It is finally fall! The first hunting seasons open tomorrow and I am stoked. The morning will see me walking the neighbor's pasture for snipe which are fairly thick as the pasture is still a bit soggy from the last rains. They are tough birds to hit but it is fun getting out and shooting something besides starling or pigeons.
Then it is off the the cabin for bear hunting in the afternoon. I didn't think I was going to get out at all this year due to some health issues but between a different surgery technique allowing me to heal up well enough in two weeks and one of the neighbors up there having an extra bait station I am able to spend some time on a stand. Lucky I didn't sell my old bear gun as I have not had time to finish inletting the stock and then sighting in the new gun.
Saturday morning is the goose opener and I will be out in a hayfield near the cabin for that. There are quite a few birds in the area but they seem to have no set pattern on where they feed. I hope to pull a couple over if they fly my way.
This is the time of year I live for, I prefer hunting to about anything else. When the bird seasons all open up I am in seventh heaven.