Great post,
I used to live in Missouri, but now have moved to Australia, and i am living here.
I miss the cool fall morning of getting up at 3:30 in the morning to get ready to go hunting. I remember that first cool morning in fall when the smell to the air would change and can remember my heart skipping a beat thinking it is bow season. I can remember being little and getting mad at my dad because i wanting to go hunting with him, but him saying it was to cold for me to go with him. He also used to tell stories of taking me out rapped up in a blanket and not even being one year old and sitting in the blind with him. I remember watching deer during the summer would go out driving around just to see what i could see, even if i couldn't hunt an area i would watch deer and was always on the look out for big bucks.There is nothing like hunting in the world and how it makes you feel. It has been a huge part of my life and always will be thanks to people like you all.
I have been lucky to take a few nice bucks with rifle and with bow, no booners, but nice. Hunting deer and turkeys is probably the one thing i miss more then anything, it would be right up there with my family and friends. What i would give to just go hunting one more time, to feel the thrill of the hunt, the addrenaline rush as you draw on a deer, and the satisfaction of just being outside in natural. It is all undescribable and was such a big part of my life.
I have a standing order from one of my sisters to get me the real tree monster bucks video's every year for Christmas. It is my most anticipated christmas present every year. Me and my to young boys sit down and spend the whole day watching it. If it arrives early it gets opened that day and watched. The only present that never makes it to christmas morning. My two boys have never even seen a deer in the wild but they are always asking, dad can we watch deer hunting. Thanks for letting me share this with my boys some way.
What i am trying to say that people out here love what you do just as much as you all do. We appreciate and respect what you all do and some of us even understand what makes you do what you do. I would give anything to go hunting for whitetail deer again, and even more to give my boys that chance just once. I envy what you guys get to do year in and year out. I also appreciate everything you all give so people like me can share our love of the outdoors in some way.
I can say all of this honestly and with no regret though i wouldn't change anything in my life now. I would have at one time given anything to have had the opportunity to be Pro staffer. Now i am thankful that there are people out there like them making video, so i can share some of the great outdoors in some way. So i have to say thank you to the guys and gals out there that do this for me and everyone else!
If i had the opportunity to do this today i would jump at it yet, but it would not be for money or fame for me. It would be about getting the chance to go hunting again and to be in the great outdoors. I hope my kids get the chance to go hunting deer some day, but they will never know it like me, maybe they can love it like me thanks to your alls hard work. So remember you always have a hunting partner in me and my boys even if we have to share it with you in your videos.
To all of your Pro Staffers out there thanks so much, and to real tree keep up the great work. You all have my dream jobs, but nothing is easy. I may envy what you all do and wished i could do it, but now i am just happy that i am able to introduce my boys to deer hunting in some way. Without you all i wouldn't be able to do this, and it give my boys a chance to see what some of my life was about. So keep them camp fires burning and keep telling them stories.