Post by loblolly on Mar 1, 2009 0:43:35 GMT -5
We put an exclamation point on the end of the 08-09 season today! I couldn't have asked for a better ending to what has already been one heck of a good year for us. Renzy, Riley and I almost didn't go today due to terrible winds and nothing but public land to hunt. But you know me, I ain't gonna turn down a chance to hunt much less my last one for several months! Anyway, we got up around 4am and headed out to meet our good friend Daniel Sumrall to hunt some public ground a little closer to home than usual. This was already gonna be a special hunt for me because some of you may not know but Riley up until this season would not go with me. I messed up and burned him out at a real early age. I didsome stupid stuff like making him carry his own gun when it was bigger than him, trying to make him keep up with me and his older brother and hunting entirely too long at one time for a boy his age at that time. It almost cost me but I think we got back on the right track today! We pulled up to our hunting spot, cut loose and HotRod was treed in less than 5 minutes but he was pretty deep. We finally made it in to him and I spotted the squirrel pretty quick so I got Riley to come over and bust him out! This was his first squirrel to kill and to top that off it was a big piney woods fox squirrel!
He was wanting to shoot at every tree after that! LOL I carried his gun and shells for him that morning but that evening he told me he wanted to carry his own gun so I took the 22. Considering the conditions, HotRod was on frickin fire today!!!! He was hunting like he knew it was the last day of season! He sure had a serious grudge against a squirrel today all the way to the point of treeing, catching and killing the last one on the ground after he bailed without any help from the shooters! LOL It was just an all around great day in the woods with my boys, our dog and a great friend!
Here's a few pictures...
I'm trying to teach him better! LOL He's putting up before they cross the lines now! LOL
Pretty good crew!
Me and my boys! BTW, Riley informed me that he needs a new vest, gun and his on dog by next season! LOL
He was wanting to shoot at every tree after that! LOL I carried his gun and shells for him that morning but that evening he told me he wanted to carry his own gun so I took the 22. Considering the conditions, HotRod was on frickin fire today!!!! He was hunting like he knew it was the last day of season! He sure had a serious grudge against a squirrel today all the way to the point of treeing, catching and killing the last one on the ground after he bailed without any help from the shooters! LOL It was just an all around great day in the woods with my boys, our dog and a great friend!
Here's a few pictures...
I'm trying to teach him better! LOL He's putting up before they cross the lines now! LOL
Pretty good crew!
Me and my boys! BTW, Riley informed me that he needs a new vest, gun and his on dog by next season! LOL