The Eternal Flame - Keep it Burning

[Tmag]

I've been chasing a blackbuck for way too long. He has been dancing all around me all weekend.
Send me some luck that I get his this morning before I lose my mind!!!

The prize is your goal Hillary, stay with it gal!

[Hillary]

The prize is your goal Hillary, stay with it gal!

You are my good luck charm. Just connected. Stay tuned!!

[Bill M]

Good luck Hillary!

My mom would have celebrated her 79th birthday today. This is the first one without her. Sure miss her.

[Bill]

I hunted the Delevan refuge in northern Cali yesterday. We shot a mixed bag, but the fellow who had a reservation for Saturday is a young man (20) I met at the archery club years ago and I took for his last junior hunt 5 years ago. He got married in July and his wife is a sweetheart, and shot her first duck.

They were burning ag land south of the refuge (I assume a rice field) and this was the first time I've hunted ducks with smoke blowing north into our pond. We hoped it would push all the birds out of the closed zone inbetween the fire and our pond, but no.

My cell phone camera does not capture the colors, and the sun was absolutely golden color through the smoke.

[Texas Grown]

Good luck on the recovery Hillary.


I've got 15 Bean & 3 Pepper Soup with sausage and fix-ns, in the slow cooker today. Home grown: hand full of red and green chilis, hand full of red and green japs, and 3 orange hobanero. Going over some brown steemed rice when it gets done.

[Tmag]

You are my good luck charm. Just connected. Stay tuned!!

That was quick. Congrats.

[Bill]

I found out I'll be a Grandpa in May! Baby is going to be born in rural Montana where my son lives.

If it's a boy, they're naming him William and calling him Willie.

I can't wait to retire, be there and hunt and fish.

[Patton]

Previously I asked for prayers for my friend Zack who was involved in a crash on his motorcycle when he hit a patch of gravel in September. I wanted to say thanks for the prayers, and that Zack is going to finally get to leave the hospital this Saturday.

[Bill]

Previously I asked for prayers for my friend Zack who was involved in a crash on his motorcycle when he hit a patch of gravel in September. I wanted to say thanks for the prayers, and that Zack is going to finally get to leave the hospital this Saturday.

That's good news, what is I think it's called prognosis? How's he doing?

[Briar Friar]

Previously I asked for prayers for my friend Zack who was involved in a crash on his motorcycle when he hit a patch of gravel in September. I wanted to say thanks for the prayers, and that Zack is going to finally get to leave the hospital this Saturday.

Awesome for Zack!

Congrats Bill!

Hillary ever bag that buck?

I harvested a 9pt WT this morning.

[Tmag]

Congrats Bill, grandkids are the greatest!

Thanks for the update Patton, glad he is home.

Congrats on the 9 pt Friar.

Looking forward to the gun opener this Saturday and hoping the rain doesn't turn it into a mud bath.

[Tmag]

First day to hunt this season. Looking forward to some time in the stand.

[Tmag]

First day was a bomb with all the rain that wasn't suppose to hit our place came with a full blown deluge. Blew rain into the stand from 2 sides and put me in the back corner trying to stay dry and warm. Top that off with a camera that is giving me fits not taking pics and driving me nuts over what the problem is.
Went back yesterday evening and got in the stand late and about 20 minutes before dark little buck with some long horns steps out. He's been on my camera before it messed up so I know he's got a couple small points down low that keep him safe this year. He's looking off to my right pretty hard so I look out the side window and there's his girlfriend easing down the treeline. I watch them dine on food plot and corn til I can't see no more and give them another 15 minutes, then slip out of my stand and ease back to the truck.
After they left I eased down and reset my camera and put a different card in with hopes it will start working properly. Will go back and check it in a couple days to see if it's back on track, and pull it and carry it home if not.

[Tmag]

One of those you'd rather be hunting.

[Briar Friar]

My hunting partner asked me to go to Granger WMA and go hog hunting with him so he could give a Mexican Family a hog for tamales. Apparently they cut down a dead tree for him while trimming theirs. (My hunting buddy is an effective killer/hunter, however he gives me all his meat). I told him..."dont go kill another critter, just come get a quarter of your mouflon or a quarter of your Granger hog from my freezer and give it to them."

He said, "Ive got the itch for Del Rio doe." I said, "Well my itch was pretty well scratched when I bagged a 9 point and processed over 96 pounds of meat."

I had to impress upon him..."the sooner you help me clear up my freezer....the sooner I have a reason to go hunt more meat".