Almost went

[MUP]

Waited all day on the online weather for you forecast for the rain to dissipate around 1 o'clock. Drove home over the mtn, still running the wipers, waiting for it to clear up and stop so I could get in an evening hunt. Still sitting here at the house with rain dripping off the house, just not in to going when I know I'm going to get wet. On the bright side, my lovely wife had made homemade chili last night, and added deer sausage from the buck I killed on opening day last Saturday. Hooo BOY! that is some goooood eating on a damp rainy day! Takes the edge off of not getting out there as I had been hoping.

 

[Crappieaddict]

Homemade chili sounds a whole lot better than sitting in the rain to my 64 year old body!

 

[MUP]

Homemade chili sounds a whole lot better than sitting in the rain to my 64 year old body!

As with my 59 year old body! This weather has already got me aching a little anyway!

 

[backyardtndeer]

I am contemplating on whether or not I will get my son out this afternoon.

 

[Carlos Viagra]

Same here. The open hunt at Catoosa is happening RN, and I never bothered to drive thru.

Leftover beef stew and cornbread- along with several domestic chores kept me home.

 

[Crappieaddict]

As with my 59 year old body! This weather has already got me aching a little anyway!

Oh, at 59 I was still turning somersaults, hunting in blizzards, tornadoes, and hurricanes!

 

[Chiflyguy]

Sittin in my ground blind.
Stayed dry.
Weathermen suck

 

[Gravey]

Homemade chili sounds a whole lot better than sitting in the rain to my 64 year old body!

Same here and I'm only 50.

 

[Ski]

A warm pot of chili is about as good a reason as can be for skipping a hunt!

 

[TDW05]

We had chili few days ago. Now eating on spaghetti for a few. Told my wife I got a hankering for a roast next.

 

[Snake]

It quit raining and was a good afternoon. Seen three and then three more but they may have been same deer . One may have not been as it's slipped through some thick stuff. Spike and a doe with a little one .

 

[recurve60#]

I like huntung on drizzly days. But like you im kinda done with hunting. Been killing deer since 1983 and I'm not driven anymore.

 

[MUP]

Having success with a good buck early also tends to douse the fire a bit for me. Even tho I know there's other good bucks out there, just knowing I have my goal met of a good buck for the season, makes it a little harder to get back out there on less than dry days.

 

[Lost Lake]

I was wanting to hunt pretty bad yesterday evening, but figured I'd be a good dad and drive my wife, daughter, and a car full of her friends down to Chattanooga where my daughters High School football team lost the State championship to West Knoxville in a heartbreaker that went down to the last second.

Now I'm taking advantage of a rainy morning to have tires put on her car.

Ahhhhh…..sacrifices. But it sho looks wet out there while I'm sitting in this warm waiting area. Maybe this evening.

 

[MUP]

I was wanting to hunt pretty bad yesterday evening, but figured I'd be a good dad and drive my wife, daughter, and a car full of her friends down to Chattanooga where my daughters High School football team lost the State championship to West Knoxville in a heartbreaker that went down to the last second.

Now I'm taking advantage of a rainy morning to have tires put on her car.

Ahhhhh…..sacrifices. But it sho looks wet out there while I'm sitting in this warm waiting area. Maybe this evening.

Looks like rain is going to hang around all day today now. Oh well.

 

[Lost Lake]

Looks like rain is going to hang around all day today now. Oh well.

Yep. Be a good time to catch up on stuff if it does. I've hit it hard since Archery opener. Nice to have a small breather.

Tomorrow might be good.

 

[rifle02]

The rain is helping what little is left of my food plot. The winter wheat and oats is about all that actually grew. Last Tuesday evening is the first time I saw deer in it during daylight. Plants have greened up nicely but they're being eaten down as quickly as they grow.

 

[Shag]

I was wanting to hunt pretty bad yesterday evening, but figured I'd be a good dad and drive my wife, daughter, and a car full of her friends down to Chattanooga where my daughters High School football team lost the State championship to West Knoxville in a heartbreaker that went down to the last second.

Now I'm taking advantage of a rainy morning to have tires put on her car.

Ahhhhh…..sacrifices. But it sho looks wet out there while I'm sitting in this warm waiting area. Maybe this evening.

My wife and daughter left out about an hour ago. They are headed to Chattanooga to watch Upperman (daughter's high school) play in the state championship.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I woke up this morning and was about to go to the kitchen to check the weather on my phone when I heard my neighbor rolling his trash can down the driveway at 4:30. I thought that was weird. Then I heard it again and again before I suddenly realized it was thunder. Pulled the covers back over my head.

 

[Lost Lake]

My wife and daughter left out about an hour ago. They are headed to Chattanooga to watch Upperman (daughter's high school) play in the state championship.

We were drizzled on last evening but it wasn't bad really. Your girls might have to contend with more rain today.

 

[Shag]

We were drizzled on last evening but it wasn't bad really. Your girls might have to contend with more rain today.

For sure! I tried to get them to take some of my Gore-Tex rain suits. But my camouflage wasn't fashionable enough to suit them. I told em I wouldn't give a crap what I looked like as long as I was dry!

 

[tellico4x4]

I caved as well this morning and slept in. Activity picked up big time for us Wed & Thurs, saw 11 young bucks those two days. Some chasing and several cruising. Cell cams were firing off big time as well. Hunted yesterday in the drizzle & fog after rain subsided & didn't see a deer. Haven't gotten but a few pics past 36 hours so activity is definitely subsided.

I guess being at camp most of season & being able to cherry pick my hunting time is an advantage. Saw where we have 4 working stiffs tagged in this morning & setting in rain . Two of them drove all the way from Chattanooga last night ...

Next two weeks should be prime for us and I'll hunt everyday then rain or shine. Going to take advantage of break today and inventory my freezer here at camp and organize the pots & pans in my outdoor kitchen. Will watch some games if the dang WiFi holds out. Have a hotspot that runs off a cell phone booster & crappy weather is making it buffer this morning... whine, whine, whine. Time for another cup of coffee.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I really should have gone. After the storms rolled through its been nothing but a light drizzle. Thursday, I saw 2 bucks square up over a doe just south of Columbia. Yesterday, I saw a really nice buck chasing after 2 does in another part of the county. There's obviously still some activity going on.

 

[SSlater]

I don't mind the weather if I'm in a weatherproof blind. I don't have one the moment. I told the neighbor there needs to be at least two next year.