Norm Sauceman

What memories from the DHNA hunt way back when at Wilderness Hunting Lodge. Dang I miss those days...Miss hunting with all the clients I met...Some I am still in contact with... If you folks who went, could you please add your pictures from this hunt?

You all pretty much know about my accident, injuries from the accident and what I have been through...Also my cancer diagnosis in 2015 and the two surgeries to extract then rebuild where it was....I have had 30 surgeries from the accident (I was a welder and had #1000 of steel fall on me and crush me). I broke my back and neck in 7 places, both shoulders, both arms, both hands and my left leg....Well, I had been having increased pain in my lower back and legs and it got so bad I went 90 miles to Nashville to the St. Thomas ER. The ER doctors decided to admit me and they kept me there from Sunday last week through Wednesday. They ran imaging and found atleast one screw in my lower back had either backed out a bit or wallowed itself loose. INSTEAD of keeping me there to fix it, they decided to release me and do a follow-up in 5 weeks... WHAT??? I can NOT manage my pain it is so bad,,,, I don't know what they were thinking... ANYWAY, looks like surgery 31 from the accident is on the horizon....I would like for us to get together one day back at Wilderness and am considering going ahead and hunting one more time before surgery... I could use prayers as I need help to get around when navigating rough terrain. Thanks

That Black Hawaiian took me 3 days to arrow. The hunt are what you make them.

Check out my post in the disabled room...I think it would be awesome!!!!

Hey everyone, long time no see...I am glad my saying I penned still welcomes us to the disabled area here.. MI have heard nothing but praise for the memories that were made that weekend. Myself as well. Still have many good friends from that weekend. I am wanting to go back. Anyone else interested in going back for a group hunt?? I think it would be fun and a huge reunion of some of the past folks could make it. I can get the ball rolling with the owner of you all are interested. If so, let's come up with a date. I am going to have my 31st surgery this year (the seventh on my spine). I want to do something before it happens. I see my surgeon on February 7th and he will most likely order Myelogram and MRI studies...It could be as much as 6 months away...I have been waiting 2 years on a spinal stimulator and a bone growth stimulator. I think we are past those and something else needs to be done. Anyway, let me know! You do NOT have to be disabled to come. It is open for EVERYONE!!!!

Here is the link to the GoFundMe page. https://www.gofundme.com/let039s-get-julian-a-trackchair?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email%2B3201-24hr-reminder-v5

I know I have been gone for quite a while but since my accident I have had 29 surgeries and left with 63 pieces of Titanium in me...Then in 2015 I was diagnosed with cancer and have had 2 operations to get rid of that...I am cancer free now. I have started a GoFundMe. I know most of you will remember Julian Ohmer. The Young man who joined us at the event I put on at Wilderness Hunting Lodge. Since that event and my re-injury I was forced to shut down the DHNA. I miss it so much...BUT, Julian picked up my torch and started his own organization!! I am wanting to raise enough money to get him a Track Chair as all he has still is that manual wheel chair. I am reaching out to everyone I knew when we did that event and filmed the show with Dave Watson.... I know money does not grow on trees but this young man deserves our help...If you can, just a dollar or two will help us meet our goal. Thank You in advance, Norm

That would be awesome...

Being I was one of the original Moderators for this room . I am proud my saying still adorns the title. I am just curious if anyone else is having the same trouble getting folks to help then hunt as I am......I must say something about what I am finding out about the state of disabled hunting. I have been well enough to hunt (with help) for about 5 years. I have begged folks I thought were my friends if they would take me hunting with them plus people I meet at the local gun shops, hunting shops etc. I am promised the moon and stars all year until about a month before season starts...then there is no longer a reply to text messages, messages left on phone calls and so on...I did happen to find out a few of the folks actually said they would not take me because they did not want anyone shooting "their" deer...When I had the DHNA going it was AMAZING the amount of folks who would show up to volunteer to help and from well over a thousand miles away...now days? not so much. I can do most everything by myself hunting. I do NOT need a babysitter. Heck, I now do physical therapy 3x a week and can tear up that darned treadmill. I can climb ladder stands and climbing stands...albeit not as fast as I used to..not even close...but I can do it. I only need help carrying a deer out. Heck, I used to have a Yamaha Rhino and could do everything with that awesome vehicle but being I am on disability, I had to sell it to get a hot tub to help me with my pain. Yes, it was a good trade but it really crippled me on getting to go hunting. Steve Beilgard on here has volunteered to guide me on one of my three bucket list hunts but I have yet to get drawn for the elusive Wyoming Elk hunt. Reason being, I am kind of weird. and Steve wants me to have the best opportunity to see my dream come true. All my life I have had an elk haunting my dreams. A mature 6x6 Bull..nothing less will do. If I do not get drawn for it, I am fine with it knowing there was someone out there who was willing to help me make it happen...and for that I am eternally grateful. The other two hunts, well, one could really happen but the other, not so much... I now get to go on only one hunt each year and it is one I look forward to each year. It is a 7 hour drive away and I gladly go every year. It is an awesome time for me and for the past several years I have come to make some awesome friends I look forward to seeing each year. What has happened to our hunting community? I have even written to many MANY of our hunting celebrities for help...unbelievably it is crickets or "we don't do that"...even though the show they just did WAS doing THAT... I just do not understand.... One last thing I have found...I have been called at least two times in the last 7 or 8 years about organizations who were going to take me hunting. Recommended from friends of mine who contacted the organizations about me. We talk via telephone for weeks. Then comes the thing I have learned to hate...they ask me which branch of the military I served in and where I was wounded. I tell them I was wounded in a welding accident, re-injured myself 15 years later and survived cancer and the surgery/recovery of that....then it is ..... oh....we only take wounded veterans...sorry - wow...I am a huge fan of our military. My son is still currently serving our country but dang it.... anyone else having this kind of problem locally? Sorry to go on and on and on... I was just curious

Steve invented Time Out.

You got that Steve!!!

Recon I may be too.

I resemble that remark!

My daughter is now a Deputy Sheriff Seargent for the county next to mine and she is going to college at the same time to get a job (hopefully) with the FBI. This one will give me misty eyes and goosebumps....I am not supposed to say anything to a lot of folks but I will share with you. Do you remember my son from the hunt we had at Wilderness lodge in Tn? That little kid who always wanted to be around us? Well, he is now 6'4" tall and has been in the Navy for 7 years. He is currently done with his submarine duties and is stationed at Pearl Harbor. Well when he was home for the first Christmas home in 5 years he dropped a bomb on us...His command selected him to go to Vietnam for 2-3 months. He will be part of a team that will go to 2 POW camps there and exhume our servicemen who were buried there then he will escort them back to the states. He will have to train for a month before he goes. They even have to have EOD guys there because they booby trapped some of our folks graves back then. I am so terribly proud of him. I will be able to do a write up when it is all done ad give his story...I can't wait.

You bet!!!!!!!