Hell yes we gather! Doing it right now with a couple of members. Lol
First TOO outing
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Mickey Merrie
Junior Member
4th Annual* Family Fishing and Camping Outing Paint Creek 2021
It looks like our dates are set. Thursday April 29th - Sunday May 2nd. That being said @giles and I drove through Paint Creek a few months back and checked a few other spots rather than being right up front. In the very back there are a number of sites that would work great for our setup as...
theohiooutdoors.com
We did a strouds gathering down in southern Ohio and as far as I know no one got sick.
And that's why you have a camper all to yourself, Kevin. 
@WoodCoDep
To explain my post about your bad situation. Maybe this will help you laugh and get the joke.
My first was Strouds 2019. I missed the summer get together by about a week. I'd joined but didn't feel right crashing the party with only 5 days of membership under my belt. I remember pulling up and seeing @bowhunter1023 skinning a tree rat with either @5Cent or @MoonLab ...can't remember which. Got a chance to meet folks and set up my tent cot. Then I went back over to the fire and word was going around that @Jackalope had shot a buck and they were going to go help him blood trail.
Now I'm not too shabby when it comes to trailing, so I decided to tag along. Mistake....huge mistake. See...I'm 51 years old, and a bona fide flatlander. And the hills around Strouds, while moderate to some, were like the Tetons to me. All was fine as we trailed the deer ever deeper into the hollar. But then we jumped it and decided to back out...it was here that things took a turn for the worse. I was the oldest guy in the woods. No clue where I was, where I was going, or where I'd come from. And I was sucking hind tit on climbing out of there. If Joe hadn't taken pity on me and stopped every 25 or 30 yards or so to let me rest, I would likely still be out there. In fact, I think I scared folks a bit when we all loaded into the back of Joe's truck and I sounded like an old blacksmith's bellows trying to suck as much air into my lungs as possible.
Anyway...we went back to camp and I sat down by the fire and didn't move for awhile....then I trundled back to my tent cot, drank some bourbon, and sacked out. Much thanks the next morning for @Dustinb80 who came by to check on me to see if I was still alive. I learned my lesson about helping blood trail around there.
Now I'm not too shabby when it comes to trailing, so I decided to tag along. Mistake....huge mistake. See...I'm 51 years old, and a bona fide flatlander. And the hills around Strouds, while moderate to some, were like the Tetons to me. All was fine as we trailed the deer ever deeper into the hollar. But then we jumped it and decided to back out...it was here that things took a turn for the worse. I was the oldest guy in the woods. No clue where I was, where I was going, or where I'd come from. And I was sucking hind tit on climbing out of there. If Joe hadn't taken pity on me and stopped every 25 or 30 yards or so to let me rest, I would likely still be out there. In fact, I think I scared folks a bit when we all loaded into the back of Joe's truck and I sounded like an old blacksmith's bellows trying to suck as much air into my lungs as possible.
Anyway...we went back to camp and I sat down by the fire and didn't move for awhile....then I trundled back to my tent cot, drank some bourbon, and sacked out. Much thanks the next morning for @Dustinb80 who came by to check on me to see if I was still alive. I learned my lesson about helping blood trail around there.
Yeah I remember 2019 ..you showed me how pull the hide off the squirrel.
Then I used @bowhunter1023 Jesse’s knife and broke it 