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pokey, I don' t want this to come across as any sort of advertisement for my establishment, but there is an abundance of hunting and fishing opportunities here in the Virginia Highlands.

I' m ex-Navy. Many of my friends are still either stationed or retired in the Va. beach area, Portsmouth, and Norfolk.

It' s a little bit of a drive, but for muzzleloading and rifle seasons it' s kinda like a " ships party" around here...From e nothings all the way to master chiefs...You sound like you would fit right in.

Look at a map sometime, Hot Springs is all the way to the left of the state, almost in West Virginia. It' s pretty much in the middle of the George Washington national forest.

It probably would' nt be a big deal to introduce you to a couple of guys in the beach area to talk to, and maybe car-pool the first time or two untill you kind of get the " lay of the land" so-to-speak.

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pokey, it' s not a hunt club or anything. I own a motel here in the forest, and it has kind of just grown into an annual event.

We hunt the National forest, But we tend to hunt pretty deep into it off the service roads, so it' s a rare occasion that I see someone else...The exception to that being on an occasional saturday " doe" day. I tend to not hunt the weekends anyway, because of that very reason.

It takes about five hours to get here from the beach, six if the traffic is bad or you get hung up behind a logging truck.

Typically, we might hunt monday through thursday, then drink a lot of beer on friday.

I have a few cleaning stations out back, so it' s not a big deal to skin and quarter whatever you kill, then either freeze it, or soak it for a day or two. either way, your meat won' t go bad.

There is nothing formal about it, in fact, it seems to be a constant rotation of faces due to ships movement ect. It' s just some guys getting together to tell lies and shoot wild animals.

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