Hello everyone. My name is Pat Lageman. I grew up in St. Louis, MO, joined theArmy after high school, spent 20 years as an Army helicopter pilot and retired at Ft. Campbell in 1995. I now live in Hopkinsville, KY and have worked for the city since I retired. I will be married to the same patient woman for 27 years in May and we have 24 year old twin sons.
I fish a little, backpack some and hang out at a place I have on the lake. I have hunted off and on since I was a kid, and am fortunate to have hunted moose in Alaska, prairie dogs in Colorado, roe deer in Germany and whitetails here in Kentucky.
I started hunting again last deer season after laying out for a few years. I am a novice coyote hunter. I went out for the first time on New Years day. I've been out several times since with no success but I'm having alot of fun. I'll be out again this weekend hoping to call in my first one.
I found this forum while reading about the LBL hunt on easterncoyotes.com. I live only about 45 minutes from the Wrangler campground at LBL and was hoping to come to this years hunt to learn from some experienced and successful coyote hunters how its properly done.
If its open to rookies and its not to late to get in, I'd like to come and meet some of you and maybe pick your brains a little. In any event I look forward to learning what I can from this and other sites.
Take care.
I tried to put this on the "Tell Us About You" tab, but I timed out before I posted it and had to do it all over. Seems like I messed it up. Sorry about that.
Welcome coyote101. I'm sure there will be plenty of room at the LBL!! I bet you won't have a hard time findin someone to help you out!
JD
Welcome to FnF, nice to meet ya.
Welcome aboard Pat.
There'll be plenty of people to hook up with for a hunt or just to visit with, at the LBL hunt. You'll enjoy it.
By the way...thanks for your time serving our country :wink:
Welcome aboard, Pat! My son is an Apache Longbow pilot in Iraq right now. He says its like flying a big video game. :nono:
Anyways, welcome, I'm about 70 miles from Fort Campbell. Look forward to seeing ya at the LBL.
Semp
Welcome to FnF Pat!! Bunch of good folks here that are willing to help!! One of the important things I thought I would mention here is that WE LIKE PICTURES!! :biggrin: :eyebrownod:
Welcome Pat. I am new to site myself, looking forward to meeting you at LBL.
Welcome to the forum, Pat. I know everyone who posts here will be glad to help you. Good hunting at ya! :highclap:
Welcome welcome welcome to the board !!! You have found a great place with a great group of people here at FnF. :congrats: I suggest you come on down to the LBL hunt and meet the gang and do some huntin. And by the way we are all novice coyote hunters....... You can never know everything about it :shrug:
:thumb2: :thumb2: for the service to our country........ :yoyo:
Welcome aboard Pat.
Welcome Pat! Drop in and see us at the LBL! There will be several guys there that will be glad to let you pick there brain.
Brent
Your more than welcome to join us at the LBL. It's all about helping out folks like youself who are just getting started and for us old farts to learn a new trick or two.
And thank you Pat for your dedication to our country. Jimmie
Welcome Pat, Thanks for your service to the good old USA, look forward to meeting you at the LBL.cc
Welcome to the greatest site on the web Pat. These guys are the greatest and have always been willing to help in any way they can.
We all thank you for your service to our country and look forward to hearing some hunting tales. :highclap: (W/ pics :biggrin:)
Welcome Pat see ya at the LBL
Thanks for the service to our country
welcome , ou came to the right place. not only will these people help you they care. i keep thinking of all the dumb questions i'v asked but somebody always answers. they dont seem to care that i cant type, spell or use good grammer. i guess they would be considered gentlemen.
Welcome! Glad to have ya.
and Thanks for the service.
Pat, ^^^^^ Ditto to what the guys have already said ^^^^^
Glad to have you on board, Sir.
Welcome Pat ! :congrats:
Jeb
Thanks for the warm welcome guys. Barring some unforeseen emergency I'll be at LBL next week, probably Thursday evening, and am really looking forward to meeting all of you.
See you then.
Welcome and we'll see ya next week......... :wink: