Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Day Four - Part Two
After dinner, Mindy, Clarence and I decided to go back and do some night hunting. Lots of the "hard core" guys who come here, stay out until 9 or 10 or later and hunt with headlights. We wanted to experience a little of that, too. Don and Marilynn, being the sensible type, stayed home to relax. The three of us stopped to do some grocery shopping and replenish the beer supply, then returned to the same field we were on earlier in the day. It was different hunting at night, very quiet and peaceful. The floodlights on the buildings turned off at 10pm leaving us in pitch black. I quickly learned how disorienting it can be in the total darkness. I would stop to dig a target and then had no sense of which direction I was walking. If the others were looking down, digging a target, I couldn't see their headlights and didn't know where anyone was. I had a sense of what it must be like to be lost in the woods. No wonder they tell you to stop and "hug a tree" until daylight. The bugs, and there were lots of them, flew into the light which was on my forehead. Bugs were everywhere and all flying at my face. Mindy and Clarence found more greenies and buttons. I lucked out, finding a nice 1809 Russian bale seal and a lead Boy Bishop Token. None of us wanted to leave but we had another long day coming in just a few hours.
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