Very busy weekend seeing friends and family back home in North Carolina.

On Saturday, dad and I visited 6 different stand sites, made sure limbs were trimmed, checked cameras, and got dad downright fired up about archery opener that is just around the corner….5 days to be exact.

On Monday, I finally managed to pull the shotgun out of the back of the car and visit a friend’s (thank you GreenThumb) cut corn field.  The doves weren’t swarming the field, but it wasn’t boring either.  When I had to leave the field at 8:15 a.m., I had 5 doves in hand.  It apparently got better as the day wore on with my friend and his father both filling their limits by the afternoon.

Anyways, we a great Labor Day weekend and traveling wasn’t too bad even through Atlanta.

A heavy week of deer darting awaits, so stay tuned for updates.

I surf through some of the Southeast’s game and fish agencies’ websites from time to time and always manage to find something interesting.

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is currently pushing a squirrel hunting day on August 22nd.  The fact that they’ll be hunting squirrels in August is interesting in itself (HOT!!!), but the real catch is that no hunting license or special permit is required.

To me, this is absolutely genius!  I’ve had several attempts in the past to get someone involved in hunting go south when they find out that a 3-day hunter’s education course is required.  Time, money, whatever it is, something gets in the way of the course being taken…and well, rules are rules!

If you are a native Tennesseean (???), I urge you to not let this opportunity slip by.  Everybody knows a coworker, or nephew, or someone who has expressed interest in going hunting, but hasn’t taken the leap yet.  Well, without a hunting license required, they can take a baby step into the hunting woods and be given a chance to see if it is really for them before taking a whole-hearted plunge.

Kudos to the TWRA