More Missouri

Well the scenery photo is the area we hunted. this is the road that i had the privilage to hunt. My brother Don and his daughter Rachael were hunting to the right of the road. Its a stand of trees about 40 yards deep then a field planted with winter wheat.. A very good draw for the deer.. There is a small hill between me and the hill in the back ground, there is where Cody was located i was to the left... great place to hunt.. Cody also was able to bag a nice hooded merganser while duck hunting. Again he was in love with the place with all the hunting and fishing available to do only minuets from home.. He could see how addicted one could become to a life of this... I mean why work... we have to travel for hours just to access areas like this so to us its a major deal... Being from California its a trade off.. Weather is the key... it was mid 70's on thursday when we landed, blue bird skys... it was great.. But not for hunting.... The colder the better i hate to say... on friday it was blue sky and at 7 am it was 73 deg... by noon it was lightning and thunder, pouring rain and the temp was 40 deg... wow... saturday morning the temp was 25 deg. with a north wind of 5 to 10 mph.. it was cold.. but like i said.. this is what we want.. it was fun just to sit and watch and listen to the huge flights of snow geese going by looking for fields to feed in... there were also small flights of duck following them... it was great.. i just love watching all the wildlife... in fact while sitting in the stand before trading with Cody i was watching a coyote playing in a field i thought about poping it but i was here for deer and did not want to spoil the area... some people think it may be boring just sitting there waiting for something to walk by but ya really get to just sit there and relax and watch, there is so much going on, tweedy birds flittering around, different birds of prey migrating south looking for food, listening to song birds, really its hard to concentrate on hunting... i know i missed some deer cause i only saw the rear of some...not paying attention again... well last but not least my niece Rachael... what a girl... she was the first to get her deer saturday morning, field dress it and when we get home with it she has it strung up in the tree and starts to skin it out and de-bone the meat... she was done in half the time it took me to do it... that girl can out hunt and fish me.. i am very proud of her... a true outdoors woman.. and thats our weekend.. wow what a trip