Hi guys, this is Marge. John spent another week in the hospital up in Tuscon but is home now. His condition is ?, he has some really good days as if nothing is wrong or ever has been then there is the complete opposite. The doctors all say that he is in fairly good shape from what his earlier life was like. I wish I could tell you about some of his "adventures" but I know he wouldn't want me to. Suffice to say a Silver Star, three Bronze Stars and three Purple Hearts. When the kids ask him about his military service he always tells them, "it is not suitable for young ears" or "nobody should blow their own horn"
His deer season started last Friday and he has not been able to get out, not sure I would let him out. Depending on how he is I will probably take him out later today or tomorrow. His season ends this coming Saturday and I know it is bothering him that he hasn't been out. Other than the times his military duties took him outside the country he hasn't missed a deer season since he was twelve years old. Mandy, (who we gave our house to) wants to build a small place for us on the property so he could be back on the mountain and be closer to his two grandsons and of course her. He has spoiled her a bit!
We recently received a nice present from Dave and I want to thank him for that and a delay in our response saying Thank You Dave.
Please know that on the days that he doesn't get around to well I wheel him in here so that he can at least read what you guys are saying. He enjoys looking at the pictures and reading about the hunts, particularly the predator hunts - so I'm ordering you all to start posting pictures and stories about coyotes, fox, bobcat and anything else.
Finally I want to say thank you to all of you guys for making his day to day "adventures" a little more pleasant. May God Bless you one and all and keep you in the palm of His hands.
Marge
Tell him an old Marine said he was in his prayers. I pray the good days out number the bad ones.
Semper Fi
Johnny
Marge, thank you for the update, and thank you for taking care of John. Wish I could spell you off wheeling John around or taking him hunting, to let him be served after all of his service for us. Class comes through his posts, and yours.
I've been trying to get out after a lynx which has opened earlier this year so the cat season overlaps with the tail end of our deer season, but my bush vehicle is in the shop and my boss sprung some work on me, even though I'm partly retired.
Best of luck this week in your deer season.
.
Thanks for the update Marge, I know MR. John sure loves the outdoors from all his post and comments and it must be very frustrating for him to not get out when he wants to. Would be nice if we all lived a little closer so we could al take him out to hunt, I'm sure it would be a very pleasant experience. God Bless. cc
Best of luck to John on his hunt and hope he gets to feeling better,I am sure I speak for all here when I say he is in our prayers
Marge,
I sure hope you and John can make it out for a day on the mountain. I just got back from upstate here in Pennsylvania. It does the soul good to just get away to the outdoors no matter how fleeting the time.
Like Carl said, it would sure be nice if we all lived closer, so we could spend some time with John. But then you would get sick of us all constantly being around getting under foot. :laf:
Highlights of my hunt:
Saw a bear at 20 yards... Two days before the season started! :doh2:
Turkey hunting. I Saw a turkey land right in front of me as I was watching a deer..Unfortunately, he saw me and high tailed it out of there. :doh2:
Filled my buck tag early in the archery season.. So I was out doe hunting. Of course I see two bucks come strolling in single file. :laf: I did manage to fill one of my doe tags later in the morning.
Spent some quality time with the old gang at deer camp. On the drive home I realized I did not take a single picture? :doh2:
As always John & Marge, we will keep you in our prayers. I truly hope better days are ahead for you both. God Bless.
Dave
Marge, I thank you from Canada. Please tell John that I have thought of him many times and even planned on coming down to meet him. He is one of the guys I respect as a coyote hunter[amongst all the other things]. I'm sure glad he has someone like you to be there for him. Remember if you ever wanna see my part of Alberta, all you gotta do is get here as I'll look after the rest. I'll shoot a coyote tomorrow with a bullet i'll make tonight with John's initial on the base.
Barry
Marge and John P., it is obvious how many people here are pulling for you, praying for you. It is understandable how John P. likes to read the hunting stories and see the pictures. I hope we all keep plenty of stories coming for him to read.
Words cant say the pain i feel in my heart for someone ive never met! John is a very lucky man to have someone like you' and i hope he has many days left to spend doing what he loves!
