Just wanted to share a quick trip report with all my friends out there. As I am sure most of you have seen I built these really cool big shooting houses/deer stands this year. Saturday morning I got into one of them about 5:45 AM which was well before daylight and I was sitting there waiting for the woods to come to life. I was sitting there with my head down and my eyes closed having a zen moment and just focusing on all the sounds of the woods. I could hear the squirrels moving around the birds starting to come to life and them my zen moment was interrupted by a loud crash into my stand. Startled I opened my eyes to find a ginormous and very irate owl tangled up in the burlap curtains just mere inches from my face. I swear all I could see were wings, talons and a pair of menacing yellow eyes. So there we were the owl flailing away on the window seal of my blind and me cowering in the corner opposite of him. I was trying to figure out how I was going to get out the door and down the ladder without breaking my neck if he made it in. After what seemed like an eternity but in all actuality was probably 60 seconds he untangled himself and flew off leaving me alone in my recently moistened fleece pants.