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- Dec 26, 2007
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I have had four of the hardest days I have ever hunted in my life and that is saying something. I have been hunting in the Old River Swamp which logging and Katrina have devastated. Some of it looks thicker than the bush in Tanzania. Then you add 4 days of hard to light rain with an hour or two brake every once in a while and you have got the makings of some hard hunting.
I would work my way through maybe a quarter of mile of thick under growth due to trees being cut out and Katrina blowing a bunch over until I could make it to a lower area or slew where they left a stand of Cyprus trees and the buck would use these areas for crossings.
Well I have a Zeiss Conquest 4.5-14x44mm on my Mark V 30-06. Well, it just is not working and I should have known that. It is to much power in some of this stuff for the lowest setting of 4.5, makes me feel claustrophobic .
Now on top of that I was up on a log pile that was at least 11 feet high. Good place to be and I saw three Does but not allowed to kill them in Old River and they never knew I was on the log pile. Started to leave to go to a new spot when my foot slipped and I fell 8ft off the opposite side and a corner of a log caught me right in the middle of my chest and almost knocked me out. Lots my breath and I all most passed out. It took me a good three minutes just get my breath back and my chest was already bruised before I stood up. Figure I broke a rib because it hurts to cough and can only sleep on my left sided. My rifle and scope hit real hard but I tried it out and it was still sighted in correctly.
Went ahead and hunted the rest of the day and took Aleive for pain and hunted for three more days with no luck. I know this is a lot of info but I say all this because I have changed my scope on my 06 to a Zeiss 3-9x40mm Z and it will serve me better plus has made the rifle even lighter. Sure hope the rest of the season goes better.
I would work my way through maybe a quarter of mile of thick under growth due to trees being cut out and Katrina blowing a bunch over until I could make it to a lower area or slew where they left a stand of Cyprus trees and the buck would use these areas for crossings.
Well I have a Zeiss Conquest 4.5-14x44mm on my Mark V 30-06. Well, it just is not working and I should have known that. It is to much power in some of this stuff for the lowest setting of 4.5, makes me feel claustrophobic .
Now on top of that I was up on a log pile that was at least 11 feet high. Good place to be and I saw three Does but not allowed to kill them in Old River and they never knew I was on the log pile. Started to leave to go to a new spot when my foot slipped and I fell 8ft off the opposite side and a corner of a log caught me right in the middle of my chest and almost knocked me out. Lots my breath and I all most passed out. It took me a good three minutes just get my breath back and my chest was already bruised before I stood up. Figure I broke a rib because it hurts to cough and can only sleep on my left sided. My rifle and scope hit real hard but I tried it out and it was still sighted in correctly.
Went ahead and hunted the rest of the day and took Aleive for pain and hunted for three more days with no luck. I know this is a lot of info but I say all this because I have changed my scope on my 06 to a Zeiss 3-9x40mm Z and it will serve me better plus has made the rifle even lighter. Sure hope the rest of the season goes better.
Just got back from going this afternoon which is the last day of the first centerfire season down here and I have only seen does, which are not legal in rifle season. My 3-9 Zeiss works just fine. A front came through and temps were 38-39 degrees by 4:430 and the wind was up to 20 miles an hour. On top of that the river was rising from the rains of last Thursday, Friday and Saturday and I almost got cut off this evening. I had to drive my four wheeler across two places that the river was rushing over and the water was already over 2 feet deep. I did not think the river would rise that fast today but it sure did.
