Mom, you and “Pop” are doing something right and have been for a long time now. Hope you know how much we all appreciate it, beyond our sending the occasional payment.
I also enjoyed that story very much! I’m proofreading the next issue and there’s another fun article that you will all like. Dr. Don works with the authors and decides which articles make the cut. We are really lucky to have so much great material to choose from.
I have to agree. One of the best articles I’ve read in a while. Reminds me of a person I met while hunting turkeys in SE Ohio in the early 90’s. This guy was a true woodsman. Here wore faded camo and hunted with an old recurve. One day he told me he was going to kill a turkey that was gobbling from roost on a specific ridge…. only thing was he was going to hunt about a mile and a half from that ridge. I asked him why he was going to hunt so far from the roosted bird? He answered by telling me every day for the past 2 weeks that specific turkey gobbled on roost, flew down and went silent until he made his way to the other ridge a mile and a half away… then he would begin gobbling again searching for a lonely hen. Sure enough, the last week of the season when most hunters had given up he proceeded to kill that tom on the ridge he had predicted. The bird carried an 11″ beard and 1 1/2″ spurs. Being a novice turkey hunter at the time, to say I was impressed would be an understatement!!!
That article was a bell ringer on all counts. Extremely well done, and one that even my wife enjoyed. Her response (with a wink) afterward was “I don’t think it was that old timer’s first rodeo, do you?”
