Lol Joe!
Pretty dang cool some of our TOO family were able to attend Teds visitation! Very cool trad tradition with the arrows! RIP Ted!
Sad day in TOOville...
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Lol Joe!
Pretty dang cool some of our TOO family were able to attend Teds visitation! Very cool trad tradition with the arrows! RIP Ted!
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It was good to see you fellas as always. Ted had a good representation of bow hunters in attendance, a fine showing of what was important to him in his life.
Wonder how many arrows were left there in the vase??? Looked like a lot was already ere when Geezer and I placed them in there....
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Ohiosam
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Had a long sleepless night last night, came downstairs so as not to wake the wife and sat in the chair collecting my thoughts.... Remembered I hadn't wiped down the ole .410 from yesterday's hunt and pulled it outta the buckskin sleeve I use for traveling with.... Got the oil rag out and wiped it down and then sat it down and admired it and it reminded me of Ted and the day I bought the gun off of him traveling down to meet him and him and I spending over 2 hours in Bob Evans just BS'ng about all that's transpired over the years and the technology that came with that took people from across the state where a few short years ago would never had crossed paths and turned it into a giant campfire that you could come and go at all hours of the day..... Mind boggling for us older folks not so much for the younger ones who grew up with it....
I sure miss talking with Ted, truly a great guy to talk too, and share a cup of coffee with....
Just remember "there's always a but"
I sure miss talking with Ted, truly a great guy to talk too, and share a cup of coffee with....
Just remember "there's always a but"
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Good post J!
When we lose good people I often think of George Jones song, "Who's gonna fill their shoes".
Good post J!
When we lose good people I often think of George Jones song, "Who's gonna fill their shoes".
Ted just came up the other day when I found myself saying "there's always a but". He was a good one alright. I still remember the breakfast Fluteman and I had with him when I bought the Benelli off him. That gun has had a few thousands rounds through it since and killed a bunch of birds. Don't see me ever selling it knowing the caliber of man who sold it to me and the deal he made me.
Amen Jesse, I told my son (who'll probably inherit it) that gun along with my grandfathers and his grandfathers guns are off limits for sale.... None of these are high end guns but the memories and history make them our history....
I've killed white and blue phase snow geese, rossi and canada geese, 5 species of ducks, turkey, dove, squirrels and rabbits with that gun. He practically gave me that gun with the price he put on it. Now that he's gone and the years pass, the man he was sinks in a little deeper with me every year and in the mean time, that gun is continuing to rack up the body count. No gun I own comes close to the number of kills of that gun and everyone is thanks to Ted.
You can never truly appreciate people like Ted until they're gone.... Just hope to pick up some words of wisdom before they leave us...
Gordo
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Good stuff guys.
On top of everything else, it also shows how SPECIAL this place is in bringing people together. It's a 'Grade-A' group around here and A lot of folks in their life's will never experience anything like it.
Cheers to that and cheers to Ted for leaving his mark.
On top of everything else, it also shows how SPECIAL this place is in bringing people together. It's a 'Grade-A' group around here and A lot of folks in their life's will never experience anything like it.
Cheers to that and cheers to Ted for leaving his mark.
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He must be watching over the group. I just thought of him the other day as well. I moved the Mossturd turkey gun. It was his originally. He sold it to Parrish aka Tree monkey and NWHunter. I bought it off Ryan. I was thinking of replacing it. Not sure I can do it. Probably just call Mossturd again for warranty work. I can't part with it since it was Ted's unless it went to another TOOzer.