This week marks a major milestone in the development of the PSP.  We have several loads of lumber at the cabin site, all of it milled from out trees on the land.  This week construction on the cabin will start.  We hope to have a functional, but not finished cabin by Memorial Day week... [More]

SLIDESHOW in this post. This weekend I decided to start clearing off a small patch of the forest floor for a food plot.  I hiked up the hill with a rake, some drinking water, a machete, and a saw.  When I got to my target area I picked out where I thought the borders should be.  I to... [More]

SLIDESHOW in this post



My dad and I have been busy. Hunting season wasn't successful if you measure success by body counts. I had numerous deer within range of both my bow and rifle. I had 4 clear shots. I passed on all but one. I believe that my 2 mistakes were that 1.) I didn't spend enough time in the stand and 2.) I failed to take the shots that were presented to me, instead hoping for a better shot.
But if you count success in knowledge and enjoyment [More]

So I got up at 4 on Saturday morning and headed to the deer woods.  I was at the property and parked the truck at 6 o'clock.  It was still dark.  I changed clothes and got the bow, climbing tree stand and pack on my back and headed up the hill.  It was cold, about 20 degrees. &nb... [More]

Now that it's getting cold out, I decided to start prepping the garden for next spring.  It's still archery deer season, gun season closed last weekend, but there's more to life than hunting.  Last year (read about it in the archives) I had 2 4x8 raised beds.  I went to the lumber yar... [More]

So Saturday was opening day for guns.  I get my daughter out of bed at 4:00 AM and we head out to the woods.  We climb the hill just a light is starting to ease the darkness.  We settle into the ground blind about 15 minutes before legal shooting time.  About 2 minutes after 6:45... [More]

Today I decided to follow the offhand advice from the guy we bought the land from.  He mentioned that I didn't need to go up the hill to find deer.  They would come to me and it didn't matter that my camp was right here. The spring I mentioned on day 1 is about 60 yards north of the conex... [More]

Great stories start something like this: So I had to take a dump.....well, it's kinda crude but accurate of my first of 3 days in the deer woods this week. It's the Marine Corps' 236th birthday and I decided to celebrate this year with a deer hunt.  I was in the ladder stand by sunrise.  ... [More]

Saturday marked only my 3rd day in the deer woods this fall.  1 month down and I still don't have anything to show for it. Once on the hunting property I changed into my hunting clothes and sprayed myself down with "Dead Down Wind." I was about 15 minutes later than I wanted to be getting to my... [More]

Went out today to check on the deer feeder I put up last weekend.  It was about half empty so I topped off the feeder with corn and reset the timer to run the motor for 4 seconds each cycle instead of 3.  I didn't see much sign around the feeder, but most of the corn from previous days was... [More]

Last weekend was Youth Gun Deer Season.  This was the day my daughter and I have been waiting for since mid summer.  We got up at 5:00 am and put on our scent free clothes.  We ate breakfast at the gas station.  We started our walk to the deer stand as soon as we could barely mak... [More]

With my daughter wanting to go deer hunting this year, I insisted that she take the hunter education class offered by our state's department of wildlife.  I took the class with her and we had a great time.  She heard (or should I say reheard) all about hunting and firearms safety.  Th... [More]