Work Day At The Hunting Club

Saturday was a work day trying to get a bunch of stuff done. Not having the equipment we hired someone to bushhog for us and we worked on clearing roads and trails. It is amazing how many trees and limbs will fall down in a year .
We also had to do some repair work on some stands. I forgot to bring some wasp spray and I had a number of nests inside my towerstand. I successfully knocked 5 nests out of my stand by opening the windows and batting them out. Any of the wasps that didn’t go with the nest out the window either I stomped on them when they lay dazed on the floor or I successfully batted them out as they flew at me. Not a single sting. Granted these were pretty small nest but a small feat in my book anyways.

I had sprayed down with bug spray real good so when I got home that evening I didn’t find a single tick. The only tick I found on me was during a water break crawling on my shirt.

As far as wildlife goes we saw a number of deer including a fawn that the bush hog pushed out of beds. No turkeys were seen but a nest was found and a number of broken eggs shells were there lets hope they hatched out. Not seeing many hens with pouts earlier we are thinking the spring rains around the nesting time got a number of them so we hope they renested. The mineral licks we have around the property seem to be getting hit pretty hard. A number of them have been dug out pretty good. Most of us kept guns handy all day but no yotes showed himself but coyote sign is pretty strong across the property.
While it was a warm day it wasn’t unbearable hot like some years past. Lots of water breaks we still got a lot accomplished. Yesterday and still this morning I’m a little stiff but its good to feel that it should make this falls hunting a lot better.

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