After last year’s short and hardly huntable turkey season I had hopes for this year. Everyone was confident cases would be dropping like a rock in April and May so things would be safe this year. Of course Washington and Oregon are still on the increase having fourth waves but at least I’m fully vaccinated as of last Saturday so I went ahead and had my trip that I had booked with Joe for last season. Even with the vaccine I had trepidation about the trip. The counties over here are the fifth worst in the nation for new COVID cases at the moment, I hadn’t shot anything in six months and I hadn’t been out using my shotgun since last fall when Lira got hurt. I did manage to get to the range and zero in my Fastfire red dot but still felt a lot of concern that I’d end up missing or wounding a bird. The whole thing tied me up in knots to the point where I was debating just stopping hunting altogether so I sort of needed today.