But something tells me that even if he never gets to leave the house for the next 10 yrs he will still consider himself a lucky man. I wish i could meet him and listen to his storys , i am sure the fire in his eyes would make them seem like they just happend..
Take care of him and yourself were would he be with out you? Thank you for letting us know what is going on and i will try and send him a story or two. Untill the i will send up some prayers for you both.
John/Marge, here is the bullet with the J on it.[No room for JP on a .224 40gr]
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The boys[they got right into this project] and I screwed up 11 bullets getting this one so I hope it suffices. :wo:
I'll post a pic[maybe two] of the coyote it kills. Kinda/sorta glad I got a bull barrel as we may have expanded the dang thing a tiny mite. :doh2:
Thanks for the update Marge. Please tell John this old CW4 is praying he gets to feeling better soon and is able to get back to his mountains.
Pat
Marge... never have made the trip to meet up with you and John... had planned to and it fell through at the last minute, my buddy bailed on me... I really want to make the trip and soon... want to make it this year coming, hopefully around the 1st of March, right after our trapping season ends... got you, and 3 others in Arkansas and Texas to visit too... give him my best, I think about him often... Dale...
Welcome Marge and thanks so much for the update. I always used to wonder if angels really do exist. I'll wonder no more :nono:
They clearly DO...and John's got one in YOU :eyebrownod:
Tell him were definitely praying he pulls together and gets that deer hunt in too. I cant wait to hear the details :wink:
Marge,
Many, many thanks for the update. I know that a we all appreciate it and I am sure John is happy with your post as well.
As for hunting pictures from me - there are none. I have been able to work on a few woodworking projects for Christmas and might post a picture of one of them if they turn out O.K.
John you need to keep having more 'good' days so that you can get back outside and we can see some of your pictures.
Jerry
I'm sorry to hear that John has not been doing well. Prayers sent hoping he regains a measure of strength and comfort enabling him to get back up on top the mountain, and enjoy what he loves.
Please tell John he is in our prayers.
Well John we survived the day up here. :innocentwhistle: Started out by driving West of my house 1.23438 miles West and saw
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There are two moose in that pic. One cow and a calf.
We didn't get much further when
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another cow\calf pair were spotted. Then just before we pulled into a little burg to get gas we saw
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Be danged if we didn't see another cow/calf pair but this time the cow had an antler. :shrug: Only ever saw one like this before.in my life. :confused:
Then we went out in this field of bale grazing
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and tried a call with the old call that got this to happen :readthis:
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as we never saw anything but Ravens it was decided the call only works when the lakes ain't froze. :wo: :wo:
We spotted 3 of these which you had a wee mite more of a reserve on shooting than a true Canuck. :nofgr:
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we saw 6 elk, 11 moose, 60 some Muleys and one whacker WT that big George woulda loved to have seen. A porcupine that galloped a 1/4 mile in 4 hours, man was he givener. 3 flocks of sharp tailed grouse, 2 coveys of huns and one lonely Ruffy. :huh:
Upon arrival home I finally figured out why the coyotes had been so elusive as the buggers had already heard you were here and with your reputation they knew enough to just stand with paws up. :bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie:
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I guess it could be worse as we get to do it again. :yoyo:
Feel well and above all else.
Have fun :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
Barry
LOL! :laugh2: Someone yelled, "freeze you s.o.b."
Great to hear from you again, Barry. Tagging along on your hunting trips is always a hoot. I'll bet that brighten up John's day.
Quote from: pitw on December 03, 2014, 07:55:58 PM
John/Marge, here is the bullet with the J on it.[No room for JP on a .224 40gr]
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The boys[they got right into this project] and I screwed up 11 bullets getting this one so I hope it suffices. :wo:
I'll post a pic[maybe two] of the coyote it kills. Kinda/sorta glad I got a bull barrel as we may have expanded the dang thing a tiny mite. :doh2:
Barry,
That is the best idea and finest gesture that I've run across in years. Good for you! Loved the account of the first outing. Shoot straight, Straight Shooter.
Marge,
Thanks for updating us on John. Hopefully he'll soon feel well enough to continue his adventures and spoil those grandkids!
By the way, John, don't use too much of your imagination on that bear HnC was talking about.
