HT Hillbilly Fest 2003?

[dgibson]

Well, the HT Hillbilly Fest Corporation of Kentucky, Inc., LLC, RT, HMFIC

is now the proud owner of one each 15-foot buddy stand and 15-foot regular ladder stand. That'll give the parents a decent place to sit with their kids and Flipper a place to get out of the way of charging does.

I haven't used a stand in a few years; hope I don't get vertigo setting them up.

 

[Nut]

Well d..if ya need some help, I would come down Saturday and give ya a hand. All ya have to do is shout.

I loved the LLC part also

 

[dgibson]

As of Saturday AM, the one-person stand is in place and rock-solid. I made an attempt at putting up the 2-seater, but it was too dang heavy to put up by myself.

I could probably have gotten it up there, but the chances of having a ladder stand embedded in my forehead were a little greater than I liked.

Hopefully I'll get that one up this coming weekend, if things go as planned.

Have we decided on camping on the property? If so I need to get some firewood gathered up.

 

[MEATHEAD]

I'm good with what everyone else wants to do. So what ever just let me know.

 

[dgibson]

It's all fine for me too; whatever whirls everyone's cranks.

By the way, I know how you high-tech Hunt Talk types like your gadgetry, so I took the opportunity to download a topo map of our area. Our property is marked in red (as best I can figure, anyway):

I also got an aerial photo of the same map:

I hope those are as useful to you as they are to me.

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[TurkeyEye]

I see my spot

Is that a place where a stand is?

 

[dgibson]

Howdy TE! You mean that spot labeled "Mine?"

That's just what it says it is, or rather, what it used to be. I believe it's now just some farmer's field & equipment sheds, but at one time it was a coal mine entrance or some such. Your spot is down by the choo-choo tracks near the bottom of the red box.

 

[tnctcb]

looks like im gonna have to pass this year. if i can get loaded that way can i join in at the last minute or do you need to know ahead of time. if i dont make it this year it will be priority next year.

 

[dgibson]

No worries, Tim; swing by if you can. There's no big "must know" event or anything. I'll PM you my cell number, and I'm sure Meathead will have his on during non-hunting moments, too.

Sure would be great if you stopped in, but I guess if some big stinking elk is more important...

 

[FLIPPER]

Will be leaving about 4pm Friday to come up and hunt the early muzzleloader with ya Darren

Could not get anyone to go...or they had already made plans

so I will be by myself.

 

[Nut]

Best of luck to ya Flipper and Darren.

Would like to be there but at least I will be hunting.

 

[dgibson]

Here's hoping those does aren't ganged up and waiting for old Flipper...maybe we can put the suprise on them since he's coming 2 weeks early.

If anybody hears of a large explosion of black powder in western Kentucky, you can just smile knowingly, nod and say "that was Flipper's last stand."

If all goes well, this time tomorrow we'll have backstraps...if not, well, I'll be in a ditch again.

 

[MEATHEAD]

Good luck to ya Darren

You may need to ride with Flipper.

 

[dgibson]

Thanks, Martin...I may do just that. It's been good and relatively dry for the last few weeks, but it rained pretty good Monday and last night (of course

).

If you talk to him before he leaves tonight tell him I've got a disk for him, too. Have fun on your night tournament!

 

[Nut]

Well is there any news????

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Are they in a ditch???

 

[FLIPPER]

HAHAHA...no ditches...I drove

No kills either, but had a great time. Saw 8 deer between us and 4 of them were bucks.


Got to see 4 gobblers...1 bobcat and 1 Pimp beating his beotch

 

[dgibson]

Don't forget the...um...ice-cream eating lovers, and the raccoon, and the damaged b(.)(.)bies.

Yeah, I bummed a ride off Flipper...I didn't even bother trying.

I think I'd have been alright, except maybe Saturday morning. But I acted like a wife and let Flipper drive while I complained about the neighbors.

Nut, I saw a buck that could have been a twin to Codie's, but a wee bit wider...that was about the biggest we saw. I only saw one doe and she never gave me a decent shot. Naturally, I spent the weekend surrounded by the Gibson family enemies, gray squirrels.

Flipper, The Boy wants to go hunting next weekend, and the fall gun season on turkey starts next Saturday, and since you roosted them for me and all....

 

[Nut]

LOL D and Flipper. Wished I could have been there but have to save the cost of the trip for the rifle hunt.

Darren,Take the boy out and get a gobbler. He will love it.

 

[TurkeyEye]

I just can't wait to get down there.Maybe I might get aother buck.I just hope I get a deer.

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