Today my great friend David "Book" Bookout, and hands down the best turkey hunter I have ever been around, lost his short battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He was diagnosed exactly 1 week ago today. Life support was removed shortly ago, and he stepped across to whatever is on the other side. I hurt, but am at the same time at peace with it because everything that could have been done was done ... and if anyone could have fought this off long enough for aggressive treatment to start, Book could have. Come March 15, 2012 (Good Lord willing)... I'll be in the woods well before sun rise, standing in the roadway where he and I have started many a morning ... waiting in patiently in the tall pines and listening carefully for a morning gobble. And I'll be thinking of Book for sure. Dam&, I am going to miss him.

I'm sorry for your loss Mojo, that first morning back in the woods is gonna be a tough one but thats where he'd want you to be.

Sorry for your loss bud ...

Sorry for your loss, There is a special bond between huntin partners that only other hunters can understand.

May your time together sharing the great outdoors soul to soul warm your heart and put a smile on your face when you thoughts turn to him. Cherish friends now and you'll have no regrets later,GOD bless you and yours.

Sorry to hear you lost your bud. Something tells me that he'll be right there with you next spring when that first gobble of the season sounds off.

Real sorry for your loss.

Sorry to hear about the loss. I know how it can be extremely tough. I'm sure he would have wanted you to be out in the woods keeping his memory with you.

Yea lost my best friend a few years ago to brain cancer... Not a hunting season goes by that I dont think of him!!!


i feel for ya...

Sorry for your loss mojo- he sounds like a great man! Keep his memory alive and kill a big gobbler for him this spring!!!

Kim