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Today is the last week of Deer Hunting here in Upstate New York. It is the first day of Muzzleloader or Black Powder Rifle hunting.

My husband did not get a deer yet this season. The weather has been rather warm for hunting to be good this year. It was last year too. The deer don’t move as much when it is warm out and that makes it hard on hunter’s.

We have a small group of hunters that have joined together to lease land to hunt on. They take small older campers over to the hunting property and camp there off and on through the hunting season. It has been a tradition in our family for many years. I can’t say that the wives are totally against spending some quality time on their own either.

Twenty years ago when I first moved here I did not appreciate this as much. So, I do understand the younger wives being a little apprehensive about the husband spending so much time away.

While my husband was working last week a couple of the family members were out hunting and they did get two deer.

The weather has been cold but not cold enough to get much snow here which is very unusual. Yesterday we got a lot of freezing rain. This in my opinion the worst of the weather you can get here. The rain immediately freezes on and forms an ice crust on everything which is very slippery and dangerous. Today we are back up in the 40s. The real shame of this is we are looking to be back in the lower temps by next week and be covered in snow. The same thing happened last year. It is too bad the hunting season dates can’t be more flexible to accommodate the weather changes because when the hunting is bad then the deer are too plentiful and you get more auto accidents involving the deer and the farmers have also have to protect the crops more. You get more of the deer starving to death because of lack of enough food to hold them through the coldest part of the winter too.

So while other family members are home processing their harvest I wait form my husband to get lucky enough to get a deer too. Then our work will begin.

I did find a good website with some great free tips on deer hunting at Mary-prokop.com It has some tips on safety while processing your deer too.

When the kids were young we depended on this harvest of venison to help us make it through the winter and help the food budget. But, in the last two years with the increase in fees and the price of everything going up it has become quite an expense.

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