PBS Banquet....another awesome time!!!

[Sean B]

Ha Mike!!  I was telling my wife about your Yellowstone trip!!  It was great seeing again bud. I rode in the airport shuttle with Bryan Burkhardt and his wife. ee had s real nice talk about moose hunting. Another great guy!

[Mark Baker]

Mike...look me up if you come up to Yellowstone, I'm right at it's doorstep...and along the Yellowstone River.

[Robertfishes]

This was my first PBS Banquet.It went by too quickly.. Unfortunately it was held at the same time as our Florida State Traditional 3D shoot, The TBOF Spring Shoot..I traveled back and forth between the two.

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by Mark Baker:
Mike...look me up if you come up to Yellowstone, I'm right at it's doorstep...and along the Yellowstone River.

You got it Mark.  Maybe our boys could get a fishing lesson or two while we are there?

We definitely will be looking for all the things we must do while out there, which will be summer of 2017 it is looking like.

[habujohn]

I was hoping to make this springs banquet but plans did not work out for us.  We did get to do the PBS pig hunt in Texas which was a hoot.  Now trying to put together a elk hunt in Idaho.

[dnovo]

Another good time I've missed. I'm glad to hear good things about it. I'll make another one sometime soon.

[monk]

Sean you name dropper you...

[Sean B]

Ha Monk!!  Were YOUR ears ringing????  Toby and I were talking about you!!  I was showing off your bear at the Widow table.

[R.V.T.B.]

I think this was the 8th or 9th banquet I have traveled to, and they have all been great.  Attendance was down a little bit on this one, but Florida is a long ways to travel for a lot of the country.

Some great seminars this time as well, Monty Browning, Joel Turner, Terry Receuver, etc.  These things are always a good time... catching up with old friends and making plans for that next hunt.

[John3]

Another great PBS gathering.  Great to meet you Sean.

 

I always learn at the seminars... What a valuable resource of shared knowledge in the PBS.

 

 

 

Plus just great Bowhunters...!

[Sean B]

I really wanted to sit in on this seminar but I tied myself up selling tickets.

[Tony Sanders]

My friend Bill Wyland and I made it back home to Maryland safe and sound. I must say we both had a grand time. It was also great to meet and talk to folks that I had only talked to via the pages of Tradgang and the PBS web site. To Both Mike Vines and Sean Bleakley, it was certainly my pleasure to get to see, meet and talk to you two gentlemen in person. Mike thanks very much for the book on hunting elk in Montana. I also was able to reconnect with a fellow PBS member that I had not seen for quite sometime, and that person is Ron Herman. Ron and I go back a ways when he was here in Maryland. Ron it was great talking and catching up on old times old friend. Kudos to Jack and Brenda, and all of the PBS council that got this thing off the ground and running. A job very well done. I am already looking forward to 2018 for the next PBS banquet. Until we meet again at a hunting camp, traditional shoot or the next banquet, Shoot Straight and Good Hunting.

  Tony

   


   

[Bow man]

Was another great weekend with our PBS friends, so glad we were able to go!!!!

[Sean B]

Hey Tony, it was great to finally meet you too. I hope to share a hunting camp sometime.  I can't say enough about this event. It was just what I neded!!

[Brock]

Tony, it was a surprise and a great pleasure to reconnect with you after all these years (1999)....almost brought a tear to my eye.  You and Phil are two of my favorite people from that period of my life....thank you brother!  Hope to see you at our hog hunt soon down here...

[Robertfishes]

There were 100's of PBS members there that I wanted to meet but somehow it just didn't happen.. I did see some I already knew including Toby from BW, Jonathan from 3Rivers, Greg S his wife and son and Don Davis. David and Tracey Balowski answered all my questions about T-bird bow finish and the India Ink dip pens they sell..I brought some of their products home to try out. All the vendors were friendly and helpful.

[Lady Frost]

Thank you for sharing, great pics everyone!!  Sounds like a great time.

[tarponnut]

Man, I wish I could have made it but the TBOF shoot in Ocala being the same weekend made it tough(plus I needed to do some feeder work on Sunday).
Seems like an amazing gathering of friends and collected knowledge.
(TBOF was a blast,though)

[John3]

We sat with Toby and his bride at dinner Saturday night.  Too much fun!  I've known Toby for years as we are both United Bowhunters of Missouri members and see each other every year at those banquets.  Just neat that he came all the way to Florida with a Black Widow booth FULL of awesome Widow bows.  Getting to hang out at dinner was just icing on the PBS cake.
 

Also had this guy at my table for dinner.. I think some of you may subscribe to his magazine.  Yes the bowhunting stories were awesome!
 

[Sean B]

Hey John, it was great meeting you and your family. That's one of the cool things about the PBS, you never know who your going to run into. I sat next to Fred Asbelk for Friday nights dinner.

It's was great to see Toby again and to meet his wife Krissie. Sharing a hunting camp with him is a lot of fun!!