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Originally Posted by CraigThompson
It’s been my custom to go out each year christmas morning before first light and sit in a treestand armed of course . Very rarely have I killed anything but it’s just one of those things I like doing . Same as being out for the opening hours of archery ml and gun seasons . And finally be out for the last hours of the last day of the gun season . Wasn’t able this year to do the archery opener but got in the ml and gun opener and I think I’ll get in the final hours of the last day . But Christmas is out this year , the girl that watches my pop will be with her family and in present state I can’t leave him alone for three or four hours lord knows what he’ll think he needs to do etc . But that’s the way it is . If my wife’s over here by next Xmas I’ll be back in schedule but until then not so much LOL’s !
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Craig, I'm sorry to read that you'll be missing out on your annual Christmas "hunt," but it's a good cause for that break of tradition. You are most certainly laying away some treasures, as the Good Book says, and I believe that sometimes those treasures are given us sooner rather than later. My wife and I are planning our traditional Christmas hunt (approaching 40 years), conditions permitting, so we'll salute the day for you and hope next Christmas brings good fortune and family for you.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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