Well the shotgun season ended and I thought I’d give the deer a few days to settle down before heading back into the bush with my Excalibur crossbow. I have nothing against the gun hunters but I have always preferred the silence of hunting alone. It gives me the feeling that all of my senses completely in tune with nature. I also don’t have a lot of time to practice so the hunting crossbow allows me to combine the stealth and solitary aspect of archery with the benefits of a stock, trigger, and scope.
Whatever your hunting preference, you have to be wondering what happened to fall in Southern Ontario. The week of the shotgun hunt in early November saw temperatures in the low to mid 20s (Celsius that is) and a mere two weeks later we have temperatures well below the freezing point and snowfalls of between 20 and 80 cm depending on your location.
I don’t know what this did to the deer but I do know what it did to my hunting (*#%9%^&$)!
I don’t own a truck or SUV and the bush I hunt is at the bottom of a long, steep hill with a road that is mostly used by tractors. It’s an interesting drive at the best of times but impossible when it’s slippery or snow covered. So there goes plan A. Even if I managed to peg a deer I’d be calling 911 before I could drag it back to the car.
The other option is a small swale that acts as a funnel to a smaller bush – lots of tracks but really hard to setup and find a good shooting lane. The abundant rainfall and sudden onset of winter means that the farmer still hasn’t taken the corn off. I guess I could try the swale but would be much more optimistic if the corn were off.
Well that’s enough whining for now. I guess I’ll be content with pounding the keyboard and hoping that I can still get in a few late season hunts.
Lloyd
Whatever your hunting preference, you have to be wondering what happened to fall in Southern Ontario. The week of the shotgun hunt in early November saw temperatures in the low to mid 20s (Celsius that is) and a mere two weeks later we have temperatures well below the freezing point and snowfalls of between 20 and 80 cm depending on your location.
I don’t know what this did to the deer but I do know what it did to my hunting (*#%9%^&$)!
I don’t own a truck or SUV and the bush I hunt is at the bottom of a long, steep hill with a road that is mostly used by tractors. It’s an interesting drive at the best of times but impossible when it’s slippery or snow covered. So there goes plan A. Even if I managed to peg a deer I’d be calling 911 before I could drag it back to the car.
The other option is a small swale that acts as a funnel to a smaller bush – lots of tracks but really hard to setup and find a good shooting lane. The abundant rainfall and sudden onset of winter means that the farmer still hasn’t taken the corn off. I guess I could try the swale but would be much more optimistic if the corn were off.
Well that’s enough whining for now. I guess I’ll be content with pounding the keyboard and hoping that I can still get in a few late season hunts.
Lloyd
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