things sure to pic up on the story board with all the lead about to fly starting tomorrow. Good luck everyone.
I’ve been happy to see a little lull in action with all the rain. Otis has had some hot spots break out around his neck that I’m trying to get healed up before all of the craziness of gun season starts. He does this just about every season around this time. I’m pretty sure its allergy issues from us being in these cutovers and sage praries, etc….
It’s also given me a few days to break in a new pair of boots. After finding that leg hit buck the other morning in the rain….we left that track and went to look for a shoulder shot buck from the prior evening's hunt that ran off into a gigantic beaver swamp. We’re talking about 40+ acres of some stuff that duck hunters dream about. We tracked it well there for several hundred yards but we eventually ended up in waist deep water with the dogs swimming between high spots and nothing but an abyss of even deeper swamp ahead of us. All the rain had it flooded out even worse than normal and it was still raining at the time. We eventually just lost the track in deep water and had to call it off as the rain set in heavier. I'm pretty sure the deer was going to still be alive even if we were able to locate him. They had broken off part of a bolt in his shoulder and he was likely just injured.
Well.....it was while wading waist deep water that the sole of my boot decided to come off and leave me with nothing but a moccasin on my foot for the rest of the track. It actually worked out better than I thought it was going to. We’ve got us a new pair now though…..just gotta get the leather loosened up a little on ‘em……
