loaders all the year for pest control be it pigeon, crows , magpies , has for the game shooting we can use muzzle loaders but only when in season yes one driven or walking up pheasant shot with a muzzle loader is worth ten with a breech loader.
Feltwad

So how's it going LD?

Boomerang said:

So how's it going LD?

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I believe the story is in the “Hunting Journal” sub forum.
Walk

Just read his journal....the man done good

Good Hunting LD

That's good. He got some meat. Hats off to those with early opportunities.
Last buck I spotted in my parts was 11 months ago but it wont stop me.

Nor should it. A day in the woods is better than a day in the office!

Tomorrow I venture to Greenbriar State Forest to scout, and to hunt, but since it's the first time there, I expect to look over possible hunting areas rather than getting a shot. I could go for squirrel but it's still Muzzleloader-Doe early season so I want to be courteous to the guys out there trying for deer, and don't want to bang away at bushy-tails.

The scout is for my son. He built his own rifle, alas it was one of them AR things in a cartridge named after a monster from a Norse myth...,

We can't use modern rifles anywhere near where we live so we are going to have to schlep out to the pan-handle of Maryland to a public hunting area. He wants to hunt deer and to camp with me for the first time. I was raised that one doesn't force the kids to do the outdoor stuff..., they have to want to do it. My daughter has been hiking out to the woods with me since she was five, and does living history with me, but for some reason like those things that use a stick-and-string to hunt.

So the plan is, to take him out, do the father-son things, and let him try to harvest a deer with the rifle that he built, and then when that is accomplished, to point out it's a lot less time needed if we hunt near home... with the TC New Englander he got for graduation last year! Just trying to ease him into an appreciation and desire to use the muzzleloader for hunting, rather than making the use of the New Englander something he must do, because he has to do it "my way".

Then, if all goes well..., he will be hooked on the ML and be satisfied with long range target shooting with his modern rifle. Maybe he will even want to try the long range stuff with a muzzleloader made for that purpose.

LD