Hunter's Journal: Entry #1

Just a quick note. So I've desided to do a post segmeant called Hunter's Journal. The posts will be located in my main feed and on the Hunting Stories page. Feel free to leave comments and ask questions. I hope you enjoy.

Hunter's Journal

Entry #1                                                      The Marsh Ghost

   

10-20-17

It’s 4:50 p.m.  I’ve been in the woods for about two hours and I’m honestly starting to get bored. So far all I’ve saw to day is a couple dozen squirrels; one of which I’m watching right now. He clings to the side of a tree facing a trail I expect a Sika Deer to walk down. Nonetheless nothing shows up and the squirrel goes on about his business.

The sun is finally lowering in the sky, slowly moving from the spot it seemed to have been hung up on.

There goes that squirrel again up the tree with two others, barking at who knows what. Certainly nothing I can see.

As you may have noticed I am a tad bored. My attention span feeling rather short after a morning of only seeing…. Squirrels.

At this point writing this is a mere way to pass time as I wait rather impatiently for something, anything other than a squirrel to show up.

I’ve been hunting Sika Deer for about four years now and I’ve yet to successfully see one while hunting much less harvest one. I always see them after I’m done hunting, usually behind wherever we happen to be staying. I’ve heard them saw their tracks, never seem to be able to lay eyes on while hunting.

I usually hunt for sika deer hunt on assateague, but this weekend I’m in Toddville. When on assateague the mosquitos usually aren’t badbecuase of thesea breeze but here though. They are bad. I do t think I could standsiting here with out my thermo cell.  When I first got in the blind this afternoon there was a whole swarm. Took about five minutes for the thermo cell to clear them out.   Now just a one or two longer through every few minutes.

Almost every year my uncle glen comes down from Massachusetts to hunt sika deer early muzzleloader with me and my dad. For the first time I am hunting with a gun I can call my own. It is Weirton late 18^th birthday present to my self. CVAAcurra v2 ss nitrate barrel

A gun shot just went off close by. I wonder if somebody got one?

5:25pm. 1 1/2hours of shooting light left tops

I can hear voices shouting the distance, but it’s far off.

Whether this just becomes a page in a hunting journal I have decided to start while sitting here. Or get to finish this as the storyof how I killedmy first sika. I am glad I was given the time to do this.

I hope to write more entries in the future. About my hunting adventures, I believe it should be a good pass time.

5:35. All five squirrels just took off and I can now hear this weird whistling sound.

It’s just a bird.

The squirrels are coming back, and I’ve decide to do some calling.

5:45.      At this point I’m starting to get curious about what a squirrel would look like after shot by a muzzeloader

Well I got my wish a rabbit just came onto the scene

10-21-17

6:50 a.m.  I call

6:54 turkey gobbles break the still morning air.

6:55 stag bugles and I call back.

7:00 sounds of duck hunters echo in the distance and turkeys gobble.

Just checked the hunting regulations. Waterfowl isn’t even in. SMH.

8:25 8 toms cross the ditch.

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8:57 a shot was fired near by

5:00 p.m. I can hear a bugle off in the distance.

I sit overlooking a giant marsh. The view is breath taking and I sit patiently as I wait for something to come out.

I watch a bald eagle through my binoculars off in the distance. And a falcon swoops through the air 30 yards in front of me.

A few hours later…

                I had four different stags talking to me this evening. I’d been listening to this one coming straight out in front of me. I started calling and he was bugling three and four times back. He was coming faster and faster. He was getting so close.

                I glass out over the marsh looking to see if I could spot him, when I hear something to me right. Three Heinze (female) sika stand in the opening of the marsh grass about 80 yards out. I finally have seen some but the thought of that stag coming had made my decision. I let the 3 sika walk.

                He’s so close now I can hear the him walking in the grass but still can’t see him. Adrenaline pumping through me the entire time. He bugles, and I call back. 200 yards out, tops, but I’m losing light. He keeps coming, I can hear him, but I’m out of time. Too dark to shoot and legal shooting time over I get down the stand. As I walk out of the marsh I can still hear him coming.

                This evening made the whole weekend worth it. I may not have harvested anything, but the hunt was successful nonetheless, and I will be back.

Its the way I was raised

     lots of people ask "how could you take the life of such a cute, sweet, and innocent animal?" and there are lots of smart ass remarks for questions people ask like: 'What do you feel when you shoot a deer.'  'Recoil.' And a good majority of us have gladly given that answer, its a remark that we've all made as hunters and it's mainly because it gets tiring to hear all the crap that we get.

