i was up at 4.00 this morning..i went outside to see if it had rained no rain..i checked the weather update no rain showing but the way it looked i carried the rain suit any way...wind was gusting up to 20 mile an hour at times i was hoping it would calm down..it being cloudy daylight was about 30 minutes off but i was in the woods backed up under a big oak boy the wind never stopped...after 20 minutes under the oak i decided to move i had gone about a hundred yards when i stopped i could hear a squirl knawing on a pine cone i stayed there 15 minutesand decideto move to be able to maybe spot that squirl...but there was another huntertrying to spot the squirl too when i moved one of those blue darter hawks made a pass for that squirl but missed both of us hunters came up empty handed on that squirl...i moved on and found a giant oak den tree i stayed there for about 45 minutes but i reckon since the wind was blowing and it was cool the boys decided to sleep in...i moved on as i was getting chilly i went down a small ditch i then heard a squirl barking..was not long before i spoted him the range was about 45 yards but i knew that old 3 frame 12 would bring him out with ease....well i took good aim and pulled the rear trigger for the left barrel and out that squirl came...i reloaded and as i did i seen a squirl run a short piece as i walked to the spot were the squirl was suppose to that squirl was behind a big pine it ran with in 3 feet of me pellmell on the ground i shot the first barrel to quick with a clean miss at 20 feet... then i shot the other barrel at about 15 steps well guess what missed again and into a big hole in the ground went the squirl...so much for the 3 frames record opening day last year it took 6 squirls with all one shot kills...i then moved on to another spot and hunted till it was time to go to the squirl dinner....as i traveled to the squirl camp i thought the way the winds bloed this morning i bet there want be 10 squirls killed this morning...boy i was right...i drove up and not another person in sight...i called my grandson to see what was up but no answer did i get...i was fixeng to leave and a guy pulled up with a load of lumber and some saws and hammers i asked him were every body was he said o were not camping till tommorrow night dinner will be at 12 saturday...its tuff getting old and getting things mixed up....well anyway the guy and me as his helper and my nephew assisting me we reworked the old camp eating table....the nephew and i then went back to my house and then went arrow head hunting...we found a small but prett bird point of unque color and then almost a perfect big arrow head....wind was still blowing so we called it a day...charlie
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