Good to see you back Bryce !  

Glad you're finding time for another book!

Good luck with all your new endeavors!

Life sure is a cruel mistress at times...

But good to see your chin up mate and look forward to your 2nd book. Thanks for the first you sent out to Baghdad for me...


ak.

Welcome back Bryce. I survived (as have others) what you've been through. Life goes on. Thanks for sharing the hunting stories.

I dunno, but it doesn't LOOK like ole' Bryce is suffering too badly!

P.S.  pick up the phone the next time I call!

QuoteOriginally posted by Steve H.:
I dunno, but it doesn't LOOK like ole' Bryce is suffering too badly!

I gotta agree with that one Steve    

I agree Steve. I've been married for almost 28 yrs. and have never got my Wife to hunt with Me.

Glad Your back, have always enjoyed Your hunting stories.

glad to see you posting again bryce..im sure its tough, but its funny how things always seem to turn around in the end...

good luck, and god speed!  and if the 2nd book is half as good as the first, i'll send ya a check right now!!

happy holidays to you and yours..

jamie

Bryce:

Welcome back man... The road looks a lot better for you from where I sit...  You should keep her....  Good luck.

Bryce, keep your chin up. GOOD to see you back.      BILL

Thanks for the kind words.  Life is complicated, and it's still complicated, so don't read too much into the photos posted.  My pal and I are both shipwreck survivors of sorts and our similar life experiences, jobs and love for God and bowhunting and the outdoors has made for a friendship I value, much like the camaraderie here.  

Have been able to get my daughters out a number of times this fall, including a night when we had 3 dink bucks and several does pose for us at 10 yards, but the big 5x6 my partner would eventually kill came up to 25 yards but by then the girls had lost some of their patience and he melted away before following the same trail the other deer had.  Ouch.  But my daughters are by far the best trophy I could ever want.  



We've used the Double Bull, the Buddy Ladder stands, and even the double-set Morning Stand my friend and I hunt from (with me standing the whole time) while the girls are with me.  Quality time that I hope will continue to bond them to me so when they get older and have to make big choices they'll defer to what their old man would want them to do.

And on one crazy evening, my friend and her two boys and her parents (from AZ) all ended up in the same Double Bull because it started raining.  Good times!  She noted with all those bodies in the blind she didn't think she could draw her bow.  I noted that with a longbow, it can be hard with just one body in there sometimes.  Ha.



My friend has two sons and a daughter and we've taken them out a bunch too.  The oldest boy killed his first deer (with a rifle) during an antlerless season hunt with us mentoring, and the daughter got to watch mom take a spike that qualified as antlerless under our regs.  And here's another picture showing the family angle to bowhunting.



And this last picture is of my girls from a couple years ago when they helped on a blood trail.  Beats TV any day.



Thanks again for the welcome back.

Congrats on a great season and wishing you more happy days ahead!

Life sucks sometimes, but I'm thinkin it beats the alternative. You're a lucky man, welcome back.

Bryce,
Sorry to hear about the struggles, but
glad to hear things are coming around for you.

Your backup Pronghorn sounds like the one I sold you a year or so ago.

Do you still have copies of your first book? If so,
how much and where do I send the money?
I've enjoyed reading your posts over the years, so the book has to great.

Thanks,
Ron Bruce
Montan

Welcome back Bryce, good to see you here again. Glad that things are starting to get better for you. Looks like you had a heck of a nice deer season with your girls!

Since I never got a chance to talk to you after I got your book, I just wanted you to know that it is a great read and I really enjoyed it!

Glad to see you back.

Doug

Bryce, great to have you back. Glad you are healing with the help a God's great outdoors and your kids and a friend!

Be sure to answer the phone for Steve. I'm sure he gets lonely way up there in the frozen North. He's probably snowed in!

I can relate. My divorce was final yesterday.