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Let me see if I can get this all on here and right. We did in fact have our wild game dinner at the church last night and I was able to make it for the most of it. I also remembered to take the camera for a change.
They had got someone to bring in a few mounts and had them set up more over by were the dinner was in the gym.
Also just inside the door someone had managed to get some door prizes for a draw at the end of the night.
I was a little disappointed in the fact that only one of the three that said they would come and set a small display of there business and talk to people about it came. But he did get to talk to most of the folks that came in.
Thanks to Jack Mason of River Valley Archery.
I did in fact set up a quick display of what we have as a set up at Arrows4Christ and set up a laptop with a power point presentation showing some photos of our shoots and trips we made to shoot in Old Town this summer.
We started to eat around 6:30 with the meal
and around 7:30 our guest speaker stepped up and give his lecture.
There was some good information about our area and what can help us up here while hunting. Things like the shades that a deer can see, why the rut starts and they say it is not the cold weather but it does help but it is the length of day that is the real starter of the rut. The shorter day and more darkness there is then the rut will start. If you find a good path that is wide and beet down it is probably a doe path. The bucks will be 20 yards to the side of the doe trail that is down wind. So leave the beet down path and look down wind of the prevailing wind and you should find a smaller less noticeable trail. That is the buck trail so let your stand in that area if you want a buck.
I had to step out around 9 pm to get to the high school to help with the take down of the set for the production that my daughter was in this week. Ended up that I didn't need to leave as soon as I did but ....... All was good. We got the set taken down and finished around 12:45 and only had to wait another 45 min before my daughter showed up from the cast party and said Dad I am tired can we go home now. 1:30 leave time instead of about 2:30 I was in.
Took her boyfriend home and was in bed around 3. Up at 9:30 to get breakfast and then back to bed until 12:30. man it felt good to sleep that long. I would have to say it was a good day all around even though it was really tiring.
Hopefully we can make the wild game dinner bigger next year but for a starting year we got around 50 people so we were pleased.
They had got someone to bring in a few mounts and had them set up more over by were the dinner was in the gym.
Also just inside the door someone had managed to get some door prizes for a draw at the end of the night.
I was a little disappointed in the fact that only one of the three that said they would come and set a small display of there business and talk to people about it came. But he did get to talk to most of the folks that came in.
Thanks to Jack Mason of River Valley Archery.
I did in fact set up a quick display of what we have as a set up at Arrows4Christ and set up a laptop with a power point presentation showing some photos of our shoots and trips we made to shoot in Old Town this summer.
We started to eat around 6:30 with the meal
and around 7:30 our guest speaker stepped up and give his lecture.
There was some good information about our area and what can help us up here while hunting. Things like the shades that a deer can see, why the rut starts and they say it is not the cold weather but it does help but it is the length of day that is the real starter of the rut. The shorter day and more darkness there is then the rut will start. If you find a good path that is wide and beet down it is probably a doe path. The bucks will be 20 yards to the side of the doe trail that is down wind. So leave the beet down path and look down wind of the prevailing wind and you should find a smaller less noticeable trail. That is the buck trail so let your stand in that area if you want a buck.
I had to step out around 9 pm to get to the high school to help with the take down of the set for the production that my daughter was in this week. Ended up that I didn't need to leave as soon as I did but ....... All was good. We got the set taken down and finished around 12:45 and only had to wait another 45 min before my daughter showed up from the cast party and said Dad I am tired can we go home now. 1:30 leave time instead of about 2:30 I was in.
Took her boyfriend home and was in bed around 3. Up at 9:30 to get breakfast and then back to bed until 12:30. man it felt good to sleep that long. I would have to say it was a good day all around even though it was really tiring.
Hopefully we can make the wild game dinner bigger next year but for a starting year we got around 50 people so we were pleased.
. Hope the weather is not to bad there. We got alot of snow here, then it turn warm follow by rain and when I went to bed last night and got up today most of the snow was gone. Today i'm off to check out a future shooting range.I hear that it reach out to 400/500 yards. Give me some practise on long shots and allso sight in my new scope for my 300. Well let have it, how is everyone doing?
