The day after filling my tag last year I couldn't wait to do it all again this year.
Between reading online, reading magazines, running trail cameras & scounting I put literally hundreds of hours into this season.
I've logged quite a few hours in the stand the last week and I've noticed that my back was starting to get a little 'achy'. Yesterday when I was walking out I started feeling it a little more and by the time I was half way thru the afternoon at work it had officially seized up and now I'm out of commission.
As you can probably tell from my tone, I'm pretty demoralized. Not just becuase I'm laid up in the middle of the rut, but I've historically had a bad back and I've tried to do everything I can to keep it from getting hurt again. The last year I've been religious about doing perscribed excercises, I get up at 5:15 five times a week and walk on the treadmill and I've lost 25 pounds (I now weigh 165, so it's not like I was huge before). I was just telling my wife a few weeks ago that I felt better than I ever have in my adult life and I felt like I was 18 again.
Possibly the worst part of it is, I think that the combination of sitting all those hours in the stand and walking in & out in the dark on uneven ground is what led to this.
Even though I've had a few low points in the season (wounded a big one during early muzzy that thankfully lived and moved when I shouldn't have and got busted by a good one the other day) I am fortunate to have spent the time that I did in the stand & I've learned some things that I can take with me to seasons down the road.
Maybe I'll get it healed up enough before the orange army is unleashed that I can get out another time or two, but in the meantime, I'm going to have to live vicariously thru you guys so keep those harvest reports & pics coming!!!
Give 'em hell & be safe!
Between reading online, reading magazines, running trail cameras & scounting I put literally hundreds of hours into this season.
I've logged quite a few hours in the stand the last week and I've noticed that my back was starting to get a little 'achy'. Yesterday when I was walking out I started feeling it a little more and by the time I was half way thru the afternoon at work it had officially seized up and now I'm out of commission.
As you can probably tell from my tone, I'm pretty demoralized. Not just becuase I'm laid up in the middle of the rut, but I've historically had a bad back and I've tried to do everything I can to keep it from getting hurt again. The last year I've been religious about doing perscribed excercises, I get up at 5:15 five times a week and walk on the treadmill and I've lost 25 pounds (I now weigh 165, so it's not like I was huge before). I was just telling my wife a few weeks ago that I felt better than I ever have in my adult life and I felt like I was 18 again.
Possibly the worst part of it is, I think that the combination of sitting all those hours in the stand and walking in & out in the dark on uneven ground is what led to this.
Even though I've had a few low points in the season (wounded a big one during early muzzy that thankfully lived and moved when I shouldn't have and got busted by a good one the other day) I am fortunate to have spent the time that I did in the stand & I've learned some things that I can take with me to seasons down the road.
Maybe I'll get it healed up enough before the orange army is unleashed that I can get out another time or two, but in the meantime, I'm going to have to live vicariously thru you guys so keep those harvest reports & pics coming!!!
Give 'em hell & be safe!
