OPENING DAY. IT’S a day when anything can happen. I was hoping, if for only a brief moment at sunrise, that this season could be better than last year’s.

That was a complete waste of time. There could be many reasons, like the moon, no rain or too much rain.

It turns out deer hunters have as many excuses for failure as fishermen. Sometimes they even use the same excuses like “The sun was in my eyes.”

I began compiling a list of hunting and fishing excuses as a service to my fellow sportsmen.

I used to hunt for deer high in the Olympic Mountains. The only hard part was packing them out. That seemed to get tougher every year.

I found out why.

As you read this, massive tectonic plates are colliding deep beneath the Earth’s crust, causing the Olympic Mountains to soar higher every year.

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