The last few days the weather has been less than nice. Last weekend finished up the fall trial season for me, at the Grand Valley Field Trial Club's fall trial at Ionia. On Saturday Casper got first in the open horseback derby, and on Sunday Freddy got 2nd in the walking derby, while his dad, Elvis, got 1st in the walking shooting dog. I got out during the week and got Freddy and Coco into what I think were some of the last woodcock coming through, and also a few grouse. That pretty much wrapped up my grind time on the dogs, as I switched over to deer hunting for the next few weeks. I do hope to get out this week a couple of times yet with the dogs for one last hurrah. Last Friday, November the 7th, I shot this nice seven point with my bow at about 5:45 pm. I heard a bunch of deer coming so I got ready, and about seven does went behind me, as I was about fifteen yards inside the woods in a tree, which was facing a field with a ditch on the edge of the woods. A few seconds later, three does came in front of me with this guy following them. As he was going to pass in front of me coming from about nine o'clock, I drew back and waited, and when he got to about ten o'clock, he stopped broadside, rite behind a group of trees. So there I stood, with him looking around and sniffing, and me waiting. Eventually about five minutes later, he took a couple more steps which didn't allow for a good shot. Then a few minutes later he walked out in front of me providing a nice quartering away shot, which I double lunged him, as he took off out of the woods and across the alfalfa field, were he managed to make it a couple hundred yards. It was a great hunt and nice bow harvest.