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Its about time for a little sweetness and light...Show us a pic or tell us a quick one about Happy Times...when things seemed better, or present day..if thats the case!
I'll start...
A few years past...when we were all younger and all of us still alive and together...



Ingwe

good times

Nothing brightens your day like playing with puppies.'specially Airedales.
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This was three years ago.

Well,

I'm headed out of work a bit early, picking my boy up from school and we're going to spend a couple hours making 22rf empties. Blue sky and warm. I'm thinking he'll be at least this happy.



The lucky bumm has Monday off from school, so as a concerned parent I'm taking the day off and seeing if we can't find a hare or two to shoot.

Coming home from the Gulf...

Sitting in front of the fireplace and drinking vodka on a blustery winter day while showing my buddy, Bill, how to assemble a FAL lower receiver.

I figured out how to build one first,..made up some tools,..then half the guys at work had to have one.

For a while there, every time I turned around there was somebody with a box of rifle parts knockin' on my door.

But it was a lot of fun,..always turned into a social event with lots of liquor and food,...and I take more than a small measure of pride in the fact that I became aquainted with the process to such an extent that I can build a damn fine example of an FN-FAL even with my blood alcahol level hovering above .2.

One of the happiest days of my life


After my wife and I trying for a long time my daughter was born in Jan 07. I wish I had pictures from my son being born in 89. I traveled for work for several years and spent the first year and half of Emily's life on the road 2 to 3 weeks a month. I left it last July and came back work in my hometown( I was commuting 120 miles daily when I wasn't traveling).

I spend every night at home now and get to fish/shoot in the evenings with my son. My Dad lives up the road and I see him every couple of days. There are plenty of 3 generation hunts every season. The good times are right now for me.

Me on the left.
I was mebby twenty two. Invincible Marine. Hanging out in the Paradise Club in Olongapo PI.
Drinking San Miguels.
Good times.

Happier times than today.

Some hunting and fishing pictures.

Rooster Fish.



My Red Deer.


My friends Red Deer.



Me looking for Red Deer.



Waterfall, Bear Hunt B.C.



Good times in fishing boat.



Nice Black Bear, always a good time hunting bears.

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Moose from B.C.

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See good times in the fishing boat.
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Nice results on the chrony.

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For a 30-06

That should do. Hope you all have a nice night and a great weekend.

First fish..
(My son)



First deer...



My girls...



My little one is not so little...



Three little pigs...
(the ugly one is Rockchucker!)

very nice pics. i enjoy these type threads. so much more interesting than the usual debates/arguments that are so common these days. please keep this one going.

Pic of my son Ryan with a Buck we called "Horse Head".

He was an old buck and we set out to get him off Seven Oaks in '07. We had alot of fun hunting him together.

That buck had 9 lives let me tell ya'. He wasn't big, but lord he sure was a challenge. My son got him new years eve.

GREAT STUFF Everybody! Keep 'em coming...let me dredge up another...
Caribou hunting..AK...

I posted this elsewhere..buts its John ( Mule Deer) and Eileen ( mizwhitetail) clowning around on a Sand grouse shoot in Namibia..

Ingwe

Opening day 07


A Silvertip buck


Best bow shot I ever made: Head shot with a 160 Snuffer

Great thread folks.

Finn and I with one of her first pheasants


On the Madison in Montana three years ago


Deer camp last year. Left to right. me, Cousin Gary, Cousin Scott (first deer camp for him since Iraq).

Nice to put faces with some of the names! Thanks folks...show us more!
Houndgirl; Where are you?
Ingwe

Me and the girlfriend on a weekend trip to Fredericksburg, Texas not too long ago...


How a Texas Longhorn drinks tea and wine...grin...


Driving through the James River just south of Mason, TX headed to the James River Bat Cave...


Bat Cave. Crazy stuff here...




Where I love to be...
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Great thread Ingwe!


'Work'


Brother helping out Fred.


Christmas morning.


'Camping'


'Hunting' back home with Lynnard........good times

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