Jeff Christie and Iowa Birds

[Bruce Day]

My friend Col. Jeff Christie of Lake Okoboji sent me these while he is visiting the Mayo Clinic for something unpleasant. Jeff on the season opener with a new dog and his grandfathers DHE. A nice, no excuses, unabused gun.


We have a good group of friends meeting in SoDak soon for the opener at the farm and we hope the bird season does well this year as expected. Jeff will join us again next year.

[Jeff Christie]

Thanks Bruce.

Fellow PGCA guys- The unpleasantness is prostate cancer. Ugly at best. I cannot encourage you enough to get PSA tests annually if not more often. The finger wave is no fun but sure as hell beats surgery. See your doctor soon.

[calvin humburg]

Wishing you the best Jeff. And OK

[Mills Morrison]

Wishing you the best. I have a cousin and best friend who is going in next week for some similar surgery.

[Angel Cruz]

Wishing you the best Col. Christie. Just keep thinking of next season. Beautiful Brittanys to go with a beutiful Parker. Don't get no better than that!!

[Larry Frey]

Jeff,
I enjoyed the pictures of your Britt's and am happy the young one is working out for you. It was your recommendation that got me hooked up with Steve DelRossi and I couldn't be happier. Tonight Shea (6 months old) got her first Pheasant and it's the start of many great seasons to come. I wish you the best with your treatments and hope you and your pup also have many great seasons to come.

[Angel Cruz]

Something about Brittanys and Parkers. Beautiful pup Larry!!

[Jeff Christie]

The treatment now is a 36 session (25 to go) radiation regime. The surgery (laparoscopic) was a piece of cake. Out of hospital in 30 hours.

Larry- I called Steve on Monday and he was confident they would be fine just wet. I tried today and I got a telephone company recording. I imagine it will be some time before I can get thru.

Angel- one of the projects I have up here at Mayo is reattaching the leather flap on the LOM case I got from you. I have PLENTY of time between radiation zaps.

[Angel Cruz]

Good for you Jeff, that will keep you busy for a bit. If you need something to read I have a few issues of Shooting Sportsman you can have.

[Jeff Christie]

Thank you however I have the same problem - issues going back into the 80's or so. When I really get bored I think I'll start reading TPS (just kidding guys- don't get mad).

Larry - my picture pose (dog and gun) is not as nice as yours- I was rushed and running out of shooting time. Please give me a call sometime.

[Daryl Corona]

Good luck Jeff and may God bless.

[Larry Frey]

Larry - my picture pose (dog and gun) is not as nice as yours- I was rushed and running out of shooting time. Please give me a call sometime.

Jeff,
I'll give you a call in the next couple of days. Between deer and bird hunting with a little work in between I feel like I'm burning the candle at both ends lately.

[Paul Plager]

Jeff,prayers and wishes are with you and your family,always. I have that scope thing comming up real soon.:crying: Enjoy the rest. Remember that you are eating in the most expensive restraunt in town.:rotf:

[Jeff Christie]

Jeff,prayers and wishes are with you and your family,always. I have that scope thing comming up real soon.:crying: Enjoy the rest. Remember that you are eating in the most expensive restraunt in town.:rotf:

Private message on its way. Thanks. Jeff

[John Dallas]

Went thru what you're going thru about 17 years ago, except I had the traditional open surgery. All's good for me now. I'm sure it will be the same for you. and you will find that you will take a lot less time in front of the urinal than you used to.

[Bruce Day]

So Jeff got an interim back home at Lake Okoboji IA from Mayo last weekend and got these, and had their birds blessed at St Hubertus Sunday at the local parrish church. Both of us prize our grandfather's guns.

Wild birds. Out here hen pheasants are not legal.

[Jeff Christie]

The service was actually on the 3rd of November- St Hubertus Day. I hunted for 7+ years in Germany and Luxembourg (and may have even poached in France and Belgium). St Hubertus Day was a very big deal. Our parish (St Alban's Episcopal) has a very large percentage of members who hunt (or hunted). So we started an annual event a number of years ago and it is very popular. It concludes with a blessing of the hunter, his/her hound (dog), gun, and whatever game was taken that day and in large part is based on a traditional German service in the Rhineland. We only lacked a horn to play the traditional signal for the fallen game bird. Perhaps next year.

[rickey hughes]

saw this psot. I am from the area and have a family there also. Hope the birds come back over the next couple of years.

[Jeff Christie]

saw this psot. I am from the area and have a family there also. Hope the birds come back over the next couple of years.

It is better this year than it has been in at least three years- but still not up to it's normal standards. The recent and continuing severe drought cannot be a help either. It is largely one-sies and two-sies when you get one and a long time and distance between birds. Still the fun remains the same and the challenge even greater.