Three Days!!!

Rifle season opens in three days. Yay! I love the woods. I generally take along a good book, listen to the sounds of God's creation and pray. It's very very good alone time with the Lord. So even if I don't see anything the time was still well spent. Sometimes even during the off season I want to just go out in the middle of the woods alone and just meditate. Hunting season makes it that much more fun though.

The night before last I went and bought my last necessities for the season. I have a whole kit devoted "to keepin' you from a stinkin'." LOL. No the scent away kit. By buddy Christopher turned me onto the good idea of using all of that stuff. He said his dad used all of it and the deer never smelled him, so I figured it a good investment. I also bought some scent wafers, they smell like dirt. Wait a second...I just payed money to smell like dirt, not well thought out. Oh well guys will be guys I guess. The last think I bought, not really a necessity, a rattle bag. It seems my first rattle buck I ever shot had the antlers stilled...yes I just said stilled. I hope it works well, we'll see.

Some of this money would have been well spent on some more rounds for my rifle, I only have three left, but I'll budget for those next month. Judging by all of the shots I fired last year, three rounds should last me...oh I don't know...till the return of Christ maybe. LOL. But yeah hopefully I'll bag a big one this year. Greg tells me not to shoot anything I wont be proud to put on the wall. And so no one will shoot small bucks on his property he says if you shoot a buck you must mount it, and no one wants to mount a spike. That keeps us from getting too trigger happy.

Well I'm gonna start getting ready Thursday evening. I'll have rifle ready and camera on for you guys!

Happy Hunting.

Georgia Hunting Clothes

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The jacket for about 200 dollars and the bibs for about 175 that's a lot of money to spend for an outfit. I see hunters all over Georgia buy these things and then complain about sweating. People, this is Georgia and 375 dollars for an outfit is a bit overkill. It MIGHT, repeat, MIGHT get down in the teens in Georgia in the winter time. That is for about 30 minutes, 15 before sunrise and the temperature drops again right after sunrise. So buying cloths that are registered for snow storm conditions is over doing it a bit don't you think.





Last year I dressed in layers. I wore uninsulated camo coveralls that looked a bit like this:














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These are army aviator coveralls. I buy these at the Army Navy store for about 20 bucks. I buy them a couple of sizes too big that way I can dress in layers. Last season I stayed warm with no problem whatsoever. If I get hot, the coveralls have zipper vents under my arms and legs. I blend in, deer can't see me. The material is very silent, moving doesn't make any noise. However, it did when I first bought the coveralls because the material was new, so that is a con to the pro if you spend nearly 400 dollars on new hunting clothes. But that wasn't worth 350 dollars for me. Besides now they are good and broken in and don't make any noise. And I spent about 355 dollars less than others who spend 375 dollars on their clothes. I wear thermals, jeans and these coveralls. For my top I wear thermals, a sweatshirt and these coveralls. I've never been cold, not in Georgia. My 130 dollar insulated boots allowed my feet to get cold before my 55 dollars worth of layering did. Now I can take the rest of that money and buy things I can really put to use; doe pee, scent block, rope, new boots, gloves (a good pair of gloves IS very important, thin yet they need to be warm), rattle bags, new tree stands, rounds, you know the things you really NEED to hunt with). This season I will be wearing a two ply camo infantry jacket just for a little more insulation, I got that for free from a friend of mine who served for a few years in the service. So if you add that into "cost," put about another 20 on 55, still only 75 dollars. Much less expensive. But hey if you other hunters want to go out and spend 400 dollars on an outfit for Georgia hunting have a blast, but remember I'll be just as warm, unseen, and silent spending less than a quarter of that!

Happy hunting!