It's going pretty well jim the surgery as far as I know at this time was a success.In fact my right thigh has been numb for over 20 years and I have gained back some feeling there already. I hope to be up and moving around really good in about two more months. Hopefully by the Spring Salmon Run. Got to get ready for more of this action here.

 Hey everybody well it's like Christmas all over again. I got my 2008 Mulie Buck Mount back from the Taxidermist. Now just have to wait for the Bear should be ready by July I hope. I posted 4 new pics in my Oregon Mulie pic folder. He didn't make book the Judge I had measure said he came about 3 inches shy at about 167inches. What does the book know anyway....He's my best thus far....... Enjoy the Pictures

Well thank you. I am 1 and a half weeks beyond the surgery now and am doing well. I am in a back brace and am walking fairly well still not winning any marathons yet. I hope to be up and running by spring bear season. I am putting in for my tag application today.

Good Luck in all your Hunting Adventures

I have to go in the hospital four 4 to 5 days to have the surgery on my back. It has kept me laid up for most of a month now. No putting it off any longer. Then once home I have to wear a back brace for 6 to 8 weeks. Pain wise they say it will not be pleasant. The surgery will include taking grafts from my Hip. Apparently between L-5 and S-1 Vertebrae I have no disc left at all and they are grinding bone on bone. They will have to Jack my spine apart approximately 3/4 of an inch and put a stainless cage around my spine to hold it apart to allow bone grafts to take.

This year 2008 Deer season I shot my biggest buck ever. I was hunting a new area In the Sled Springs Unit in Eastern Oregon. It is one of the only areas where you can legally hunt Whitetail Deer in my state. We have 3 species of deer here in Oregon. Mule Deer, Blacktail and Whitetail deer. I specifically put in for this area to hunt the Whitetail. I was driving around trying to find an area to hunt. When I spotted around 15 Mule deer Doe's and yearlings. No bucks were with them that I saw. They didn't spook when I was watching them. The weather had changed to extremely cold in the last few days and I thought that the bucks should be coming into Rut hard with the weather change. I decided to find myself a spot to take a stand along the same trail the does were following. I had only been on stand for around a half hour when along came this buck. I wanted a Whitetail badly and had driven clear across the state to hunt this new Unit. Well when you see the photo you will know why I had to shoot this buck. I shot the buck and it was like he just disappeared. I looked for blood and found only small specs. of blood so I went back to camp and enlisted the help of my partner and my wife. by the time we got back to where I shot the buck it was pitch black out. We tracked the animal until 12 midnight. We were using flashlights and lanterns. We decided to come back in the morning and marked last blood on our GPS's. When we returned we found the buck about 20 yards from where we stopped the night before. He was double lunged but he had traveled approximately 1000 feet down hill to the bottom of the draw and piled up. Hope you enjoyed the story. This buck has not been measured yet but he is 30" wide 5X5    I'll be able to get him scored in about 1 week finally. I can't wait.....

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