     I'll put it plain and simple, it's a way of life for us, and that's more then most people can even comprehend. They just don't understand there's a connection that so runs deep, it becomes intertwined with not just your blood but your soul, and is more cleansing then anything you will ever experience, in your entire life. It's not just going out and killing stuff for the heck of it, it's going out into mother nature, becoming one with the wild, and harvesting one of God's amazing creatures to take home to your family, and making sure that they have meet in the freezer.

      It's a feeling that lives inside of you, "it's the spirit of the wild." But really though there is nothing more thrilling being in the woods when it wakes up. Imagine becoming invisible and traveling into another world and being able to witness it all, everything, the way the creatures that live in it go about their day, without even being noticed.

      The people who don't hunt, and they don't even have to hunt. It's the people who don't appreciate nature and all that dwells in it. And it's because they don;t know what they're missing, they don't understand what it is to have that type of connection with the world. Cause if they did... things would be a whole lot different.

     There will always be people who don't like what someone else is doing, and everyone has a right to there own opinion, but some people don't know where to draw the line. There are huge anti-hunting groups and organizations whose drive and goal in life consist on trying to take our rights away. which is honestly really ridiculous in my opinion. like seriously though, imagine how much good they could actually do if they put their time and effort into something other than trying to destroy us. I understand that everyone will never agree on the same things or views. but if they just tried to understand. I don't know.

       So yeah I was raised this way, into this way of life. It makes me who I am and I wouldn't have it any other way. Just remember: Yeah it may be Cute and fuzzy but that doesn't mean it's sweet and innocent.

      Let know what you think in the comments \/


  


    

Second Amendment

    So this is a mighty broad subject and lots of things can be said about this topic, but the main thing I don't quite understand is why the government thinks they can take our guns away.

    So many politicians push for stricter gun laws or try to do away with them completely and honestly those people are missing a few brain cells as are most politicians, but that's beside the point. The second amendment clearly states "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

     We have the right to bear arms, it's the second thing in the constitution for a reason. Our founding fathers new that this was important and that someone would someday challenge the authority of citizens possessing arms and a for of self defense.

      One of the main reasons people push for stricter laws is because they think it will stop all the bad guys and law breakers from having shooting, break-ins, murders and what not. What people don't seem to understand is that they're called bad guys and law breakers for a reason. No matter how many gun laws they make and how hard they make it to get them, the bad guys will always have them, they're breaking the law already so what the hell do they care if they break another one. Even if the for some reason can't get them in country, they already smuggle all kinds of stuff over the borders into the country anyways so what's to stop them from smuggling guns in too. And the truth is they probably already do so.

      There will always be a corrupt politician, law man, or government official that will turn a blind eye for a heavy wad of cash. The idea is truly awful and in a perfect world it shouldn't be that way, but the truth hurts, and its the way of society, the way of life.

     We don't live in a perfect world let alone country but it's the closest thing we got. There are so many other countries that have super strict gun laws or no gun allowed at all and that hasn't solved anything cause they are no better off then they were before, in fact most are much worse.

     So instead of leaving ourselves, our families, and our friends defenseless. Defend yourself, fight for your rights, and your freedom, because that's exactly what they're trying to take away. Take your rights and freedom into your own hands because no one is going to do it for you, especially if you don't make an effort to do so first.

     The government could careless if your left defenseless, that just make that much easier for them to control you.

     If it makes you sad, mad, depressed or whatever seeing our country go to hell then do something about it, make an effort, make a difference. Don't be the person to say I wish I would have fought harder for my rights. Once you loose them it's not very likely that you will get them back.

    

    On a side note, what's with all the idiots, putting signs in their yards saying 'Proud to be a gun free Home?' Like what the heck, your are asking to be robed, Cause it makes total sense to advertise that you are completely defenseless.


Comment below your opinions on the matter. I'd like to see what other people think.


 

IOS 10 RANT

     So as you might know a couple months ago apple released update IOS 10 which included a full makeover on their emoticons. In that makeover process the pistol - hand gun emoji got changed to a water pistol.

   You may thinks it's silly or dumb to feel so strongly about something 'so small' but it's really not, this is apple [ a big powerful company allowing themselves to be bullied and pushed around by the low lives]  giving into to the peer pressure put on them by anti-gun organizations.

    I'm not sorry for my opinion and feel strongly about this and cannot just sit quietly and ignore this. They changed the pistol emoji from a hand gun to a squirt gun and I mean honestly it's absolutely ridiculous that Apple did so. And the only reason that Apple did so was because of the Anti-gun associations hounding on Apple about it. Which is completely uncalled for. It's and emoji and if I want to put a Handgun emoji I will do so. Whether you see it as a squirt gun or not because I will so forth see it as a handgun and will not be updating to IOS 10.

