Getting ready for Dakota Trip and Bow Season.

I've been doing quite a bit to get ready for the North Dakota Mule Deer trip and for bow season here in Michigan. Only one month before Dakota!
I've been shooting the Bow Madness. Its pretty accurate, but noisy. I am going tomorrow to get some Limbsaver String Leeches put on to hopefully quiet it down. I am hitting 5" pie plates at 40 yards regularly but not super tight groups yet.
I have been taking inventory of everything I am taking as well. I layed out everything on my parents' pool table to take full inventory.

I had two game cameras out but only one worked. I had a stump licker block out in front of one but it doesn't seem like the deer like it at all. Its been really hot out and it looks weird now like a block of ashes with no molasses left. I got two pics by the stump licker but I think the deer just happened to be walking by. One doe and one probably two year old six point.

I set up my new tent to get acquainted with it. It went up fast and seemed to be pretty roomy for a one man tent. I couldn't be happier with it. I tried to sleep in it but it was just too hot.

The deer should be nice and fat this year. The wheat just got taken off the fields around where I hunt in Croswell. There is still corn and beans up. Not to mention the raspberries, blackberries, pears and apples on our property. Most of the apple trees are so full they can hardly support their own branches.

I saw these weird little apples with orange things attached. Must be some kind of insect eggs. Kind of cool looking.

Probably going out for some St. Clair River walleye this weekend I will report back with any success.

One last thing. Lost my best friend about a week ago. RIP Slim. I will miss you every time I hit the woods or walk a field.