For me its when the nh crow season starts on 8/15 :) than into duck and goose season.

Scott

Sat down this morning and ordered RST shells. will write my check for my part of the dove field cost this afternoon. Beginning to get like a child before Christmas.

With the heat index at and above 100 here in Southeast TN this week I haven't seen any signs Fall hunting yet!

Hang in there, Reggie. I've been told that good things come to those who wait. I was never told that waiting was fun, though.

I am kind of in the same boat as Reggie.

You gentlemen in the South will be envied come late January.

That is how it goes for sure.

One of the subtle signs of fall for me is my supply of cut, split, stacked and cured firewood for winter.

One double row stack and another stack under the overhang on each side of the barn.

Let 'er snow. I'm ready.

Other signs, bucks still in velvet but getting bigger. Fawns growing too.

https://i.imgur.com/MyoCcll.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MV4ktnA.jpg

I am getting all my outside repairs and winter prep done now! Life is so busy and the months are passing like weeks! My Toyota 4RUNNER, AKA The rooster runner is all ready for my fall hunting trips. Still need to service my home generator and prep all the other gas engine things for storage. October will be here in a blink and I must be ready. Still have three of my front line doubles out for repairs or up-grades and they all should be back by the end of August so I'm told. My first hunting will be in October at Bullseye pheasant preserve or possible black bird shoot at a local farm and some doves too. Then up to the U.P. for a week in the grouse woods....(-: SXS Ohio

It's interesting to see how the nearing of the hunting seasons pushes us to complete the "other" tasks we have had before us and need to finish up before we devote ourselves to hunting. I, too, have been trying to finish house, yard, and farm chores when the weather cooperates. My wife kids me about my "incentive" to finish work, but with the dove season opener, all else goes to the back burner.