Deer Season in Georgia

Regular deer season opened today here in Georgia.  It's been primitive weapons for a couple of weeks but Jonathon doesn't do archery, though he says he might not mind getting a muzzle loader.  Anyway, it's been a challenge!

 

First, he got his area all ready a few weeks ago, then about 10 days ago someone came and stole his deer stand.  <sigh>  So he came up with some other ideas and thought he would try putting his tractor in the horses' run-in shed because the deer cut through our pasture behind that shed.  There's a creek where they get water back in the back of our property.  He put a pallet on the tractor (somehow -- I haven't seen it), then put a chair on the pallet.  The idea was to look through the space between the top of the wall and the roof.  There's about 18 inches there.

 

So he gets up early, dresses warmly because it had turned cold, goes out while it's still dark.  And here come the horses.  "Well, surely you must be out here to feed us.  Yes, we know it's dark and we never see you at this time of day and we always eat late in the afternoon.  But, here you are now."  Sheesh!  So they stomped around and snorted for a while before giving up.  Then Stella gets the bright idea, "I'll kick the tractor.  That will annoy him enough to either get down from there and feed me, or get down from there and ...."  Clearly, she didn't think that through all the way.  He wanted to bean her in the noggin.  Actually, I think he really wanted her to get in the way when he was shooting a deer and he'd have both deer and horse meat in the freezer.  But, he wouldn't come out and admit that.

 

Needless to say, it was WAY too noisy for any deer to come by.  He's out there trying again now that the sun is going down (sunset is about 7:45 today) but I think he's wasting his time today.  It looks like Bambi's mom gets to live another day!  It's chicken livers for the dogs again tonight....