Recent Posts Tagged With 'deer'

• HUNTING WITH MARION

  Posted on Monday April 14th, 2008 at 07:00 in deer, laugh and times of mushy, gun hunting

  I KNOW A LOT OF YOU HAVEN'T ENJOYED MY DEER HUNTING POSTS, BUT YOU HAVE ONE MORE TO READ. ACTUALLY, THIS IS THE LAST OF MY MEMOIRS, THIS COMPLETES EVERYTHING I HAVE INCLUDED IN "THE LAUGH & TIMES OF MUSHY". FROM HERE ON...IT'S JUST THE HERE AND ...

• THE CRYSTAL FOREST

  Posted on Monday April 7th, 2008 at 07:00 in deer, laugh and times of mushy, gun hunting

  Do you remember the wonderful scenes in the ‘Ice House/Palace’ in “Doctor Zhivago”? Well, back in January of 1989, on the last hunt of Catoosa for the season, I hunted a day in the woods there that was reminiscent of those scenes. The on...

• THE FIRST BUCK

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 13:44 in deer, laugh and times of mushy, gun hunting

  It is well documented that ancient tribes used chemical means to reduce fear and increase the fighting power of their warriors. One such drug was from the Amanita muscaria mushroom, a red-speckled cousin of the deadly "Angel of Death." The shamans ...

• THE DISAPPEARING DEER TRICK

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 07:10 in deer, allen, laugh and times of mushy, gun hunting

  As I stated in a previous post, I hunted the Land Between the Lakes (LBL) twice during my hunting career, the first time scoring my first kill, but the second time was a heart breaking experience. This story is about the second time. The se...

• THE FIRST KILL

  Posted on Monday March 17th, 2008 at 07:00 in deer, bow hunting, laugh and times of mushy

  The Land Between the Lakes (LBL), is a National Recreational Area about 90 miles northwest of Nashville, and about 26 miles north of Clarksville, Tennessee, right on the Kentucky and Tennessee state line. The inland peninsula itself is half in Ken...

• SOMETHING JUST BEHIND ME

  Posted on Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 07:01 in deer, laugh and times of mushy, gun hunting

  There was a time in America when a man, a real man, could keep his family fed with what he hunted near his homestead. I suppose, like all hunters, that primitive thought was in the back of my mind when I started deer hunting. It is quite the fant...

• IN LOVING MEMORY

  Posted on Tuesday March 11th, 2008 at 10:04 in deer, judie henegar

  HENEGAR, JUDITH GORDON (JUDIE) - of Knoxville, died peacefully at home among friends on Sunday, March 9, 2008, after battling complications from pancreatic cancer for almost three years. Judie is survived by her husband of 29 years, Allen Henegar, th...

• BOOTS

  Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 07:00 in boots, deer, bow hunting, laugh and times of mushy

  In the film “The Deer Hunter” the central character, Michael, tries to drive home the point of always being prepared to his other hunting buddies by insisting his friend Nick not loan Stanley a pair of boots. The movie goes on to show another ch...

• THE DAYS OF BONDING – PART TWO

  Posted on Thursday February 28th, 2008 at 07:05 in deer, corey, bow hunting

  Corey was fourteen, so the act of killing his first deer might be considered his “rite of passage” or his “coming of age” event, but, in all honesty, he did not transition, or enter his liminal phase, a period between withdrawing and re-ent...

• THE DAYS OF BONDING – PART ONE

  Posted on Tuesday February 26th, 2008 at 10:34 in deer, corey, camo, bow hunting

  Corey and I used to spend the fall and early winter months in the woods of Tennessee, hunting, exploring, building hide-outs, and playing hide-and-go-seek – Rambo style! I have always loved being in the woods and I did my best to pass that fondn...