Kyle_in_Tex
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Latecomer to the party as usual, but wow o wow. Great pics. Thanks for sharing.
Happy for you and your wifey.
Happy for you and your wifey.
Honeymoon Safari to South Africa
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dodge man
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Just saw this thread, congrats Eddie and thanks for sharing!
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EddieWalker
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Thank you.
We finished creating the book of all the pictures at Custom Photo Books, Calendars, Prints & Phone Cases and Karen has been having fun showing it off at the hospital where she works this week. It's amazing how so many highly educated people know so little about wildlife, or just traveling to other places in the world. We've made books from picaboo for our trips to Europe, Caribbean Cruise and Yellowstone, and it's always the same. In fact, it's become something that they expect and she's had nurses come in on their day off to see the books, or stick around after working all night to see them!!!
As to the anti hunting crowd, she has never received a negative or rude comment. There are those who do not hunt and ask questions about it, which she replies and explains game management for wildlife being the same as managing animals on a farm, and what happens to the meat after the animals is killed, along with the process of getting them back to the US. For her, this just adds to the experience when sharing pictures of our hunts and adventures.
Eddie
We finished creating the book of all the pictures at Custom Photo Books, Calendars, Prints & Phone Cases and Karen has been having fun showing it off at the hospital where she works this week. It's amazing how so many highly educated people know so little about wildlife, or just traveling to other places in the world. We've made books from picaboo for our trips to Europe, Caribbean Cruise and Yellowstone, and it's always the same. In fact, it's become something that they expect and she's had nurses come in on their day off to see the books, or stick around after working all night to see them!!!
As to the anti hunting crowd, she has never received a negative or rude comment. There are those who do not hunt and ask questions about it, which she replies and explains game management for wildlife being the same as managing animals on a farm, and what happens to the meat after the animals is killed, along with the process of getting them back to the US. For her, this just adds to the experience when sharing pictures of our hunts and adventures.
Eddie
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EddieWalker
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Thank you.
We finished creating the book of all the pictures at Custom Photo Books, Calendars, Prints & Phone Cases and Karen has been having fun showing it off at the hospital where she works this week. It's amazing how so many highly educated people know so little about wildlife, or just traveling to other places in the world. We've made books from picaboo for our trips to Europe, Caribbean Cruise and Yellowstone, and it's always the same. In fact, it's become something that they expect and she's had nurses come in on their day off to see the books, or stick around after working all night to see them!!!
As to the anti hunting crowd, she has never received a negative or rude comment. There are those who do not hunt and ask questions about it, which she replies and explains game management for wildlife being the same as managing animals on a farm, and what happens to the meat after the animals is killed, along with the process of getting them back to the US. For her, this just adds to the experience when sharing pictures of our hunts and adventures.
Eddie
We finished creating the book of all the pictures at Custom Photo Books, Calendars, Prints & Phone Cases and Karen has been having fun showing it off at the hospital where she works this week. It's amazing how so many highly educated people know so little about wildlife, or just traveling to other places in the world. We've made books from picaboo for our trips to Europe, Caribbean Cruise and Yellowstone, and it's always the same. In fact, it's become something that they expect and she's had nurses come in on their day off to see the books, or stick around after working all night to see them!!!
As to the anti hunting crowd, she has never received a negative or rude comment. There are those who do not hunt and ask questions about it, which she replies and explains game management for wildlife being the same as managing animals on a farm, and what happens to the meat after the animals is killed, along with the process of getting them back to the US. For her, this just adds to the experience when sharing pictures of our hunts and adventures.
Eddie
Express
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Next time your travel go to Tanzenia Gremmetti Lodge. Let me know if you would like to go and could put you in touch with them.
Express
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Sorry I mispelled that it is the Singnita Grumeti. My employer owns a couple of properties in Africa
jix
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Hi Eddie
Thanks for writing in reply. You must be very busy doing that so assiduously. I could not access your photo book online, but I did look at all the photos you posted. I also took a look at your Google outline (your contracting advertisment) If you were active in New Brunswick I would not hesitate to hire your company. We are in the thick of our whitetail deer hunting season here Deer huning here is over restricted and the deer are as plentiful as mosquitoes..dangerous on the highways at night..We can only take bucks in NB and they are scarce, but does abound.
Everyone wears bright red clothes outside in deer season becoz our hunters must rake shots in the heavy brush at fleeting targets, the hunters like to drink, and so its crazy to go out in the woods around here in hunting season. Common sense isn't so common among the younger hunters.
I routinely have female deer in my yard, visible from the house windows, but I do not allow hunters to shoot on my land. They do not respect the privilege, nor the property, So I had to post my land and forbid hunting on it. I draw the line with bullets passing through my house, as anyone would. Too bad, the bad guys have spoiled it for everyone. A little fun is good, but booze, drugs and guns do not go together. For some, hunting season is just a big drunk away from the women... There are a thousand square miles of vacant land forest bounding my land, let them hunt and shoot all they want there, but not in my door yard. Ditto for moose, bear and coyotes.
