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Posted: 11/21/2016 10:29:08 PM EDT
He's 78, COPD and congestive heart failure, his wife has been in the nursing home for about 3 years and he goes down to see her every day.

It was about 50 degrees, light wind and we were sitting together in a ground blind because there was no way he could climb even a short ladder.  I drove him to our stand and got him in the blind.

We saw about 12 turkeys, 2 possums and a squirrel, he was terribly excited about the possum because it ran out of the food plot so he thought a deer was coming...  I would motion at him when I saw a turkey etc.  He would whisper back that he saw it too.  Except he is about deaf so he was pretty much yelling at me in the blind and coughing about every 10 minutes even at "magic" time when the light is fading and you just know a deer is about to step out.

I made an excuse to drive back in to pick him up, had the seat warmers on and the heater going full blast, he was freezing.

Hunting is not always about killing the deer!

Happy Thanksgiving!



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Well done, OP!
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love it
Link Posted: 11/21/2016 10:59:53 PM EDT
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Youre a good man
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Nice!
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Good job OP!
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Link Posted: 11/22/2016 9:04:13 PM EDT
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Good deal!!! The older I get the less hunting is about killing.
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Good Job OP

Happy Thanksgiving
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Pics of wayward possum?




God job op.
Link Posted: 11/23/2016 2:09:41 PM EDT
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Give me a few days I'll download one from the game camera, between the nightly raccoon party, possums and does I'll have 2000 pics by the end of the week
Link Posted: 11/23/2016 2:11:53 PM EDT
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I had an uncle that was the same way, and since we wanted to get deer we would put him on the other side of the property hoping his hacking from COPD (life long smoking doctor) would scare deer our way. Worked pretty good a few times.

He had a stroke a few years go basically split his hemispheres, and we let the COPD take him to the hunting lands in the north, sadly he was one of my few Republican allies in the sea of Democrats in my family.
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God  bless you, OP. What a stellar thing to do.
Link Posted: 11/26/2016 9:43:34 AM EDT
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Nice hunt, well done.  

I used to hunt with my father in law from my first marriage.  He passed away a couple years ago after a long battle with kidney cancer.  When I got divorced I was more upset at losing my hunting and fishing buddy than dropping my psycho ex wife.  
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Me too.  You know his FIL really appreciated it.
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I updated my original post for those who saw it and commented...
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My condolences. I'm glad you got to take him on one final trip. God speed.
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Sorry for your loss OP. I am currently going through the same thing with my step father. It sucks!
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