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Author Topic: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST  (Read 7577 times)

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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #120 on: October 28, 2016, 07:42:00 AM »
That's a fine looking dog Ron. I love those ears. We always had a pack of beagles when I was growing up and rabbit hunting was the sport back then.
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #121 on: October 28, 2016, 08:37:00 AM »
This is one of my favorite threads to read each year.  What a great tradition you have there!  Thanks for your stories guys!     :clapper:  

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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #122 on: October 28, 2016, 08:46:00 AM »
Wow, great thread! Looks like a ton of fun! That wolf story was really interesting, thanks for sharing.
Good looking dog. My dad used to raise beagles when there were still rabbits around here, but they aren't as plentiful here as they used to be.

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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #123 on: October 28, 2016, 09:47:00 AM »
Great looking dog there, Ron.   :thumbsup:
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #124 on: October 28, 2016, 10:13:00 AM »
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Great looking dog there, Ron.    :thumbsup:  
And a fine Name for him also!!
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #125 on: October 28, 2016, 10:20:00 AM »
Cool story on the wolf Roger. I have seen them in the past, but not that close. While hunting the late season a few years back in NW Iron County. I had just shot a doe with my new BW longbow, It was snowing pretty good so I began tracking her and found her about 75 yards away. While field dressing her , Wolves started to howl . I took a brake from finishing and just listened. I thought this is the way it should be. It was one of more memorable hunts ever.

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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #126 on: October 28, 2016, 10:53:00 AM »
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Great looking dog there, Ron.     :thumbsup:  
And a fine Name for him also!! [/b]
He was going to name him "Roger" but it was too confusing.
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #127 on: October 28, 2016, 11:01:00 AM »
We wanted to listen to the debates, but the evening AM signal is horrible. Fixed it with a skillet    :bigsmyl:  


 
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #128 on: October 28, 2016, 12:45:00 PM »
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #129 on: October 28, 2016, 04:47:00 PM »
Just read your beautiful poem about Nancy in TBM.  A wonderful tribute.  Love truly is everlasting and evident within you.
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #130 on: October 28, 2016, 08:14:00 PM »
Thank you Al. We were married for over 57 years and she was my hunting partner until the last year or so when the Parkinson's  took away her strength to pull her bow. I'll never forget the day when she realized she could no longer pull her bow...tears came to her eyes...and mine too, I felt so bad for her. I still took her to the woods with me and she enjoyed the hunt being with me. She's still with me in Spirit.

Nancy was a hunter even before I met her in January of 1958. She came from an outdoor family, her dad, granddad and her uncles were all hunters and fishermen. She loved the outdoors and we shared that love for all those years together.

   
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #131 on: October 29, 2016, 11:41:00 AM »
Ron, your love and devotion to Nancy is a wonderful example to all of us on here.  God bless you for that.
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #132 on: October 29, 2016, 08:04:00 PM »
Love the Shrewhaven posts, feel like I hunt with you guys. Strange weather everywhere this year. Still mid 80's where I can hunt and I refuse to go until it gets at least cool. Tough on you guys who have a set time slot these years. I have hunted up in that area for grouse and would love to deer hunt.

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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #133 on: October 29, 2016, 09:21:00 PM »
Thanks for sharing
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #134 on: October 30, 2016, 07:27:00 PM »
We had some heavy deer poles in years past, here's one from not too many years ago

       

This is a familiar one that Kustom King uses for their magazine ad's

     
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #135 on: October 30, 2016, 07:45:00 PM »
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #136 on: October 30, 2016, 08:20:00 PM »
Ron, I also saw your poem in Traditional Bowhunter. It was a beautiful tribute to your wife. Yes, she will always be with you in spirit. It is obvious that y'all shared something very special.
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #137 on: October 30, 2016, 11:25:00 PM »
Looking to the north to where Armstrong Creek disappears around the bend

   
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« Reply #138 on: October 31, 2016, 01:57:00 PM »
Here's a man that has been to Shrewhaven several times. His name is Tom (Rooster) Jenkins and he's probably the best deer tracker I've ever met. Some years back I shared a hunting camp in the northern lower with Tom and his Dad Tom Sr.

We had several deer on the buck pole behind camp and one day a friend of ours stopped in for a visit. After checking out the deer on the pole he laughing said, "those deer are shot every where but where they're supposed to be shot" to which Tom replied, "ya, we're not very good shots but we're darn good trackers"    :biglaugh:

Here Tom is examining one of his broadheads that he puts together, a 2 blade M-A 2 with shick ejector blades glued on. I named the head the "Hack-Stacker"  

   
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Re: SHREWHAVEN OR BUST
« Reply #139 on: October 31, 2016, 02:02:00 PM »
One of the guys in camp shot a deer one time and couldn't find it. Tom tracked it to the Brule river which is the Michigan/Wisconsin border. After calling the Wis. C/O we got permission to cross into Wis. to recover the deer.

     

Tom found the deer in short order

     

   
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Life is like a wet sponge, you gotta squeeze it until you get every drop it has to offer

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