I do allow bow hunters, but not their vehicles and not in wooden platform tree stands. They leave big spikes in the pines which will kill the tree and destroy a sawmill blade. Vehicles get stuck, create big ruts, cause erosion and sometimes destroy fences or leave gates open that should remain closed. Since I have dogs, I do not permit trapping or snaring game either, I do allow licensed beaver trapping in the swampy area but only with submerged konibear traps, which must be checked every 24 hours. Beavers are very plentiful, but not very valuable so they overrun the swamps with dams and such. Beavers are a plague really. Killing trees and making mosquito-breeding sloughs.
I allow snowmobiles in winter, on established trails, but not 4 wheelers. Forest fire hazard, in summer, also too easy for poachers to get around and jack-light the deer at night.
Bow hunters are a different sort, they don't make noise, they don't get rowdy drunk and they respect a mans property.
A drunken redneck fool, they are not
Thanks for writing in reply. You must be very busy doing that so assiduously. I could not access your photo book online, but I did look at all the photos you posted. I also took a look at your Google outline (your contracting advertisment) If you were active in New Brunswick I would not hesitate to hire your company. We are in the thick of our whitetail deer hunting season here Deer huning here is over restricted and the deer are as plentiful as mosquitoes..dangerous on the highways at night..We can only take bucks in NB and they are scarce, but does abound.
Everyone wears bright red clothes outside in deer season becoz our hunters must rake shots in the heavy brush at fleeting targets, the hunters like to drink, and so its crazy to go out in the woods around here in hunting season. Common sense isn't so common among the younger hunters.
I routinely have female deer in my yard, visible from the house windows, but I do not allow hunters to shoot on my land. They do not respect the privilege, nor the property, So I had to post my land and forbid hunting on it. I draw the line with bullets passing through my house, as anyone would. Too bad, the bad guys have spoiled it for everyone. A little fun is good, but booze, drugs and guns do not go together. For some, hunting season is just a big drunk away from the women... There are a thousand square miles of vacant land forest bounding my land, let them hunt and shoot all they want there, but not in my door yard. Ditto for moose, bear and coyotes.
I do allow bow hunters, but not their vehicles and not in wooden platform tree stands. They leave big spikes in the pines which will kill the tree and destroy a sawmill blade. Vehicles get stuck, create big ruts, cause erosion and sometimes destroy fences or leave gates open that should remain closed. Since I have dogs, I do not permit trapping or snaring game either, I do allow licensed beaver trapping in the swampy area but only with submerged konibear traps, which must be checked every 24 hours. Beavers are very plentiful, but not very valuable so they overrun the swamps with dams and such. Beavers are a plague really. Killing trees and making mosquito-breeding sloughs.
I allow snowmobiles in winter, on established trails, but not 4 wheelers. Forest fire hazard, in summer, also too easy for poachers to get around and jack-light the deer at night.
Bow hunters are a different sort, they don't make noise, they don't get rowdy drunk and they respect a mans property.
A drunken redneck fool, they are not
k0ua
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Things must be different in Canada. I have been on a lot of deer hunts thru the years, going with various friends, I have never seen anyone use alcohol. I have heard of it, but never seen it. Not around here anyway. Of course in Missouri, it is illegal to be in possession of a firearm and be intoxicated. Maybe I am just running with a different crowd or maybe I am blind, but I have never seen a deer hunter drink while or before hunting around here.
clemsonfor
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Great Pictures Eddie! I am glad yall got to share a hunt of a lifetime. Also glad you found love with her.
And was she a city girl? seems like i have seen lots of pics that were first for her. First time shooting, fist time hunting, driving a utv etc.
And was she a city girl? seems like i have seen lots of pics that were first for her. First time shooting, fist time hunting, driving a utv etc.
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EddieWalker
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Yes, Karen was what most would call a city girl. Single mom who put herself through two Masters Degrees while raising four kids who never went on a vacation before we met, and never even thought about going hunting or living out in the country. She is still going to school and is about to start her last class for her PhD next week. She never shot a gun before we met, now she has her own rifle, a Remington youth model 700 in 7mm/08 that she will take out and practice on her own. Even when I'm not here, she might decide to do some target practicing. She has shot two hogs on the land, and several varmints like raccoons and beavers. Best shot I saw her make was on a swimming beaver at over 100 yards. Steady rest off of the Kawasaki Mule with just the head exposed as it swam left to right!!!! Now she wants to go to Alaska and hunt for a black bear, so we will be looking into that next week when we are at the Dallas Safari Club Convention Convention | Dallas Safari Club
Eddie
Eddie