On Saturday, my guest and I saw exactly 7 hunters in the GPA north of the house. Yesterday on my way up to MT I saw none until I got to Aberdeen.
I spoke with a nu8mber of them while waiting for breakfast at the IHOP. No one was happy.
Between the rain and the standing corn, all were disillusioned. We now have had near 7 inches of rain over the last 10 days and more coming. The corn is still in the fields all the way to Jamestown and with this rain, I just don't see it coming out before the middle of November.
Some hunters I visited with while refueling in Allendale ND told similar tales of woe to those in Aberdeen.
One youngster who was rather vocal about the state screwing him by selling him a license on line when the state knew the crops were still up looked as if he wanted to punch my headlights out when I told him he should have at the least checked the weather around here the last few days before driving west and if he used a little imaginnation, could have called ahead any number of places to geet a local report on ctop conditions. Places like this Cenex station we were standing in.
He noted that I wasn't very simpathatic. I bit my tongue to keep from telling him that sympathy doesn't fix stupid.
