COVID advantage...,

[Loyalist Dave]

Well one very minor thing that COVID is causing that is going to be a benefit to me...,
With this teleworking stuff, Thursday starts Early Muzzleloader Season for deer in my state, and my boss can't deny me "leave", since I'm not going to be in the office anyway.

Me and the .54 Flintlock ( aka Trudy) are looking forward to harvesting some venison!

LD

 

[stillquietvoice]

Good luck on your hunt.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Good luck.
I'm going to try to knock off after lunch Friday and get to the woods in time for an evening hunt, then stay the rest of the weekend myself.

 

[rdnktrkr]

I don't see the advantages, I'm retired and now rhere will be more people in the quiet woods during the week
But in all fairness, please come on out and enjoy nature just please pick up your trash, I spent 1/2 a day picking up trash on my property instead of hunting.

 

[23tony]

But in all fairness, please come on out and enjoy nature just please pick up your trash, I spent 1/2 a day picking up trash on my property instead of hunting.

I almost "Liked" that but I couldn't quite bring myself to do it. Sad.

 

[HB]

Im interested to see if theres more hunters in the woods.

This spring the local lakes and ponds were packed!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I don't see the advantages, I'm retired and now rhere will be more people in the quiet woods during the week
But in all fairness, please come on out and enjoy nature just please pick up your trash, I spent 1/2 a day picking up trash on my property instead of hunting.

Ah well I don't go into the "public lands" areas on "opening day"...., even black powder. Will hunt on one of a few "hobby farms" where I have permission.

I wonder what is the difference, though; work Monday thru Friday, and Saturday hunt and have to deal with everybody else that is off, or with COVID go out Thursday and have to deal with everybody else that is off? At least I get more days to "deal" with everybody that are off, if I'm on the public lands, eh?

Trash?
Since I was first hunting in the 1970's, my father and I always carried trash bags, to pick up trash (mostly paper and plastic, but sometimes beer cans and bottles) when hunting. IF you want to be invited back to the property carry out a big bag of garbage and let the landowner see you hauling it out. Only once have I had a landowner complain that "If I knew you were going to carry that much crap onto the property, I'd have thought twice about giving permission,".... He changed his viewpoint when I explained I didn't pack any of the garbage in, and was simply taking out what other folks had left behind....and the fact that the local kids were likely using his land as a "beer garden" and I showed him the remnants of a finished 12-pack.

LD

 

[WisBorn]

Because of COVID I cancelled my hunting trip to Wisconsin. I would have stayed with my 80 year old parents and can't risk getting them sick.

 

[rdnktrkr]

I hunt 140 acre family land and have permission to hunt bordering properties, the trash I picked up was on a firebreak between two of the properties, I could tell some had been there a while, possibly all year, some was recent, next time I go up I will probably hunt the garden spot 1/2 my stay and pick up trash on the other side of our property (refrigerator and washer). Maybe by the first frost I'll be able to hunt all weekend which is when I start hunting anyway.