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| The clearcut |
The season opened on a Monday with
light rain, so I spent the morning working indoors. The precipitation stopped early and by mid day things had dried
out some.
After lunch I took Maggie and Colby up a local bumpy road to take a
right next to an old log cabin. We hunted the clearcut on the low side of the
road where we had found birds a week before, but found nothing. We did find a moose scrape with a huge track in it.
Above the road Maggie pointed one woodcock in a tangle as thick as a steel wool. It escaped unscathed.
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| The fall colors. |
From there we drove over across the
valley to hunt the top of another clearcut. It's an interesting one, at the edge of old farm country, so there are a few apple trees remaining. Maggie
pointed a couple of grouse in a thicket that I could not get into before they
flew. Colby was on the scent of another, when it burst from a tree over my right
shoulder. I killed it with a long shot, using a Polywad Double-Wide load of number
eights.
Maggie was the one to find the bird. She is very proud of herself.
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| The first bird of the season. Its crop was filled with apple. |
After lunch I took Maggie and Colby up a local bumpy road to take a
right next to an old log cabin. We hunted the clearcut on the low side of the
road where we had found birds a week before, but found nothing. We did find a moose scrape with a huge track in it.
Above the road Maggie pointed one woodcock in a tangle as thick as a steel wool. It escaped unscathed. 
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