I didn't get a late start, but I am pretty superstitious about a couple things ( not lucky item related)
One. My hunting partner is a packaday + smoker. We hunt in an area that on average, doesn't have a single human walk through it but once or twice a year between seasons. I've had VERY serious discussions with him about his smoking. And I put a stop to him smoking in the truck on the way to the woods.
But he is forever lighting up on the way in and while in the stand. I can always find him in the early morning, he looks like glowing red beacon. My stand was over 150 yards from his this year, and
I could smell the smoke as soon as he lit up. He swears that not only does it not bother deer, it attracts them
In the two years I've hunted these woods with him, I've only had a shot on one. and haven't seen many more.
He shot one last year, and yelled out "See! I shot it with a lit smoke in mey mouth!" It was a very young doe, (100# on the hoof
maybe?) and from the way it acted winding in....dumb. It was the only deer seen in the woods the whole season.
TWO
Same guy. ALWAYS drags his deer to the power line right of way that runs smack dab through the middle of the property, backs his truck up there...and guts them leaving the gut pile right out in the open. I'm superstitious about this and believe it should always be buried. BOTH times he's done that it has been 1st or 2nd week of firearms. Not another single deer seen the rest of the seasons.
Am I crazy?