Hunting Season!! - What do you got?

[denguegopher]

File this under TMI: This brings up some thoughts about my childhood and family. My dad died in 2015. A year or two later my mom mentions to me out of the blue that my dad was disappointed that I didn't like to hunt with him (or anyone). I loved playing catch with him in the back yard, a great memory. I did enjoy fishing on Up North trips and in the Zumbro in Rochester. But hunting never did it for me. He was a great dad and I feel badly that I disappointed him in that way. Such is life, Go Gophers!

 

[Ogie Ogilthorpe]

File this under TMI: This brings up some thoughts about my childhood and family. My dad died in 2015. A year or two later my mom mentions to me out of the blue that my dad was disappointed that I didn't like to hunt with him (or anyone). I loved playing catch with him in the back yard, a great memory. I did enjoy fishing on Up North trips and in the Zumbro in Rochester. But hunting never did it for me. He was a great dad and I feel badly that I disappointed him in that way. Such is life, Go Gophers!

Appreciate you for sharing. I always love seeing young people out hunting with their parents, whether it's hunting big game here in Nevada or shooting birds in the Dakotas. My Dad wasn't much of a hunter but I remember ice fishing out on the lake was one of the only things the whole family did together when I was a kid; no fish house, just drilling holes (not power auger either!), sitting out on the ice on 5-gallon buckets catching crappies for dinner.

BTW, your Dad may have been disappointed that you didn't hunt with him, but I'm 100% sure that he was not disappointed in you.

Looking forward to this second trip but this time with my dogs. Felt bad hunting last week without them but the logistics of the trip made it impossible; driving a hunting vehicle up and flying back home. Can't wait to watch them do what they live/love to do. Nothing like watching your dog work in the field going after birds. Everything else is secondary. I never judge a hunt by the body count. It's just about being out with your friends, in the country, watching your dogs do what they love.

 

[denguegopher]

Appreciate you for sharing. I always love seeing young people out hunting with their parents, whether it's hunting big game here in Nevada or shooting birds in the Dakotas. My Dad wasn't much of a hunter but I remember ice fishing out on the lake was one of the only things the whole family did together when I was a kid; no fish house, just drilling holes (not power auger either!), sitting out on the ice on 5-gallon buckets catching crappies for dinner.

BTW, your Dad may have been disappointed that you didn't hunt with him, but I'm 100% sure that he was not disappointed in you.

Looking forward to this second trip but this time with my dogs. Felt bad hunting last week without them but the logistics of the trip made it impossible; driving a hunting vehicle up and flying back home. Can't wait to watch them do what they live/love to do. Nothing like watching your dog work in the field going after birds. Everything else is secondary. I never judge a hunt by the body count. It's just about being out with your friends, in the country, watching your dogs do what they love.

Yes, some people love hunting. Another thing that I didn't like about pheasant hunting was that the farms in So Minn and No Iowa are pretty small, so you are almost always shooting pretty close to someone's house. A friend of mine loved to pheasant hunt in Kansas because there were more birds there (flocks of them according to him) and the fields/farms were enormous, so he was almost never shooting near a farmhouse. I think that I might have liked that situation better. It also seems like I have never been as cold as I have been as when I was hunting. A lot of that was probably because I was improperly equipped. And thanks, I hope that my dad was not disappointed in me. He never had to bail me out of jail. I say that because I went to a college reunion a few weeks ago and I asked a drunk friend how his son was doing, the answer was, "He's doing fine, works in the mortgage business...he's been in jail about three times."
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