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JJ, Chuck, Tom, you guys know me well enough now to know that if I'm lost for words there is really has to be something unbelievable. So that?s where I?ve been all week. JJ, you and Sara are fantastic hosts. From the moment I pulled into Wapakoneta until I left Roundhead the accommodations were beyond expectations. :yeah:
So JJ for me it all started Friday afternoon with some great food, cold adult beverages, and a close game of double deck euchre. For those of you not from the Midwest, euchre is a simple card game that challenges most people outside of Indiana and Ohio. Well Friday ended sitting around the living room honing our story telling skills with you (Doohan), Jon (JD), Chuck (Big6x6), Tom (Grouse) , and myself (Indianahunter).
artyman:
No doubt those skills really came in handy when we hooked up with Nug (Nug), Jim (VENISONEATR), Saturday morning for breakfast?I?m sure everyone in our section of that restaurant new we were in for a good time that day? Needless to say the ?Lucky Steer? will be one of my favorite breakfasts for a long, long time. :wink: :lol:
The posted pictures give everyone a view of an outstanding facility. The lodge was spectacular, the woods clay course was well laid out and on a calm day been a real challenge. So with the high winds we were shooting in it made some of the stations down right impossible. JJ, hooking up with your dad Jim was great not only for his company but now I was not the oldest guy in the group!! With Two round here and I was truly humbled among my peers as I fashion myself a pretty good shot with a shotgun. I was a bit more successful at the skeet field and enjoyed shooting a few different guns with success. Still, having Chuck and Tom tossing loose clays over your shoulder and the operator of the thrower sending birds at will from all directions it was a challange concentrating on the birds out of the trap; what a hoot this turned out to be...By the end of that event you had no idea where the birds were going to come from! :applause:
But as fun as anything we did all day was the Annie Oakley from the back line on the trap field... Everyone who played won a round or two but none were as spectacular as the one's won by "long distance bird buster" Chuck Hill... I believe he still has a smile on his face for those shots!!! I know I do...Good shooting there Chuck! :yeah:
So Saturday morning the two most excited members of our group got to show their stuff, Nug? dog, a beautiful 4 year Drahthaar which is a member of the German wire-hair pointer family and Jim?s 14 month old equally beautiful Viszla, an outstanding pointer with Hungarian decent. Other than one dispute of European neighbors both dogs got along great. 12 hours in a truck didn?t slow them down a bit as they were ready to go and ?birdy? all day?What a treat is was to hunt over great dogs?Nug, Jim, thank you very much!
JJ, Sara, Jim, and Alex, thank you for sharing! Jon your efforts have not gone unnoticed as your work helping JJ an Sara made the event go very smooth..
Pat Allen
So JJ for me it all started Friday afternoon with some great food, cold adult beverages, and a close game of double deck euchre. For those of you not from the Midwest, euchre is a simple card game that challenges most people outside of Indiana and Ohio. Well Friday ended sitting around the living room honing our story telling skills with you (Doohan), Jon (JD), Chuck (Big6x6), Tom (Grouse) , and myself (Indianahunter).
artyman: No doubt those skills really came in handy when we hooked up with Nug (Nug), Jim (VENISONEATR), Saturday morning for breakfast?I?m sure everyone in our section of that restaurant new we were in for a good time that day? Needless to say the ?Lucky Steer? will be one of my favorite breakfasts for a long, long time. :wink: :lol:
The posted pictures give everyone a view of an outstanding facility. The lodge was spectacular, the woods clay course was well laid out and on a calm day been a real challenge. So with the high winds we were shooting in it made some of the stations down right impossible. JJ, hooking up with your dad Jim was great not only for his company but now I was not the oldest guy in the group!! With Two round here and I was truly humbled among my peers as I fashion myself a pretty good shot with a shotgun. I was a bit more successful at the skeet field and enjoyed shooting a few different guns with success. Still, having Chuck and Tom tossing loose clays over your shoulder and the operator of the thrower sending birds at will from all directions it was a challange concentrating on the birds out of the trap; what a hoot this turned out to be...By the end of that event you had no idea where the birds were going to come from! :applause:
But as fun as anything we did all day was the Annie Oakley from the back line on the trap field... Everyone who played won a round or two but none were as spectacular as the one's won by "long distance bird buster" Chuck Hill... I believe he still has a smile on his face for those shots!!! I know I do...Good shooting there Chuck! :yeah:
So Saturday morning the two most excited members of our group got to show their stuff, Nug? dog, a beautiful 4 year Drahthaar which is a member of the German wire-hair pointer family and Jim?s 14 month old equally beautiful Viszla, an outstanding pointer with Hungarian decent. Other than one dispute of European neighbors both dogs got along great. 12 hours in a truck didn?t slow them down a bit as they were ready to go and ?birdy? all day?What a treat is was to hunt over great dogs?Nug, Jim, thank you very much!
JJ, Sara, Jim, and Alex, thank you for sharing! Jon your efforts have not gone unnoticed as your work helping JJ an Sara made the event go very smooth..
Pat Allen
