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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: kilopaparomeo on May 24, 2010, 11:24:26 AM
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Hey guys
If you get a chance, go check out my entry in the "Remington Moments" contest and vote for me. Get a chance to win my son a Remington shotgun.
http://www.remington.com/pages/community/yrm/your-remington-moment-vote.aspx?id=5236
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2f0d0s3.jpg)
While I've been hunting and shooting since I was 12, my father never really enjoyed hunting. I learned the skills and traditions of the field with my friends. As my own children have grown up, I've tried to expose them to the joy of the outdoors -- casual afternoons spent plinking at tin cans with a .22, walking through a stubble field on a crisp, bright November morning, the simplicity and wonder of a campfire.
My oldest turned 12 last year and begged to go through hunter safety. He passed with flying colors and got to walk the line at this year's pheasant hunt. He had been our "dog" in the past...busting brush and retrieving downed birds...but this year was different. He got to carry his own youth 870. A pheasant flushed at his feet within minutes of getting in the field and he struggled to take the safety off as "pheasant phever" took over. Later efforts were more successful as I proudly watched him harvest his first rooster.
Here's a picture of us just before heading in for lunch...I'm not sure who is more proud...father or son. By the way, that's my unloaded 1100 in the background...thousands of rounds through it and over 25 years old. It has never failed me.
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Done!
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Done....
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Done
Good luck, hope your son wins!
Thank you for passing on the great love of the outdoors and the hunting tradition!!
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Count another one and good luck!
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+1
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Done!
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Done a few hours ago, forgot to mention it. Way to go, Dad. ;)
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ME TOO!
Richard
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Thanks guys!
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Done
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Done!
Btw.great job on educating your son this way! I wished me father would have done the same to me!
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Done. Hope you win! Bill T.
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Done!
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+1 Good luck!
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Done, again!
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Done, good luck KPR.
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Voted and Good Luck.
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And again!
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Gladly done. ;D I love pheasant, very tasty and fun to hunt.
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Did it
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Done ! Good luck ;D
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Another "done" and best wishes
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And yet again!
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Again! ;D
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done. I have unfortunately never had the chance to go pheasant hunting.
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Done..Good Luck
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I spent too much time in Chicago - I voted again. They let you do that - 1 per 24 hour period.
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"Vote early. Vote often." Heard that a lot when I was growing up down state.
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Thanks again guys for your help.
Ichiban...where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Sullivan...about an hour south of Champaign. After living in Ohio, South Dakota and a few other places, we moved to northern suburbs of Chicago for 15 years. Last 2 have been on the other side of the lake in Michigan.
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"Vote early. Vote often."
Third time, lets get that youth 870 for KPR's son!