Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving break

    I went to the camp this weekend, the camp is in between Boone and Wilkesboro. The camp is on 10 acres of land on the top of a mountain with a gorgeous view. We planned on doing multiple things we needed to do around the cabin to fix it up and get wood ready to burn for the winter.

    We woke up around 6am early Saturday morning to get ready to go for a morning hunt. My dad was making coffee and some toast to have before we went to our deer blinds. The sun was just starting to break the mountain ridge and I started to make my way down the hill to the deer blind. It was about 7:05am went I got into the deer stand and was waiting for a deer to emerge from the hills. The weather was brutal that morning it was 32 degrees with 25 mile hour winds thrashing through the mountain valleys. Sitting there just waiting to hear or see something I hear some rustling on the other side of the mountain. I look around very carefully trying my best not to move to fast so that I wouldn't be seen. I see some movement but not enough to tell what it was. All of a sudden I see two squirrels fighting and chasing each other up and down the trees. The noise they were making sound just like a deer walking through the woods. After seeing them I decided to walk  up the hill to the warm camp and go get some breakfast. It was to cold to just sitting there and not see anything in over two hours. I walked back up the hill and my dad just pulled up and we starting cooking some bacon and eggs for breakfast.

    Later on in the day my dad was asked to build a new gate for the community and we brought it up with us to put on after our morning hunt. We brought the welder and all the part to put the new gate together since the last one was all rusted and falling apart. The gate was hand made and had some turkeys, a big deer head and some 30/30 rifles on the gate to make it stand out. It took almost two to three hours to put the gate on by the time we welded it on, painted it and put the lock system together, but once it was finished it looked amazing. My dad was very proud of his work he had done and what made it special to him is that everyone will see it when they are heading to there mountains houses.

    Once the gate was finished we went back up to our camp grabbed our gear and rushed to the deer blinds so we could get a hunt in before it was dark out. I love hunting but I hate hunting at night. Because you have to wait until it's dark out to come out of the stand and most of the time you can't see five feet in front of you. It's not that I'm scared of the dark it's that I'm not able to see my surroundings and there are about four or five bears we have seen up there and there's also coyotes up there I'm not scared of the dark I'm scared of what might be in the dark. I just don't like that I can't see anything only what my flashlight allows me to see. I made it out of the woods and I saw something in the field it was a deer. I aimed my gun but it was to dark to shoot it which is against the law. So I let the deer walk and I will hopeful be able to get one this weekend when I got back hunting with my dad and his friends.