Well we just finished our three day, early muzzleloader season here in Maryland and it was tough. Very warm Thursday, warmer and rain on Friday, finally a bit cooler today, but still upper 60's and swirling winds. I had a few sits with nothing, some with does and fawns, one with a couple small bucks, but it looked like my streak was going to end. I've had nice bucks killed from one particular ground blind for the past three years, but this season I didn't even have the wind direction to hunt it until today.
Tonight I had deer moving, but mainly yearlings. Wind would swirl, they'd run off, then come back for awhile until the wind swirled again. Had one small five point buck working a scrape along the woods edge, but even on the last night he got a pass. Finally as the sun started to go down the light winds began to hold steady and soon I heard a buck back in the woods working a scrape. Three yearlings were still around and staring in that direction, when finally this nice 8 point comes out into the field and starts pushing them around. He gave me a 25 yard shot, took him in the neck with the .54 and he fell about 30 yards farther. The streak lives, four years in a row!
