Excellent...friends are worth far more than money.Great list,thanks for sharing.      

Brian, my brother, he taught you well. Congrats to Gary and a toast to lessons learned, hard or easy, taught by a mentor  

Very cool!

That's awesome. I enjoyed the read.

And that's what it's all about right there.

Great post - really captures the heart of this sport.

I also had a great mentor - at work; not bow hunting. I owe him a tremendous debt and I've been trying to do the same with kids at our shooting club. Just getting started in archery, but I've had a great sense of satisfaction from watching kids who never saw anything shot except  on Miami Vice turn into accomplished shotgunners. Hope someday to get good enough with a bow to help some kids get started there.

Good to know you've reconnected.

Wow!!!Brian I am humbled by your thoughts and feelings. I think it was 2 years ago on our Ontario bear hunt we talked how natural it felt to hunt together again after so many years of no contact.  Reconnecting with old friends is one of the great things about this sport.  I value our time spent together flinging arrows.

One more tip.  After looking at the picture you posted you may want to order one of my special curved arrows as shown in the photo.

       

We should all be so lucky.

Very good on both of you.It is as someone said exactly what this stuff is about.RC

Good stuff, it is good thing there are people out there like Gary. We should all try to be that person in someone else's life.

Thats good stuff! There are good people left in this world, strange how there are so many in this community.

Thanks for posting!!!

There is some wisdom there.  I had the incredible good fortune of stumbling on a bowhunting mentor (I actually met him through a friend-of-a-friend) when it turned out we both hunted, not just hunted - bow hunted, not just bow hunted - but with a recurve!  Well, I was trying, anyhow.

We became very good friends and I miss him more than I can say.  He was killed on a 1964 MotoGuzzi he'd just rebuilt (at age 60 back in 2003).  

He's still with me every hunt.

I hope he's got a stand spot lined up for me at Fiddler's Green.

Brian, you're fortunate to have got started out with a hunting mentor, sounds like a great guy with a lot of knowledge. I'll tell you about my mentor sometime.

Great little read - thanks.  We need more Gary's in the world!

Excellent story and great lessons!

Thanks for sharing.

Travis

Enjoyed that very much. That Gary is one heck of a good guy.

Excellent!