Slow Start

Kentucky's bow season opened Saturday, and what a slow start it was (at least for me). Folks argue on about moon phase and its effect on whitetails, but for me personally, a full moon in the early season combined with warm weather during the day has always spelled bad news for deer hunting--and that's exactly what we had for the opener. What's more, some of the corn fields I typically hunt during the early season are a long way from harvest time, due in large part to the rainy summer we've had. I don't guess that's a bad thing, but picked corn during the first half of September has always been one of my favorite ways to find bachelor groups of bucks.


On the flip side, I was able to finish some food plot work just ahead of a big rain. Hopefully they'll be lush and green by this time next month. And I expect the first report of a Kentucky giant to pop up on the Internet any day. This time of year is a busy one, both for work and play, but it's a good kind of busy.


Will (formerly in Tennessee, now back in Kentucky)