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Case: Fall hunting seasons will sneak up on you if you let them

Staff Photo by Tim Barber / A deer decoy dressed in safety orange sits atop a tree stump near a wellhouse in view of U.S. Highway 11 just south of Wildwood, Ga., in October 2014. Although the heat of August remains and summer still has weeks remaining on the calendar, hunters shouldn't tarry in preparing for their fall game seasons, writes outdoors columnist Larry Case.
Staff Photo by Tim Barber / A deer decoy dressed in safety orange sits atop a tree stump near a wellhouse in view of U.S. Highway 11 just south of Wildwood, Ga., in October 2014. Although the heat of August remains and summer still has weeks remaining on the calendar, hunters shouldn't tarry in preparing for their fall game seasons, writes outdoors columnist Larry Case. Staff Photo by Tim Barber / A deer decoy dressed in safety orange sits atop a tree stump near a wellhouse in view of U.S. Highway 11 just south of Wildwood, Ga., in October 2014. Although the heat of August remains and summer still has weeks remaining on the calendar, hunters shouldn't tarry in preparing for their fall game seasons, writes outdoors columnist Larry Case.

By Larry Case 5 min read

You can’t imagine my surprise the other day when someone said summer was almost over.

Over? Really? I mean, it just started yesterday.

The other day, one of my shotgun buddies at a gun company asked me if I had any big hunting trips lined up for this fall.

“Well, it’s a little early for that, don’t you think? We just got done with spring gobbler season,” I said.

“Larry, that was three months ago – next week is September,” he responded.