It was about the size of a medium sized bobcat. :wink:
My family will keep you both in our prayers.
Well I see now that Marge had to pot up with a bit of nonsense in her life too. :highclap:
I was busier than [L] yesterday with murdering a bunch of birds for Christmas. It has been foggy here for the past bunch of days so that all our bush's look :biggrin:
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The wife sent me off to meet a person with this 30lber to get rid of for $100[I ain't told the story of being in a big box store that had turkeys on for $10 a bird but trust me that went well. Did you know that no one in that chain can tell you how long a bird has been dead amongst a host of other things and their only recourse is to ask you to leave there store when you start a near riot] and I obediently left. :wo:
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While driving over to the meet I heard a voice[Damb John was with me again] saying it's so beautiful out we should do at least one stand to see what happens. Of course when any one comes up with what seems like a good idea I gotta go along for the ride. So we bounced across a 1/2 mile of rough hay land to park the truck[leaving a cell phone behind as I had someone to chat with anyway] and walked through the crunchy snow to where we sat looking like a couple of abominable snow men. I blew on a small call cause we were drinking in the beauty of the day anyway. :biggrin: :biggrin:
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Almost instantly[like within 10 minutes] over the horizon to the South comes a blur that after another 10 minutes turns into a coyote coming straight in. We sat comfortably waiting :innocentwhistle:[you ever sat comfortably waiting while some feller from Arizona makes Neil Peart sound like a one stick drummer, with just his teeth?] The coyote came to the 175 yd mark and the J bullet went down the tube with a mighty BANG. :whew: The coyote started jumping around in circles and you could clearly see it had a front leg with serious problems :doh2: and before I could think or do anything, Bang goes again and the coyote lay still on the frozen snow. :bowingsmilie: I heard, "You can't leave a wounded animal to suffer" and that was that. :readthis:
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Looking back at the bush we had sat at.
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After getting the coyote loaded up I heard my cell phone beeping as I guess I had missed a couple calls from some crazy woman who seemed to think her time was worth more than ours. So I sped across the field onto the road and over to where the insane was to meet me. Now somehow that coyote managed to move around in that truck and pretty much had the turkey encircled by the time I got there and to say she wasn't amused would be like saying everybody loves Obama]. I wiped as much blood off the turkey bag as I could and got her money so I could enjoy my life. We got home all proud and everything to find one [P]'d off wife who apparently had talked to the insane woman too. So seeing as I was gonna spend the night on the couch alone :iroll:[as John had done that mysterious disappearing act so many do when she gets like that] I figured I'd at least spend it with a bronze
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You see bronze stands up to a beating much more than silver. :readthis: :readthis: :readthis:
Sure is funny how a couple guys out enjoying life can get in so damb much trouble without even trying ain't it. Thanks for all the stories and life John. :bowingsmilie:
Have a Merry Christmas.
Barry
Got er done! Good on you!
Here's quick little sequence that was kind of cool.
Was out archery hunting with Huntncarve (actually the evening he shot his buck).
Here's some eye candy of Dave's buck:
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Anyway, I was in my tree stand and probably 1-1/2 hours before last light I hear a little rustling on a trail behind me. Here comes a big coon (raccoon) all business-like with something on his mind. He passed by about 15 yards and briefly whiffed the wind as he passed, but my scent didn't concern him enough to turn back from where he was going. He disappeared under a big deadfall as I was now trying to follow him with my binoculars. He reappeared about 80 yards away climbing straight up a tall ash tree, still with a determined bit of urgency to his pace. I quickly shifted my binocs up the bole of the tree to try and see what he was after. Way up at the top the foliage appeared to be thicker. I watched him continue to climb until he was 80 to 90 feet up, and in his own private patch of wild grapes. He slowly moved around up there scarfing up everything he could get his paws on - reaching out, grabbing a cluster and devouring them before moving further out on thinning limbs. I tried taking a few pics of him and thought for sure his weight would be too much for the limbs to bear. He continued munching away until I lost focus when a poor, unfortunate button buck seemed to have lost his way. :eyebrow:
here you can just barely see the coon in the treetop that is centered in the pic.
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And here he is with my iPhone through a binocular.
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