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First TOO outing

giles

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Seems everywhere I look is things that are bad. Kinda tired of it so I want to see some good. Texting with J about some older things it got me thinking about my first outing and it made me smile.

My joining here didn't start off so good. I took a little flak that was warranted by what I posted. I think that was in February 2015'. October 2015' I left work and headed towards Strouds. Grabbed an 18 rack of bud light and that was it.

I didn't even make it to the campfire and the guys had me chasing a hole they dug out in the bank. 🤣 It was around midnight when I showed up and I was gone by 10 in the morning. I'm glad I found you guys! I don't think I've missed an outing since.

How about you?
 
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Mine was Strouds 2014. It was a bad time in my life. Glad T and I came down to meet all the deplorable that did so much for us in such a horrible time.
In all honesty I do not remember a whole lot after the sun went down as I may have overdone the beers. It was worth it though as I gained a family that day.
Luckily a few have filled me in on some of the details.
 
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giles

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Buckmaster said:
...sounds like you found your den...then turned tail and ran after sunrise. What happened?
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I was hungover and surrounded by a bunch of people I didn't know. On a Sunday morning of a TOO outing. With a 2 hour drive ahead of me. Still in my work clothes. No cell phone reception. During harvest season while working for a grain elevator. It was all I could do to even make the appearance happen. But yall needed to meet the crazy asshat behind that thread and I wasn't being a no show twice!
 
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Ha. I remember my 1st.,... back in 1212 ? I think I was the 3rd guy to arrive on the 1st evening & Jesse & Beener were already down there. Soon afterwards, M Rex showed up & drove the 3 of us around showing some areas & then to his house to show us his mounts including the one that was on the cover of North American Whitetail. At one point, it was dark & we stopped somewhere & got out to look at one of his ladder stand placements back in along rt 33 ? I remember thinking.... I just met these guys on the internet, I really didn't know who they were & I was going to get robbed & killed & left there...lol
 
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The second ever summer TOO event was in 2011 at Woodbury Wildlife Area. One thing about Woodbury is it's in the boonies and the campground is tucked back in a God-forsaken holler where the sound of banjos fills the air. The first night, there came a monsoon, a typhoon, and a nor'Easter all in one. We had 2 pop-up canopies, so we piled all the food under one, and crammed a dozen guys nuts to butts under an 8x8 canopy while we rode out the storm. The next night, a village of carnies and gypsies rolled into camp, along with a caravan of LARPers. The shenanigans that followed lead to Tear Drop Mike leaving his old lady wallowing in a drunken stupor while she screamed "Miiiiiiiikkkkkke!" over, and over, and over, and over again. The real Mike got lost, then stung by a bee, then lost again maybe, and some guy in bedazzled jeans got his 2WD truck stuck on flat ground. After that, we dared not return like @giles to a coyote den.
 
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bowhunter1023 said:
The second ever summer TOO event was the summer of 2011 at Woodbury Wildlife Area. One thing about Woodbury is it's in the boonies and the campground is tucked back in a God-forsaken holler where the sound of banjos fills the air. The first night, there came a monsoon, a typhoon, and a nor'Easter all in one. We had 2 pop-up canopies, so we piled all the food under one, and crammed a dozen guys nuts to butts under an 8x8 canopy while we rode out the storm. The next night, a village of carnies and gypsies rolled into camp, along with a caravan of LARPERs. The shenanigans that followed lead to Tear Drop Mike leaving his old lady wallowing in a drunken stupor while she screamed "Miiiiiiiikkkkkke!" over, and over, and over, and over again. The real Mike got lost, then stung by a bee, then lost again maybe, and some guy in bedazzled jeans got his 2WD truck stuck on flat ground. After that, we dared not return like @giles to a coyote den.
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Didn't know @Jackalope drive a 2 wheel drive
 
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giles

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hickslawns said:
I'd consider my first TOO event the Buckeye Cam Bow Shoot at Cardinal. Met Geezer and Coonie there if memory serves correct. A week or so later, the forum rolled out to go live. Glad to be part of the start of such a great place.
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Coonie...I was 13 back in 1993 when I met that fella on a ridge in Athens around 0330. I couldn't sleep and he pulled in in an old Ford ranger to go climb a tree with a stick.
 
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giles

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J said:
So that’s what fugged you up so bad.... Now it all makes sense.... 😂
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It took me 2 years of knowing him online to figure out it was him! That's how different he is from keyboard to real person. That guy taught me more about the deer woods than I ever would've learned on my own. I find myself repeating alot of what he taught me while teaching my kids. He was this first person I ever met that was truly ate up with deer. He was also the first person I ever met that didn't try and kill every deer he seen. He named them and I thought he was weird for that. Lol. Dude knew ever deer on the farm and all their habits. The only way to do that back then was time in the stand. He would walk in around 0400 and not come back until hours after dark.
 
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