08' The Blamless season...

[Deep C]

Well bow season down here came and went while I was up north. Yeah I aquired a bambi before comming down but its just not the same.
Today marked the end of black powder... Other than the practice shots I took opening day the thunderstick stayed quiet and the obullet I had at the beginning of the season is the bullet I now push out with the cleaning rod in shame...

Hit it hard the last couple days. Lots of track but never saw a blamable one... I saw a couple shorts the first day and even a barely legal... Shoulda taken that one. Saw a dinkie piggies and a long distance doe today. I was in good turf for a when a buggy and dogs (which are prohibited in black powder) blew the whole place up. It was a good walk in the first sub 90 degree weather we have had this season at least.
It was surprisingly dead this season but I had a hunch the opening morn it would be that way. When the place gets too wet most of the good areas are uninhabitable... Still I noticed hardly any small frogs. Which other years blow out by the dozens in front of you making stealth hard. Also gone were snakes... I didn't see one all season?
Crowds were bigger than ever this year. The good ol boys aren't traveling. They're staying close to home. That is really evident in that I for the first time in 22 years didn't draw a quota hunt tag.
So that season is closed to me to... I gotta get back north soon and may bust out the prongifier for a quickie but no piggies will grace my table this season. The Islamorada tournament falls right during my usual blamathon pilgrimage so even that possibility is looking bleak...
Oh well its part of the game. Blam or no blam its still good to get out and walk a few miles and track a few tracks... Theres always next year...

[weekender]

it happens like that sometimes, you do what you can and that's all you can do....

[Deep C]

I mean theres nothing wrong with running a shaft through a deer but it just isn't the same. I love the bark and the smell of gun powder. I love a little bit of recoil and love the "whap" the projectile makes when it its... I may get some later season walks in but after quota hunt, pigs are shut down and the bucks have fled the area to the orange groves we can't hunt... Could get a little blam time on some doves but each year is different and some years they just don't show up...
Of course I could wait til I get to the Bahamas and light up some flying fish...