Still the same old floundering at work so I'll skip to last weekend.  The
first weekend of December is first season shotgun hunting for deer here in
Iowa.  I go hunting with my Dad, my brother, and about 15 other guys in our
group.  This  year we had pretty good weather, a light snow a few days
previous to aid in tracking and moderate temperatures for this time of the
year.  On the first drive, I was one of the pushers.  I saw a few deer, and
even had a shot lined up except my brother on the hillside saw the same deer. 
He started blasting, ruining my shot and the deer lived another day.  The
second drive I was blocking, and saw a couple deer, and got a couple shots
off, but no confirmed hits.  I even wounded a coyote that happened by and
stopped long enough for me to put a bead on it.  

The second day (Sunday), I was pushing again, and never saw a single deer.  On
the second drive, I was blocking near my old spot.  When I first got there, I
had to pee.  So, as I was doing my business, two doe jumped up about 10 yards
from where I was and bounded away.  I just looked, and kept on whizzing.  Like
I was going to stumble over to my gun that way.  About 10 minutes later, a
single doe came into view, stopped broadside, and I dropped her with one shot.
 Two more does came through, but I missed my one shot.  I looked over and saw
a buck that looked like it was about to head out of our hunting area.  I took
a shot, yelled at my brother to get it.  Luckily, he managed to get a good
shot in and claimed a smaller 8 point buck.  So, all in all, it was a good
hunt, Dad got 2 doe and a small 6 point buck.  It was so small of a rack, Pa
thought it was a doe because the ears blocked out the rack.  Fortunately, no
one was hurt and everyone had a good time including the guy who came all the
way from N. Carolina to come hunt with us for the first time this year.  A
real good guy, I'd love to see him come back again next year.  You should see
the bruise on my right arm and shoulder though, that old 12 gauge with 3 in.
shells delivers some punishment to the body.  Shoutout to Garou.