    What gets me is everyone tries to please the anti's but everyone still have all of their armed body guards and what not. How would Apple feel about having there headquarters or whatever to be guarded with guys armed with squirt guns!


    





 

Pink camo

Some love it, some hate it.

I Would like to talk about this for a few minutes so hold tight.

 

Pink camouflage the 'feminine' version of camouflage that's been flooding the market for the last six or so years. but lets face it though there a bunch of variations of pink camo.

For instance:

 

"Muddygirl camo"

 

a newer I catching version of the pink camo that's been around 2-3 years now

has a purplelyness to it. [yes, I just made that word up]

 

Anyways lots of people feel strongly about whether pink camo is okay or not. There are quite a few remarks towards the people who wear or like it such as: 'what are you hunting? flamingos?'

and the answer is 'no'

Lets get two things clear:

1) Deer and most other animals are color blind so it doesn't matter so much that it's pink.

2) Most people don't actually wear pink camo while hunting. i'm not saying that there isn't someone out there who does, but most of the female hunters do not wear it in the woods.

 

 

 the latest 'pink' camo that's only been around for about a year is:

"Hot Leaf Camo"

 

 I feel that this new pattern has a nice compromise to whole issue and its very attractive to the eye.

 

 

 

In all honest truth I love of pink camouflage and as well as the plain old black, green , and brown camo. The whole ordeal is quite childish, cause really people everyone has the right to there own opinion.

 

I am a Girl

       I am a girl.  For some reason or another a some of people think that because I am a girl then that means I cannot or should not be hunting. Some also don't believe that someone as young as me could possibly grasp a coherent understanding of the whole thing.

     Girls are completely capable of doing what ever a guy can do, if not better, we can do whatever we put our minds to, so do not simply judge a girl because she hasn't done or experienced something one of you guys might see as a girl being incapable of, because she might very well whoop your sorry butt and put you to shame.

     Times have changed my friends and a lot Female hunters are much more my widely excepted. As we humans are creatures of habit, and as to be expected, some still don't quite understand our want to go hunting or our desire to be in the woods. But that's okay, no one will ever get along with everyone.

     I've wanted to do something like this for some time now, but I'm just now ready to do so. I'm not always the most understanding person when it comes to seeing things anyway but mine. Recently though, and I'm not sure what changed, I've come to some what be able to understand their un-desire of the changing waters. It's an uncharted territory out side of their normal comfort zone.  I, myself, don't handle change as well as others do, but we can all grow as people, we just have to be willing and try.

    I am independent, strong willed, and as stubborn as a mule. I intend to speak my opinions here, and since it's my opinion and my blog, if you don't like it you can go somewhere else and express your opinion. I will not put up with any bull crap I guarantee you that, so you can take you polar opposite opinions and bad attitudes somewhere else if you don't like what I have to say.

    And don't you dare tell me because I'm a girl or because of my age that I don't know what I'm talking about, because you'll have another thing coming to you.

    You wont change my mind so don't waste your breath.

Getting to know me.

     As you may already know my name is Stephanie and this is my blog 'She Hunts', I am 17 years old and I live in Maryland. I've been hunting for 8 years now and hunting is a way of life for my family. My Dad was raised into hunting. My Mom had relatives who hunted and wasn't against it or anything, but just never had a reason to go, when she met my dad she decided to try it. and now both my sister and I hunt as well, though I am a tad more obsessed and driven by it then she is. She prefers fishing more and that's fine.
     Ever since I was little I'd go out with Mom or Dad and sit in a tree stand or blind (usually a blind because I didn't know how to sit still at that age.) and I'd get up with them before the sun ever rose, ready and willing, and I went with them many a times. watching my parents success just made me want to hunt more.
     Most people my age aren't morning people, at all. My sister for example, she prefers evening hunts, where as I prefer morning hunts.

     The first time I went out Deer hunting, I was 9. Dad took me out on youth day, it was a cool and rainy morning. We had a doe feeding behind our tree stand on the wood line over looking the field. A spike buck come up over the top of the field and fed his way to us. Dad asked if I wanted to shoot the doe, but by that time she was gone and the spike kept getting closer. When he got to the thirty yard mark I shot using a 30-06 rifle, the bullet broke his spine and he fell right where he had been standing broad side. Several weeks before my dad had gone to on a hunting trip and dropped the gun, but he hadn't realize the sights needed to be readjusted.
     But ever since that day I've been hooked and in the woods every chance I get. In fact opening day of deer season was this past Friday but the extreme heat kept me out of the woods. I may be obsessed but I'm not crazy.