nice stories.....my story isn't as good. kinda frustrating.
so this past sunday and monday i went hunting for deer, pheasant and turkeys on my parent's land in NE nebraska. my brother lent me his shotgun and my dad let me borrow his .30-06.
on sunday i saw nothing, maybe a few pheasants but i wasn't interested in pheasants at the time.
so on monday i got up around 5am and set up my blind. and around 8am, my stomach churned and started growling, but i wasn't hungry. thats right, i had to go.....and go badly. so i threw my stuff back in my dad's pickup, flew home and finished the business... but it gets worse. i went back to a different piece of land and decided pheasants are my target. i take the shotgun and after about 100 yards i hear something, its a doe 50-60 FEET away from me. it was perfectly lined up shot and very big, but i have a shotgun. that sucked. so i walked back to the truck and got the rifle and binoculars. as i walked back i couldn't find the doe which shouldn't have been hard. i walked several hundred feet and saw some pheasants in my binoculars. so i walked back to the truck and got the shotgun. the pheasants flew long before i got there. so i went home and helped my dad for a few hours on the farm. around 3pm, i went to a prime area, except the neighbor hasn't picked his corn yet. there were trails everywhere, buck rack scratchings, very fresh feces and obvious bedding places everywhere, but no deer.
so i gave up. my two days of hunting was over. good thing i have plenty of time left for upland birds and January deer. but congrats to everyone else's successes!
and by the way, is it legal to carry a loaded shotgun and loaded rifle while hunting pheasants and deer at the same time? granted i wear the hunter orange.
