Look forward to it every year!
08-12-2006, 05:06 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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Look forward to it every year!
Beautiful summer day, cold beer, strap over an open fire. Love seeing the kids enjoy the meal and remembering the hunts that gave us the main course, thinking about the hunts to come.
People ask why I hunt, I wish I could take them inside me so they could understand why. It's days like today I would show them. They wouldn't be able to speak but an expression of understanding would come to their face and they would smile as if to say, I understand now.
The six year old is calling me, my little gingersnap. "Come on daddy, time to make somemores". Just one of those days that makes meadmit, I couldn't ask for more.
People ask why I hunt, I wish I could take them inside me so they could understand why. It's days like today I would show them. They wouldn't be able to speak but an expression of understanding would come to their face and they would smile as if to say, I understand now.
The six year old is calling me, my little gingersnap. "Come on daddy, time to make somemores". Just one of those days that makes meadmit, I couldn't ask for more.
08-12-2006, 05:08 PM
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RE: Look forward to it every year!
ATTA BOY, nodog!!! That, right there, is what it's all about. In fact, we did much the same thing today. My son's b-day, so we bbq'd and shot bows most of the day. Don't get much better!
Glad you had a super day, and hope you have many, many more!!
Glad you had a super day, and hope you have many, many more!!
08-12-2006, 05:11 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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RE: Look forward to it every year!
It was one of those most beautiful days, in fact I too enjoyed much the same thing only without the children....I had the new puppy tho.....Really enjoyed the day, even tinkered with the new Bowtech making tweeks here and there on a pefectly tuned shooting machine...I just can't stop tinkering..lol
08-13-2006, 08:25 AM
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RE: Look forward to it every year!
We'd like to never stop having them Anthony, but age creeps up fast (we couldn't have kids for a long time and then the dam broke.
) Looking forward to grand kids.
Puppy's
It's is a great deal what it's all about Mo. Left overs with fresh eggs aint far behind.When I'm gone from home for a while, on stand from dark to dark, freezing, I think of these days.
This strap came from some deer taken on a hunt in Va. with my brother who lives there.It was a great time. He had scouted out the place and picked some dandy spots. We ended the hunt next to each other and I saw the master picka 9 pointer apart. What a rush that was.We have more hunts planed for this year that are filled with great expectations.
) Looking forward to grand kids. Puppy's
It's is a great deal what it's all about Mo. Left overs with fresh eggs aint far behind.
When I'm gone from home for a while, on stand from dark to dark, freezing, I think of these days.This strap came from some deer taken on a hunt in Va. with my brother who lives there.It was a great time. He had scouted out the place and picked some dandy spots. We ended the hunt next to each other and I saw the master picka 9 pointer apart. What a rush that was.We have more hunts planed for this year that are filled with great expectations.
08-13-2006, 08:42 AM
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RE: Look forward to it every year!
ORIGINAL: nodog
Beautiful summer day, cold beer, strap over an open fire. Love seeing the kids enjoy the meal and remembering the hunts that gave us the main course, thinking about the hunts to come.
People ask why I hunt, I wish I could take them inside me so they could understand why. It's days like today I would show them. They wouldn't be able to speak but an expression of understanding would come to their face and they would smile as if to say, I understand now.
The six year old is calling me, my little gingersnap. "Come on daddy, time to make somemores". Just one of those days that makes meadmit, I couldn't ask for more.
Beautiful summer day, cold beer, strap over an open fire. Love seeing the kids enjoy the meal and remembering the hunts that gave us the main course, thinking about the hunts to come.
People ask why I hunt, I wish I could take them inside me so they could understand why. It's days like today I would show them. They wouldn't be able to speak but an expression of understanding would come to their face and they would smile as if to say, I understand now.
The six year old is calling me, my little gingersnap. "Come on daddy, time to make somemores". Just one of those days that makes meadmit, I couldn't ask for more.
What a GREAT post.
I feel the exact same way..........I wish more people understood that. If they did they would never ask me why I hunt.
I get more joy and satisfaction from a single day like you mentioned then I would from a lifetime of staring at antlers on the wall.
08-13-2006, 10:28 AM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Look forward to it every year!
What parts of Va. do you hunt man? I am in smyth Co. I usually hunt some good private land and sometimes hunt Pine Mountain, and Brushy Mountain, which are national forest. Theres some awesome hunting in Va. if you can get apart from the hunting pressure. I look for Va. hunting to get better by the year.
08-14-2006, 08:36 AM
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RE: Look forward to it every year!
This is a great post.....
I heard a gentleman from "across the pond", last year.....when he was on a red stag hunt explain it better than I'd ever heard it explained.....when the interviewer asked him "why do you hunt?".
He said...(and I'll paraphrase)...that he would rather think....why DON'T people hunt. It has been, since the beginning of time, aningrained in man. It's something we've done....to survive.....and it's a primal instinct that he sees falling by the wayside.
I know I'd feel like LESS of a man if I couldn't recall the experiences I'vebeen blessed to live.....and I have NO WAY of expressing how much they mean to me. They're part of me. I have never felt more spiritual than when I'm in God's back yard....or on his "pond". If I could wish one thing for my son......it would be that he will tell me, someday, .......that he "gets it".THAT will be a great day!
Again.....GREAT post!
Jeff
I heard a gentleman from "across the pond", last year.....when he was on a red stag hunt explain it better than I'd ever heard it explained.....when the interviewer asked him "why do you hunt?".
He said...(and I'll paraphrase)...that he would rather think....why DON'T people hunt. It has been, since the beginning of time, aningrained in man. It's something we've done....to survive.....and it's a primal instinct that he sees falling by the wayside.
I know I'd feel like LESS of a man if I couldn't recall the experiences I'vebeen blessed to live.....and I have NO WAY of expressing how much they mean to me. They're part of me. I have never felt more spiritual than when I'm in God's back yard....or on his "pond". If I could wish one thing for my son......it would be that he will tell me, someday, .......that he "gets it".THAT will be a great day!
Again.....GREAT post!
Jeff