SHREWHAVEN OR BUST

[foxbo]

That's a fine looking dog Ron. I love those ears. We always had a pack of beagles when I was growing up and rabbit hunting was the sport back then.

[Bernie B.]

This is one of my favorite threads to read each year.  What a great tradition you have there!  Thanks for your stories guys!      

Bernie

[Trenton G.]

Wow, great thread! Looks like a ton of fun! That wolf story was really interesting, thanks for sharing.
Good looking dog. My dad used to raise beagles when there were still rabbits around here, but they aren't as plentiful here as they used to be.

[David Mitchell]

Great looking dog there, Ron.  

[ron w]

Originally posted by David Mitchell:
Great looking dog there, Ron.      

And a fine Name for him also!!

[Burly]

Cool story on the wolf Roger. I have seen them in the past, but not that close. While hunting the late season a few years back in NW Iron County. I had just shot a doe with my new BW longbow, It was snowing pretty good so I began tracking her and found her about 75 yards away. While field dressing her , Wolves started to howl . I took a brake from finishing and just listened. I thought this is the way it should be. It was one of more memorable hunts ever.

[Roger Norris]

Originally posted by ron w:
 

Originally posted by David Mitchell:
Great looking dog there, Ron.      

And a fine Name for him also!! [/b]

He was going to name him "Roger" but it was too confusing.

[Roger Norris]

We wanted to listen to the debates, but the evening AM signal is horrible. Fixed it with a skillet      

[charles m]

[Al Dente]

Just read your beautiful poem about Nancy in TBM.  A wonderful tribute.  Love truly is everlasting and evident within you.

[Ron LaClair]

Thank you Al. We were married for over 57 years and she was my hunting partner until the last year or so when the Parkinson's  took away her strength to pull her bow. I'll never forget the day when she realized she could no longer pull her bow...tears came to her eyes...and mine too, I felt so bad for her. I still took her to the woods with me and she enjoyed the hunt being with me. She's still with me in Spirit.

Nancy was a hunter even before I met her in January of 1958. She came from an outdoor family, her dad, granddad and her uncles were all hunters and fishermen. She loved the outdoors and we shared that love for all those years together.

 

[David Mitchell]

Ron, your love and devotion to Nancy is a wonderful example to all of us on here.  God bless you for that.

[Sharptop]

Love the Shrewhaven posts, feel like I hunt with you guys. Strange weather everywhere this year. Still mid 80's where I can hunt and I refuse to go until it gets at least cool. Tough on you guys who have a set time slot these years. I have hunted up in that area for grouse and would love to deer hunt.

[awbowman]

Thanks for sharing

[Ron LaClair]

We had some heavy deer poles in years past, here's one from not too many years ago

     

This is a familiar one that Kustom King uses for their magazine ad's

   

[Bryan pinick]

[Sam McMichael]

Ron, I also saw your poem in Traditional Bowhunter. It was a beautiful tribute to your wife. Yes, she will always be with you in spirit. It is obvious that y'all shared something very special.

[Ron LaClair]

Looking to the north to where Armstrong Creek disappears around the bend

 

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a man that has been to Shrewhaven several times. His name is Tom (Rooster) Jenkins and he's probably the best deer tracker I've ever met. Some years back I shared a hunting camp in the northern lower with Tom and his Dad Tom Sr.

We had several deer on the buck pole behind camp and one day a friend of ours stopped in for a visit. After checking out the deer on the pole he laughing said, "those deer are shot every where but where they're supposed to be shot" to which Tom replied, "ya, we're not very good shots but we're darn good trackers"    

Here Tom is examining one of his broadheads that he puts together, a 2 blade M-A 2 with shick ejector blades glued on. I named the head the "Hack-Stacker"  

 

[Ron LaClair]

One of the guys in camp shot a deer one time and couldn't find it. Tom tracked it to the Brule river which is the Michigan/Wisconsin border. After calling the Wis. C/O we got permission to cross into Wis. to recover the deer.

   

Tom found the deer in short order