My sons and I would like to thank Shawn, Cindy and family for making this a most enjoyable event.
Their gracious hospitality and offering of their home for 80 people for such a great cause is nothing less then outstanding and touched deeply into the hearts of all who attended.
My sons have really gotten bitten with trad hunting and cannot wait till next year.

Shawn and Family

--a very large THANX for a geat day Saturday--My two sons got a real good taste of some rabbit hunting and comraderie that this hunt offers...

thank you for all of your hard work and commitments------------Mark F.

Where are the pics.? I have a few stories to tell but I am waiting to see what everyone else has to tell!! $5300!!! OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Shawn

ok buddy, what the hell were ya thinking here?? LOL!!!!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got home, I'll be following with pics and stories, most likely in the morning........

Already miss all of you.......Shawn, Cindy and family, you are the best!!!!!!!    

I still can't forget Bill as he realized the rabbit running right at him that he was filming was the target of a multitude of hunters......"DON'T SHOOT ME" was all I heard        

David

No-sage, we all know the love you have for your family and specifically for your son. Your work with the organizations that can help tell the whole story. Thanks for sharing your time with my kids and I. Looking forward to the Trad shoot.

Cindy, we'll be looking for that one special picture of you modeling the nice pink outfit Shawn won.

Great Shawn...way to kick start it sir!

Ken, that was the start of a leg cramp!! Terry, Thanks bud, Doug and I were just saying with the $1600 from the Michigan boys we will be close to $7000. Doug said that should help us get over that $100,000 for the kids this year!! I appreciate all the kind words but lets get some stories going and I know Curt has enough pics. to fill 10 pages. This ol'boy is done for the night, I am going in to make sure Cindy has the team pink outfit on!!   :rolleyes:  Goodnight and OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Shawn

Very well done!!!      

Ill never forget the swan dive I saw one of the boys from PA made into a brush pile, classic!

Thanks to all who made this hunt what it is today.
Pete

And I just needed 6" more, and I woulda got my hands around that bunny!

Thanks for the great weekend guys. It was well worth the 7.5 hr trip from PA. We will be there again next year for sure.

Awsome hunt fellas and way to go,,You all raised a ton of money for the kids,,Great job,,hope to make that hunt some day,,JB

QuoteOriginally posted by cpnhgnlngct:
And I just needed 6" more, and I woulda got my hands around that bunny!

That Bunny dive was by far the highlight of the hunt for me! I laughed myself to tears. Where was Bill Langer when we really needed him? We tell the newbies all the time to "dive in that rose bush", but we really don't expect them to do it! Matt, you can hunt with me anytime (next time I'll be a stander though)    

Whoever won the bowfishing trips please drop me a PM. I'll send you all my specific information and some details of the trip. Ie. season dates, process etc.  I will supply all the gear, food, and drinks so you will only need to bring yourself and your partner (if you wish).

Skippy, I have your information.

Shawn, PM me with your phone number. I have a couple questions for you.

Thanks again for all your hard work.

bbassi we are gonna need more cameras next year for sure!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the kind words Keith.

I have two requests:

First, for whoever won my knife to drop me a line.  I like to know where my knives end up (and I'd like to apologize for not sharpening it to shaving sharp - that's the way it came off the grinder the night before... stones were in my bag to finish the job.

Second, for the person driving the tan Toyota with the strung 1959-60 50# Bear Polar hanging in the back to send me a PM!  :D   That right there is one of my favorite bows!

I'd like to thank Shawn and his family again.  This is really a special hunt and a lot of work to put on!

Shawn and his family were great host. Thank you, I got to put faces with lots of the names here and shoot a bunch of bows. I will be sure to have my NY licence next year and probally bring both kids and my soon to be wife they would have a blast. Good food, good times and great friends. The most immportant thing was 5300 for the kids. Thanks to Izzy for making me spend more money I saw your antler burr limb bolts from Bill and now I need a pair on my zipper. Chris

Stories, photos, where to start.......

After a bit of wondering if Hunter was going to make it and when we were going to leave, we ended up leaving at right about the time had originally planned, with Hunter saying he was fine and his fever going down.......(I must have asked him a hundred times if he was ok this weekend, as I know others did, he always said he was ok. Got home last night and his temp was over 100, this morning it's back to normal....)

We arrived at Shawn's four hours later, walked in the back door and it was like seeing family again, Shawn and Cindy, Curt and Cade, (great to se him at his first JLMBH!!), and the special guest, Doug.  I knew, as I think we all did through this site, that Doug is just plain a good guy, and this weekend did nothing but reinforce that for me.  After some small talk we sat down to a tasty boiled dinner,(Thanks Cindy, I haven't had that in a while....) After dinner it was off to bed, knowing that fellow bunny hunters would start arriving pretty early the next morning.
Next morning we were up bright and early, and sure enough at 6:45 I look out into the backyard and in pulls Mikey with his now famous "Gong" target, which he immediately begins to assemble and ready for the "kids".....(I think we all became "kids" at some point during the weekend just so we could shoot at it!!!!!)

More will follow..........along with some pics


David