I'd always prefer being out hunting or eating a turkey over shopping any day.
On Black Fridays you can always find my son and I at the states largest gun shop, searching for those irresistible pre Christmas bargains. Then down the street to the Army/Navy store to browse their selection of this years must haves. Then stop on the way home for a delicious meal that I don't have to cook or clean up after. That's the way to spend quality time with your son, it's become kind of a tradition.
I got an early start on a Thanksgiving hunt to catch the peak of the whitetail rut here in Idaho. The weather really cooperated for a change with some snow and temps dropping down to zero (F). The bucks we rutting hard and the hunt was a blast! I ended up taking a nice 8 point with my .280 Rem and my buddy shot a little buck with his Glock pistol. From here on out it's wolf, mountain lion and waterfowl for me
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Yup, not zero there! Probably about 30 or so. In my defense, I had taken my jacket and pack off in anticipation of getting a little blood on my hands
Ok Thanksgiving and Black Friday are both history, both were pretty awesome! Thanksgiving with the whole family, got up early and baked two pumpkin pies with pumpkin out of my garden and then cooked a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Man we all ate way too much. Friday got up early, drove 150 miles with my son to Grice's Gun Shop. The trip was made interesting by several snow squalls that caused white outs, nothing like driving 70 mph right into a white out. My son found a Ruger SR22 that he just couldn't live without, so it came home with us. He also bought a brick of 22LR's and I talked him into buying an 8 lb. keg of IMR 4350 for me since he has been draining my supply lately. After the gun shop we went downtown to Bob's Army/Navy store, browsed for a while but didn't find anything irresistible. So we headed straight for Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, they are known for their burgers ranging in size from a puny 1/2 lb. to a monster 6 lb. I opted for the 1/2 lb. Rueben Burger. If you never had a Rueben with a 1/2 beef burger on top of it I highly recommend it. The 150 mile drive home was a challenge just to stay awake with that sandwich in my belly, I definitely didn't need that side of onion rings. Today I'm going to can a lot of the meat I got from the whitetail buck I shot Monday morning and that will just about wrap up my holiday weekend. I hope the rest of you had an enjoyable holiday as well.
Thanks Royal, they were excited!
