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Re: Michael\'s Black Hawaiian Ram to put on the wall Is the picture not showing? I will get my roll developed this weekend. They should be better than this one taken with their digital camera.

My dad purchased a ram hunt for my son and he got his first exotic. I get stuck with a $400 shoulder mount cost

Re: I need some prayer please Prayers sent for healing, Steve. [ QUOTE ] Would a brace help? [/ QUOTE ] My sister is an Occupational Therapist. I have carpal tunnel in the right wrist pretty bad at times. She suggested getting a wrist brace (with the metal bar) and sleep with it on. It helps quite a bit the next day.

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Paypal will be available though tomorrow (Dec. 25th). I would like to thank everyone who participated in this raffle. Realtree forum members were a important contribution to the success of this raffle. We will constantly strive to improve how our raffles are conducted to make them appealing to all hunters willing to lend a helping hand. Look for raffles for donated hunts, bows and hunting equipment in the future. If you have any suggestions or concerns about this raffle or HHH operations, please PM me and I will make every effort to answer asap. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL REALTREE FORUMS MEMBERS FROM HHH!...YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Thank you Kevin, Jeffery and Steve Beilgard!!!!

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Got it, noreaster. Thank you for your purchase.

Re: glad the mods around here aren\'t power hungery [ QUOTE ] and sureshot as threatened to duck-tape me yap [/ QUOTE ] Just be glad he did not threaten to tape your ..

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline You bet it does, ruttinbuc!! You would not believe how much each purchase makes a difference. Thank you very much!

Re: Gun Raffle Thank you AJ !!! There is one week left to get your chance at a rifle. We have requests for review at this time. These raffles are the main way in which we raise money to pay these requests. Get your tickets on-line now!

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Thank you AJ !!! There is one week left to get your chance at a rifle. We have requests for review at this time. These raffles are the main way in which we raise money to pay these requests. Get your tickets on-line now!

Re: Anyone been a \"Big Brother Big Sister\"? I was a Big Brother for three years while in college. Yes, it was very rewarding but at times it was tough to fit get togethers into my schedule. After 3 years, we were like brothers.

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Thank you Buckee and GWSmith. May you be blessed in return. In case anyone was wondering what exactly we do, I'll will let one of our recipients speak for us: Dear Hunters Helping Hunters, My name is Leanna and I am 15 years old. On August 18, 2003 I passed out while cooking breakfast and suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns on my left arm and chest. After a stay in the hospital and getting checked from head to toe I was released from the hospital. My Dad is disabled and my Mom works in a factory. They carried private insurance on me but the day I was released from the hospital, the hospital representative told my parents that my insurance was "the worst she had ever seen". It wasn't going to pay hardly any of my bills and by the end of September my parent’s part of my bills was over $15,000.00. As I said, my Dad is disabled and on a fixed income and my Mom's employer was having lay-offs due to the economy. She wasn't laid off but her hours were cut. Some months we had to pay out up to $800.00 just to keep from being turned over to collection agencies. Mom even withdrew out what she had in her 401K to pay on my bills. Then one day Dad was reading Buckmasters and came across an article about Hunters Helping Hunters. It told of how they help out the families of fellow hunters in their time of need. He decided to write and request an application to see if we would qualify for any help. Dad then started sending in the paperwork to verify my medical bills. As time would pass, Mike Bell; would email him and let him know the progress of our application. Then one day, a man named Bob Grubbs called us and told us we had received approval for help and would call us back in a few days after he contacted the hospital. The hospital told HHH if they would pay off our bill within 10 days they would cut it in half!! And within the 10 days HHH paid my bill in full!! Words can't express the joy we felt! It was just an unbelievable act of kindness!! When Mr. Grubbs called us with the news we were all standing in our front yard crying! EVEN MY DAD!!! This was great timing because Mom's employer was laying off half of the remaining employees and we were all wondering how we were going to pay this if she was laid off. What a relief! I am doing ok now, but I still am facing surgery for my burns on my chest. We don’t have to worry about that because the Shiner's will be taking care of that for me. I just want to say a big "THANK YOU" to everyone at Hunters Helping Hunter for all you have done for my family. You have helped us in more ways than you will ever know. We thank God for each and everyone of you. It really means a lot to know that "stranger" care so much!!! Thank you again, Leanna

Re: Meeting people from the forums? I have met Scott and billkay this summer at DUGOF in Oshkosh, WI. I had met Scott at the DUGOF in Memphis, TN the previous summer.

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Thank you GW Smith! GOOD LUCK!

Re: Please pray for my Dad You got it.

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Sorry Ryan, the boss walked in Yes, I do have the cook book and Dan is quite the man. He is one guy I would travel 4 hours to Houston to help without a second thought. I am glad to have him on our board of Directors.

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline Thanks Leatherneck! Do I know Danny the selling machine Baize? Taught him every thing I know.

Re: HHH 2nd Annual Great Gun Giveaway ticket deadline I'm not sure if this can compete with people with stinky breath and Budwiser Grandmas or the best Christmas light display ever but I thought I'd run this back up the flag pole one more time. Thanks!

