I went to the farm yesterday for some bow hunting. I really didn't have a good feeling due to the weather. When I pulled into the driveway, the outside temperature reading in my truck was 56 degrees at 6:20 AM!! On November 15th!! I should have just turned around and went home but being the glutton for punishment I am, I stayed.
When I got to my stand I was soaked with sweat at 6:45 AM. I don't have any light weight clothes for hunting, eveything is for cold weather. I got into my stand and was ready. At about 7:30 I heard a turkey in the distance. About 1/2 an hour later I saw him. I tom with a pretty long beard. He was about 80 yards away but it looked to be about 9" long.
At 10:00 my back couldn't take sitting in my stand anymore so I got down and went to my truck for an early lunch. It was too hot to go back so I figured I would get the camera out and take pictures until 3:00 then try hunting again. As I was walking around I almost step on a snake!! I do not like snakes of any kind. This one turned out to be a milk snake about foot or so long. yuck!! I did manage to get some pretty good pictures around the farm.
At 3:00 I headed back out only this time I hunted from the ground. I hunted until 5:00 and saw nothing. I think the warm weather has everything screwed up. Hopefully it will get cold real soon. After yet another disappointing day of hunting I packed everything up and headed home. I didn't get out of the driveway before I hit traffic. I sat in bumpber to bumper traffic for over an hour. I finally got home over 2 hours later. As I was eating dinner at 7:30 at night, I was really wishing I had stayed home. Oh well, at least I got some from air, albeit hot.
