It's Like The Night Before Christmas

Today is September 29th, the day before, now the night before opening day of Indiana Archery season. Every year for 7 years my buddies and I have made the 2 hour drive to our favorite spot in Southern Indiana for the Archery opener.  This year is no different.  2 of us arrived early to pull camera cards, hang one more camera man set and sit atop the hill overlooking a little more than half our 200 acre lease.  We got pictures of a few more hard horned bucks we added to our list and videoed 3 more good shooters we will be chasing over the next 2 days and the rest of the season.  These 5 deer plus 2 from last year that never read the script correctly will give us at least 7 mature bucks to chase on this farm.  Tomorrow will be the coldest day of the season, lows around 40 and highs in the mid 50s.  With a N wind it will set us up good for 2 specific sets and we will be slipping into them at least an hour before daylight.  Sitting in the pitch black woods for an hour with only your heart beat will play with ones mental toughness as you sit motionless, cold and tired trying to stay alert enough not to test the strength of our safety vests.  But as first light breaks, and woods comes alive it is like nothing else in this world.  Everything seems to awaken before you.  Every time I'm blessed enough to be on stand at this time, I am humbled at God's creation.  Tomorrow appears to be no different.  I will be running camera from a brand new set we feel will be one of our best shots at killing one of our hitlisters.  All the anticipation,all the planning and hard work will unfold before us in less than 7 hours... video to come.  To all my hunting buddies, I hope this is your best season ever. Let the fun begin...

 Aim Small, Miss Small!