Passing of a life long friend.

[Rosebud]

It helps sharing this. He will be missed.

 

[338weatherby]

Sorry to hear of your loss. Sounds like you have many, many good memories with him. Reflect on how fortunate you both were to have each other.

 

[cbat]

Sorry for your loss. I lost both my best hunting buddies in the last 5 years. I think about them often. Both gave me rifles years past so I got the bottom metal engraved with their names and passing dates.

 

[Rosebud]

Sorry for your loss. I lost both my best hunting buddies in the last 5 years. I think about them often. Both gave me rifles years past so I got the bottom metal engraved with their names and passing dates.

I'd given him a CZ 550 in 270 Win two decades ago. His favorite rifle. He even said it was to be in his will. He started going downhill from dementia three years ago. He stopped taking care of his guns and farm equipment. I asked his son if I could get the CZ back, which he agreed to. I refinished it, put a very good scope on it and gave it to his great niece who had asked for Uncle Genes 270. She and her dad came by a couple of months ago when I had finished it. She didn't know I was giving it to her. A bunch of tears shed and stories told, and now its part of her family. Worth every penny I spent on it.

 

[MtPockets]

Sorry to hear of your loss. Sounds like a once in a lifetime kind of friend. Have you got any good stories to share?

 

[RockyMtnMT]

I lost my best friend and then a year later I lost my oldest son. They hurt almost equally. The loss of my son has not eased as much. There is few best friends. I understand your loss. I miss mine terribly.

 

[Rosebud]

Something we all share, the pain of loss of friends and family. We may bicker on these forums, but we come together in this. Gods blessings on us all.
Bill

 

[Kowa9]

Sorry for your loss. He will be missed.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

My Game warden buddy died this past Saturday. Had been a great friend for almost five decades. He was there when my son was born, when my mother died. We hunted all over Alabama when his warden positions changed to new addresses. He could find the best places to hunt everywhere he went. His wife called me her little brother. I'm in a serious funk. Really sucks to watch your friends grow old and pass. I know many of you are doing the same.

Gods speed Donald Eugene Houston.

Sorry for the loss of a lifelong friend. Remember all those good time!
God Bless

 

[KnuckT]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Rosebud]

Thanks to all of you.

 

[Rosebud]

Sorry to hear of your loss. Sounds like a once in a lifetime kind of friend. Have you got any good stories to share

I was hunting one of leases in Chambers County Al. About twenty years ago. The road into it was a long straight flat one. Swampy areas on one side low hills one the other. I hadn't killed anything that day and was walking out at last light, The further I walked the worst the feeling of being watched got. Then I was sure something was following me. I'd stop and look back towards the setting twilight. Nothing, but the feeling got worse. At one point I stopped with my flashlight, nothing. When I was about a hundred yards away from my Tahoe my heart was in my throat and I had loosened the straps on the tree stand prepared to drop it and run. I pulled my glock 9mm out and tossed the stand into the tahoe and jumped into the seat as fast as I could. Soon as my butt hit the seat something started jumping up and down on the back of the Tahoe. I jumped out with my pistol in hand when a flashlight beam hit me and a gene yelled for me to put down the pistol. He'd scared years off my life. Sneaky SOB had "came in to help me with a dead deer" He said that when I'd stop to look around he'd lay flat on the weeds on the edge of the road. He was a sneaky one.