The guy that owns the property in Arkansas that my buddy hunts piggies on told me the last time I was down "it ain't about the hunting anymore , it's all about the food , the wine and eating well" . Usually when the annual piggy trip happens it's also the last weekend of ducky season and there'll be about 20 of the owners duck hunting friends and those of us that go for the pigs !

It's still about the hunting for me, but the eating is still a fun part of it

Charlie great story, any day in the woods is good!! even if you don't shoot anything.

"The after hunt breakfast is always fun. Sausage and grits never taste so good"

Mills. How about adding sausage gravy, buttermilk biscuits and maybe some eggs to go with the grits? Thanks, Bob

got up at 4.45 this morning...made me a big egg sandwich shore was good...got every thing in the truck and on the road by 6.00. its about a hours drive for me to the nelleton hunting club.i got there by 7.00 then we loaded up and drove to our hunting spot for the day...lord what a fine place this is..about 820 acres of bottom land set out in pines lots of underbrush and briars a haven for deer..i hunted the first half of the day in a large firelane with a food plot on it..fine place but no deer showed up...was a fine spot to have got to have tried that 444 marlin handy rifle out...went back to the cabin and eat lunch then talked to a few deer hunters..all in good spirits but a lot of bull being slung....this evening i hunted probablky the prettiest spot i ever hunted a deer on...it was on a cliff over looking a small river..it was so steep i had decided if a buck came by he was gona have to be a large rack for sure...well i stayed there till dark but never seen anything but a large gray squirl....took a few pictures of the place it was so nice....got to get up early again to hunt we gona hunt my place tommorrow...charlie

forgot to tell about the last day of deer hunting.... jan 31 was our last day for deer..i had hunted hard that week with my cousin terry we hunted early till late..on friday he decided to go home on saturday morning so he hunted with his other cosins on there hunting club all he seen was a small doe..which he let walk... on saturday morning i just decided to sleep in being wore out from the past few days hunt...i worked on my old luv pickup that morning while working on the truck my granddaughter drove up with her dad she had taken a nice doe that morning..yes i should have been hunting instead of laying up late...about 2.00 pm i gathered up my gear and old rifle and went to my bottom and sat in the shooting house till dark...was glad it was over in away...now i got about 6 weeks till turkey season then it starts all over again...yep set the alarm clock for 3 and hope you find a gobler up a tree....charlie

Rest up Charlie - it'll come sooner than you know.

Was out with the dogs early this morning and, guess what. I heard a gobbler sound off three times. Perhaps the turkey know more about predicting spring than ground hogs.

When I got home from shooting 5-stand this afternoon there were 4 long beards in the field close to where I heard them this morning.

Spring is coming Charlie. Yep, be here before you know it. Right after the 6 inches of snow forecast for tomorrow.

Yeah, right!..... I'll believe it when I see it.

i was in short sleeves this evening dean... them long beards better be resting up too....charlie