thanx guys....im pretty sure dad...you all...magazines ect taught me enough to do it.....and im one of the safer people ive seen in the woods and know thats the #1 thing when were all out there...i couldnt live knowing i killed someones dad or brother or whoever....i talked to the one kid i know that i would hunt with and he was going alone too...but now i think were just going to go together and split up...so i will still be alone..but not with my pressuered gobblers....to a whole set of new woods ive never hunted..just 4 wheeled through...but thats ok...i just wanna make one gobble! lol..my dad wasnt there for my first deer either...he had to work that day too..but his friend offered to take me being he was off and knew me pretty good and it was the last day of deer season and he loves taking people hunting....he made me promise id share the excitment of that day with my dad...and this year in deer season we did...we had a blast together..i was tagged out by 930am opening moring...we seen tons of deer..had 3 down by 930...what a day to remember...we took a whole roll of film that day..i love having pics...im taking my camera turkey hunting and hanging my bird from a limb(yes from a limb..the spurs are going to be that long! lol)..and seting my calls and my gun in the pic....i will let you all know how it goes...i wil lbe hunting alone most of the time this season..i jsut got my first real job...dad picked up another job for when hes bored and not doing anything...so there goes our trips to the mountains...kinda hard to work around 3 job schedules...i cant wait....good luck to you york...