Dang!! The middle of Bankhead is only 45 miles from my family's farm east of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. This is killin' me. I'm totally out of vacation from going on a three-week mission trip to Africa in August, and I'm already committed for a huntin' trip near Ft. Payne in Nov. Then get back from that and rifle season starts here less than two weeks later, and wife barely tolerates me through that. And I promised her I wouldn't go on any more out-of-state hunting trips this year.

If I even mention going back to Alabama for another hunt in December, I'll wake up spread-eagled and duct taped to the bed frame with my balls cut off.

Hmmmm... Gotta figure out how to work this. "These things must be done delicately, or you hurt the spell."


Bring enough gun and know how to use it.

Know that it is not the knowing, nor the talking, nor the reading man, but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. - Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)