Father's Day

[tjhunt2]

I would like to wish all you fathers a Happy Father's Day. How will you spend your Father's Day? Feel free to add pics or a tribute to your father here if you like.

 

Peg and I are having my father over tonight for some grilled salmon. I have been very fortunate and blessed to have had a close relationship with my Dad. He brought me up hunting, fishing, and respecting the great outdoors. The memories we have made together will forever be etched in my mind. He has been my best friend along with being my best hunting & fishing partner. I could not have wished for a better father. Dad will turn 83 this year and I hope and pray I have many more memories to make along the way with him. I love you Dad and Happy Father's Day. Here are a few recent pics of Dad.

 

Dad & I sharing a pheasant hunt

 

Dad & Lexie dove hunting

 

Dad's fish

 

His last deer at age 80

 

Peg & I sharing a successful turkey hunt with Dad

[corkin it]

Great post. Thanks for sharing. Jake

[Snapshot]

Great pics TJ, and happy fathers day.Great times, great memories!

 

Even though my father passed on from this life 6 years ago, I miss him dearly, and I would give anything for one more hunt together.

 

I hope I am fortunate enough to be hunting when I am 80!

 

Let the good times roll!

[bonecollector]

Great tribute to your dad Tj!

 

Happy Fathers Day to all the CWT Fathers out there!

[Critter]

Awesome Pics! Save them forever.

[Elkhunter1]

Thanks TJ for a small look into the great memories you have with your dad. I was fortunate to regain my relationship with my father a few years ago and had several good hunts and fishing trips since. HAPPY FATHERS DAY, to all fathers out there.

 

 

This pic is from 2009, I was blessed with the task of guiding my dad on this hunt. Opening day we found ourselves in the car port under my truck with the front left hub in my lap replacing the CV boots. We was able to get out for the evening hunt. On day three we was graced with the presence of both my brother and my nephew. By 10am my dad had this buck on the ground and the hugs and high fives were everywhere. At 73 he still has a dead aim and gets the job done.

[Coach]

Great post TJ, and Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. We spend this weekend at the baseball fields in Snowflake and Show Low. Little league is over so we get to see the boys playing "club" ball where the level of play is so much higher. All 3 of my boys were playing this weekend, sometimes in different towns at the same time, so we didn't get to see all of it but it was a good time.

[Chef]

Happy fathers day to all you Dads out there!

[Coach]

Just for fun, my wife bought me a super cool air-soft gun for Father's Day. My sons and I love to have air-soft battles on our property and the heavy forest backing us. The boys are some pretty darn good snipers too.

 

Anyone not familiar with "air-soft" guns, they are basically high-tech BB guns that shoot plastic 6MM bbs. I grew up having "BB-Gun wars" with my brother and friends, where we would shoot the crap out of eachother with real bb guns, even the pump-up pellet guns, but we always stuck to a 2-pump max on those. I still remember one of my buddies with a bb stuck under the skin just 1/4 inch from his eye.

 

Those were great times, but since I'm now "responsible" we wear full face masks and typically the boys will layer up in their winter clothes. Anything over 400 FPS stings pretty bad if your clothes aren't loose. I took one to the forehead when I assaulted the boys' fort and it bled like I had been punched in the head by Brock Lesnar. Looking back it was really funny. Carrie rushed out thinking one of the kids was hurt, and I had blood running over my left eye. Meanwhile, Nick turns to run in a hail of gunfire and goes right into a small pine tree, with a limb sticking him in the shallow skin along the sphenoid (between the temple and the eye). We were digging pieces of bark out of his face for weeks.

 

Yeah, we play hard.

 

So, this morning my kids present me with the coolest toy I've ever owned. It's a full-size, full-weight electric "Tommy Gun" exactly like the 1928 Thomspon (Chicago Typewriter). Pistol grip, drum magazine, shoots 460+ FPS at 800 rounds per minute.

 

After all the baseball games finished up this morning and a little picnic at the field with my mom and dad, we geared up for war. They blasted me, I blasted them, it was a great time.

 

What will really stick out for me, is this little "extravagance", was something we really can't afford right now, but my sweet wife has been working as much as she can, and she bought this totally unneccesary toy with the money she has earned teaching gymnastics and gave it to the boys to give to me. All so I can still be a kid with my kids and play with them. She buys nothing for herself and won't even let me buy her small things, but she works her tail off in the home and out of it to make sure her boys have the latest baseball equipment, and her over-sized child-of-a-husband has toys he would never buy for himself.