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Redemption Jake. First week of May , I was chasing some birds and on the third day I had a Tom come snuck up on me . I wasn’t able to shoot him at ten yards , so I let him go away pick up my gun to shoot and I hit a tree. Today I came up to my family farm and 3 turkeys were gobbling their heads of across the road. I Yelp at them from across the road and about 30 minutes I hear a gobble on the side I was. I move to the field edge and call , but nothing responded. As I was getting to ready to move, I looked into the field and their stood two Jake’s. I call to them and they came my way and I blasted one of the Jake’s at 15 yards. I think these birds ended up crossing the road to my calls. These turkeys seem very lonely the second week of May. God always gets the glory. Sorry guys for the long story.

There are times when I am thankful that I developed a fear of heights. It has been a few decades since I have been a tree-dweller because of the discomfort of sitting in treestands. It finally got to the point where I had to hang on to the tree. Ever try to shoot a bow while hanging on to the tree......Ha-ha-ha-ha. Since the time that I decided to stay on the ground, I lost a cousin in a treestand accident, and had several friends that have taken an abrupt fall and simply got lucky. I have never fallen out of a ground-stand. Back when I was still building and using treestands, I had a stand built 20 feet in the air. I took a look at it one season and found that almost all of the nails had snapped in two because of the constant bending and twisting of the three major trunks that it was fastened to. It was a pine tree with three huge trunks coming out of the same base. The nails did not fail because of rust or any kind of physical deterioration. It was simply the repeated stress of constantly twisting and bending. The nails finally snapped from fatigue. It wasn't long after that that I became very good at building ground stands. I cannot argue the advantages of hunting from elevated stands, but I also cannot argue the life altering devastation that can result from a fall.

8 pt he got last year with cross bow. Powers Taxidermy did the work. We loved the job! Added treat was this shed I found!