Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Deer season

Greg, your wife figured us out!!! smart gal

also, my wife and i were in Lamaz class with a couple who got pregnant after 13 years of trying, without fancy intervention!!! it was really neat to see their excitement. i hope someday you get to experience the joy as we have. of course, if you really want to experience it thru our stories, come up here and stay with us sometime. you can get up and change her a few times at night, now we're talkin' !!!! no, really, it's worth it. hang in there. i'll also send you some buck pics soon, and baby pics of course!! mark

he he he How well I remember those nights!! Enjoy, Gentlemen, enjoy! Too soon these will be "the days that are no more".

Greg, did anyone ever talk to you about the complications caused by wading around in cold, crotch deep water? Just kidding. Actually, I don't think I ever did any good when I/we tried to have a kid. Quit trying and I can be contagious immediately.

My wife likes for me to wade in cold water it is supposed to help I hear you, too much pressure but the wife even though 35 thinks she is 45. It will happen soon and thanks for you thoughts.

dave, greg, dudley, ... i love those posts...my wife catches me laughing, and just can't understand why!!! in all seriousness, greg, who knows what will happen. i would like to mention, that i have an adopted brother. i was the fourth child. then my parents adopted mike, or to us, little "mIk E!!!" we adopted him from birth. he is a CPA. doing great. we are all dark skinned, and mike is red headed and freckle faced. in all of our summer pictures, we are really dark; mike has all of his zinc oxide and sunscreen all over his body.. like an oreo cookie!!! we are all aggressive, anal retentive, type A personalities, probably stroke out by the age of 40. mike: type B, laid back, nothing bothers him, a reader, very intelligent, probably live to a hundred!!! we are Brothers, and no questions asked. although i am 5 feet and 8.22266644 inches tall, and he is 6 feet 1 inch and red headed, he is still my "little" brother. adoption is an option; i'm glad my parents adopted my brother; life wouldn't be the same without him. mark

p.s. another funny story... a few years ago, mike couldn't understand what the big fuss was about "buck fever" then i put him in my primo stand. a huge buck came near him, he aimed to shoot; but was so excited (buck fever) he didn't have the 30-06 seated on his shoulder correctly, and when he fired, the scope busted his face!!! i heard a shot, went to see him and his face was all bloody!! i said, "what the heck happened to ya little buddy (big buddy!), and he said..."well, i know what buck fever is now!!" Was a great day. mark

oh, and p.s. dave, what exactly do you mean by..."contagious"!!!! ha; oh, and well you send svoberts (shawn) that email you sent me about "pardner". that meant a lot to me, and i think he would enjoy it too since he is about to be a new father. mark

Mark, I'll post it here under a new thread. "Outdoor Kids." Maybe others will chime in about their own kids, grandkids or outdoor memories from looking through their rear view mirror.

Headin'out to Missouri in the morning. We leased some land and I will go by and spent sometime with Sahun Banks as well. WIsh me luck! And I will post pics of I stick one of these MO monsters.

BTW Duggan did you join Georgia Outdoor Network, yet? I helped with their banquet for our district last night. We raised a good bit of money to help local kids get into hunting and fishing. ALso you qualitfy for a Truck for best buck and only compete with folks in your district but can kill it anywhere in the state. IN my district no one has submitted a deer. A spike could win if this keeps up. If the big boy does not show by late NOv. I might have to shot the 100" 8pt I kept letting walk.

It was the best of hunts, it was the worst of hunts.... My father in law and I went deer hunting TOGETHER last weekend (third time in as many years). The first time he took me to his "Trophy" lease was about two months before I proposed to his daughter, the other time was just a week prior to this hunt. Anyway, we hunt out of an elevated plywood blind, overlooking an old dry lakebed full of rutting deer. Finally, about 6:30 (last shooting light at 7:15) we saw the gnarly old buck we were looking for. Thick mainbeam right side with 6-7 points typical, left side was a tall fork with about a 10 inch browtine/third antler. I managed to call it in from over 200 yards away with my M.A.D. Grunt/Snort/Wheeze call to about 80 yards, but the booger stood straight at us and started to smell us. We counted down and took ugly brisket shots at the same time. Saw it run off over a half a mile across the wheatfield, never really slowing down.
The best part was the story we have to tell and the time we spent together. We got some decent video of the deer and had a great "bonding" time. Worst part is we never found the deer. After looking for 5 hours the next day, we found one single drop of blood over a half a mile away when he jumped another fence. Evidence at the place where he was standing showed a small strip of skin and hair, probably where we grazed him. Lesson learned. Countdowns to a simultaneous shot leads to jerked triggers and misses, head on shots are bad shots and leave little margin for error. Still glad I got the chance to hang out with "Jimbo."