Lots of good stories and a good list of family and archery legends, it would make one heck of a hunt but the game would not have a chance with all these great hunters in one place.
For me it would be Jay Massey. I had spent a cold winter in Alaska isolated with no electricity reading by propane lantern and a diesel lamp. I had a handful of archery books. In one of them I figured out Jay Massey was down in Matanuska Valley closer to Anchorage. I was up the Yukon river in the Circle Mining District which is a hundred miles over the mountains east of Fairbanks, the gates of the Yukon Charley. I was out of touch with civilization and reality too. I started making plans to go and meet Jay when I came out in spring, I had mail every few weeks and remember sending letters to an Alaskan Bowhunting Club in Anchorage and found out Jay had passed away a couple years before I had ever read about him. Thats one of the biggest disappointments of my life, A man I was alone with in Alaska, I was cold then warmed next to a fire in my old camp with a book, who became my friend through his writing, that I would never meet because he was already gone to the next hunting camp.
By that time I had already made it to Berrian Springs to the Sportsmans Club, been kicked out of Canada on my way to Isle De Antipasti to hunt deer in August, been a hunting guide, and shooting a longbow since I was 6. I had hung out with Jerry Hill at gun shows where he used sell bows, drank lots of beers with TK and Mike, old friends, as I made my way from fishing in Key West to my hunting grounds in Arkansas every year.
To this day Jay Massey is an inspiration to me, still gets me excited about Archery, If I didn't know better, I would swear he was right there with me on those long cold nights but it was just his words in a book I read next to a fire waiting for breakup that winter in Alaska, in some ways he is here in this hundred year old pine floored cabin tonight, with a warm fire, a good dog, and ice nipping at the door............ I never met Jay, but he is a good friend.
Topic: Who would you like to have the opportunity to hunt with (Read 4431 times)
