From my kitchen table, I can hear gunshots and I'm reminded that it's the opener of squirrel season in these woods.
It's been a long time since I participated in the opening of squirrel season. Not that I don't like hunting them, but for the past decade it's been too hot to get out in the woods the first weekend of October. Squirrel hunting in a tee-shirt, swatting mosquitoes, looking for snakes at my feet really doesn't appeal to me. I much prefer to wait until the leaves are off the trees and I can slip through the woods with a .22 rifle.
Still, this is an opening morning and I don't live so far from the woods that I can't hear gunfire. We've been one more trip around the sun and it's hunting season again.
Yep, Deer opener here in OR. I'm not in the woods, either.
ReplyDeleteI used to be able to grab my rifle and 10 rounds or so, put on the Filson pants and appropriate jacket, sling a canteen belt and hit the road, but it seems it's a blasted expedition to get out there these days, so most openers I just don't go anymore, preferring to go out when the odds are a bit more even between Bambi and I.
Yes sir, the woods are lousy with squirrel. I went on the first squirrel hunt in at least 15 years Saturday morning, and me and my dad managed to get 9 just by talking a brisk walk in the woods. It was a lot of fun, and I look forward to taking my kids when they get a little older.
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