Re: Who Hates Rifle Season I have arthritis in my shoulder. Hurts like fire to pull a bow back. I like gun season. I CAN choose NOT to shoot a deer at 200 yds. I CAN choose NOT to shoot from the truck. I CAN (and DO) choose NOT to drink alcohol when hunting. I CAN choose to sit in a tree stand and wait for a mature buck. I CAN choose to go to my land and practice (as much as my shoulder will allow) my shooting from different positions until I am proficient at each position. I CAN choose NOT to be a slob hunter even with a rifle.

The final opportunity to purchase your chance at a good quality gun is approaching rapidly. The ticket purchase deadline for the Hunters Helping Hunters, Inc. 2nd annual Great Gun Event is December 25th. HHH, Inc will be giving away a gun a day for 30 days from Jan. 1st through Jan. 30th. Tickets are $10.00 each or 6 for $50.00 and can be purchased through our website. Proceeds will go to assist your fellow hunters and outdoorsman. Hunters Helping Hunters is an organization dedicated to providing financial grants to assist hunters and their families in times of need due to unforeseen situations such as a death in the family or medical catastrophe. Don't miss out on your opportunity for a chance at some fine guns and to help out fellow hunters. Please visit our website, www.hhh-usa.org, to purchase tickets, view the calendar of guns to be raffled, read testimonies and other HHH, Inc. events.

Re: NEED PRAYERS Man, that's awful. Prayers sent.

Re: T-Bone\'s deer Awesome!

Re: PRAYERS NEEDED BADLY! Wow, I was praying half way through reading your post. Prayers sent and keep us posted.

Re: Harriet Miers Withdraws. This is kind of old but it gives a little history of her. Washington Times - Backers of Harriet Miers Assert that She Has Purebred Conservative Pedigree October 4, 2005 By Joseph Curl THE WASHINGTON TIMES Harriet Miers' lack of a judicial paper trail yesterday prompted anxious Republicans to express doubts about the Supreme Court nominee, but her supporters say the born-again Christian has a purebred conservative pedigree. "Those of us who know her know that she's a conservative," said Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht. "She has supported a lot of conservative candidates here in Texas. She works for a conservative president. She attends an evangelical church, and has for 25 years, and she was a conservative leader in the American Bar Association," Justice Hecht, who has known Miss Miers for 30 years, told The Washington Times. Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, said Miss Miers "has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career. She led a campaign to have the American Bar Association end its practice of supporting abortion-on-demand and taxpayer-funded abortions." And Vice President Dick Cheney said, "I think you'll find that Harriet is rock-solid, from a philosophical standpoint. "I think she will, in fact, represent the conservative view of the court, the kind that the president has said he would, in fact, nominate if elected." Known for thoroughness and her low-profile, Miss Miers, 60, is one of the first White House staff members to arrive at the White House in the morning and among the last to leave. She has no children, never married and spends most of her time working. Miss Miers was born in Dallas on Aug. 10, 1945, four days after the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. One of five children, she majored in mathematics at Southern Methodist University. Her father died when she was a freshman. Already close with her mother, now 93, the two became even closer after his death. "Her mother's constant encouragement was a strong force for her," Justice Hecht said. Miss Miers closed her brief remarks in accepting the nomination at the White House yesterday by saying: "I have a special note this morning for my mom: Thank you for your faith, your strength, your courage, your love and beauty of spirit." Miss Miers went on to law school at SMU, earning her degree in 1970. After graduation, she clerked for U.S. District Judge Joe Estes. In 1972, she joined the Texas law firm of Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely, working mostly as a commercial litigator. In 1985, Miss Miers became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association, and in 1992, she was elected as the first female president of the Texas State Bar. In 1989, she was elected to a two-year term as an at-large candidate on the Dallas City Council, and in 1993, George W. Bush hired her as his personal attorney. Two years later, as governor, he appointed her chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission. In 1996, she was elected president of her law firm, becoming the first woman to lead a major Texas firm, which was founded in the 1890s. After winning the White House, Mr. Bush chose her to serve as his staff secretary. She later served as deputy chief of staff for policy in 2003 and as White House counsel in 2004. Some conservatives have questioned why she donated $1,000 to Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, but Justice Hecht said there's a simple explanation. Mr. Cheney said yesterday that her law firm "apparently hosted an event for Gore when he was running for president the first time." Said Justice Hecht: "The firm probably passed the hat and said, 'We're going to give money to everyone.' That's what law firms do." But Miss Miers has a history of supporting conservative candidates and is active in her evangelical church, the Valley View Christian Church. Raised Catholic, she became a born-again Christian in June 1979. "The church is pro-life, always has been, and that is consistent with her view," Justice Hecht said.

Re: Harriet Miers Withdraws. [ QUOTE ] A good thing for all of you. You would think that to be on the supreme court it would be a requirement that you have been a judge at some level. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, 10 of the last 33 or 34 judges were never judges before being confirmed for the Supreme Court. L. Powell, A. Fortas, A. Golberg, B. White, T. Clark, H. Burton, R. Jackson, H. Black, H. Stone and C. Hughes to name a few. I know of Hariett Miers from church. A class act woman who would have not tried to make law from the bench. She would have been a judge..period. I would not say "definately not qualified". Her resume is not too far from Sandra Day O'connors. I think this was a good way for everyone to save face. Hariett looks honorable, W stood his ground on not allowing the papers released, Rep senators appeared tough, and the Dems...well....ya know.