I just found this!! Thank you so much for sharing. Sometimes when folks are willing to hang lights along the trail it makes all the difference for those who follow.
My wife and I adopted our oldest daughter at 2. She is now 16 with more labels and diagnosis than any kid should have.
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Sorry I left this hanging. Sometimes life gets in the way. New plans for now. Iowa was a go and success. South Dakota is canceled. Might get to sneak off to Kansas for a couple days next week.
I'll get the Iowa story as well as I can in a day or 2.
So true!! These kids don't get to choose their situation. We've been in foster care for 15+ years. It's tough to see these little guys go through more hardship before they're 10 than I will ever see.
A few years ago in Idaho I arrived 4 days early. I had drawn a rifle tag. I found a herd of roughly 200 elk with several 320 ish bulls that spent the nights in the valley floor on private and came into the public to bed. The night before season some bright guy set up camp right in the middle of...
Well that went like a train wreck. Like I thought the buck bedded in a little 1acre patch of thick stuff. I climbed in the stand at 1:30 today. It was Slow until about 20 minutes of shooting light left. 4 does came by and were meandering around. Apparently he had been bedded 125 yds from me all...
I somehow ended up with a pocket full of tags. Archery in Kansas and Iowa then Black Hills any deer for South Dakota.
I'm not a great story teller but I'll try to post pictures as I go along. We started in Kansas today It's been a good day so far I saw a great buck right at daylight chasing a...
You've shown tremendous respect for the animal. That's the best we can do. As an avid bowhunter I respect that and understand under the best circumstances it'll happen eventually.