Not being a sports fan and finding parade watching to be a certain cause of suicide for normal males, I headed out in the rain this afternoon to take the muzzleloader for a walk.
I headed down West Mill Road from 206 with my buddy Jack.
Jack is a lifelong hunter and woodsman and his dad was a local fox and coon hunter.
He learned most of the roads in the pines as a boy in the dark (the hard way) while trailing hounds and he forgot more roads in the pines than I will ever know.
The woods were dark and quiet today except for the rainfall.
We jumped a few deer down closer to Pleasant Mills but never got another glimpse.
One of the few things in the woods he hasn't seen is the Swamp Monster so we took a soaking hike out to that around 2:30 in a steady downpour.
Jack still can't believe that we made it across the Great Swamp on the Shiver me Timbers gig. I showed him Behr's map and he just kept shaking his head.
On the way out we stopped and picked up an entire 30 pack of Girls Light empties from one of the dirt intersections and threw them in my truck.
No more deer to be seen and we hit 206 around 4:45 near dark.
Drying out now and enjoying the new year already.
Scott
I headed down West Mill Road from 206 with my buddy Jack.
Jack is a lifelong hunter and woodsman and his dad was a local fox and coon hunter.
He learned most of the roads in the pines as a boy in the dark (the hard way) while trailing hounds and he forgot more roads in the pines than I will ever know.
The woods were dark and quiet today except for the rainfall.
We jumped a few deer down closer to Pleasant Mills but never got another glimpse.
One of the few things in the woods he hasn't seen is the Swamp Monster so we took a soaking hike out to that around 2:30 in a steady downpour.
Jack still can't believe that we made it across the Great Swamp on the Shiver me Timbers gig. I showed him Behr's map and he just kept shaking his head.
On the way out we stopped and picked up an entire 30 pack of Girls Light empties from one of the dirt intersections and threw them in my truck.
No more deer to be seen and we hit 206 around 4:45 near dark.
Drying out now and enjoying the new year already.
Scott
I was actually looking forward to seeing it in person. I treated the GF to dinner, the fireworks over the Delaware, and a room at the Downtown Marriott on Market Street. I gave up on trying to explain to a North Jersey girl what the Mummers parade was, so I decided I would just let her see for herself... Sounds like you guys had a good day though. My new year's resolution is to walk off some Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's pounds in the pines!