Well, the two-day early muzzleloader season in KY was a bust for me.
Saturday morning, I got into my shed, but the wind was blowing the opposite direction than Accuweather said it would, which was not a good direction for me. About 20 minutes before shooting light, a deer just a few yards downwind caught my scent, and snorted up a storm for about 5 minutes, which probably scared off every deer in the vicinity.
So I went back to the farm today, and got into a tree stand on a different part of the farm. The afternoon was beautiful, the wind was just right. Then, about 1/2 hour before sundown, my friend's neighbors, who were about 250 yards from were I was situated, decided it would be a good time to shoot ARs (or AKs) with 20- and 30-round magazines, and they were dumping ammo as fast as they could. It sounded like WW3. Eventually they slowed down, but didn't stop until well after sundown...so, of course, I didn't see any deer this evening either.
At dark I left the tree stand and went back to my truck, which was at my friend's house. He came out to talk to me, and we talked about his neighbors. I told him that they must have shot at least 400 rounds of ammo.
"That won't last long", he said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"He's just out of prison. He's not supposed to have firearms.....
!!
.....and if he's violating that prohibition, he's probably violating the drug prohibition...."
A couple of hundred yards up the road from my friend's house (which is at the end of a very narrow dead-end road), there is an abandoned house. On the way out, I saw a nice buck standing in the yard, right next to the road.