Great news!!

[Swamp_bucks]

So just like many of you my father is who got me into hunting at a young age.  Still remember going to his boulder spot with the fallen down tree when I was 7 or 8.

Unfortunately the last 9 yrs have been rough on my dad. Never was sick worked 60hrs a week so us kids and mom didn’t have to struggle to being disabled due to a side affect of a medications and surgery.  So he hasn’t been able to do the one thing he loved the most and that was hunting. 
 

went to the dump with him today and he told me he’s feeling the best he has in years and starting today is going to slowly start walking .5 mile everyday so he can build his strength up so he can make it out to my opening day spot.  Told him it’s all his so I’m hoping he stays this healthy. I’ll be packing all the gear in so all he has to worry about is walking in.   
 

[BizCT]

Awesome! I remember helping my Dad carry all my grandpa's gear up the mountains in the catskills so he could hunt 1 last season.

[grampy]

Having Dad back out in the deer woods will be great!! Wishing him good luck!! 

Ground hunting??  IMO, that's the best hunting!

[Swamp_bucks]

2 minutes ago, grampy said:

Having Dad back out in the deer woods will be great!! Wishing him good luck!! 

Ground hunting??  IMO, that's the best hunting!

Yea he’s never been a tree stand hunter.  I have a couple big blow downs already setup for such a scenario for myself just in case the wind gets to bad for me to be in a tree.  They will easily fit us both And enough room to bring a buddy heater for him. 

[CharlieNY]

Wishing you and your dad many happy years of hunting together.     valoroutdoors.com

[Robhuntandfish]

thats such great news!  Hope he downs one just to top off the day. 

My Dad was really sick for a while and we didnt get to fish for quite a while and he loved to trout fish.  He was feeling pretty well one day and we went to Chittenango crick close by.  He stayed byt he bridge and i went of down the crick a ways a caught a couple of small browns.  I come back and he has two big browns with the tails sticking out of the creel and never went a 100 yards.  Wont ever forget it.  

[Swamp_bucks]

23 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

thats such great news!  Hope he downs one just to top off the day. 

My Dad was really sick for a while and we didnt get to fish for quite a while and he loved to trout fish.  He was feeling pretty well one day and we went to Chittenango crick close by.  He stayed byt he bridge and i went of down the crick a ways a caught a couple of small browns.  I come back and he has two big browns with the tails sticking out of the creel and never went a 100 yards.  Wont ever forget it.  

man has never killed anything bigger than a 5pt so hopefully one of the big boys shows up for him.