Got lucky and finally found a decent buck 3 days before I was scheduled for shoulder surgery this year 2 days before thanksgiving. Generally I am in the mountains hunting in Virginia and rarely watch fields. But it was raining this day, and knowing I was short on time my options were limited. I was watching a couple does feeding in the corn field and it came a helluva rain for 15-20 minutes that ran the deer out of the field. I was tucked under the eaves of a barn so I was luckily staying dry. Thankfully the rain stopped, and the does came back out, followed by a couple more does a few minutes later, and then finally by this guy a few minutes later. He's not a a bad deer for the area I live and hunt in.
. TRC is right, there's always one nice weekend and one raw and snowy weekend for the Maple Festival. We had a barber in Waynesboro when I was a kid who sold homemade knives at the festival. When the Blizzard of '93 hit, he drove all the way to Monterey, found out the festival was cancelled, and drove all the way back to Waynesboro in a '78 Ford station wagon. He grew up on Cheat Mountain over in WV, so he knew a little about snow. Oh yeah, he was about 85 years old at the time.
