For the hunters (or to some, the Fudds) among us who live for this time of the year when crops are being cut, the mercury is falling, deer have shed their velvet and are preparing for the rut and the first ducks begin their migrations south, this is THE time of year we live for. Stepping out of the house at first light with my son to head to his baseball game the other day the chill in the air was unmistakable. We both paused and breathed it in for a moment. As he began to speak, I knew exactly what he was going to say.
“It’s getting time Dad. I feel like we should be at the farm,” he said.
“I know. Not much longer now,” I replied as we slid into the truck and headed to a different type of field.
With hunting seasons opening up and the new year with new product announcements not far off, this is also the biggest time of year for the gun industry as well, and companies celebrate it in many ways. Short-form films have become a popular way to entertain an audience, tell a good story and show consumers how your product (and your brand) is a vital part of the shooting and hunting lifestyle.
Stoeger recently released the following video, “The Opener: A Story of Tradition,” showcasing a group of friends’ tradition of gathering in upstate New York each year to celebrate the opening of waterfowl seasons. For those who are interested, we wanted to share it with you below. Enjoy.
The comraderie of a good hunting camp is something that has to be experienced to be appreciated. A really good one is a year round thing. Shooting on the camp range is a nice change from the public thing. My son shot his first full auto weapon at The Farm when he was 10-12. Not all hunters are fudds. A little fishing doesn’t hurt either. Ray caught a 10 lb large mouth off the pond spillway last week.
Warm here, mosquitos still biting, traveling Hummingbirds bombarding feeders, dried leaves falling, temp today in the mid nineties. After retruning bolts to various vendors I finally received a decent one to complete an AR-308 and will run it when the temp drops. A mamma deer with two youngins that loved wheat bread hasn’t been around, she should have stayed as no huntin allowed here not even for my huntin brother.
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Well in the real world you want space/acres between you and members of a huntin’ lease. When we bought our land it came with easements for a pipeline right of way, access to a gas well and electric access. The previous owners said a huntin’ club used the east road through our property to access their lease behind us just during hunting season. The pipeline and gas well people had keys to the gate and they were zero problemos. The huntin’ club had keys too and apparently to them huntin’ season was 24/7 because my arms grew tired waving at them when they passed. They had various campsites and generators and did more drinking and talking than huntin’ or keeping their access up. One night we were leaving and a member of the club was fumbling his key trying to unlock the gate, the man was shtfaced stinking drunk so we let him to drive to his camp, we listened for him to hit a tree but he kept on slowly trucking.
The next day I drove to the courthouse and asked a female detective for directions to who handles land issues and gave her a brief description about the huntin’ club problem. She went up to the DA and they pulled our property easements and low and behold the timber/paper company huntin’ club had no right whatsoever to cross our property. She returned and asked, Do you want us to go remove them? I said no I believe I can take it from here. I called the manager of the timber company who leased to the huntin’ club and told him what the courthouse said and within 12 hours the club and everything about it vanished. The timber company gave the club an unihabited access miles away. We had neighbors from down the highway stop and thank us for getting rid of the huntin’ club and I let them know the name of the detective who helped. LE is so good out here if someone dumps trash they’ll come rummage through it for an address, etc. and make the perp clean it up.
Hunted bear last week here in Michigan. Tough hunting with the temps in the upper 80’s to over 90 degrees. Bears were not moving until after dark. Still a good week. Had one big bear come in, just couldn’t make out the crosshairs.