10-16,17&18-2015

10-16,17&18-2015, myself and Jeremy and his two boys Ian and Colton.
Weather: Beautiful, sunny with highs in the 50’s and 60’s and cool at night with lows in the lower to mid twenties.
Location: Douglass County, Wisconsin at the hunting shack
Bagged: Me: 1 grouse and 1 mouse, Colton: 1 pine squirrel
It was a weekend up to the cabin with Jeremy and his boys Ian and Colton. It was not a serious hunting trip; it was more or less just a chance to get away.
Mice have been numerous at the cabin this year. The little bastards even chewed a hole into the tote in which I keep my sleeping bag and pillow. The ungrateful vermin chewed a hole in both the sleeping bad and pillow and left a stash of acorns sprinkled on top of them. At least they didn’t chew my hair as I was sleeping like they did another year.
We did a little hunting and four wheeling, but nothing major on either activity. I did show the boys how to make fire with a bow and spindle and Colton was all over that. In, fact that is about all he wanted to do during a good portion of the day on Saturday. He never was able to develop a coal but he did put plenty of effort into it. Colton did shoot a pine squirrel on Saturday and I told him since he killed the animal we had to eat it. We all tried it except Ian; he just could not do it. It was good; it tasted like grilled meat and a lot less chewy than gray or fox squirrel. I also fried up the grouse for them to try and all of us liked that. I also grilled them bunny burgers on Saturday night and they all thought that was very good!
It appears there has been plenty of moisture up at the cabin this year. There also appears to be plenty of grouse and acorns, and it looks as if the deer numbers area probably higher than last year. The bears raised hell with our bait barrels this year, they got into and emptied several of them and destroyed one of the hard rubber ones.