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Anybody heard anymore about Craig Boddington? Is he still in Africa or back in the States? He and I are just days apart in age.....certainly a wake-up call for all of us, especially those of us on the wrong side of 50.

Geez I hope he is OK....!

First I heard of it....

All my best wishes to Craig.I've enjoyed his stuff for as long as I can remember.

I read that he is back in the states.

http://www.petersenshunting.com/blogs/dirty-lens/2011/03/boddington039s-heart-attack

DK

This from AR.

http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1411043/m/3591055251/p/1


maddog

Good to hear he is on the right side of the sheets. Too much fight in that guy to leave us yet.

Sorry to here this. Craig is one of the few writers I trust. JB is the other.

Damn, I was thinking about resurrecting that old thread again that he had made in about 2000, hoping to snag a few suckers.

I think I'll refrain.

Hope he's OK.

I heard about through the Facebook post yesterday, but info had been skimpy until Donna started posting in various places as well.

One good aspect of all this is that Craig is always in really good shape, which helps enormously when something like this happens. Many of his friends are somewhat mystified that it could happen at all, but heart attacks sometimes don't conform to the standard pattern. Knowing him pretty well, I have no doubt he will be hunting hard in the near future.

No doubt.
I will keep CB in my prayers.

I hope he gets over it fast and gets back to hunting.

Best wishes to him and his family.

The last thing I thought would fail was Craig's heart. He's always had a strong and brave one, and I did not expect it to fail him.

My prayers, and hopes are with him.

And his bravery has never been in doubt.

Steve

Time for all of us to man up and get regular check ups. I know I haven't and I think I am Superman racing dirt bikes. NOT.

The outside body can make you look good or bad, but it is the inside that will kill you. Heart Problems, been there and done that. He is strong and he will do well unless he had major damage to the heart muscle . Hope he has a speedy recovery

Stay in the fight General!

Wow, this is some shocking news. My thoughts and prayers go out to Craig and his family.

I had one when I was 48 years old. I'm 56 now. I had a stent placed and found that my heart arteries are wound backwards. About 8% are, if I remember correctly. I was 168 lbs @ 5'8" and still had sixpack abs. I was benching 320 lbs at the time. I had very little body fat...no gut at all. Mine was due to being a hard core type A and the stress of being a work-a-holic caught up with me. Oh yeah, I've had Lyme's Disease for 21 years too. I don't sweat stuff much anymore. I have had to learn to tone down things, and take it a lot easier. I never was superstitious, but it happened on the 13th of December. I was getting dressed to go deer hunting at 4:20 am when it hit me.

I'll keep Craig in my prayers...I enjoy his skills.

Just a note: Craig has always liked to work very, very hard--which may be obvious. But I saw it as somebody who worked for him for a number of years, back when he was editor of Petersen's Hunting.