Weekend with my Dad when he shot a two dove with one shot, one handed.

Squirrel hunting with my 5 month old strapped to my chest. Didn't harvest any meat, but I amde a great memory for me.

Same hunt we had a staring contest with a rather upset bobcat...

One time I shot a spike.

Deer hunting with my daughter

DID I WIN?!?! AM I THE WINNER!??!?!?!

Fly fishing the White River in AR. Took one step too far and waders filled up and went for a cold ride...

The very first time my dad took me deer hunting. A bobcat walked within 15 yards of us. I've never seen another one on our place since and I've never had a reason to shoot one. Beautiful creatures.

Wife and I were in the blind, see this animal come along the treeline 100 yards away, it proceeds to make a beeline straight for the blind. It moved so fast we couldn't even see what it was, and we were concerned it planned to climb into the blind with us, so I peak out only to see a fox taking a wizz on the blind, it finished and then beelines back into the treeline it came out of.

Catching and releasing my first Blue Marlin.

Went to Hawaii for the 1st time. 3rd and last day of fishing out of Kona. Getting late in the day and still looking for my Blue. Finally the reel starts screaming. Get in the chair and hook into the harness. The fight lasted 1.5 hrs. The blue just wanted to stay deep. Finally get it to the boat, and it ends up being and estimated 800-850 big blue marlin. Took pictures, tagged it, and watched her swim off back into the deep blue Waters of Hawaii.

Spending 2 weeks chasing woodland caribou and moose around the swamp-like terrain in Newfoundland.

Who won?

chiken said:

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DID I WIN?!?! AM I THE WINNER!??!?!?!

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Winner winner, are you for dinner?

Fishing w my grandad at PK. Early morning (it's cold)and we're the only people I can see on the lake.

Came around the state park headed towards Hell's Gate and I saw a guy running on a really rocky bank and waving at me.

I waved back and didn't think anything more about it. Grandad never saw him.

After we finished fishing we were coming back there was a large contingent of boats where I saw the guy. We slowed down and went over and it turns out this guy and his buddy had been stranded there all night after their boat wouldn't start. Everything turned out OK.

I've always felt bad that I didn't have us investigate more but since I was only 8 I can't feel too bad about it. And I'm sure we would have been in the Plainview Daily Herald as rescuers.


Beach

Alaskan Salmon fishing and the look on my wife's face when the guide took out a "Billy club" to help the fish "go to sleep" on the boat after she caught it.

Did I miss the deadline?

Or shall I mention the first fish I caught using my Mickey Mouse fishing pole?

My dad went to the hospital the night of my wedding for an emergency transplant. The first time we got to hunt together after that, he was doing much better but it was clear our dynamic was going to change.

We saw five really old bucks that we'd never seen on camera before. But in each of them, we could see the genetic traits that our current crop of bucks show. It was an amazing thing to see all of those old deer that would have each been trophies on our place. We didn't shoot a single one and instead just enjoyed the evening hunt together, whispering about the deer improvement over the prior decade.

I'm sure hunting and fishing with my kids will soon fill my memory but I hope this one doesn't fade.

we may never know.......maybe they were picking the winner in 2020!!

Boom. I'm the winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS!!!

Give you $100 for it.

$101

24 years ago I took my then 5 yr old son out deer hunting in N. Minnesota. We walked through our 800' of Cedar swamp. He had a BB gun. Stopped every once in a while to rattle using antlers Grandpa had found. Game Warden stopped us and made a big show of examining sons BB gun & having him talk about it. Checked my license & hoped we got a big one. Well done by the Warden. Son is back in school to finish his last 6 math credits for an A&M degree in history.