At the time of your original post, I had been in conversations with attorney “Biblical Jubilee” and chuckled each time I spoke with him. But I was glad to have you accompany me on an outing as you have many times before and hopefully will many times again. You did put some distance between yourself and Kirk, R.J. and myself which was wise, but you landed up next to Cork, who is almost on par with Kirk’s father Jack Mullican, who at one time was and pretty much still is one of the best game shots in Alabama if not the U.S. of A. So most of your birds had to have been high, but as Jack has taught us if it isn’t a challenging shot, why take it? And if you are going to shoot distance, then you must practice distance shooting. After reading your post, I reflected back to the 31 or so past years that I’ve had the opportunity to be on the dove field with my father, although we may have missed a couple and I’d have to look back. But roles have changed or reversed and he used to find the spots, get the shells, purchase the dog feed, etc. and now I do all that. I hope my father can hunt another 8 years or so until my boys can join him in the field. Either way, Kirk and I have a long row to hoe with training dogs and boys. But as Karl (Johnnie) points out the best method of training a young gun is at a proper age to get the boys in the field where there seems to be an endless supply of targets. The boys may tally up a truck bed load of spent cartridges, but the experience can teach them to make every shot count. In the field, for the moment time does slow down to a snail’s pace and I attribute it all to reference frame, or Einstein’s relativity if you want to delve that deep. A moment in the field with those in the hunting fraternity trumps about any other thought and that is what seems to suspend time, which marches on without reservation. Our brotherhood(sisterhood)/fraternity is but a small one, diminishing each year as we take on the burden of solely funding all things wildlife oriented thru our clubs, purchase of licenses, cartridges, stamps, etc.

The pics of you that you posted truly have to be vintage as your appearance isn’t quite the same. Around Cork’s stand at the pond we had a little meeting and took up a collection to send you to the barber-shop, but a vote was taken and your cut lost out to the cost of the seed and fertilizer for the game plots.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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This weekend (the warm-up trip) Scott, Charles, and I caught 3 Large AJs, Grunts, Silver Snapper, Porgies, Black Sea Bass, Hog Snapper, and 19 Dolphin!!!!! (4 nice bulls) I even caught one bull on a spinning rod.

Watch out Tuna here we come!!!