Bushytail kinda day

[wapiti792]

Well last weekend my 9 year old and I went to the cabin in KY to do a little shed hunting, scouting deer for next year and hopefully, bushytail killn'. The weather was fair to partly crappy. The squirels gave us the slip but we had a good time, cooked some elk steaks over an open fire and just slung some arras at stumps.



We took along our reading material, he a "kindle" thingy with a book called "39 Clues" and me a worn out copy of Massey's "A Thousand Campfires"





While there I brought along Mr. Rob's wood arra idea, using sharpies for stain, and with some help from my boy, we turked out some ammo for the stumps.



Back home that Sunday I told him that should we get some nice days, those bushytails would come out of the woodwork at home. So this morning a light mist was fallin' and we gave it a go. He made it about an hour and decided a cup of hot chocolate was a alot more fun than getting soaked with his old man. I couldn't blame him, but I stayed anyway...

[BOHO]

nice. thx for sharing

[wapiti792]

The light rain stopped and the woods were so quiet. A stalker's dream! Now I don't know about you, but I don't want to be in the woods when it's poring rain, but I SURE want to be there when the rain stops. It's like a switch is flipped, and the animals come out of the woodwork    

So with all the time in the world, good soft carpet under my feet, and an open season on bushytails I got to huntin'. The first few stalks were perfect, but the shots were not. Finally I caught one looking the other way on the ground and let him have it. Man they are tough critters...but I picked up the boar squirrel and made my way into a stand of giant oaks on my place.

The action was hot and heavy, I had at least 10 shots, lost one of my 3 fletched flu-flus (how does that happen?), and limped back home with one good arra, one busted arra, and one MIA. I couldn't bring myself to bust up my purty woodies, so I put Steadman's arras to work he had sent me awhile back.

Oh yea, I wasn't empty handed...

Had a great time chasin' these critters and can't wait to make some bushytail dumplins' for the family. When I got back home my son met me at the door wide-eyed. I said "How was that chocolate?"...I got slugged in the arm and hugged, told "good job" and "I am stayin' next time!" For a wet old man that sounded pretty good.


Big thanks to Steadman for the arras, Mr Chad Holm for the fine bow, Ace Blunts for the business end, and God for allowing me to live in a place where a man can roam with a longbow and just relax.

[Bernie B.]

Sounds like a great weekend!  Very nice pictures and story.    

Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

[frassettor]

Great shooting!!! How do you like to fix them?

[Possum Head]

Thats a nice mess of critters! Good story and pics.

[wapiti792]

Pressure cooked with saltnpepper, build a stock and drink a little wine, open a can of biscuits and pinch off some of the biscuits and drop em in the squirrel/stock...cooks up good  

[ron w]

Cool.....Chad does make a fine bow, I have 2 of them!

[Norminator]

Good stuff

[Steve Cover]

Originally posted by wapiti792:
Well last weekend my 9 year old and I went to the cabin in KY to do a little shed hunting, scouting deer for next year and hopefully, bushytail killn'. The weather was fair to partly crappy. The squirels gave us the slip but we had a good time, cooked some elk steaks over an open fire and just slung some arras at stumps.
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We took along our reading material, he a "kindle" thingy with a book called "39 Clues" and me a worn out copy of Massey's "A Thousand Campfires"
<<< SNIP >>>
While there I brought along Mr. Rob's wood arra idea, using sharpies for stain, and with some help from my boy, we turked out some ammo for the stumps.
<<< SNIP >>>
Back home that Sunday I told him that should we get some nice days, those bushytails would come out of the woodwork at home. So this morning a light mist was fallin' and we gave it a go. He made it about an hour and decided a cup of hot chocolate was a alot more fun than getting soaked with his old man. I couldn't blame him, but I stayed anyway...

I envy you.
My son is now almost 40 and lives far away.
I really miss the times we had together such this.
You have one lucky son.

Steve

[guspup]

Bushy tail dumplins,
Sounds great!
Got a recipe :-)

[pauljr]

Looks like a blast, good shootn, looks like you healed up well. My kids would head back for hot chocolate as well.

[Austin]

Awesome story! I can't wait to share adventures like this with my son!
Austin

[BrushWolf]

It's always nice to share the outdoors with our children. What makes it even better is when they beg to do it again! Thanks for sharing!

[kestimator]

Congrats on an awesome time with your son Wapiti792!!
Thanks for letting us share the good time with you!  

[Alvey]

thank's for sharing.good time's!  

[JJB]

Sounds like a great time!  
-Jay

[Fletcher]

Good Stuff, Mike!  Thanks for sharing.  Nice hooch, too.

[Thumper Dunker]

   

[steadman]

Man it was sure nice to get the text today! Awesome outing for sure    Oh and some great shooting